SmartRecruiters

About SmartRecruiters

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by SmartRecruiters

All products by SmartRecruiters reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

SmartRecruitersAI HR & Recruiting

AI-powered talent acquisition suite for enterprise hiring teams

Free7.1/10

How Our Review Panel Scores SmartRecruiters

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed SmartRecruiters's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.0 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who SmartRecruiters competes with, and how they differ.

iCIMS7.2/10

The closest like-for-like rival: a Holmdel, New Jersey enterprise talent acquisition suite covering applicant tracking, candidate engagement and onboarding, sold to large and regulated employers. iCIMS is still sold as an independent best-of-breed platform, whereas SmartRecruiters is now an SAP product line being wired into SuccessFactors.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Workday

Workday Recruiting is a module inside Workday's HCM and financials cloud rather than a standalone product, so it competes on single-vendor consolidation with the core worker record. Since the SAP acquisition, SmartRecruiters meets it suite-against-suite instead of as a best-of-breed layer on top.

Greenhouse

Greenhouse sells structured hiring — interview kits, scorecards, hiring-plan discipline — plus a large integrations marketplace, mostly to tech-heavy mid-market and enterprise teams. SmartRecruiters aims at high-volume global enterprise hiring, including hourly and frontline recruiting, which is not Greenhouse's centre of gravity.

Phenom7.6/10

Phenom leads with the talent-experience layer — career sites, candidate personalization, talent CRM and internal mobility — and frequently sits on top of an incumbent ATS rather than replacing it. SmartRecruiters sells the system of record itself with attract and CRM bundled in.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Lever7.4/10

Lever pairs an ATS with a recruiting CRM for mid-market teams and has been part of Employ Inc. since August 2022, alongside JazzHR and Jobvite, giving it an SMB-to-mid-market brand ladder. SmartRecruiters competes upmarket, on multi-country enterprise deployments.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Workable7.9/10

Workable targets SMB and lower mid-market hiring from Athens with fast self-serve setup, one-click job-board distribution and lightweight pricing. It seldom appears in the multi-country enterprise evaluations SmartRecruiters is built for.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in SmartRecruiters's history, with sources.

1. Mar 4, 2026Milestone

   SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors ships

   SAP released the integration linking SmartRecruiters to the SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite, with single sign-on, synchronised organisational data such as job families and cost centres, and a stated path for Winston and SAP's Joule assistant to operate as connected agents. Existing SuccessFactors Recruiting customers were told they would not be required to migrate.

   news.sap.com
2. Sep 11, 2025Acquisition

   SAP completes acquisition for US$878M

   SAP's FY2025 Form 20-F reports total consideration transferred of US$878 million (EUR 753 million) — EUR 711 million in cash, EUR 39 million in share-based awards — with EUR 523 million booked as goodwill. SmartRecruiters results consolidate into SAP from September 11, 2025.

   sec.gov
3. Aug 1, 2025Acquisition

   SAP announces agreement to acquire SmartRecruiters

   SAP said it would acquire 100% of SmartRecruiters, then serving more than 4,000 organisations including Amazon, Visa and McDonald's, to strengthen talent acquisition in the SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite. Terms were not disclosed at announcement; J.P. Morgan advised SmartRecruiters and closing was guided to Q4 2025.

   news.sap.com
4. Jun 10, 2025Launch

   Launches AI-native hiring platform built around Winston

   SmartRecruiters announced a rebuilt platform centred on Winston, an agentic AI recruiting companion, alongside SmartOS and the Winston Match, Screen and Companion modules. The company said Winston Chat was already live in customer environments, doubling candidate conversion rates and lifting mobile application completions 35%.

   smartrecruiters.com
5. Sep 6, 2024Milestone

   Rebecca Carr named chief executive officer

   Rebecca Carr, chief product officer and a near-decade veteran of the company, was appointed CEO and joined the board of directors. Founder Jerome Ternynck moved to the chairman role.

   onrec.com
6. Jul 20, 2021Funding

   Series E — $110M at a $1.5B valuation, led by Silver Lake Waterman

   Silver Lake Waterman led the round, with existing investors Insight Partners and Mayfield Fund participating. SmartRecruiters reported 70% bookings growth over the prior twelve months and customers including Visa, Square, McDonald's, Ubisoft and Biogen.

   techcrunch.com
7. Mar 20, 2019Funding

   Series D — $40M

   SmartRecruiters sold $39,999,991 of Series D preferred stock, first sale dated March 20, 2019. The Form D was filed with the SEC on June 14, 2019.

   sec.gov
8. Jun 30, 2016Funding

   Series C — $30M led by Insight Venture Partners

   Insight Venture Partners led the round, with Salesforce Ventures, Mayfield Fund and BDS Capital participating, taking total funding to $55M. SmartRecruiters said it had added roughly 700 enterprise customers over the prior 24 months, including Square, Atlassian and Equinox.

   techcrunch.com
9. Jul 2, 2013Funding

   Series B — $19.5M

   Series B preferred stock sales opened July 2, 2013, with $9,499,964 of an initial $10M offering sold by the September 2013 Form D. An amended Form D filed June 9, 2015 reports the round finally closed at $19,549,956.

   sec.gov
10. Jan 9, 2012Funding

    Series A — $5.46M

    First sale of Series A preferred stock dated January 9, 2012. The Form D filed with the SEC on May 24, 2012 reports the full $5,460,000 offering as sold, with Mayfield Fund partner Rajeev Batra on the board.

    sec.gov
11. 2010Founded

    Founded in San Francisco by Jerome Ternynck

    SmartRecruiters, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware with offices at 43 Tehama Street, San Francisco. The company's first SEC Form D lists 2010 as its year of incorporation and names founder Jerome Ternynck as an executive officer and director.

    sec.gov