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About Dataiku
Dataiku is the world’s leading AI and machine learning platform — offering a unique, advanced analytics software solution that enables companies to build and deliver their own data products more efficiently.
OUR PROBLEM:
As the world’s leading AI and machine learning platform, Dataiku is continuously looking for highly specialized data scientists and engineers to keep our platform up to date. Our challenge is that top talent isn’t always found in one location – sometimes we need to take our search abroad.
We already had over 200 employees in the U.S. and a similar number in Europe, but to be No. 1 in your industry, you need to find the best talent and retain it, no matter where they live.
We’re trying to be a leader in the AI and data science world. And to accomplish those goals, we need people familiar with the local customs. We need people on the ground.
Where we want to go would be impossible without a global growth ally.
OUR INITIATIVE:
We found the perfect candidate for a position but she happened to be based in Montréal. We didn’t have a legal entity there and establishing one would have taken months.
After talking to our company’s lawyers and researching a bunch of different routes, we decided the Employer of Record model would be the best for us because we didn’t know the local laws in Canada.
From there, we did a quick survey in some networks we’re in, and G-P was definitely the one most people recommended. Time was of the essence to secure this hire, so we signed up to work with them very quickly.
OUR RESULTS:
In the beginning, there was a lot of back and forth. We had to fill out a lot of information for each hire that went to our G-P’s account manager who would then email us the contract to send to the new hire.
But now, thanks to the developments in the platform’s automation feature, the process has gotten a lot smoother and faster. We are able to generate the contract directly on their Global Employment Platform™ — and our account manager also follows up with us as each employee is onboarded to ensure that everything has gone smoothly.
Using an Employer of Record has allowed us to move quicker, especially compliance-wise. We know it’s being taken care of, and we don’t have to spend a ton of time with lawyers on it.
The first hire is always the hardest. Since that first employee in Montréal, we have made a conscious effort to try to build out the Canadian market and have since grown to 10 employees there, mostly sales. We have also teamed with G-P for hiring in Singapore and South Korea.
The technical roles are hard to fill, but as we’ve become more lenient about location, we’re able to go above and beyond to make it work.
Sometimes professionals with tech-related jobs have different standards of benefits than others. For example, in Singapore, we had a handful of people hired through G-P and a handful of people employed directly by our entity. The benefits that G-P gave them were way better than our own benefits. We could not provide a dental plan or maternity leave, and there was no travel insurance, all because we had less than 10 employees within our own entity.
WRAP UP:
Working with G-P has not only guaranteed that Dataiku can hire the best professionals for critical positions, but we can move faster and focus on what matters: helping our clients and enhancing our product.
Remote work will further extend after Covid-19 because people will view it as something quite effective. If talent is in Nebraska, companies are not going to say, “Oh, well, I want them in New York,” like they might have said a year ago. Now, all of a sudden, we can hire the best person in the world, even if they are in a place where we thought we couldn’t hire.
About G-P
G-P helps growing companies unlock their full potential by making it possible to build highly skilled global teams in days instead of months. Through our SaaS-based platform, we help find, hire, onboard, pay, and manage team members quickly and compliantly, to expand growth opportunities for everyone, everywhere – without the hassle of setting up local subsidiaries or branch offices.
