Case Studies > With Jobvite Hire, KIXEYE Secures New Talent to Fit the Company’s Unique Gaming Culture

With Jobvite Hire, KIXEYE Secures New Talent to Fit the Company’s Unique Gaming Culture

Customer Company Size

Mid-size Company

Region

America
Pacific

Country

United States
Australia
Canada

Product

Jobvite Hire

Tech Stack

Advanced Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Social Referral System

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Customer Satisfaction
Employee Satisfaction

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Software
Professional Service

Applicable Functions

Human Resources
Business Operation

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Founded in 2007, KIXEYE is an online gaming company that plays to win. KIXEYE currently has over 400 employees based in its San Francisco headquarters, along with international offices in Brisbane, Australia and Victoria, Canada. Responsible for popular titles like Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates, War Commander, VEGA Conflict, and Backyard Monsters: Unleashed, KIXEYE is redefining the intersection of fidelity and accessibility to create innovative online and mobile experiences for competitive gamers.

The Challenge

For KIXEYE’s recruiting department, locating, screening, and securing skilled talent to support the company’s ambitious goals of growth and expansion was no easy feat. In such a niche market and with such specific needs, the right candidates were few and far between. Plus, once potential hires were found, the company’s outdated applicant tracking process could not support taking candidates all the way through the pipeline. Between email, spreadsheets, and lack of sophisticated tracking, KIXEYE needed a process that better fit the company’s goals.

The Solution

When KIXEYE’s hiring department finally decided to move past an outdated and disorganized system, they chose Jobvite Hire. Jobvite Hire provided a complete recruiting solution that allowed hiring managers to interact with the system, which was essential for KIXEYE's growth. With Jobvite’s advanced ATS and extensive social referral capabilities, KIXEYE revamped its hiring process and embarked on a period of aggressive growth. Jobvite’s evaluation forms allowed the hiring department to customize the specific needs of each role, articulate them in an organized fashion, and utilize them when scrutinizing potential employees. This helped KIXEYE dedicate a greater portion of their productivity to bringing in the exact candidates they needed and wanted.

Operational Impact

KIXEYE was able to easily weed out lackluster applicants and zero in on impactful candidates with a passion for gaming.
Jobvite’s evaluation forms allowed KIXEYE to hone in on the type of niche talent needed to grow the organization.
KIXEYE’s hiring managers can now monitor a candidate’s screening progress through to the end, helping establish essential talent relationships.
Jobvite’s social referral system helped KIXEYE take advantage of employee and recruiter networks, accelerating the referral process and engaging employees to use Jobvite’s resources.
KIXEYE’s hiring managers now have complete visibility and access into the candidate management process, improving productivity and balancing the recruiting and hiring processes.

Quantitative Benefit

KIXEYE grew its company from an initial 104 employees in January of 2012 to almost 500 by July of 2013, over 450% growth in just 18 months.
Prior to implementing Jobvite, KIXEYE was hiring close to 15 to 20 people a month. After implementing Jobvite, they doubled that number, and at peak, in April of 2013, they hired fifty-five people in one month.