From Eight to 35: How We Helped a Fast-Growing Startup Assemble a World-Class Team
The past decade has seen major shifts in how consumers access content and make decisions about what products to invest in. From magazine ads and Facebook Groups to TikTok videos and YouTube reviews, organizations have had to lean heavily on marketing departments to keep their products relevant to their audiences. Now more than ever, one key insight has become the game-changer: realness rules.
While paid campaigns and messaging from the organization add value to its strategy, what people look for most is authenticity. They read reviews from other buyers, trust influencers who really use the products they show off, and visit places that people rave about in reels.
Emcee noticed this trend and took action. The startup launched a product that connects influencers with the brands they love to help content creators monetize while brands gain presence in front of their audiences. The small team of eight was ready to scale their company up big time with several new positions that could strengthen their product and launch to market.
The challenge
Emcee had a marketing team ready to generate buzz. What they didn’t have yet were the builders: the engineers, product thinkers, and leaders who could get the platform launch-ready.
They weren’t just hiring roles; they were laying the foundation for the company’s future. They needed to:
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Build core product and engineering teams
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Hire experienced leaders to shape culture and direction
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Move quickly, but hire with precision
As an early-stage startup competing for top-tier talent, they needed more than a standard hiring process. They needed a real partner.
The Big Solution
Working closely with Emcee’s founder, we took time to understand every detail of the organization so that we could clearly and efficiently pitch Emcee to the right talent.
From there, we:
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Created tailored pitches and job descriptions that reflected the company’s tone and mission
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Built curated candidate packs that brought the opportunity to life
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Scoped out a targeted search across product, design, engineering, and marketing talent
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Worked closely with candidates to keep momentum high and misalignment low
"Thanks to Bamboo, we can proudly say that we have a rockstar team at EMCEE. Bamboo has this unique ability to understand the needs of each role from creative to engineering and accurately source talent to meet those needs... You can see that they put extra attention in building relationships with their clients but most importantly with talent and that reflects in the quality of their candidates."
- Founder, EMCEE
The Talent We Helped Them Hire
Across Product, Engineering, Design, and Partnerships, we helped Emcee build out roles including:
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Head of Engineering (first leadership hire)
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Product Managers
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Frontend and Backend Engineers
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Product Designers
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Brand and Creator Partnership roles
These weren’t just hires—they became the team behind the platform’s growth.
the Impact
Over the past year, we have worked together to scale Emcee’s team from that founding tight-knit group of eight to 35 employees. We hired their first Engineering leader, which snowballed that team to 12 members quickly. Finding talent from top brands across the nation, including RueGilt, Google, and Meta, their company is well set up for a strong product launch and fast growth.
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Emcee came to us with a bold vision, a tight founding team, and a need to move fast. In just a year, we helped them scale from 8 to 35, building out engineering, product, marketing, and leadership with talent from Meta, Google, RueGilt, and more.
If you’re in a similar spot, tight on time, big on vision, and ready to grow, we’re here to help. Fill out the form below to start your hiring journey with Bamboo X today! We'll partner with you to find the talent that drives your success, just like we did with Emcee.
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