Lightwork

Your Startup Recruiting Coach

We teach founding teams to identify, engage, and hire winning talent.

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Lumen Sivitz

Founder

Lumen started Lightwork in 2018 after 12 years as a top-performing technical recruiter, startup founder, and a leader in talent acquisition for venture-backed startups.

Lightwork began as a full-service recruiting partner for early-stage companies, but Lumen found that the most impactful part of each engagement was helping the founders think differently about hiring and finding a strategy suited to their strengths.

Today, Lightwork teaches the founding teams of early-stage startups to approach recruiting in a way that turns hiring into a competitive advantage, transforming the trajectory of the business in the process.

Testimonials

Our weekly meetings with Lightwork are one of the most high-leverage on my calendar. Lumen has a phenomenal ability to work through any recruiting situation and come up with a practical game plan that you feel empowered to implement. He transformed our recruiting process; I cannot recommend him enough.

Mackenzie Burnett CEO

Lightwork was instrumental in helping us build a scalable and sustainable recruiting process. They helped us develop the collateral necessary to communicate our pitch to candidates and a process to correctly target individuals consistent with our company's culture. We're grateful they pushed us to developed the discipline to make recruiting an everyday part of leading our organization.

Jason Hirshman CTO

Working with Lightwork on recruiting was game changing for us at Clearscope. Lumen came in with a clear game plan of what we needed to do and held my business partner and I accountable for getting it done. The results? We hit our hiring goal in 2 months after working with him.

Bernard Huang CEO

I worked with Lightwork before we were ready to hire a full-time team for recruiting. Our meetings were packed with insights that shaped the foundational processes which allowed us to scale from 9 to 175 employees with an eNPS of 92. They are an incredible resource for growing startups.