About us

Zao passionately believes that your professional and personal networks can yield referrals just as well as your employees. We also think that in a world where our contacts (and most of their resumes) are mapped out on social networks, it doesn't make sense to sift through them manually. We've built everything in Zao around these two concepts:

1. Make it easy to reward all the people that help you make successful hires, whether they work for your company or not.
2. Make it easy for referrers to recommend friends by matching your job description to the capabilities of their friends.

Hire well, fast!

The team

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  Ziv Eliraz

  Founder & CEO. Ziv put the principles of Zao to use in building the amazing team you see on this page.

• Highly recommended by two former colleagues
  

  Jonathan Moses

  Partner. VP R&D. Brick walls beware when Yoni is around...

• Recommended by a former business partner
  

  Tina Carnow

  VP Business Development. Passionate about helping great companies find extraordinary new people.

• Referred by an employee.
  

  Ortal Tiurin

  Front end developer. Ortal is the master of our flow. She puts the "Kerpow!" in Zao, and the You in UX.

• Yoni's brother recommended Lev
  

  Lev Tatarov

  Java Developer. If you feel like our matching algorithm just truly understands you, that's Lev's work.

• Hired using Zao's post on groups feature.
  

  Shani Mozes

  QA. Bringing sense and sensibility to a browser near you.

• Recommended by a former employee.
  

  Hilary Dunn

  Customer Success Manager. Guardian of customer well being and happiness.

• Shaked's husband and Yoni are good friends
  

  Shaked Shoshani

  Graphic Designer. Without her things would get ugly real fast.

• Backed by two references
  

  Omer Shusheim

  Quality Assurance Engineer. If the real world got Omer's treatment, Raid would be out of business.

• Worked together
  Barak Shapira
  

  Barak Shapira

  VP Product. Barak's passion is making Zao as simple as it is powerful.

• Recommended through our system
  

  Idan Vizel

  Java Developer. Idan is our resident Java Guru. All he needs is a cup of coffee and a keyboard to make the code do his bidding.

Giving back - share the upside

At Zao we believe giving can be as rewarding as receiving.

We allow referrers to allocate part of, or even all of their referral bonus reward to a good cause of their choice. This makes helping a friend hire or get a job even sweeter.

We know it feels good because we did it too: we donated a portion of our founding shares to Tmura (www.tmura.org) - a non-profit that receives donations of equity from high-tech companies and, upon a liquidity event, allocates the proceeds to education and youth-related charities. Tmura exits have generated over $6 million to date, and we hope to help that grow even more!