总部位于伦敦的软件工程师招聘平台Dex近期聘请了两位前创业公司创始人担任高级职务。
Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has hired two former founders for senior roles.
旅游优惠网站Secret Escapes的联合创始人汤姆·瓦伦丁出任首席运营官；职业发展平台Progression的联合创始人乔尼·伯奇则担任设计总监。
Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, joins as chief operating officer. And Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, becomes head of design.
“汤姆和乔尼都曾创立过企业，而这些企业所解决的问题正是Dex极为重视的——即如何扩大市场规模，以及如何助力人们实现职业发展。他们将加入我们原本就实力出众的团队，与我们共同应对这些挑战，”Dex创始人兼首席执行官帕迪·兰布罗斯说道。
“Tom and Jonny have built businesses around problems that matter deeply to Dex, namely, how to scale a marketplace and how to help people build better careers. They’re joining our already world-class team to tackle those challenges head-on with us,” Paddy Lambros, Founder and CEO of Dex, said.
汤姆·瓦伦丁于2010年联合创立了Secret Escapes，之后还担任过人工智能初创企业Fyxer AI的执行主席兼首席运营官。这家公司致力于开发人工智能行政助理工具。
“近20年来，招聘工程师始终是我工作中最棘手的部分。在此期间，各种旨在改善求职者与企业体验的方案层出不穷又转瞬即逝。如今，人工智能技术让我们能够跳出单一岗位的限制来全面评估求职者，这在过去根本无法实现。这正是打造真正以求职者为中心的招聘平台的绝佳契机，”Dex首席运营官汤姆·瓦伦丁说道。
Valentine co-founded Secret Escapes in 2010, and he later served as executive chairman and chief operating officer at Fyxer AI, a startup that makes an AI executive assistant. “Hiring engineers has been the hardest part of my job for about 20 years. In that time, I’ve seen all sorts of propositions to improve the experience for candidates and companies come and go.”“AI now makes it possible to understand a candidate beyond a specific role in a way that just wasn’t previously possible. This is where the opportunity to build a truly candidate-centric recruitment business lies,” said Tom Valentine, Chief Operating Officer at Dex.
在Dex，他将负责商业运营工作，并进一步拓展平台的核心市场——即帮助软件工程师与雇主实现精准匹配。据公司透露，他还将研究Dex是否有可能向其他职位类型及职业发展阶段延伸服务。
At Dex, he will lead commercial work and grow its core marketplace, which matches engineers with employers. He will also look at whether Dex can expand into other roles and stages of the career journey, the company said.
乔尼·伯奇曾是Progression的联合创始人，这家公司致力于协助企业构建职业发展与技能培养体系。Progression曾获得LocalGlobe、Connect Ventures以及Village Global的投资支持，并于2024年被美国企业Careerminds收购。
Burch co-founded Progression, which helps companies build career and skills frameworks. The startup was backed by LocalGlobe, Connect Ventures, and Village Global, and US firm Careerminds bought it in 2024.
“虽然我是一名设计师，但骨子里仍是个创业者。我钟爱处于起步阶段的团队、极具挑战性的难题，以及独立解决问题的自由。我希望我们打造出的产品足够出色，能让求职者因使用体验良好而主动推荐给他人，即便最终并未成功促成就业，”Dex设计总监乔尼·伯奇说道。在 Dex，他将组建设计团队，并领导候选人所使用的产品。
“Although I’m a designer, I’m still a founder at heart. I love early-stage teams, difficult problems, and the autonomy to solve them. I want us to build a product so good that candidates recommend it because of the experience itself, regardless of whether we place them in a job,” said Jonny Burch, Head of Design at Dex. At Dex, he will build the design team and lead the product that candidates use.
Dex 的 AI“人才代理”会先与工程师沟通他们的技能、经验和目标，然后再为他们匹配职位。该代理由来自 Google、Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的多种 AI 模型共同驱动。
Dex’s AI “talent agent” talks to engineers about their skills, experience, and goals before matching them with jobs. It runs on a mix of AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
据 Tech.eu 报道，今年 4 月，该公司完成了一轮 530 万美元的种子轮融资，由 Notion Capital 领投，其他投资者也投资了多款 AI 招聘工具。
In April, the company raised a $5.3m seed round led by Notion Capital, Tech.eu reported, as investors also back other AI recruiting tools.
创始人兼首席执行官 Paddy Lambros 此前曾在 Atomico 和 Improbable 领导早期人才团队。
Founder and chief executive Paddy Lambros previously led early-stage talent teams at Atomico and Improbable.
他认为，初创公司应该聘请有创始人经验的人才，因为如今的 AI 代理能让小团队完成更多工作。
He argues that startups should hire former founders, because AI agents now let smaller teams do much more.
Dex 创始人兼首席执行官 Paddy Lambros 表示：“AI 代理正在以惊人的速度拓展精简团队所能实现的工作范围。这意味着，能够判断哪些任务需要执行、快速推动任务进展并对结果负责，这些能力使人类的主观能动性在当今职场中变得愈发宝贵。而前创始人正是通过这种方式工作了多年。”
“AI agents are expanding what leaner teams can achieve at a staggering rate. This means that the ability to decide what needs doing, get it moving quickly, and take responsibility for the result, makes human agency all the more valuable in today’s workplace. Former founders have spent years working this way,” Paddy Lambros, Founder and CEO of Dex, said.