Recrewer

Background

Hiring contractors is messy. Founders typically rely on gut feeling, conversations spread across email and Slack, and informal offers that leave both sides unsure. There was no single place to run the whole freelance hiring lifecycle: discovery, interviews, offers, contracts, onboarding and payments.

In call sessions with the founder, I unpacked that lifecycle before writing any logic, and mapped user journeys for employers and contractors in Figma, breaking interviews, offers, hiring decisions, onboarding and contracts into clear steps.

What needed to change

• Three roles (contractors, employers and admins) each needed their own permissions, dashboards and workflows.
• With no public job board, talent discovery and matching had to work without traditional listings.
• Offers and contracts had to stay flexible for different engagements while remaining legally structured.
• Verification, background checks and controlled communication had to build trust without slowing hiring down.

Key decisions

Every decision was tested against one question: does this reduce uncertainty for the user?

Jobs bring talent to the employer. Recrewer has no public job board. An employer creates a job manually or with AI, which writes the description from the fields they fill in, and gets back a list of top contractors with a match percentage. They can also search the talent directory with saved filters, then message a contractor or book an interview straight from a calendar.

Trust is part of the hiring flow, not an extra step. On an offer, the employer can request a background check and pay for it in the same screen. If it comes back clear, they proceed; if something needs review, they see what was flagged and choose to proceed or decline the candidate.

Offers become contracts without leaving the page. The employer picks a contract template (a standard US or Canada independent contractor agreement) or uploads their own, reviews details pulled from the offer, and sends it for signature. Both sides see who has signed, and the contract goes active when both signatures are in.

Scope of work

• Hiring lifecycle mapping and user journeys for both sides
• Employer and contractor onboarding
• Job posting with an AI-written description and matched contractors
• Talent directory, messaging and interview booking
• Background checks with a clear path and a review path
• Offer to contract: templates, review and e-signatures

The product

Both sides of the platform, flow by flow.

What i delivered

In one to three months I mapped, designed and built both sides of the platform in Bubble, from sign-up and onboarding to jobs, interviews, offers, background checks, contracts, payments, messages and support. I also worked as product manager, agreeing build-ready flows with the founder and managing the developer. The platform is built and has not launched yet.

What I would do differently: launch a smaller first version. Shipping the core hiring flow first, and adding background checks and contracts after, would have put Recrewer in front of real employers and contractors sooner.