How Speechify Filled Critical Roles with Executive-Led Recruiting

Betting on Executive-Led Recruiting

At Speechify, hiring isn’t delegated away. It’s led from the front. 

As the world’s largest consumer-focused AI voice company, Speechify is building a voice operating system and AI assistant designed to 10x productivity across every device. That mission demands a team operating at the highest level - spanning across iOS, Android, web, AI research, and growth. 

For Rohan Pavuluri, who is Chief Business Officer at Speechify, finding those people is something he chooses to stay deeply involved in.

“We believe that everybody at the company should be recruiting…We believe in leading from the front.”

As Speechify grew, it became harder for executives to stay involved in every search. The tools they used weren’t built for speed or for leaders to do the work themselves.

That’s where Rohan turned to Juicebox.

Taking Ownership of Hard-to-Fill Roles

Speechify already had a modern setup for recruiting. They used Greenhouse to track candidates and received a lot of inbound interest due to their strong consumer brand.

However, not all searches are about quantity. 

For their most important roles, such as engineering leads, AI researchers, or growth marketers - volume wasn’t enough. These were high impact roles where the right person had to be found, not waited for.

And Rohan wanted to lead those searches himself with Juicebox.

“For niche positions, there are often only five to ten companies where people operate at the same scale as Speechify. Finding the person who actually sat in that seat shouldn’t be infinite work - it’s a finite task.”

It wasn’t just the quality of Juicebox’s search that stood out. It was how easily the platform fit into his current recruiting process.

From one place, he could find the right profiles, build a shortlist, and send outreach - all without waiting on someone else to set things up.

“It’s the only platform where I have a specific role… it’s really just a few taps before I start finding extremely high-qualified people.”

Instead of spending time coordinating between tools, he could move more quickly from identifying top candidates to starting conversations.

“Juicebox allowed me to reduce the friction of getting in touch with people who are in the right seats right now.”

Moving Faster Without Losing Precision with AI Agents

Juicebox provided Speechify a way to speed up every part of outbound recruiting. 

Rohan could write the ideal candidate profile, search for exact matches, start outreach in minutes, and use a team of Juicebox Agents to automate the process for each role.

The impact of this shift shows up most clearly in candidate responses.

“There’ve been days where I wake up and I just have 20 responses from candidates… engineers or marketers, all excited to potentially be a part of Speechify.”

Before Juicebox, getting that kind of traction could take weeks. 

Now, it often happens overnight. Rohan estimates this has meaningfully expanded the number of candidate conversations since using Juicebox.

“Juicebox has probably allowed us to talk to three times more people.”

And for roles that used to be tough to fill, the timeline changed drastically.

“For some roles, it’s taken searches that used to take months and shortened them to less than a week.”

Getting Results with Juicebox

With Juicebox, Speechify turned executive-driven recruiting into a fast, focused, and automated motion without adding complexity or headcount.

• Time-to-hire for key roles dropped from months to under a week

• Candidate conversations have tripled across engineering, growth, and AI

• Leadership-led sourcing and sequencing became a repeatable motion

• 24/7 AI Agents that helped generate 20+ candidate replies overnight

The Speechify executive team is now able to stay closely involved in hiring, proving that speed, hands-on leadership, and quality of hire can go hand in hand.