Job marketplace for $100K+ professionals and their recruiters
Ladders operates a niche job marketplace focused on the $100K+ segment, which represents roughly half of all income in the US and Canada despite being only a quarter of available positions. The tech stack reflects a mature, sales-driven organization: heavy Salesforce footprint (core CRM, Sales Cloud), ZoomInfo and Demandbase for lead intelligence, and Gong for call coaching. Adopting BlackLine and Jedox signals a move toward stricter financial controls and planning automation—consistent with pain points around financial discipline and operational consistency. The hiring surge (146 roles in 30 days, all sales-heavy) points to aggressive revenue-team scaling.
Notable leadership hires: Account Director, Sales Director, Head of Sales, Business Development Director, Corporate Accounts Director
Ladders is a career marketplace for senior professionals earning $100K and above. Founded in 2003, the company builds job listings, career development tools, news, and content for an audience of about 10 million professionals, alongside recruiting and advertising solutions for employers, agencies, and brands seeking this demographic. Headquartered in New York with 51–200 employees, the organization is roughly half engineers and product staff but operates as a sales-led business: current hiring is dominated by account management, sales development, and business development roles, with notable leadership focus on global account management, corporate accounts, and demand creation. The product portfolio spans marketplace discovery, talent acquisition tooling, and performance analytics.
Salesforce (CRM and Sales Cloud), Demandbase and ZoomInfo (lead intelligence), Gong (sales coaching), Gainsight and ChurnZero (CS), Power BI and Tableau (analytics), Python and SQL Server (backend), Kubernetes (infrastructure). Recently adopting BlackLine and Jedox for financial controls and planning.
The $100K+ job market in the US and Canada, representing ~25% of all jobs but ~50% of total income. The platform serves professionals, recruiters, employers, and advertisers targeting this segment.
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Ladders's technology stack, projects, and hiring signals are inferred from public hiring and company data — career pages, public listings, and company web presence — then clustered and de-duplicated. Figures are estimates that refresh over time. Read our full methodology →
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