HireK12 was founded by a team of edtech veterans and is based in San Francisco. We started HireK12 because the people who keep schools running — teachers, aides, bus drivers, nutrition staff — are harder to find than ever, and the old playbook of posting a job and hoping no longer works.
Our team spent years building technology for schools, and we kept hearing the same thing from district leaders: the hardest part of the job is no longer running programs — it is staffing them. Vacancies stay open for months, applicant pools are thin, and the strongest candidates are passive, not scrolling job boards.
So we borrowed from marketing. HireK12 markets your district to active and passive candidates, screens them on video against your hiring criteria, runs background and credential checks, and hands off interview-ready hires — even helping you close the offer. Districts pay only when a hire signs, with no retainers and no placement fees.
From our base in San Francisco, we work with school districts, charter networks, private schools, and daycares across the country to fill both teaching and non-teaching roles — and to make hiring feel less like a gamble.
The principles behind every campaign we run and every candidate we deliver.
Every decision starts with the classroom. Filling a vacancy faster means fewer disrupted students and less burnout for the staff covering the gap.
Districts pay only when they hire. The financial risk of an empty pipeline sits with HireK12, not with already-stretched school budgets.
We deliver a pre-vetted shortlist, not a flood of applicants — every candidate is screened on video against the district's own hiring criteria.
Teachers and non-teaching staff alike. Paraeducators, aides, bus drivers, and nutrition staff keep schools running, and they deserve the same recruiting effort.
Tell us about your hiring needs and we'll show you how HireK12 fills your teaching and non-teaching roles — with zero cost until you hire.