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  "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer, Employ.\n\nJerry Jao is chief executive of Employ, the company behind Lever. He founded and ran Retention Science, a predictive AI marketing software company that Constant Contact bought in 2020, then served at Constant Contact as Senior Vice President and General Manager, leading product strategy, customer experience and acquisitions.\n\n## What Jerry builds\n\n- [Lever](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.md), graded D, 53.7/100, in Recruiting \u0026 applicant tracking. Applicant tracking and candidate relationship system from Employ Inc. Its Data API reads and writes opportunities, postings, interviews, feedback and requisitions, and a separate Postings API serves published jobs. Chief Executive Officer, Employ, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Brian Noguchi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-noguchi/), Co-founder, Lever\n- [Dara Brenner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dara-brenner/), Chief Product Officer, Employ\n- [Nate Smith](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nate-smith/), Co-founder, Lever\n- [Patrick Jean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/patrick-jean/), Chief Technology Officer, Employ\n- [Randal Truong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/randal-truong/), Co-founder, Lever\n- [Sarah Nahm](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sarah-nahm/), Co-founder, Lever\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [K1 Investment Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/k1-investment-management/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jerry Jao?\n\nJerry Jao is chief executive of Employ, the company behind Lever. He founded and ran Retention Science, a predictive AI marketing software company that Constant Contact bought in 2020, then served at Constant Contact as Senior Vice President and General Manager, leading product strategy, customer experience and acquisitions.\n\n### What does Employ, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Lever from Employ, Inc.. Applicant tracking and candidate relationship system from Employ Inc. Its Data API reads and writes opportunities, postings, interviews, feedback and requisitions, and a separate Postings API serves published jobs.\n\n### Who has invested in Employ, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name K1 Investment Management.\n\n### How are Jerry's tools graded?\n\nLever is graded D, 53.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.lever.co/\n- https://www.lever.co/contact\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_(company)\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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