Meet 99designs by Vista:

99designs by Vista is a global creative platform that enables clients and designers to create and collaborate on designs they love. It has brought more than one million creative projects to life since 2008, and as part of the Vista family, it helps small businesses thrive with expert design. In October 2020, 99designs was acquired by Vistaprint, leading to a need for the platform to evolve and connect with the broader Vistaprint organisation to create greater design outcomes for their new 20 million global customers.

What we did:

Working with 99designs, affix was able to help them scale their product development function by tripling their team size by over 100 hires in just 18 months. By deeply understanding their agile product environment, affix was able to support them in the timing and sequencing of hiring talented people in the right roles at the right time. This was particularly challenging in engineering, where they had a mandate to increase the representation of women engineers in the team, including in leadership positions. 

Through co-designing recruitment processes with 99designs, affix was able to successfully increase the representation of women in engineering positions. Throughout the process, amazing customer experience was the cornerstone of everything affix did, ensuring every person we connected with was delighted by the experience.

Read the full case study HERE.

What they said:

“Working with affix was unlike any other recruitment partnership. Not only did they go out of their way to understand our engineering and company culture –  they became a part of it. Together we truly embraced continuous iteration and experimentation in our recruitment process, similar to how we approach product development at 99designs. It’s hard to imagine us reaching the growth and diversity outcomes that we did without affix’s willingness and ability to be agile, creative and to learn with us along the way.”

-  Tom Broerse, Head of Engineering @ 99designs