Hiring, powered by the whole community.
Bounties turn 500k engineers, founders and specialist recruiters into active sourcers for your role. Open to anyone who can make the intro — rewarded only when someone gets hired.
- →Community-sourced. Engineers, founders and agencies refer into the same pool.
- →Warm intros, not applications. Every candidate is vouched for by a named referrer.
- →Pay only on hire. No retainer. Invoiced on the start date, net 30.
- →60-day guarantee. Full refund any time up to day 60 — payouts only leave on day 60.
Bounties run alongside our traditional job board — pick whichever fits the role.
Roles with a bounty
Candidate-confirmed · Pay on hireEvery bounty is attached to a live job. Apply directly, or refer a friend — if they get hired, you get paid. No standalone bounties, no phantom roles.
#001CellTypeFounding Research Engineer - Model Training
CellType is building foundation models and agent systems for biology.
#002ScarletSoftware Engineer
Accelerate the transition to universally accessible healthcare
#003Planting SpaceProgram Synthesis Engineering
We are building an AI system for analysts and scientists, based on a fundamentally new approach to reasoning and knowledge representation.
#004Hypersphere VenturesAnalyst
Hypersphere Atlas - join the fund with $250M AUM
#005ProphecyAgentic AI Machine Learning Engineer
Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world’s top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights.
#006BackpackRust Engineer (remote)
Backpack offers a robust, user-friendly platform for seamlessly trading, managing, and securing your cryptocurrency assets.
#007BackpackLead Mobile Engineer / React Native
Backpack Exchange API — User-Friendly Interface Equipped with Powerful Charting Engine. No Overloads Guarantee. HankoX.
#008ProphecyPrincipal AI Engineer (Technical Lead)
Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world’s top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights.
#009SwigFounding Engineer
Where legacy wallet providers rely on off-chain systems, Swig puts core logic onchain by default, ensuring composability, resilience, and trustless design at every layer.
How it works
Three roles, one mechanicPost a bounty with the role, must-haves, and reward. No escrow, no retainer. Invoiced on the hire's start date, net 30; referrer and candidate paid on day 60. Full refund any time up to day 60.
- 01Draft brief (5 min)
- 02Set reward (usually 8–15% of first-year salary)
- 03We surface it to the right cohort
- 04Approve referrals, interview, hire
Friend, former colleague or agency recruiter — anyone can refer, on the same terms. Submit through the portal, the candidate confirms, you get paid on hire. 70–80% of the bounty is yours.
- 01Read the bounty brief
- 02Submit referral via portal
- 03Candidate confirms the intro
- 04Referrer paid day 60 of hire
You're never sold. The referrer needs your consent — you confirm via a unique link in your inbox. If the referrer's claim converts to a hire, you share the referral fee in cash.
- 01Get invited by a referrer
- 02Confirm claim with one click
- 03Interview like any other role
- 04Share of the referral fee on day 60
How referrals work, in plain English
Anyone can refer — a friend, a colleague, an agency recruiter. Four simple rules, no small print.
The candidate decides
A referral is only live once the candidate confirms it with one click. If two people refer the same person, the candidate simply says who introduced them — that settles it. No panels, no arbitration.
Anyone can refer
Friend, former colleague, community member, agency recruiter — all welcome, on the same terms. You don't need exclusivity, a contract with the employer, or a recruiting licence.
Already in process? No bounty
If the employer is already talking to the candidate, they'll flag it when they review the referral and no bounty is due. We take their word for it — you'll know within days, not months.
Paid on hire, no escrow
Employer is invoiced on the hire's start date, payable net 30. Referrer and candidate are paid on day 60. Full refund to the employer any time up to day 60. Payout in GBP, USD, EUR or USDC.
A bounty is a finder's fee, not salary. Referrers are paid gross against an invoice and are responsible for their own income tax, self-assessment or corporation tax, and VAT where registered — VAT-registered referrers and agencies add VAT to the reward. Employers can treat the bounty as a deductible recruitment cost. Outside the UK we pay gross and you report locally. None of this is tax advice — talk to your accountant.
Referrers are not employees or agents of WorksHub or the employer. Terms live in the short referrer agreement you accept once — covering candidate consent, GDPR data-handling and the refund mechanic on early-termination hires. Draft copy is under review; we'll publish it before the board leaves beta.
Every state a referral can be in
This is the "My referrals" table you get on your dashboard. A referral starts life waiting on the candidate's one-click consent, then tracks straight through to the reward.
My referrals
EXAMPLEMaya Osei → Senior Rust Engineer
Ledgerline · Ownership #1 · £1,400 if hired · 2 hours ago
Maya has 72 hours to confirm you introduced her. She gets a reminder at 72 hours if she hasn't.
Awaiting candidate consentTom Bright → ML Platform Engineer
Northwind AI · Ownership #1 · £1,750 if hired · 4 days ago
Candidate confirmed the referral. The employer is reviewing — if they were already in process, no bounty is due.
Confirmed — in reviewPriya Raman → Haskell Engineer
Foldtype · Ownership #1 · £1,200 if hired · 11 days ago
In the employer's interview process. Nothing to do — you'll be notified on outcome.
InterviewDan Whitcombe → Staff Go Engineer
Confidential company · Ownership #1 · £2,000 payable · hired 6 days ago
Employer invoiced net 30 from the start date. Referrer and candidate are paid on day 60.
Hired — reward dueAlex Fenn → Frontend Engineer
Brightloop · Ownership #2 · no reward · 9 days ago
Another referrer was confirmed by the candidate, or the employer was already talking to them.
Not moving forward
It works both ways for agencies.
Add a bounty to the roles you're working and the whole 500k-strong community starts sourcing for you — significantly more applications, plus warm referrals from people who actually know the candidate. Then flip it round: refer the people already in your network into other companies' bounties and earn on placements you'd never have won a contract for.
- →Post a bounty on your live roles — more applications, more referred candidates
- →Refer from your own database into any open bounty on the board
- →70–80% of the bounty goes to the referrer
- →No client pitch, no retainer, no exclusivity to sign
Worked example
Senior ML Engineer, £120k base
Lower headline fee, but no pitch, no retainer and no exclusivity — and you can run several bounties at once from the network you already have.
Post your first bounty.
Free to list. Only pay if we deliver a hire. Beta cohort = first 25 bounties, personally managed by a WorksHub operator.
Post a bountyClaim your first bounty.
Pick a bounty, submit a referral in under 3 minutes, the candidate confirms the intro. Get paid on hire.
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