The people building RiseYou
A focused team united by one mission — make hiring faster, fairer, and more human with the help of AI.
Hiring has been broken on both sides for years. Job seekers disappear into silence. Companies keep screening the wrong people. The problem was always obvious. Nobody fixed it. So we did. We didn't want to build another wall between them. We wanted to build a bridge.
— Ram Raj Bista, Founder & CEO
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Our Mission
Make hiring intelligent
for everyone —
not just enterprise.
Every company deserves the same hiring intelligence that large enterprises use. And every job seeker deserves a fair shot — with real feedback, not silence.
How we work
The principles that guide every decision we make
Ship at hiring speed
Every day a role stays open costs a company money. We move fast because our customers can't afford us not to.
Own the outcome
We don't hand off problems. Whoever picks it up sees it through — from first line of code to final hire.
Job seekers are people
Our AI screens at scale. We make sure every job seeker still feels heard — not processed and discarded.
Radical honesty
No black boxes — in our AI or our communication. With job seekers, customers, and each other.
Fair by design
We build AI that reduces bias, not amplifies it. Fairness isn't a feature request — it's the foundation.
Think in decades
Hiring shapes careers, companies, and communities. We choose the long-term right over the short-term easy.
Why we built this
Before they were founders, they were stuck on both sides of the same broken system
Long before RiseYou was a product, Ram and Naresh were living the problem it would eventually solve — first applying for jobs, then trying to hire for one.
As job seekers
Ram sent out application after application, the way most job seekers do. A few turned into a first conversation. Then, more often than not, it simply stopped — no rejection, no explanation, just silence long enough to answer the question on its own. Naresh had his own version of it: strong enough on paper to get the interview, and still left with no real sense of where he stood.
As employers
Then, while building Evozn AI — trying to hire the people who'd help turn that idea into a real product — they felt the mirror image of that exact frustration: hours spent reviewing applications and coordinating interviews, still not landing on the right person as fast as the role demanded. Same broken exchange. Now from the other side of the table.
A hiring process only works if it works for both sides of it. So instead of adding one more gate for job seekers to get through, or one more tool for companies to manage, RiseYou was built to do the opposite: not a wall standing between a good job seeker and the right companybut the bridge that gets them to each other, faster, with a real answer on both ends.
Leadership
The founders driving the mission
Ram Raj Bista
Founder & CEO
Ram started RiseYou after watching job seekers disappear into application black holes while companies spent months screening the wrong people — and realising both problems had the same root cause: no intelligence in the middle.
He leads product vision, go-to-market strategy, and co-architects the voice AI systems at the core of the platform. His goal: make hiring a genuine competitive advantage for every company, at any scale.
Naresh Gowda
Co-Founder & CTO
Naresh co-founded RiseYou with one conviction: AI-powered hiring can be more accurate and more fair than anything that existed before. As CTO, he leads the technical foundation — voice processing, emotion analysis, and the scoring models that turn a spoken answer into a hiring decision.
His rule: the best technology is invisible. Job seekers speak, hiring teams decide, RiseYou handles everything in between.
Why join us
What every RiseYou team member gets from day one
Equity for early employees
Early team members own a piece of what we build together.
Remote-friendly
Work from wherever you do your best thinking. We're async-first by design.
Direct impact
Work alongside the founders. No bureaucracy, no layers, no politics.
Flexible hours
We measure outcomes, not hours. Ship great work on your own schedule.
Learning and growth
Support for courses, conferences, and tools that make you sharper.
Health benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible team members.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Help architect and scale the RiseYou platform. You'll ship features across Next.js frontend and Node.js backend, owning performance and reliability end-to-end.
AI / ML Engineer
Own our interview analysis models — voice processing, emotion detection, and candidate scoring. You'll work directly with the CTO on the core of what makes RiseYou different.
Product Designer
Shape the RiseYou experience from first impression to final hire. Define our design system, lead UX research, and make hiring feel effortless for HR teams and candidates alike.
Customer Success Manager
Own the post-sale journey for every RiseYou customer. Build the playbooks, drive activation, and turn new companies into long-term advocates.
Sales Development Representative
Drive outbound pipeline into HR leaders across hospitality, retail, and healthcare. You're driven by outcomes, not just activity metrics — and you'll help build the sales motion from the ground up.
DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
Own our AWS infrastructure end-to-end — ECS, RDS, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. You're the reason RiseYou scales reliably as we grow to thousands of companies.
2025
Founded
Longview, TX
Location
AI-First
Model
Remote-Friendly
Work Style