Companies Using Lever
Our August 2026 crawl of 29.9M active business domains finds 1,845 companies using Lever, the applicant tracking and candidate relationship platform founded in 2012. Below is the full list of companies using Lever with market share, industry breakdowns and geographic data.
Lever holds a 2.99% share of the HR & Recruitment category, ranking #8 of 77. Its customer base is the most venture-adjacent in the category: Software Development accounts for 15.71% of matched companies and Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals for 6.30% — the highest VC concentration we have measured on any technology. Websites using Lever are overwhelmingly US growth-stage companies.
Published Mar 12, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Data analysed on September 10, 2026.
Lever Usage Statistics
Lever entered our v2 detection index in March 2026, so this chart covers six months rather than the company's history since 2012. Active domains move from 1,436 in June to 1,845 in August 2026, tracking our crawl coverage rather than adoption. Churn reads 240 domains dropped, about 13% of the live base. That is higher than Rippling's 1.1% and reflects the detection surface: Lever is found through job-listing pages, which disappear when a company pauses hiring — a common event for the venture-backed cohort that makes up much of this base.
List of Companies Using Lever
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| Company | Detection URL | Domain | Country | Industry | Employees | Type | Founded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| asset1.marksandspencer.com | marksandspencer.com | United Kingdom | Retail | 10001+ | Public Company | 1884 | https://linkedin.com/company/marks-and-spencer | |
| lifeessentials.nationwide.com | nationwide.com | United States | Insurance | 10001-10001 | Privately Held | — | https://linkedin.com/company/nationwide | |
| www.loblaw.ca | loblaw.ca | Canada | Retail | 10001+ | Public Company | 2024 | https://linkedin.com/company/loblaw-companies-limited | |
| success.appen.com | appen.com | United States | IT Services and IT Consulting | 501-1000 | Public Company | 1996 | https://linkedin.com/company/appen | |
| assets.iwgplc.com | iwgplc.com | Switzerland | Real Estate | 10001+ | Public Company | — | https://linkedin.com/company/iwg-plc | |
| cdn.baptistjax.com | baptistjax.com | United States | Hospitals and Health Care | 10001+ | Nonprofit | 1955 | https://linkedin.com/company/baptisthealth | |
| about.udemy.com | udemy.com | United States | E-Learning Providers | 1001-5000 | Public Company | 2010 | https://linkedin.com/company/udemy |
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Here are some of the most recognizable companies using Lever and brands using Lever in 2026:
- Shopify – Ecommerce giant using Lever for global talent acquisition
- LinkedIn – Professional networking platform hiring via Lever
- Remote.com – Remote work infrastructure company using Lever for distributed hiring
- Klarna – Buy now, pay later fintech company on Lever
- Palantir – Data analytics software company using Lever to recruit technical talent
- Rackspace Technology – Cloud computing services provider using Lever for IT recruiting
- TechStars – Startup accelerator using Lever to hire across portfolio companies
- Xero – Accounting software company using Lever for global hiring
- Getty Images – Digital media company using Lever for creative and tech roles
- 1Password – Password management company using Lever for security-focused hiring
Which Countries Use Lever the Most?
Which countries use Lever the most? The United States leads with 688 companies, 63.9% of the enriched base, followed by the United Kingdom (58), Canada (45), France (32) and Australia (23). Nothing else exceeds 16. Applicant tracking is less jurisdiction-bound than payroll, but hiring workflows, compliance language and candidate expectations remain national, and Lever's footprint reflects a company that sold into the US venture ecosystem first and expanded from there.
Share of the 1,077 Lever domains we matched to a company record — 58.4% of the 1,845 we detect. Top 15 countries shown, so these do not sum to 100%. Domains with no matching company record are not represented here and skew small and independent.
Lever Market Share Among HR & Recruitment
What is Lever's market share? Lever holds 2.99% of the HR & Recruitment category on 1,845 domains, ranking #8 of 77. The HR & Recruitment category is partitioned by payroll jurisdiction rather than genuinely contested: WP Job Openings (19,192 domains) is a free WordPress plugin with no HR system behind it, Rippling (7,983) is 78.3% United States, Personio (2,330) is 76.3% German and Teamtailor (3,600) is 47.7% Nordic. Lever is 63.9% United States and competes most directly with Greenhouse, the other US growth-stage applicant tracking system, which our crawl detects on 716 domains. Against payroll-first platforms it is rarely in the same evaluation, because Lever does hiring rather than employment administration.
Top Competitors by Market Share
Lever Customers by Company Size & Age
What size companies use Lever? The distribution is mid-market with a real enterprise tail. 11-50 employees is the largest band at 29.85%, followed by 51-200 (26.37%) and 1-10 (22.6%), with 201-500 at 9.98%, 501-1,000 at 5.65% and 1,001-5,000 at 4.24%. Based on 1,077 enriched companies. Roughly 20.7% employ more than 200 people, a higher proportion than Rippling (7.6%) or Greenhouse (14.7%), which fits Lever's positioning around structured hiring at scale rather than first-system simplicity.
Company Size Distribution
Company Age (Founded Decade)
What Industries Use Lever the Most?
Software Development leads at 15.71%, with Technology, Information and Internet (6.98%) and IT Services (5.53%) bringing technology verticals to roughly 28.2%. The distinctive entry is third: Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals at 6.30%, the highest concentration of investment firms we have measured on any technology. Some of that is VC firms hiring for themselves, but much of it is portfolio-wide standardisation — funds that recommend or provide a hiring stack to companies they back. Financial Services (4.27%) and Staffing and Recruiting (2.72%) follow.
Software companies using Lever dominate at 15.71%, and with technology and IT services the cluster reaches about 28.2%. The signature vertical is venture capital and private equity firms on Lever at 6.30% — the highest VC share on any technology in our index. Investment firms both hire through it and steer portfolio companies toward it, which is a distribution channel rather than a vertical. Financial services (4.27%) and healthcare organisations (3.3%) represent the non-technology base.
Lever Alternatives & Competitors
The HR & Recruitment category is partitioned by payroll jurisdiction rather than genuinely contested: WP Job Openings (19,192 domains) is a free WordPress plugin with no HR system behind it, Rippling (7,983) is 78.3% United States, Personio (2,330) is 76.3% German and Teamtailor (3,600) is 47.7% Nordic. Lever's real comparison is Greenhouse (716 domains), the other applicant tracking system built for US growth-stage companies, and Lever is currently the larger of the two in our detection data at 1,845. Both differ from the payroll-first platforms above them in the ranking: Lever manages hiring pipelines and candidate relationships rather than employment records, so it commonly sits alongside a payroll system rather than replacing one. Our switching tests found no corridor beating base rate against any competitor.
| Technology | Domains | Market Share |
|---|---|---|
| 19,192 | 31.1% | |
Rippling | 7,983 | 12.94% |
| 5,633 | 9.13% | |
| 4,002 | 6.48% | |
| 3,600 | 5.83% |
Tech Stack of Lever-Powered Websites
HubSpot appears on 19.22% of Lever domains and Marketo on 6.49% — the highest Marketo rate in this refresh batch, marking a customer base with mature demand-generation functions. Salesforce runs on 6.07%. The website layer is distinctly venture-flavoured: Webflow at 16.1% is among the highest we measure anywhere, well ahead of the batch norm, with WordPress at 30.36% and Framer Sites at 1.74%. Google Analytics reaches 74.87%, and Snowplow Analytics at 3.7% indicates first-party event collection at the larger end of the base.
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Lever Customer Reviews with Pros and Cons
What do G2 reviewers say about Lever? Based on aggregated G2 reviews (357 total mentions), Lever scores highest for intuitive design (88 mentions) and user-friendly interface (43 mentions). The most common criticisms involve candidate management being cumbersome (33 mentions) and limited customization (29 mentions). The 1.8:1 positive-to-negative ratio signals solid but not exceptional satisfaction.
Generated from real user reviews on G2
- Users find Lever's intuitive design and smooth navigation enhance their daily recruiting tasks significantly.(88 reviews)
- Users appreciate the user-friendly interface of Lever, enhancing efficiency and simplifying navigation for all team members.(43 reviews)
- Users value the smooth integrations of Lever, enhancing efficiency and simplifying candidate management across platforms.(34 reviews)
- Users appreciate the intuitive design of Lever, making navigation and adjustments both straightforward and user-friendly.(34 reviews)
- Users find Lever to be exceptionally supportive, allowing a smooth implementation and sped up recruiting process.(31 reviews)
- Users find candidate management cumbersome due to limited filtering options and difficulty in resume review processes.(33 reviews)
- Users find the limited customization options frustrating, noting insufficient filters and manual input requirements increase their workload.(29 reviews)
- Users find Lever's missing features like advanced filtering and export options hinder effective talent management and candidate evaluation.(24 reviews)
- Users report poor customer support from Lever, citing lack of training and responsiveness during critical issues.(22 reviews)
- Users face access limitations that complicate collaboration and hinder reporting flexibility within Lever's hiring process.(19 reviews)
Expert Analysis: Lever Growth Trends & Key Signals for Sales Teams in 2026

Our August 2026 crawl detects Lever on 1,845 active domains, of which 1,077 match an enriched company record. Lever entered our v2 detection index in March 2026, so the figures below describe a footprint rather than a trajectory.
The Highest Venture-Capital Concentration in Our Index
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals account for 6.30% of Lever's matched companies, ranking third behind Software Development (15.71%) and Technology and Internet (6.98%). We have not measured a higher VC share on any technology.
Two things produce that. Investment firms hire for themselves, and a fund with thirty people running structured hiring is a plausible Lever customer. But the more interesting mechanism is portfolio standardisation: funds routinely recommend, subsidise or mandate a hiring stack across the companies they back, which turns one relationship into dozens of installations. A 6.3% VC share on an applicant tracking system is less a vertical than a distribution channel showing up in the data.
The rest of the stack corroborates the venture setting. Webflow appears on 16.1% of Lever domains, among the highest rates we measure anywhere and characteristic of design-led startup marketing sites. HubSpot is on 19.22% and Marketo on 6.49%, the latter the highest in this refresh batch.
"When an investor category shows up in a product's top three industries, you are usually looking at portfolio standardisation rather than direct sales. It is worth separating, because those installations arrive and leave with the fund relationship rather than on their own merits."
- Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io
A Larger Employer Base Than Its Peers
Lever's size distribution peaks at 11-50 (29.85%) but carries an unusually heavy upper tail: 9.98% at 201-500, 5.65% at 501-1,000 and 4.24% at 1,001-5,000. In total 20.7% of matched companies employ more than 200 people, against 7.6% for Rippling and 14.7% for Greenhouse in the same category.
That fits the product's positioning. Lever's proposition is structured hiring — pipelines, interview loops, candidate relationship management — which matters once recruitment is a continuous function with dedicated staff rather than an occasional task. Companies below about fifty people rarely need that; companies above two hundred almost always do.
Geography and the Jurisdiction Effect
The United States accounts for 688 companies, 63.9% of the matched base, with the United Kingdom (58), Canada (45), France (32) and Australia (23) behind it and nothing else above 16.
Applicant tracking is less rigidly jurisdictional than payroll — it does not encode tax tables — but hiring workflows, compliance language and candidate expectations remain national, and a US-founded product selling into the US venture ecosystem produces this shape. It also means Lever's headline rank of #8 in a category led by WP Job Openings, Rippling and BambooHR compares products that rarely appear in the same evaluation.
Why the Churn Rate Reads 13%
240 domains have dropped Lever, about 13% of the live base — noticeably higher than Rippling's 1.1% or SAP SuccessFactors' 1.1% in the same category.
The difference is detection surface rather than retention. Lever is found through job-listing pages, which vanish when a company stops hiring. For a base weighted toward venture-backed technology companies, hiring freezes are common and reversible, so a proportion of that 13% is a customer that paused recruitment rather than one that left.
Why There Is No Migration Table
No switching corridor out of Lever beats the rate among domains that stayed. Against 240 total departures, no flow to a named competitor reached double digits.
Applicant tracking systems hold candidate pipelines, interview feedback and hiring records, and switching mid-year means abandoning in-flight processes. Like the rest of the HR category, movement happens at renewal and is invisible to a crawler until a careers page changes months later.
Key Takeaways
1. Venture Capital and Private Equity at 6.30% is the highest VC concentration in our index — portfolio standardisation, not just direct sales.
2. 20.7% of matched companies exceed 200 employees, well above Rippling (7.6%) and Greenhouse (14.7%).
3. Webflow on 16.1% and Marketo on 6.49% — the venture-backed marketing stack.
4. 63.9% United States. Lever competes with Greenhouse, not with payroll platforms.
5. 13% churn is partly hiring freezes, since detection depends on live job listings.
6. No switching corridor survives testing, consistent with the whole HR category.
Sales Applications
Outreach template: "We noticed your careers page runs on Lever. Across the 1,077 Lever customers we can match to a company, growth-stage teams at your size typically add [assessment / onboarding / analytics] tooling next. Worth a short conversation?"
Targeting strategy: US technology companies at 51-500 employees, actively hiring. The venture-capital cluster (6.30%) is the highest-leverage entry point, since a fund relationship can reach an entire portfolio.
Competitive angle: Lever and Greenhouse are the genuine comparison, and both sit alongside a payroll system rather than replacing one — so the sale is additive rather than displacing, which shortens the cycle considerably.
For the full breakdown of all 1,845 Lever domains and their enriched firmographic profiles, explore our dataset at TechnologyChecker.io.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who uses Lever?
We detect Lever on 1,845 domains, including Marks & Spencer Group PLC, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Loblaw Companies Limited. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Software Development (15.71%).
How many customers does Lever have?
Our crawl detects Lever on 1,845 domains, of which 1,077 match a company record. That is a floor rather than a customer count: we detect Lever through job-listing pages, so a customer that has paused hiring or hosts vacancies elsewhere is invisible to us. It also explains the 13% churn rate, which partly reflects hiring freezes rather than departures.
What is Lever's market share?
Lever holds 2.99% of the HR & Recruitment category on 1,845 detected domains, ranking #8 of 77. That ranking compares products that rarely meet: the category leader WP Job Openings (19,192 domains) is a free WordPress plugin with no HR system, while Rippling (78.3% US), Personio (76.3% German) and Teamtailor (47.7% Nordic) are payroll and HR platforms partitioned by jurisdiction. Lever's genuine peer is Greenhouse, which we detect on 716 domains.
What are the best alternatives to Lever?
The top alternatives to Lever include WP Job Openings (31.1% market share), Rippling (12.94% market share), BambooHR (9.13% market share), Paylocity (6.48% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.
Which countries use Lever the most?
The United States dominates with 688 matched companies (63.9%), followed by the United Kingdom (58), Canada (45), France (32) and Australia (23). Nothing else exceeds 16. Applicant tracking is less jurisdiction-bound than payroll, but hiring workflows and compliance language remain national, and Lever sold into the US venture ecosystem first.
What size companies use Lever?
Based on 1,077 enriched companies, the distribution peaks at 11-50 employees (29.85%), followed by 51-200 (26.37%) and 1-10 (22.6%). The upper tail is what distinguishes Lever: 9.98% at 201-500, 5.65% at 501-1,000 and 4.24% at 1,001-5,000, so 20.7% employ more than 200 people — against 7.6% for Rippling and 14.7% for Greenhouse. Structured hiring pays off once recruitment is a continuous function.
How old are companies that use Lever?
Among the Lever domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (20.63%), followed by the 2010s (46.36%). That matched subset is drawn from 1,077 companies and is not representative of all 1,845 detected domains. This suggests Lever is most popular among relatively young companies.
What is the ideal customer profile for Lever?
The ideal Lever customer is: Company Size: 1-50 employees, Location: US, Canada, or UK, City: San Francisco, NYC, Toronto, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~7-15 years old — based on our analysis of 1,077 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.
What companies use Lever ATS?
Our August 2026 crawl detects Lever on 1,845 active domains, of which 1,077 match a company record. The base is US growth-stage technology: Software Development leads at 15.71%, and 63.9% of matched companies are American. The distinctive entry is Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals at 6.30%, the highest VC concentration we have measured on any technology, reflecting both funds hiring for themselves and portfolio-wide standardisation.
Is Lever only for tech companies?
Technology is its core but not its whole market. Software Development accounts for 15.71% of matched companies and technology verticals together about 28.2%, leaving roughly seven in ten elsewhere — venture capital and private equity (6.30%), financial services (4.27%), advertising (3.59%), healthcare (3.3%) and staffing (2.72%) among them. The stronger pattern is stage rather than sector: 20.7% of the base employs more than 200 people, higher than comparable US applicant tracking systems.
How much does Lever cost?
Lever doesn't publish prices publicly. Third-party research suggests annual costs range from approximately $6,000 to $144,000+, varying significantly by company size, user count, and negotiated terms. Mid-market pricing typically falls around $6-8 per employee per month.
What is the difference between Lever and Greenhouse?
They are the closest comparison in US growth-stage applicant tracking, and our crawl currently detects Lever on 1,845 domains against Greenhouse's 716. Lever emphasises candidate relationship management alongside the pipeline; Greenhouse emphasises structured interviewing and scorecards. The customer bases differ in scale: 20.7% of Lever's matched companies exceed 200 employees against 14.7% of Greenhouse's, and Greenhouse is more heavily US-concentrated at 85.4% versus 63.9%.
Does Lever integrate with Workday and other HCMs?
Yes, lever connects to major HCMs including Workday, Oracle HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, and Ceridian Dayforce, according to vendor documentation. These integrations sync new employee data from Lever to downstream HRIS systems for onboarding workflows.
Is Lever better than Workable?
They target different ends of the market: Lever is built for structured hiring at growth-stage and mid-market companies, Workable for small and medium businesses wanting fast job distribution. Our switching data cannot confirm movement between them — no corridor out of Lever beats the rate among companies that stayed, and against 240 total departures no flow to any named competitor reached double digits. Lever's base skews larger, with 20.7% of matched companies above 200 employees.
Does Lever support remote hiring?
Yes. 69.6% of Lever customers are US-based, but the platform serves 60+ countries including Canada, UK, France, Australia, and India. Notable distributed companies using Lever include Remote.com, Shopify, and 1Password, demonstrating the platform's capabilities for global hiring workflows.
What technologies do Lever customers use?
HubSpot appears on 19.22% of Lever domains and Marketo on 6.49%, the highest Marketo rate in our recent refresh work, marking mature demand-generation functions. Webflow runs on 16.1% — among the highest anywhere in our index and characteristic of design-led startup marketing sites — with WordPress at 30.36%. Google Analytics reaches 74.87% and Salesforce 6.07%.
Based on 1,077 company data
These insights include all TechnologyChecker.io detections of Lever (free & paid plans).