# Mark Chaffey

> Mark Chaffey is the New York-based co-founder and CEO of hackajob, the company behind Archer, an AI recruiting agent. He started the business with Razvan Creanga while studying at King's College London in 2014, moved from COO to CEO in 2019, helped raise a $25 million Series B in 2023, and has since steered the company from a reverse marketplace for technical talent toward an agent-led hiring model. In 2025, King's Business School appointed him an Executive Fellow for a three-year term.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at hackajob; Executive Fellow at King's Business School
- **Organizations:** hackajob, Archer from hackajob, King's Business School
- **Education:** Undergraduate degree in Business and Management, King's College London
- **Known for:** Co-founded hackajob in 2014 while still a student at King's College London., Helped build hackajob from a technical hiring marketplace into a multi-country recruitment technology company., Led a $25 million Series B in 2023, taking disclosed total funding at the time to about $33 million.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Co-founded hackajob with fellow King's College London student Razvan Creanga and became its COO.
- **2018** — Helped close a £5 million Series A led by AXA Venture Partners as hackajob prepared for wider expansion.
- **2019** — Moved from co-founder and COO to CEO of hackajob.
- **2021** — Reported that hackajob had grown revenue more than threefold over the preceding 12 months after shifting to remote-first work.
- **2023** — Led hackajob's $25 million Series B, led by Volition Capital, after a process involving 78 potential investors.
- **2024** — Marked hackajob's tenth anniversary while based in New York and expanding the company in the United States.
- **2025** — Launched Archer and was appointed an Executive Fellow at King's Business School for a three-year term.
- **2026** — Expanded Archer beyond technical hiring to knowledge-worker roles, then reorganized hackajob around the agent-led product.

## Achievements

- Co-founded hackajob in 2014 while still a student at King's College London.
- Helped build hackajob from a technical hiring marketplace into a multi-country recruitment technology company.
- Led a $25 million Series B in 2023, taking disclosed total funding at the time to about $33 million.
- Authored a TechCrunch account of the Series B process, including 78 investor conversations and a reported 149% net revenue retention rate.
- Oversaw the launch of Archer, which hackajob reported reached $1 million in annual recurring revenue within 90 days of commercial rollout.
- Appointed an Executive Fellow at King's Business School in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — hackajob announced that it was building the company around Archer; it reported that more than 600,000 people had signed up for the agent in a year and that company ARR had tripled in six months.
- **2026-08** — Chaffey discussed Archer's pre-application model, first-party candidate profiles, identity verification and outcome-based pricing on the WorkTech podcast.
- **2026-02** — hackajob expanded Archer beyond technical hiring after reporting $1 million ARR within 90 days and 35,000 double-opt-in introductions.
- **2025-10** — King's Business School named Chaffey an Executive Fellow for a three-year term focused on contributing to education and research.
- **2025-09** — Chaffey introduced hackajob's AI agents as the next phase of the company's hiring platform.

## Links

- Website: https://hackajob.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchaffey/

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Last updated: 2026-09-27