The Challenge

Greenhouse’s previous marketing site wasn’t adequately supporting their business or their brand. Our goal for this project was to enable Greenhouse's core business goals: create demand, deliver sales leads across multiple customer segments, and to integrate a forward-thinking brand update.

Drafting off work by Order, Instrument expanded the new brand into a thoughtful digital brand and component system—pushing far beyond typical conventions and aesthetics seen in the SaaS space. We developed a novel way to visualize the Greenhouse product dashboard, syncing it with the new brand, removing the need for tedious asset updates when changes are made to UI.

Inspiration and Efficiency

The flexible component design system we built serves as a powerful, easy-to-use tool for building demand across Greenhouse’s properties.

Strategy and Technology

Greenhouse.io was fully built on CraftCMS. Our technical and strategic work folded several separate subdomains into one well-organized site structure and editing environment. The site and CMS are tightly integrated with Optimizely for creating A/B tests against hypotheses. From button color to entire page layouts, Greenhouse can quickly create scenarios to test conversion metrics.

Across the site, queries are optimized, templates are micro-cached, and a holistic nginx caching layer provides incredibly fast page-load times. A low-maintenance Heroku deployment pipeline helps Greenhouse's engineering team focus on streamlined updates—not operations.

Results

Greenhouse’s key metrics are radically improving. Since launch earlier this year, they have tracked a 45% increase in users reaching the demo request page, and a 59% increase in newsletter subscriptions.