GREENHOUSE PREFERRED PARTNER
The best careers site platform for Greenhouse customers
Choosing a careers site for Greenhouse? Start with an honest map of your options. Greenhouse documents five ways to run your careers page, and all five are good at different things. This page walks through each one, then shows why around 110 enterprise brands run Happydance on top of their ATS.
The short answer
For enterprise and scaling teams, the best careers site platform for Greenhouse customers is Happydance.
For enterprise and scaling teams, the best careers site platform for Greenhouse customers is Happydance.
It is an official Greenhouse Preferred Partner, it connects through the Greenhouse Job Board API (the route Greenhouse recommends for fully custom careers sites), jobs sync automatically, applications flow straight back into Greenhouse, and your talent team runs the whole careers site through a CMS without developer time.
Smaller teams with simple needs may be perfectly served by the free hosted job board, and we say so below.
The only careers site platform among Greenhouse's Preferred Partners
Greenhouse names just twelve Preferred Partners across its entire ecosystem, and Happydance is one of them. More to the point for talent teams, Happydance is the only careers website platform on that list. Preferred Partner status reflects the depth of the Job Board API integration and proven success with shared enterprise customers, so when you build your careers site on Happydance you are choosing the route Greenhouse itself has singled out for the job.
You can verify the listing for yourself in the Greenhouse partner directory, which is exactly how we like it.
Your five official options, in Greenhouse's own terms
Greenhouse's support documentation sets out five integration options, and its published effort estimates are a useful anchor. The hosted job board on boards.greenhouse.io takes under an hour and is the fastest way to get live. An embedded board puts jobs on your own domain within about a day. An API-driven board with hosted applications takes two to four developer days, a fully embedded solution three to five, and a completely custom API integration five to eight, with Greenhouse noting that only the full API route supports tracking pixels and the highest accessibility conformance.
| Option | Effort | Brand control | SEO on your domain | Tracking pixels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted job board | Under 1 hour | Logo and formatting | No | No |
| Embedded board | About 1 day | Page around an iframe | Partial | No |
| API browse, hosted apply | 2 to 4 dev days | High | Yes | No |
| Fully embedded build | 3 to 5 dev days | High | Yes | No |
| Full API integration | 5 to 8 dev days | Full | Yes | Yes |
| Happydance platform | Guided onboarding | Full | Yes | Yes |
What a platform adds on top of the API
Happydance takes the full API route, then removes the engineering burden that comes with it. Your team gets a careers site with real content pages, team stories, search and filtering built for candidates, personalization, automated SEO structure and analytics that show the whole journey from first visit to application in Greenhouse. Everything is editable by talent acquisition through the CMS, so a copy change or a new landing page happens in minutes rather than sprints. Results vary by client, and we will happily share measured outcomes in a demo.
High-performing careers websites
25% average increase in annual traffic
25 %
Up to 50% increase in pageviews
50 %
Over 75% increase in sessions year on year
75 %
Up to 25% increase in conversion rate
25 %
Happy customers from world-leading brands
“Happydance delivered a global careers site that personalizes content and accelerates discovery, driving stronger candidate flow into the ATS.”
“The optimized user experience makes it easy and engaging for candidates to explore their future with us and apply.”
“The candidate experience on the Criteo careers website is so well-crafted it’s like an invitation into a journey.”
“Despite a very tight timeline, the team knocked it out the park—delivering on time, to spec and within budget.”
The honest alternatives
Phenom and Clinch both offer strong candidate experience platforms with Greenhouse integrations, typically as part of broader talent suites, and an in-house build on the Job Board API gives full control to teams with permanent engineering capacity. If your priority is a dedicated, best-of-breed careers site with enterprise depth and no dependence on internal developers, that is the ground Happydance was built for.
Questions Greenhouse teams ask
Is Happydance a Greenhouse Preferred Partner?
Yes. Greenhouse recognises twelve Preferred Partners across its whole ecosystem and Happydance is the only careers website platform among them. The status reflects the depth of the Job Board API integration and success with shared enterprise customers, and you can verify it in the Greenhouse partner directory.
What makes a careers site platform better than the hosted job board?
The hosted board lists your jobs quickly and reliably, and for many teams that is enough. A platform adds your own domain, full employer brand storytelling, SEO ownership, personalization and full-funnel analytics, which together move the visit-to-apply number the hosted board cannot influence.
Does Happydance replace Greenhouse?
No. Greenhouse remains the ATS and system of record; Happydance is the candidate-facing layer. Jobs sync out of Greenhouse and applications sync back in.
How is this different from styling the job board with Design Studio?
Greenhouse's Job Board Design Studio styles the board itself, covering images, fonts and colours. A careers site platform adds full pages, content, SEO architecture, personalization and analytics around every job.
Do we need developers to run the site?
No. Greenhouse estimates a fully custom Job Board API build at five to eight developer days. Happydance gives you that depth of integration through a CMS your talent team can edit without engineering support.
See the platform on your own jobs
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