Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, has obtained ISO/IEC 42001 certification, the world's first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS). This milestone places Greenhouse among an elite group of organizations establishing benchmarks for responsible AI development, deployment, and management, with accountability, fairness, privacy, and security embedded at the core.
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As AI regulations tighten worldwide, including under frameworks like the EU AI Act, organizations face increasing scrutiny over how AI influences high-stakes decisions such as hiring. Greenhouse's certification independently verifies that its AI systems operate under structured governance, ensuring transparency, risk management, and alignment with ethical and legal expectations.
The standard translates complex legal and ethical requirements into practical, auditable controls. Greenhouse has built these principles into its platform from the outset, with features like Real Talent safeguarding signal quality, anonymized evaluations promoting fairness, and structured scorecards enabling consistent, bias-reduced decision-making.
"Achieving ISO/IEC 42001 certification demonstrates that responsible and safe AI is not just a goal at Greenhouse, it's the everyday standard," said Sagar Patel, Chief Technology Officer at Greenhouse. "This independent validation confirms our AI capabilities, including Real Talent, are supported by formal controls, documented processes, and rigorous oversight, not just stated intent. For our customers, this translates to reduced risk and greater confidence in how we manage AI security, risk, and compliance to the highest standards as regulations continue to evolve globally. This certification is another step toward Greenhouse's vision of making hiring work for everyone."
With this certification, Greenhouse customers can confidently deploy AI-powered hiring tools globally without location-based concerns over regulatory compliance, workflow disruption, or adoption barriers. The platform continues to support organizations in building structured, equitable hiring processes that deliver measurable improvements in talent acquisition.
About Greenhouse
Greenhouse is the leading hiring platform on a mission to make hiring work for everyone. Greenhouse helps more than 7,500 companies, including HubSpot, Anthropic, Gong, Coinbase, and the NFL, to get measurably better at hiring, for every role, every team, and every candidate. Our industry-leading, AI-powered software supports every stage of the hiring process, from sourcing to interviewing to onboarding. Greenhouse's structured hiring approach enables internal alignment and confident, data-backed decisions, giving companies everything they need to hire top talent quickly, consistently, and fairly. With Greenhouse, organizations get the data and guidance they need to turn talent into a strategic advantage as they move up the Hiring Maturity curve. Greenhouse has won numerous awards, including Fortune Best Workplaces, Inc. Magazine Best Workplace, Glassdoor #1 Best Place to Work, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, and TIME Best Inventions, and is consistently ranked the #1 ATS on G2 across Overall, Enterprise, Mid-Market, and EMEA categories.