Greenhouse ATS Integration: How to Connect Your Sourcing Pipeline

Greenhouse has become the ATS of choice for many growth-stage and enterprise companies because of its flexibility, reporting capabilities, and integrations ecosystem. If you're running recruiting at a company that uses Greenhouse, the question of how to connect your sourcing channels to the platform is central to building an efficient hiring operation.

Here's what Greenhouse integrations actually do and how to think about connecting them.

A sourcing platform that integrates with Greenhouse can push candidate profiles and applications directly into your Greenhouse pipeline - as a prospect or as a stage-one application. This means recruiters work in Greenhouse as usual, while new candidates from partner platforms appear automatically in the right stage of the right job's pipeline.

Greenhouse Certified integrations have been verified by Greenhouse to meet specific technical and security standards. They're available in the Greenhouse Partner directory and can be connected without custom development. For common sourcing tools - job matching platforms, background check providers, assessment tools - a certified integration is faster, more reliable, and lower-maintenance than a custom API build.

Most job board and candidate sourcing integrations with Greenhouse work through one of three mechanisms: a direct certified integration (partner pushes candidates directly into Greenhouse), an apply-with integration (candidate completes an application on Greenhouse directly from the partner platform), or a manual export/import flow (less recommended, more work).

For platforms with a Greenhouse certification, setup typically involves generating an API key in Greenhouse and entering it in the partner platform's settings. The specific steps vary by platform, but the Greenhouse Partner directory provides documentation for each certified integration and lists the setup requirements.

Before enabling an integration, ask: What candidate data is transferred and in what format? Does the integration support two-way sync (so status updates in Greenhouse flow back to the partner) or just one-way import? How are duplicates handled? What are the data retention and privacy implications?

For job matching platforms specifically, the critical question is whether the integration allows matched candidates to move into your Greenhouse pipeline with their full profile data, or whether it's a stripped-down transfer that loses context. The best integrations maintain the full fidelity of the candidate profile across systems, so your recruiters have complete information regardless of which interface they're working in.