Hiring managers are not recruiters. They carry a full job alongside every req they are added to. The standard ATS gives them the same interface as the recruiter: every candidate in the company, every job, every settings tab.
Most hiring managers log in once, feel lost, and go back to email.
The recruiter ends up relaying information manually. Feedback lands in a Slack message or a one-line reply to a calendar invite. A week later the team disagrees on who to advance and nobody can find the notes.
A candidate who waited nine days for a shortlist decision has almost certainly accepted another offer. That is not a sourcing problem. It is a loop problem: the recruiter cannot close the loop alone if the hiring manager is not in the tool.
100Hires gives the hiring manager a scoped view of the tool: only the jobs they are on, only the candidates who made the cut, with an AI score already attached. No setup, no per-seat license to negotiate. The recruiter adds them to the job and the hiring manager gets an invite.
What is hiring manager software
Hiring manager software is an applicant tracking system that includes a purpose-built view for the people who make the final hiring call, separate from the full recruiter interface.
Instead of navigating a system designed for daily recruiter use, the hiring manager sees only their active reqs, receives structured evaluation prompts after each interview, and can review candidates and submit feedback without touching sourcing, job board settings, or billing.
In 100Hires the hiring manager role is called Interviewer. It is part of the broader collaborative hiring workflow alongside the full Recruiter and Administrator roles.
Everything a hiring manager needs, nothing they don't
100Hires vs a typical ATS for hiring managers
Most applicant tracking systems were designed for full-time recruiters. Adding a hiring manager means adding another paid seat and giving them the same cluttered view.
100Hires includes the hiring manager as a first-class participant: a scoped role, structured evaluation prompts, and automatic follow-ups built in on every plan.
100Hires is built for companies of ten to five hundred employees hiring directly. It is not designed for staffing agencies or enterprise talent acquisition teams running fifty-plus open reqs per recruiter. If that is your situation, an enterprise suite will serve you better.