Shadow - Anonymous Talent Network
The job market you can enter without being seen.
Search real roles by skill, not by title. Salary shown upfront. Apply with your Phantom Passport and companies see your experience, not your name, until you choose to reveal it.
Senior Backend Engineer
Confidential · Series C Fintech
VP of Sales
Confidential · Enterprise SaaS
Staff Product Designer
Confidential · Consumer App
What's in it
Built for people who aren't applying anywhere else.
Search by skill
Filter by seniority, remote preference and employment type, or search freely by title and summary. Built on the same real filters the live board runs on.
Salary shown upfront
Every listing that gives a range shows it on the card. No wasted conversations over a number that was never going to work.
Confidential listings
Companies can list a role without naming themselves until they're ready, so a confidential search stays confidential on both sides.
Apply once with your Passport
No re-typing your CV for every role. Apply from your existing Phantom Passport, and get a fresh Callsign for each application.
How applying works
One click from your Passport. A real status you can track.
Apply with your existing Phantom Passport and get a fresh Callsign for this application. Your name, employer and contact details stay hidden until you choose to share them, and your original CV is never sent, only your reviewed and approved Passport.
Track it end to end
Or Declined / Withdrawn — every application has one real, current status, always visible to you.
Senior Backend Engineer
Confidential · Series C Fintech · Remote
You'll apply as Echo-14
Name, employer and contact details stay hidden until you choose to share them
resume.pdf, auto-redacted before it's shared
Track your application
Reveal Requests, candidate-controlled
A company can ask. Only you can answer.
When a company wants to move forward, they send a Reveal Request with a stated reason, not a blanket unmasking. You see exactly why they're asking and approve or decline it yourself, every time. This is separate from an internal team's own identity vault reveal — here, the choice always sits with you.
Senior Backend Engineer
Applied as Echo-14
Application ID
SA-2026-0071
Requested
2h ago
Company's reason
We'd like to schedule your final interview and need your name and contact details for the calendar invite.
Only you can approve this. Nothing is shared automatically.
Built for both sides
A marketplace that works whichever side you're on.
For candidates
- Free forever. Building a Passport and applying through Shadow never costs you anything.
- No recruiter spam. You apply to roles you choose, not the other way around.
- Real salary ranges upfront, not withheld until the final stage.
- You control every reveal. Nothing about your identity moves without your approval.
For companies
- Reach people who aren't applying anywhere else. Shadow is built for passive and privacy-conscious talent, not just active job seekers.
- Run a genuinely confidential search. List a role without naming your company until you're ready.
- No résumé database to maintain. Every applicant arrives with a reviewed, approved Passport, not a raw CV dump.
- Every applicant lands straight in Phantom ATS, ranked by evidence, ready to screen.
Enter the market without stepping into the light.
Free for candidates, forever. Built for companies running a search that needs to stay quiet.