Setting Up Your Career Portal
How to configure, brand, and launch your public career page — including custom domains, logos, and embed options.
Why It Matters
Your career portal is the public face of your hiring. It’s where candidates browse open roles, learn about your company, and submit applications. A well-configured portal makes a strong first impression and drives more qualified applicants into your pipeline.
How the Career Portal Works
Every Kit account gets a career portal at a URL based on your account subdomain:
https://startupkit.app/careers/your-subdomain
The portal lists all your published job postings. Candidates can search by title, filter by location or department, and click into any job to see the full description and apply.
Branding Your Portal
Your portal’s visual branding — logo, primary color, font, and light/dark theme — is managed account-wide at Account Settings > Branding. These settings apply across Kit, including your career portal. Kit supports several branding options:
Logo
Upload your company logo in SVG, PNG, or JPEG format. You can upload two variants:
- Logo — Used on light backgrounds
- Logo (Dark) — Used on dark backgrounds (optional — falls back to the main logo if not set)
Primary Color
Set a hex color (e.g. #111827) for buttons, links, and accent elements. Kit automatically calculates accessible contrast colors for text on buttons. Use a dark, saturated color for best results.
Font
Choose a custom Google Font family for your portal’s body text. Leave blank to use the default system font (Inter). The font selector shows a preview of each option.
Prefer your own typeface? Instead of picking a Google Font, you can upload a custom font file (WOFF2 format) and Kit will use it across your portal.
Light/Dark Mode
Choose between a light or dark theme. This sets the background, text colors, and card styling.
Portal Settings
Navigate to Hiring > Settings > Career Portal to configure portal-specific options. This page includes a live preview of both light and dark modes so you can see how your branding looks before saving.
Logo Display Mode
Control how your logo appears in the portal header:
| Mode | What Shows |
|---|---|
| Branded | Logo + your company name |
| Logo Only | Logo without text |
| Brandless | No logo or company name — minimal header |
Languages
Choose which languages your portal supports and set the default language. Candidates can switch between enabled languages from the portal.
Allowed Origins
By default, any website is allowed to embed (frame) your career portal. To lock this down, list the origins (domains) permitted to frame it — once you add one or more origins, only those hosts can embed the portal and every other site is blocked. Leaving the list empty keeps embedding unrestricted, so add your own domains here as a security hardening step if you only embed the portal on sites you control.
Custom Domains
By default, your career portal is accessible at your app’s domain with your subdomain slug. If your account has a custom domain configured (e.g. careers.yourcompany.com), the career portal resolves there automatically — no path prefix needed.
Custom domains make your career page feel like a native part of your website. See Custom Domains for setup instructions.
Your Portal URL
Your career portal URL is always available at the top of any published job posting. You can also construct it manually:
https://yourapp.com/careers/{your-subdomain}
Share this URL on your website, social media profiles, and job boards to drive candidates directly to your portal.
Quick Checklist
- In Account Settings > Branding: upload your company logo (and dark variant if using dark mode)
- In Account Settings > Branding: set a primary color that matches your brand
- In Account Settings > Branding: select light or dark theme and optionally a custom Google Font
- In Hiring > Settings > Career Portal: choose a logo display mode (branded, logo only, or brandless)
- In Hiring > Settings > Career Portal: enable the languages your portal should support
- In Hiring > Settings > Career Portal: add allowed origins if you embed the portal elsewhere
- Verify the portal looks right by visiting your career portal URL
- Link your career portal from your company website