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About HeyVar

We think the people behind hospitality deserve better.

We’re a small team from hospitality and technology, on a mission to make the employee journey feel like a luxury guest journey. We were sick of waiting for someone else to make it, so we’re building it with the people leading hospitality at the heart of it.

Team gathered around a whiteboard sketching a better hiring vision for hospitality

Companies we’ve worked with

Apaleo Leinerstift Sixt HireSpace

Meet the Team

A small team, bringing hospitality, technology, partnerships and growth together.

HeyVar is being built by people who care deeply about the people within hospitality & hospitality tech- and especially what can happen when tech is made with real hospitality leaders in mind to start with.

In no particular order, we’re also…

Parents Career switchers Tech Nerds Bikers Pet snugglers World Travelers Book nerds Muggles Wine Tryers Overachieving Hobbyists Rainbow Folk

Story

Where the name comes from

The name is a question and a welcome at the same time. HeyVar.

Var comes from vardøger, a Norse concept with no clean English equivalent. It describes the unmistakable sense of someone’s presence before they arrive. It is the phantom sound of footsteps in the hallway before the door opens; the silhouette seen in the mind’s eye before the guest rounds the corner. The sound of your partner’s keys jiggling before they step foot in the yard. It is Scandinavian intuition at its most precise.

In the Nordic languages, var carries a second meaning too — was, or where. The place someone has been. The place they’re headed. Both readings live inside the same small word, the way a great hire carries both a past worth trusting and a future worth building.

For the General Managers of the world’s most exceptional properties, this isn’t just folklore—it is the gold standard of talent. That is exactly what we are building.

We believe that hiring for guest and customer facing teams should feel less like a gamble and more like a recognition. We are creating a platform that allows you to sense the caliber, the temperament, and the alignment of a candidate before they ever set foot in your lobby or sit across from you for a first interview.

It isn’t a gut feeling dressed up in data. It is a visual, considered clarity with a complex topic made simple and fast. It’s the ability to look at your team and realize you already know exactly who is missing—and then recognizing them the moment they appear on the horizon.

What if we approached careers the way the best hospitality brands approach guests — with curiosity, with intention, with the belief that people remember how you made them feel? That’s the premise HeyVar is built on. Because great hospitality only ever works one way: guests feel at home when the people serving them feel at home first. You cannot manufacture belonging outward. It has to start with the team.

So for candidates, HeyVar means finding the team that feels like home — quickly, and by a straight path, not a maze of postings and silence. And for the Managers building that team, it means the path is already built for you. You don’t have to go looking. You just have to open the door.

The Hey matters, too. It is the warmth of the greeting a guest hears as they cross the threshold. It is the calm, human welcome a manager gives to a new hire on their first day. It is immediate, sophisticated, and deeply personal.

HeyVar key mark

A little more than a logo

A key to what’s next.

Our logo brings the HeyVar story into one small mark. A key for opportunity, a compass for direction, and a star for the place you’re heading.

  • •The key represents the opportunity to open the right door.
  • •The compass represents finding your direction.
  • •The star represents the destination you’re moving toward.
  • •The quatrefoil brings something human, a little luck, and a nod to European hospitality.

Values

The paths we choose

Why HeyVar exists

What if we approached careers the way the best hospitality brands approach guests?

We believe every candidate deserves the same thought, and every manager deserves the tools to easily create it.

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Learn more about HeyVar

There is always a better way through.

We’re still building it — alongside the people who will use it.

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