When describing company culture, words like “collaborative” and “innovative” may come to mind. At least, those are the types of words NYC tech professionals used to describe their workplaces.
And it’s no wonder those types of descriptions were made. After all, NYC is home to huge industry disruptors. While one is giving people greater access to credit, another is using AI to redefine cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Luckily for job seekers, many NYC companies are currently hiring across their organizations. Their open roles cover a wide range of disciplines, from product and project management to marketing and HR.
Take a look at these nine hiring tech companies across NYC and discover what makes each one of them unique.
In recent years, the healthtech community has been focusing heavily on redefining cancer diagnosis and treatment. In an effort to drive innovation within the oncology space, Paige has created a digital platform that enables pathologists to change their workflows. Leveraging AI, data and clinical expertise, the company is developing a new class of computational diagnostics.
As an AI engineer at Paige, Sheena Eb plays a large role in building new technologies for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Innovative.” Paige is on a mission to transform the diagnosis and treatment of cancer using AI. As cancer diagnosis is a new but important application of AI, there is a vast amount of opportunities to grow. The company culture centers around innovation and excellence. The teams are brilliant as well as passionate. They adhere to Agile principles and, as such, get involved in a wide range of activities, from experimentation to deployment in production. This encourages everyone to continuously learn and adapt so they can contribute to the team efficiently.
The company culture centers around innovation and excellence.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I joined Paige almost 9 months ago. I had worked in teams and built products before, but Paige took my experience to a whole new level. The quality of the work and the variety of modern tools that are used at Paige have been fascinating to me from day one. My perspective about teamwork, project management and product development has completely changed and evolved, as I work with the most brilliant engineers in NYC.
Millions of Americans lack access to credit, and Petal wants to change that. The company offers a no-fee credit card that doesn’t require a credit history. Through their app, users can easily pay on time, manage their balance and build credit.
Engineering Director of Core Product and Platform Nathan Kane leads the company’s efforts to help people succeed financially.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Connection.” During the COVID-19 era, I’m more aware and appreciative of Petal’s efforts to connect us all and reinforce our connection to the company mission. I’m not just referring to social connection; I’m also talking about connecting and learning from one another.
Building a startup credit card company requires the expertise of a broad range of people. It’s our empathy for — and curiosity about — each other that has enabled us to achieve so much very quickly as a team.
As an engineer, I’ve never worked in an environment where my day-to-day intersects with people from such different professional backgrounds, and I thrive in these connection points. I’ve learned so much about our customers from our product and marketing teams; about running teams from my manager dens; about decision models from the risk and data science teams; and I learn more each day.
On the social front, the people team has always offered creative and engaging opportunities for us to connect. And they’ve risen to the challenge of our all-remote working conditions to shake us out of our Zoom stupor. We’ve enjoyed an amazing lineup of lunch and learn speakers, a magic show, paired-up conversations through an app called Icebreakers, themed happy hours and — something I’m really excited about — they have dedicated a full day in October to employee connectivity with yoga, meditation, cooking classes, a mentalist performance and options for wine tasting, a tiki-themed cocktail event or a drag sangria hour.
It’s our empathy for — and curiosity about — each other that has enabled us to achieve so much very quickly as a team.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I joined Petal a little over three years ago and was one of the first engineers on the team. Starting as a front-end developer focused on UI, I had no clue how much I would learn and grow within a few years. Because we were such a small team, I had to stretch into learning back end and becoming a full-stack engineer. After we launched the Petal card and got traction in the market, the CTO and I started talking about expanding the team and how my role would change. And since then, I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to hire and lead amazing team members and to have received formal management training before I needed it. I now lead other managers through monthly manager dens and share management lessons through a regular Petal engineering book club.
Although Petal has grown about 10 times since I joined, we still place huge emphasis on employee growth and development. I use my own experience as a blueprint for others on my team by hiring folks with high potential and then challenging them to continually step up and get out of their comfort zone. Projects that might only go to seasoned staff at other companies are assigned to engineers who have shown they can do it, even if they are doing it for the first time and need a lot of coaching. I feel like I’m finally giving back to Petal all that it’s given me over the past few years.
Leveraging enterprise-scale data is essential for businesses to create close connections with their consumers, but it’s not always easy to do. Simon Data aims to make the process easier. Their enterprise customer data platform empowers businesses to deliver personalized customer experiences by unifying, organizing and transforming their customer data.
Director of Product Management Lunar Le helps further the company’s efforts to equip brands with personalization capabilities.
Describe your company culture in one word.
"Respect." I see so many strong examples across all of our core values, but respect for other people's time truly stands out. Everyone is very intentional to only tag someone in Slack when absolutely necessary. It's a small action but a challenging behavior to instill across a company. This allows me to concentrate on what I'm doing without the constant peripheral distraction.
During Zoom meetings, we make sure that everyone gets the opportunity to speak. Whenever I take myself off mute and someone talks before I have the opportunity to, without fail, I'm asked for my opinion when the other person finishes.
We also take extreme care with PTO at Simon. Last month, I took a week off and was able to completely sign off. Someone outside my team tagged me in a Slack thread, and my teammate immediately jumped in to let the other person know that I was on PTO. No one tagged me again or sent a direct message for the rest of my time off. This gave me the space I needed to fully recharge.
I see so many strong examples across all of our core values, but respect for other people's time truly stands out.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I've worked at Simon for a little over six months. We have a biweekly manager lunch where we learn about a new management topic each session. Everyone is encouraged to submit a topic they would like to discuss. This is an excellent resource for both new and experienced managers. For example, we learned about the SBIA (situation, behavior, impact and action) feedback framework, which made me realize that my positive feedback was often too nebulous. It's much easier to say "Great job!" than to construct actionable, positive feedback that reinforces valuable behavior and helps my managee grow.
Precision medicine is only made possible through data. In response to this need, Tempus has created the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data. The company’s library, along with its operating system, enables physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions to deliver personalized cancer care and optimize therapeutic options.
Senior Product Designer Hailey Tannenbaum drives the company’s efforts to revolutionize how data is used to personalize and optimize cancer treatments.
Describe your company culture in one word.
I would choose the word “respect.” In order to move as fast as we do, we need to have a lot of respect for each other. I get the chance to sit in a room with some of the best minds in their field, and I have never doubted that they would extend the same respect to me and my expertise as I do to them. Ultimately, it’s the focus on the company’s mission, as well as not letting egos get in the way, that allows us to build the best version of our products.
I get the chance to sit in a room with some of the best minds in their field, and I have never doubted that they would extend the same respect to me and my expertise as I do to them.”
What's the coolest project you've worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
I’ve recently had the chance to be part of our new infectious disease team, specifically working on the development of a patient-facing app for COVID-19 test result delivery. It’s rare to work on a project where the deadlines are literally set by a worldwide pandemic, which presents both a challenge and a unique opportunity. The team has worked incredibly hard at an intense speed to get these tests and products out because we’ve benefited from this clarity of mission. This focus enables us to rapidly prioritize what to build, how best to build it, and most of all, expand access and help more patients. It’s been really cool to think about how we can utilize this opportunity of our first direct-to-patient product to develop a deeper connection with our patients in the long term.
As the fintech sector grows each year, financial institutions are being tasked with delivering top-tier digital experiences for their customers. That’s where Narmi comes in. The company’s platform is designed to help community banks and credit unions increase deposits, profitability and accounts through the development of engaging digital experiences.
Product Marketing Specialist Audrey Song and Software Engineer Alexander Scott play an integral role in spearheading projects at Narmi.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Innovative,” Song said. “Narmi employees see themselves as creators and innovators part of a larger mission to build the future of banking. Whether it be programming a new digital banking feature or planning a webinar, we each take pride in our work since everything we do ultimately empowers businesses and consumers to live healthier financial lives. The result is a true ‘ownership culture’ that boosts productivity and creativity each day.”
Whether it be programming a new digital banking feature or planning a webinar, we each take pride in our work.”
What's the coolest project you've worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
“Recently I worked on Narmi's digital account opening solution, which reduces the time it takes to open a bank account to an average of two and a half minutes,” Scott said. “This was a great opportunity to work on multiple aspects of a product. Not only was I not siloed into one area of the codebase, but due to how Narmi keeps close communication between our business and engineering teams, I had an impact on the design of specific features and ultimately how the solution is shipped to our customers. Narmi values creative input across the board, and being at a place where I can contribute wherever I'm able has been an invaluable source of professional growth for me.”
Health insurance is in the throes of a tech revolution, and Zipari wants to lead the way. The company offers health insurance SaaS technology designed to simplify and improve health insurance carrier's interactions with their customers.
Product Manager Karan Soman is integral to the development of new customer-centric technologies.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Customer-focused.” This aligns with one of our guiding principles, “Make customers proud,” where we strive to make it easy for customers to evangelize Zipari. This customer focus manifests itself in everything we do and is essential for a vertical SaaS company exclusively focused on serving health plans.
A good example of this is our annual Zipari Connect User Conference and specifically our CX workshop, where more than 50 health plan executives work together to personalize a set of predetermined goals and deliver them to two member personas using the best channels. Although customer-savvy execs drive change at health plans, most of these organizations are still getting used to the idea of working directly with consumers. Such workshops and experiences “bring them along.”
Furthermore, we’ve had customers run lunch and learns and have even featured them in our weekly town halls. These interactions allow for everyone at Zipari to fully appreciate the bigger picture: how the Zipari platform, with its broad range of products, empowers our customers to solve the “CX problem.”
Hearing directly from and speaking with customers is the best way to drive alignment amongst teams across disciplines. Lastly, making this information about our target market easily accessible across the organization and keeping our customers' pain points front and center ensures that we are thoughtful and deliberate in everything we do.
Hearing directly from and speaking with customers is the best way to drive alignment amongst teams across disciplines.”
What's the coolest project you've worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
Bringing Zipari’s CX Engagement Hub (CEH) to market has to be the coolest and most rewarding project I’ve worked on at Zipari. CEH allows health plans to attach a value to their goals for each member and intelligently orchestrate and prioritize engagement via a consumer’s preferred communication channel. As a result, health plans ultimately improve the overall health of the individual member, impact population health outcomes and achieve ROI on CX.
Coming on as an individual contributor and then transitioning to a manager role has allowed me to fully appreciate and successfully overcome the challenges of scaling a team and product firsthand. With the guidance of leadership, I was able to find my purpose on the team and scale my impact in mentoring new team members and forming strong partnerships both internally and externally. I now fully understand that it is only through continuous collaboration with customers that we will be able to consistently deliver value.
Offline marketing can be difficult for digitally native organizations, so Share Local Media has created an easier way for them to leverage direct mail marketing. Their platform enables e-commerce and tech companies to create fully personalized, trigger-based direct mail, suitable for retargeting, abandoned cart and lifecycle marketing campaigns.
As marketing manager, Jenna Andino plays a large role in managing the company’s client relationships.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Thoughtful.” I picked this word to describe SLM's culture for two reasons. Firstly, it sums up how we approach strategy and communication for each and every one of the projects we work on. I have never been a part of an organization that is so conscientious of every email, proposal, analysis and more that goes out the door. The culture at SLM encourages employees to constantly imagine themselves in the client's shoes and ensure that we are thoroughly meeting their needs. To provide an example, I am currently working with a client whose DM campaigns are performing well and driving success. While it would be easy to keep running things the same way, I am searching for opportunities to reduce the cost of their campaigns even further to help improve overall results. While many organizations would be content to keep things status quo, at SLM, we are constantly challenging ourselves to thoughtfully and proactively identify the optimal strategy for clients.
Second, it describes how my co-workers treat each other. Everyone at SLM is very kind and takes the time to interact with each other thoughtfully. Additionally, my managers are communicating with me all the time — especially as we've navigated the pandemic — to ensure that I am doing well, enjoying my role and growing.
Everyone at SLM is very kind and takes the time to interact with each other thoughtfully.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I have been at SLM for about nine months now and have grown quite a bit throughout this short time. While I've grown in many different areas, the most significant area of growth for me has been in regards to my management skills. I have a wonderful, intelligent team and have been learning how to help support them in their professional growth. This is my first experience managing a team, and while it has been challenging to learn a new field as well as how to manage at the same time, it has been extremely rewarding. Also, my managers are truly exceptional and have provided so much support along the way. I am certainly never bored here and love that there are always ways to grow and develop new competencies.
Skillshare aims to make it easier for creatives to learn new skills. The company’s online learning platform offers classes related to a broad range of topics, from illustration to photography. Skillshare also benefits creative experts by enabling them to offer classes on their platform.
Director of Engineering Sara Gottlieb drives the company’s efforts to help people take the next step in their creative journey.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Uplifting.” I chose this word because, since joining Skillshare, I have received true support from my teammates to accomplish my goals. They can be both personal and professional goals, but everyone is willing to step in and help out. When I started a weekly newsletter, I needed help finding specific data and was able to lean on my fellow engineers to get that data in a consistent, scalable way. They helped me by building out weekly data tables for me to use. Though these asks may not have been the most complex requests, they were still additional work that people were excited to do because everyone is excited to help one another. We see each other's strengths and try to work together to deliver the best possible version of each project we work on.
Having open conversations about tough problems can be hard, but at Skillshare I learned that, with supportive teammates, we can work together to solve them.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I've been with Skillshare for one year and have seen tremendous growth for myself. One of my areas of interest revolves around process: How do we get from idea to delivery in the most efficient, scalable way, while also creating professional growth and knowledge-sharing in the process? Within a couple months of joining, I was able to send out a survey and meet with many people individually to get information about how well our process was accomplishing its goal. I was encouraged to ask these questions and devise solutions to some bottleneck areas within our development life cycle. We adopted some of these new ideas but also created a more open channel to talk about these problems as new ones arise so we can continue improving.
Being able to work closely with so many people and have new ideas adopted and encouraged so quickly really increased my confidence in the workplace. Throughout this process, I learned a lot from everyone about our whole life cycle, why certain things are hard and what people liked and didn't like. Having open conversations about tough problems can be hard, but at Skillshare I learned that, with supportive teammates, we can work together to solve them.
Industry knowledge exists everywhere, but it’s not always easy to find. AlphaSights was founded in response to this ever-increasing need for digital connectivity. The company connects professionals from a wide range of disciplines with industry experts to help them make the best decisions in today’s competitive markets.
As a software engineer at AlphaSights, Michael Rabie helps build the technology that enables faster and more precise connections.
Describe your company culture in one word.
“Growth.” AlphaSights goes above and beyond to help us grow and learn so we’re able to accomplish our career goals. Due to the high-growth culture, I’ve been able to pursue areas of computer science that I’ve always been interested in. I have taken online courses, read a number of books and attended conferences, all of which was made possible because AlphaSights heavily invests in its people so we can maximize our career potential. We also dedicate 10 percent of our time to pursue our interests and research new technologies that are separate from our day-to-day project work.
AlphaSights goes above and beyond to help us grow and learn so we’re able to accomplish our career goals.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I’ve been with AlphaSights for just over four years. Since the first day on the job, I’ve been given the opportunity to work and own features that directly impact the company. AlphaSights has given me the opportunity to explore different aspects of software engineering. During my first year alone, I got to immerse myself in back-end and front-end development, architecture design and infrastructure and actively participate in areas that interested me like recruitment and product management. These experiences helped me establish my career interests and set my career goals to become a software engineer lead. AlphaSights’ senior leadership team and our senior engineers worked with me closely over the years to prepare me for the position.
