Overworked tech recruiters are struggling to get candidates to answer their emails and take their phone calls. Simultaneously, they’re fighting a losing battle to convince out-of-touch executives that the promising candidates they do have in their recruiting pipeline need to receive offers ASAP. At least, this is the grim picture painted by a recent article in The New York Times Magazine on the current state of tech recruiting. While talent does hold the power in today’s job market, companies are not helpless when it comes to recruiting. In fact, many candidates just need more information about a business before submitting an application or taking a call.
Doing that research is time-consuming, though, and it can easily eat into a person’s work-life balance. To make things just a bit easier, we’ve done a deep dive into seven New York companies that are all hiring right now. Continue reading to learn more about what each one does along with the recent news they’ve made, what makes them unique and their most notable perks and benefits.
What they do: CAIS gives financial advisors access to alternative investments and asset managers from large firms a new pool of investors to work with. In addition to building bridges with its marketplace, CAIS has built educational tools that help financial advisors level up their knowledge of alternative investments while earning continuing education credits.
Perk alert: CAIS offers its employees a number of notable perks, including a lunch stipend for employees working in the office and $100 a month toward an Equinox membership. Other notable benefits include between 15 and 20 days of PTO per year, a 401(k) match and performance bonuses.
Horn acquired: In January CAIS closed a $225 million funding round that pushed its valuation over $1 billion. The newly minted unicorn said in a press release announcing the round that the funds would be used for product and technology development. CAIS has raised $306 million according to Crunchbase data.
What they do: Flexport is a logistics company with solutions for supply chain management, shipping freight and financing.
Family first: At Flexport, starting or growing a family is easier thanks to a parental leave program that provides 18 weeks of maternity leave and eight weeks of paternity leave. Along with time off, the company also has a month-long phase back program that helps parents ease back into work through flexible scheduling and reduced hours.
Decacorn status in sight: Just three years after reaching unicorn status, it looks likely that Flexport will soon become a “decacorn,” or a private company valued at more than $10 billion. The company’s most recent funding round, a $935 million Series E, pushed its valuation to $8 billion. A portion of that massive haul will go toward hiring, with Flexport looking to fill 40 open roles in its NYC office alone.
What they do: Northwestern Mutual is a financial services company whose offerings include insurance, financial planning and wealth management.
Remote leaders wanted: Northwestern Mutual currently has 48 open roles, many of which are remote-friendly and high-level. These include several director openings, including a senior director of innovation software engineering, senior director of data product and a senior director of design.
Cream City Labs: That’s the name of Northwestern Mutual’s innovation center, which is located on its downtown Milwaukee campus. The two-floor 22,500-square-foot space is open to all employees, serves as an event space for the local Milwaukee tech community and is home to the company’s VC firm and its data science institute.
What they do: Betterment helps users reach their financial goals through automated and custom investment and savings strategies. In addition to financial planning, the company also offers a checking account and high-yield savings account.
Working around your interests: There are currently 20 open roles between Betterment’s data and analytics and engineering teams. In an interview with Built In, Alex Hint, who was then a software engineer and is now a lead software engineer, spoke about how the company enables its tech team to do work that interests them.
“My primary focus has been on back-end technologies, however, my interest was in front-end development,” Hint said. “I was able to align my interest by leading accessibility efforts, being part of an internal style library-development team and joining our React and TypeScript group. After expressing an interest in more product-related work, I was given the opportunity to lead the new fraud prevention project.”
Moving into crypto: Betterment’s users will soon have the ability to invest in cryptocurrencies thanks to the company’s acquisition of Makara, an automated crypto investing platform. Sarah Levy, Betterment’s CEO, discussed the similarities between the two companies that drove the deal in a press release announcing the acquisition.
“Makara is unique in offering consumers managed crypto portfolios combined with the guidance and ease-of-use that have defined Betterment,” Levy said. “Makara is to crypto today what we are to traditional investing since pioneering robo-investing a decade ago.”
What they do: Albert is a fintech company with a wide range of products and services, including a debit card with cashback rewards, financial advice provided by the company’s in-house financial experts and an automated savings account.
Supporting women in the workplace: Amanda Liu is the head of product at Albert, and in a recent interview with Built In she spoke about her approach to uplifting and empowering the women on her team.
“One of the best things you can do is give people space to grow,” Liu said. “I believe in learning by doing, which involves searching for ways to give team members a chance to try new things. If you give them space to hone a new skill or make mistakes and learn from them, there’s a good chance they’ll achieve success.”
Delicious and healthy perks: All U.S.-based employees receive six meals a week from Factor, which offers pre-made meals cooked by chefs from scratch; that’s in addition to the $20 daily meal stipend. Along with food, there is also a $100 monthly wellness stipend and a commuter stipend of $100 for anyone who walks to work, rides their bike or takes public transit.
What they do: TytoCare has created hardware and software that gives people the ability to conduct a wide variety of medical exams at home with guidance from a remote doctor.
Directors in demand: TytoCare currently has three open director roles, two on its ops team and one on the marketing team. The two ops roles are for a director of payor solutions and a director of provider solutions, both of which require more than six years of experience in the health industry, with MBAs or former management consultants preferred. The director of partner marketing positions asks for 10 years of experience as a healthcare or SaaS marketer. Additionally, the director of payor solutions and director of provider solutions roles are available to remote workers.
A banner year: 2021 was a big year for TytoCare. The company raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round in March and in May it landed at number nine on CNBC’s “Disruptor 50,” which the business news outlet describes as “a list of private innovators using breakthrough technology to transform their respective industries.”
What they do: Qualtrics develops software designed to improve the interactions employees have with their companies and those that consumers have with brands and products. The platform collects and analyzes customer and employee feedback, surfacing actionable insights and quantifying their impact.
Finding your fit: Qualtrics encourages employees to follow their passions and promotes lateral career growth, as Fareen Roper experienced firsthand. Roper joined the company as the head of platform marketing before his passion for DEI led him to a new team.
“I joined Qualtrics as a marketer, but I had a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) stemming from my background as an openly gay black man,” Roper told Built In. “I have since landed my dream job as global DEI lead, where I’ve turned my passion and purpose into a career.”
Family matters: Qualtrics helps employees who are adopting a child with the costs by covering up to $10,000 of eligible adoption expenses. The company also offers up to six weeks of paid leave for employees taking the role of primary caregiver. Along with adoption benefits, Qualtrics has a generous parental leave policy and a return-to-work program for new parents.
What they do: Better is a real estate tech company whose services include mortgages, title insurance and homeowner’s insurance. The company also helps users make cash bids on homes and offers free listing services for those who purchase a new home through its platform.
See yourself in leadership: Alexandra Motto, director of product operations at Better, joined the company in 2020 after working at Uber, Google and Etsy. Motto told Built In that one of the reasons she accepted Better’s offer was the makeup of the company’s executive team.
“As a woman in tech, it was important for me to see strong female executive leaders in the workplace,” Motto said. “Having a chief product officer, chief compliance officer, head of operations and now a chief technology officer who are all inspiring women with a seat at the table was a massive deciding factor when I accepted the job at Better.”
Well-funded: Back in April of 2021, Better closed a $500 million funding round led by SoftBank, which pushed its valuation to $6 billion. Some of that funding has been earmarked for hiring as Better is currently looking to fill 44 open roles. The company has raised $905 million according to Crunchbase data.
