In the wake of stalled employment citywide during the pandemic, these 10 New York companies are growing quickly and hiring fervently. With ever-expanding potential, on-the-job skills training and great perks, these workplaces in the “city of dreams” may hold the key to your dream career.
According to the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, no U.S. city was more affected financially by the COVID-19 pandemic than New York, which suffered an 11.8 percent decline in jobs — more than three times the national average — from February 2020 to April 2021. While the country moved forward this year by recouping nearly all lost jobs from the pandemic, New York City lagged behind, recovering just 71 percent of jobs by March 2022.
For these 10 featured companies, however, the story is starkly different. Fueled by increased consumer demand for their products and services, these New York businesses are experiencing meteoric growth, with most expecting to at least double their workforces within the next year. Their offerings fill unique needs in industries such as legal, dental, education, finance and more.
At the smaller, rapidly growing startups, such as SageSpot and Torch Technology, new hires have the unique opportunity to be part of scaling the companies to new heights. For other workplaces such as DISCO, Ethic and Sealed, a huge draw for job seekers may be the promise of making a big impact with mission-oriented work.
If hired at any of these companies, candidates can expect to join a team that is speedily expanding, with no signs of slowing down. Built In checked in with leaders at these 10 New York-area companies to discuss causes of their team’s projected growth and what sets their company apart from other workplaces.
OwnBackup, a SaaS data protection platform, expects to continue rapidly expanding its teams by 88 percent over the next year, and it’s hiring across all departments including sales, marketing, product, engineering, customer success and more. For the New Jersey-based company, working hard and having fun go hand in hand, as it provides unlimited PTO, weekly company-paid lunches, offsite events and more.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
In the past 12 months, our team has grown approximately 88 percent — from 480 employees to 900 employees — and we expect similar growth over the next year. We currently have more than 100 open positions across all departments, including sales, marketing, product, engineering, customer success and more.
What’s fueling your current growth?
As the value of a company’s data increases, so does the need to protect it. As more and more companies move to the cloud, they are realizing the importance of building greater resilience into their business and creating more opportunities for companies like OwnBackup to deliver much-needed solutions.
Besides these macro trends helping fuel our growth, we also made some significant investments over the past year that are further contributing to our success. Now that we’ve grown and solidified our market-leading position in Salesforce, we are expanding into other SaaS ecosystems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and ServiceNow.
In August of last year, we also acquired RevCult, a SaaS Security Posture Management provider, that specializes in helping Salesforce customers improve their security postures. The accelerated investments in data security led to us launching a new product, OwnBackup Secure, in April 2022.
We strive to put culture first by providing an inclusive, collaborative environment where you can make an impact and have fun doing it.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
OwnBackup’s growth among companies of our size is truly rare. We are on track to have year-over-year revenue growth of 100 percent for the seventh year in a row. We have been growing at breakneck speed and see no slowing down as we continue to build and deploy cutting-edge solutions that solve our customers’ most pressing data challenges.
Besides providing a business-critical solution to more than 4,700 customers, OwnBackup has become an employer of choice, being recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces, an NJBIZ Best Place to Work and one of Built In’s Best Places to Work, among other workplace awards.
One of OwnBackup’s core values is “culture is as important as results.” We strive to put culture first by providing an inclusive, collaborative environment where you can make an impact and have fun doing it. When it comes to the employee experience, working hard and rewarding results are key; but the power of fun isn’t to be downplayed either. We provide unlimited PTO, a fun open office atmosphere, weekly company-paid lunches, offsite events, employee recognition awards and other perks.
DISCO, a provider of AI-driven software that simplifies legal document review and case management, is recruiting sales team members with a range of experience who are serious about developing differentiated careers at the company. The legal tech company promises training, career skills development and opportunities to make a big impact.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
Our sales organization is rapidly scaling to keep pace with the growing demand from our customers and legal industry leaders across market segments who are looking for technology that transforms the practice of law. We are particularly focused on building out our sales teams in Austin and New York City to foster true centers of excellence in these locations, in addition to growing our field sales representatives all across the country.
Rather than recruiting people who are simply looking for sales jobs, we are looking for top talent who want to build differentiated careers at DISCO. We invest heavily in what we call our sales infrastructure, which gives training and career skills development at all levels to help every employee harness their talent and achieve individual and business success. From those just starting out their sales careers to experienced sales professionals mastering their craft, there are many opportunities for success and long-term careers with DISCO.
What’s fueling your current growth?
The legal industry was more conservative than other industries in moving to the cloud and embracing digital transformation. Legal professionals now recognize that technology is a true competitive differentiator that delivers better legal outcomes. They are turning to DISCO to help them leverage AI to allow lawyers to focus on the high-value work they went to law school to do.
There is a massive opportunity for technology to transform the practice of law. Since DISCO’s founding in 2013, we have been changing the industry’s expectations about what legal software can do, how fast it can be, how easy it can be to use and how much it can improve legal outcomes. We are just getting started in going after the $767 billion market for legal services; every large company, regardless of industry or vertical, has legal needs and a legal function.
It is pretty extraordinary to have the opportunity to build an amazing career by having a large impact in transforming the legal industry.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
DISCO believes that the recipe for building a great organization is simple: hire great people, point them to address big problems and, as a result, realize great achievements.
We are doing this by hiring top talent who continue to differentiate our product and services offerings, showcasing how leading technology delivers better legal outcomes. Considering we are a publicly traded company, the market has demonstrated its confidence in our business model and our ability to transform the legal industry.
It is pretty extraordinary to have the opportunity to build an amazing career by having a large impact in transforming the legal industry.
Leaders at Addepar, a software and data platform for investment portfolios, say the company is growing thanks to the much-needed transparency and clarity it provides for asset managers. The fintech company is seeking talented engineers who are able to simplify how their product is configured and ensure solutions work smoothly.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
I oversee a product engineering team, so the obvious answer is that we need to grow to match the needs of the individual products we engineer (e.g., we have to make sure we have the right talent to grow and mature our world-class billing offering or our portfolio scenario forecasting tool).
Outside of that, we are focused on several key areas. First, the world is drowning in a rising sea of data. Our clients are no different. We must have the engineering talent to make sure that we can offer our customers richer, more flexible building blocks for analysis and storytelling with data. Second, we need to simplify how our product is configured. The core Addepar application is amazingly flexible, offering powerful insights into how money is invested and how those investments are performing. We need to better harness that flexibility so that our largest, most sophisticated clients can get the most out of it with the least hassle and effort.
Finally, we need talented engineers to make sure that our product solutions work seamlessly across the user interfaces-based applications we provide, our API-based product offerings and our partner integrations.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Addepar is a SaaS company operating in the investment management space. We are scaling to a multi-product, platform-oriented solution for professional wealth, investment and asset-management firms. Asset managers need a solid solution platform to provide transparency into what they own for their clients, how much it is worth, how it is changing over time and how it might change in future scenarios. Addepar is that platform and, in turbulent times, our clients (and their clients) demand transparency, clarity and the best tools to make informed decisions.
Market volatility brought to light that the global financial infrastructure is siloed, inefficient and not working as well as it could. Addepar was founded following the 2008 financial crisis to better manage portfolios during times like this.
Addepar is filled with extremely talented engineers who really care about deeply understanding their craft.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
Believe it or not, when I ask the engineers on my team why they chose Addepar, the answer is, more often than not, the interview process. Addepar is filled with extremely talented engineers who really care about deeply understanding their craft. That high talent level and care really show through in the questions we ask. It also shows in the way we work to understand candidates' strengths and weaknesses and how they fit within the Addepar culture and our “build together” team mentality during the interview process.
For me personally, Addepar stands alone in being an exceptionally strong SaaS platform sitting at the intersection of finance, dynamic technology frontiers and the entrepreneurial mindset of financial advisors trying to grow their business practices. Addepar is uniquely poised to grow into a superior platform for investment management and to help unlock the power and possibility of informed, data-driven investing and advice, making it an exciting place to work.
Leaders at Ethic, a platform that creates sustainable investment portfolios, see its rise as part of the greater shift toward socially responsible investing in the environment, women’s rights, racial justice and more. The fintech company is hoping to increase its team by 67 percent, and believes its mission-driven work, fun culture and flexible benefits will attract candidates for the product, engineering and client relationship management departments.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
We have ambitious but entirely realistic growth targets, and are looking to expand from our current total of 60-plus full-time team members to approximately 100 this time next year.
We’re looking for talented and passionate people across various disciplines, but are particularly keen to expand our product, engineering and client relationship management departments. These are integral to ensuring we remain well equipped to continue delivering exceptional client experiences. Nonetheless, we encourage mission-driven candidates to check out all our open roles via our careers page.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Ethic exists at the nexus of two really exciting trends in the financial services industry: the shift toward personalization and a growing interest in environmental, social and governance investing.
In recent years, investors have become increasingly attuned to the ways that companies in their portfolios can drive real-world outcomes. They’re looking at the world around them and seeing plenty to be concerned about — increasingly extreme and frequent weather events, continued racial injustice, backsliding democracy, massive wealth inequality and more. A lot of people are considering the role of corporations in alleviating or exacerbating these issues, and are subsequently looking to their investment portfolios as a lever for meaningful change.
As such, we’ve seen tremendous demand for our passive investment portfolios, which can be tailored to individuals’ unique values and financial preferences. Ethic’s solution places significant emphasis on transparency and education, and we’ve found this really resonates with the audiences we serve. People are tired of greenwashing, so they’re seeking clarity as to what’s under the hood of their portfolios and why.
We’re bound together by our commitment to tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues — from climate change to women’s rights, racial injustice and beyond.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
Ethic brings together a diverse group of individuals, all hailing from different backgrounds and disciplines but with a shared sense of purpose. We’re bound together by our commitment to tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues — from climate change to women’s rights, racial injustice and beyond. We try to make work meaningful and fun, whether it’s volunteering together in the community or hosting get-togethers to celebrate our team members.
From our firm’s founding, we’ve been intentional about providing team members with flexibility and benefits that reflect their different needs and priorities. We’re pleased to have subsequently been recognized by InvestmentNews for our commitment to diversity and inclusion, and were recently named by American Banker and Financial Planning as a “Best Place to Work in Fintech” for the second year running.
Constrafor, a fintech software for the construction industry, is doubling its workforce as a result of contractors’ rising demand for its SaaS products. Eager to hire talented developers and product managers, Constrafor says its company culture of embracing calculated risks and promoting initiatives sets it apart from other workplaces.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
Our company as a whole is looking to double by the end of the year. Specifically, we want to grow our NYC-based engineering and product teams three to four times by adding like-minded and ambitious developers and product managers to our incredibly talented team. If you enjoy solving problems and thinking outside of the box, we want you to join us and help take our SaaS platform to the next level.
If you enjoy solving problems and thinking outside of the box, we want you to join us and help take our SaaS platform to the next level.”
What’s fueling your current growth?
Constrafor has a growing general contractor and subcontractor base from our SaaS services. Demand for our financing program grows rapidly from our SaaS user base. At the core, our terrific SaaS products propel our financing.
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
We like to enable our staff to take calculated risks and be adventurous. We encourage our people to take on micro-initiatives that they have ownership of. An initiative may fail, but more importantly, it may succeed; either way, you learn a lesson.
Chronograph, a data management and analytics solution for private capital investors, plans to double its workforce over the next year. With an emphasis on flexibility, professional development and fun, the Brooklyn-based fintech company is currently hiring across its engineering, product management, sales, client services and data operations teams.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
Over the past year, we’ve welcomed 40 exceptionally talented individuals to our team on the back of rapid growth. We fully expect headcount to double again over the next year as business needs expand across all departments.
Currently, we’re hiring across our engineering, product management, sales, client services and data operations teams. We’re always on the lookout for world class engineers and product managers to help extend the lead we enjoy in our top-of-the-line technology solutions. In tandem, we are also always looking to buffer our sales, client services and data operations teams to drive new business and support existing clients. To help facilitate personnel growth, we recently moved into a beautiful new office on the Williamsburg waterfront.
What’s fueling your current growth?
At Chronograph, we get to go behind the scenes and work directly with investors who are driving some of the most impactful changes across high-growth startups, global infrastructure and renewable energy, growth equity and all other private capital strategies. Through our suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, we are bringing next-generation technology to private capital markets.
In addition to industry dynamics that are highly favorable, we are also benefiting from an unwavering focus on sustainable growth, given the growth in venture and private equity strategies over the last decade. We haven’t raised a capital round in three years by design. We’ve always known that the good times never last forever and, as a result, we ensure that we do things in a smart, reasonable and sustainable way. We’re seeing this pay off in a big way in the current environment.
Chronograph offers interesting, impactful work with a vantage on global economics that is nearly unparalleled.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
From the outset, we’ve been thoughtful about building the company culture that we always wished we had in our prior roles. Chronograph offers interesting, impactful work with a vantage on global economics that is nearly unparalleled.
For our internal employees, we prioritize flexibility, professional development and fun. This means things like personalized development and promotion tracks to encourage exploration of areas of strength. For example, we sponsored web development bootcamps for employees who started in a totally different area on the back of strong performance. In addition, we embrace flexibility around time in-office and unlimited vacation.
SageSpot, a subscription-based social media platform for creators ranging from athletes to professional woodworkers, expects to more than double its team after launching its product earlier this year. The digital media company is mainly looking for ambitious, highly skilled engineers who are comfortable making big decisions to help the new company further develop its platform.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
In the next year, we hope to grow the overall team by 25 new hires. We are looking for talented engineers across all levels and it’s a huge plus if they’re already familiar with our tech stack, which is built on Next.js. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable building things from the ground up and won’t shy away from a challenge — as there are many when building a company.
We will also be hiring a few key business roles, like head of marketing and head of creator acquisition. Today, we have grown to 15 employees, with the engineering department being roughly half of that. We can’t wait to continue to grow as a team and a company.
We are looking for engineers who are comfortable building things from the ground up and won’t shy away from a challenge.”
What’s fueling your current growth?
We went live with our product earlier this year and are focused on working with our creators and their subscribers to build improvements that can deliver as much value as possible. On the platform, we have seen genuine, thoughtful interaction among our users — subscribers asking questions, creators answering those questions and more users joining the conversation.
Each of our creators unlocked a recurring revenue stream. It is motivating to see others finding value in what the team is building. We know that there is more that we can be doing for our creators and their subscribers, and that is what pushes us to improve and grow every day.
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
What is really cool about working as an engineer at SageSpot is that you get to take ownership over large feature sets and sections of the codebase. You get to decide early on about the architecture you want to implement and make important design decisions that will live with us for years to come. I’m not going to lie, it’s a ton of responsibility; but for engineers who are up for the challenge, it’s an amazing opportunity for rapid growth in their career.
Sealed, a fintech company that helps homeowners get affordable, environmentally friendly upgrades, is projecting its team will grow between 25 to 55 percent over the next year. The greentech startup is looking for mission-oriented people, mainly for its sales and service teams, who are passionate about reducing the effects of climate change and are eager to help scale the growing company.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
We estimate our growth to be between 25 to 55 percent new employees over the next 12 months. A lot of these positions will be on our sales and service teams. On the sales team, roles vary from entry-level sales development representatives through account executives and sales managers. On the service team, positions include customer success, account managers and various quality assurance roles.
We’re also building out our first-ever product and engineering organization. In addition, we will continue to build the operational backbones of our business such as finance, HR and marketing.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Our hiring aligns to the fact that we have abundant interest in what we do. In fact, we have more interested leads than we could possibly deliver on in one year alone. That’s a huge credit to our amazing and expanding marketing team; it’s a great problem to have.
What Sealed offers is pretty unique in the sense that we’ve made a business model that works for very different stakeholder groups in an effort to ensure more homes get weatherized and electrified. There’s a lot of greenfield opportunities, and we have the funding and momentum to capitalize on that.
There’s a direct correlation between our business growth and decreased greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. homes, which ranks as the sixth largest global carbon emitter. It motivates us.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
There is a long list, but the biggest three factors that may make or break interest from job seekers would probably be company mission, stage and working structure. Regarding the first, all of us are mission oriented. There’s a direct correlation between our business growth and decreased greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. homes, which ranks as the sixth largest global carbon emitter. It motivates us. When job seekers are considering the type of impact they hope to gain from their work, this is really compelling for job seekers who care about climate change and the type of world we’re making for future generations.
Another factor to consider is that we’re a growing startup that’s evolving from an early phase into a scaling phase. The phase that a company is in should be a factor for job seekers, as there are unique dynamics and expectations in different growth phases. Some teams on the operational side are just getting started, while others are adding management layers and starting to introduce specialized roles as they expand.
Lastly, we’re all based in the United States and are remote-first with a hybrid option for teammates in the greater New York City area.
Torch Technology, a digital platform for the dental industry’s operations and supply ordering, anticipates expanding its team by 10 times over the next year. With a focus on collaboration and improvement over perfection, Torch is mainly looking to hire members to its sales team.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
The sales team is growing rapidly here at Torch. Over the last year and a half, we really nailed down the playbooks for success. We mastered everything from gaining access to constructing a solid 30-minute discovery that is consultative and highlights many of the problems we are solving for the dental industry.
Like all startups, our learnings came from good, old-fashioned trial and error. We tested assumptions, doubling and tripling down on our successes and learning even more from our failures. Because of this tireless commitment to problem solving, we are now poised to hit the “go” button and triple the size of the team.
In the last two years, we have grown by 10 times, and we anticipate continuing that pace throughout this year and into 2023. We’ve come a long way, not only on the sales side. The product continues to improve with a focus on a faster, more reliable user experience. The operations team continues to expand to support the growing sales team and the many prospects we are onboarding onto Torch every month.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Our current growth is being fueled by the simple fact that we are solving a real and prevalent problem. The dental industry is ripe for disruption because of its antiquated processes. Procurement solutions lack price transparency and ease of use. The current vendors that control the space have profited from this fractured landscape and have no plans for changing it. Torch is so valuable to so many for that very reason.
Creating an online marketplace with full price transparency and access to a professional ordering system has never been attempted. It’s a hard problem we are solving, which is why Torch is on its way to being such a valuable company.
Everyday members of my team speak to doctors and dental assistants whose businesses have improved because of the solution we are offering. Tasks that would normally take hours can be accomplished in mere minutes. We are positively impacting the bottom line of our small and medium-sized businesses. This is why Torch was rated one of the top 50 companies helping SMBs by Nasdaq, Crunchbase and GGV Capital. When you are providing a solution that offers this much value, you have to execute, but growth will follow.
We say at Torch that we do not strive for perfection, but rather improvement; if each of us focuses on incremental change, will we achieve the big goals we set out to achieve.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
We say at Torch that we do not strive for perfection, but rather improvement; if each of us focuses on incremental change, will we achieve the big goals we set out to achieve.
The team at Torch believes in the vision of what we will one day become, and we all share in the work to realize the goals that will get us there. We hold one team as a tenant of our core values and foster collaboration between each of our team members. This collaboration means that when one of us learns something, we all do, getting just a little bit better each and every day. We ask a lot of our team and each one of us has an outsized impact on the growth and trajectory of the business.
Unibuddy, a platform that connects prospective college students with current university students and staff, is growing its team by 54 percent with 70 more employees — whom the company calls “buddies” — particularly in the sales, marketing, customer success and people departments. Buddies say that the positive staff culture is their top reason for loving work, according to the edtech company, which also offers great benefits including generous PTO and learning stipends.
How much will your team grow over the next year?
Unibuddy experienced explosive growth since launching in 2017. We now work with more than 500 higher education institutions in 35 countries worldwide. I joined Unibuddy two years ago and in that time, I’ve seen the company double its headcount to the 130 buddies we are today. In the next 12 months, we expect to hit the milestone of 200 buddies, which is a really exciting chapter for us.
Our U.S. teams are experiencing explosive growth in sales, marketing, customer success and people departments. We seek people who add to our culture and are passionate about our mission. We’re strengthening every team, which means creating opportunities at every level. Whether you’re looking to kick-start your career or want a new challenge that’ll take you to the next level, you’ll find your place at Unibuddy.
What’s fueling your current growth?
After 190 percent growth amid the pandemic, Unibuddy aims to empower 10 million students by 2025, doubling down on efforts in the United States and Asia Pacific. We raised more than $33 million from top-tier investors, and we’re on course to achieve our ambitious goal of empowering those students to make the right choices in their higher education journeys. Our latest Series B raise enabled us to invest in our people (our buddies) and our products that connect student ambassadors and staff with university applicants.
Our latest product, Unibuddy Community, is fueling our growth and is instrumental to us in creating the world’s best decision-making engine for students. We’re able to reach students where they are.
Here you’ll find a great group of individuals who champion impact over input, have a growth mindset, thrive in the thick of it and work together.”
What sets your company apart from others for potential applicants?
Our buddies overwhelmingly say their coworkers are the number one reason why they love working at Unibuddy. Our culture is a key driver of our growth and success.
Our values underpin our culture, and here you’ll find a great group of individuals who champion impact over input, have a growth mindset, thrive in the thick of it and work together. As we know, what we can achieve together far outshines what we can do alone.
We offer great benefits and invest in our people including medical, dental and vision care, 401(k) matched to 6 percent, 25 days of PTO plus national holidays, learning and development budgets and a hybrid working model.
