What are your plans over the next 12 months — professionally, that is? Are you going to keep doing the same work you’ve always done at a company thats goal is to keep on keepin’ on? If so, that’s not the worst fate in the world. But it’s also not exactly the most exciting one, either. The good news is that there is another way forward.
New York is full of tech companies with ambitious growth goals for the next year, and in order to hit these goals they’re bringing on new team members. We recently had the chance to sit down and talk with leaders at 10 of these companies to learn more about their growth, what’s fueling it and the teams they’re looking to grow. In tech, careers tend to grow alongside businesses. So if you’d like to take the next step in your profession, continue reading to learn more about the opportunities available at these growing organizations.
TrialSpark is a healthtech company using automation to streamline the clinical trial process with the goal of reducing both the time and cost associated with bringing new drugs to market.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
TrialSpark’s team will grow by more than 50 percent in 2022. We’ll be hiring across all teams, with the greatest growth happening in engineering, product management, business development and operations.
What’s fueling your current growth?
We live in a world where there are already more good drugs discovered than the industry can run through clinical trials. Safe and effective treatments are left sitting on shelves instead of in the hands of patients. TrialSpark is uniquely positioned to develop those drugs more efficiently. The most important bottleneck to fix is the clinical trial process, which is known for being costly and lengthy.
By automating and streamlining the clinical trial process, TrialSpark’s platform eliminates the time-intensive, costly tasks of traditional clinical trials. And by doing so, TrialSpark is working toward creating a new type of pharma company that can, in the long run, offer drugs at lower prices, expand access to patients and challenge the status quo of what a pharma company can be.
In 2021, TrialSpark raised a $156 million Series C led by Sam Altman. TrialSpark will use the new capital to acquire clinical drugs to support the potential treatments across various therapeutic areas and to continue scaling the team.
What sets TrialSpark apart for potential applicants?
TrialSpark’s mission, to bring treatments to patients faster and more efficiently, is bold and ambitious. We intend to evolve an established, highly regulated and conservative industry. We are united around our communal commitment to this mission. We are still a small team, so each person is critical to our success. Our team navigates their work with a lot of autonomy and as our company grows there are many opportunities for career growth.
We have built an environment of trust, transparency and continuous growth. This includes creating a diverse, equitable inclusive work environment where all are valued, celebrated and feel they belong. We serve as allies to our colleagues, stand up for each other and make the space to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard. Joining us is a chance to help build a great company, work with diverse, talented colleagues, grow your career and simultaneously make a difference in the healthcare industry.
Lithic is a fintech company whose platform is designed to make it easier for businesses to quickly issue and manage virtual and physical payment cards.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
In the last year, we’ve scaled from a team of 30 to 100 and next year we are targeting a similar pace of growth. We’re hiring across the board: our engineering, product, compliance, revenue and operations teams are all growing. That said, we believe in being intentional about growth because we want everyone to have a lot of ownership and impact.
What’s fueling your current growth?
There’s so much we want to do! We’re building infrastructure to make digital payments faster and safer for both consumers and businesses. We want to build the next generation of financial infrastructure and be the fastest and easiest way to issue cards online. We believe there’s an opportunity to build a generational business by creating accessible building blocks that enable new companies to be built in the financial services space. We need a talented group of folks to join us on this path.
What sets Lithic apart for potential applicants?
What we’re building is amazing, but our team is our true strength. When you join Lithic, you know you’re working with some of the brightest folks in the business. Two of our values are “be a good neighbor” and “build a great neighborhood.” When you join our team, you know that you’ll be empowered to make your ideas happen and learn new things every day. I want people to be able to see and feel this through our interview process. Talk with our team and see for yourself.
Lev is a fintech company whose technology is designed to help commercial real estate investors and property owners secure financing at the best rates available.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
We are going to nearly triple our headcount from roughly 65 right now to about 200 people, filling out our NYC and Miami offices. Our capital markets team is going to double within the next year, hiring for roles like director of capital markets, head of partnerships and more junior positions. We’re also making some key hires in what we’re calling our fulfillment business, where we’re working hard to create an even more integrated and complete borrowing experience for our clients.
Our originations team is going to double from 13 people to 26 just within the first few months of the year. Our engineering team will triple, hiring for junior front-end positions, data scientists and QA engineers.
What’s fueling your current growth?
The biggest driver of our growth is that customers are so excited about what we’ve built that they work with us over and over again and refer us to their friends and networks. We’re really proud of that, and we think it speaks to the team that we’ve built here at Lev.
Our business metrics have generated a lot of interest, not just from customers but also from investors. We’re lucky enough to be backed by some of the top firms in commercial real estate and in venture capital, and we feel that we have the resources and support to put more resources toward solidifying our team and growing the business.
What sets Lev apart for potential applicants?
Most people consider startups and work-life balance mutually exclusive concepts. But at Lev, we think that you can actually achieve that balance. We all enjoy working with each other and make time to connect daily but prioritize staying super focused during working hours to make sure we can unplug at a rational hour. We think that if you hire the right people who are smart, hardworking and genuinely care, they can do incredible work without going crazy or making others crazy.
We believe in trusting each other as the primary driver in success in teamwork. Hiring and promotion decisions are based on a person’s potency, which is why our scrappy team has been able to grow at this incredible pace.
Saturn is a social calendar app that enables high school students to manage their class schedule, stay on top of assignments and chat with friends without having to switch between apps.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
Our team is growing — and fast. We have nearly doubled in size over the past year and we’re on a steady path to at least double our headcount again over the next year. We’re hiring across all areas of the business from engineering and product to operations and people. Our iOS and web apps are the core of our business, and our top priority is bringing stellar iOS and React engineers to our teams who can level up our organization, work cross-functionally and get down in the trenches building features that improve our users’ experience.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Saturn recently announced more than $44 million in funding from investors, including General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Coatue, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff and Dara Khosrowshahi. This funding is specifically to grow our teams in engineering and product. This round solidifies the confidence our investors have in our vision and our interest in recruiting to bring that vision to reality.
We’re seeing tremendous growth in terms of our user base, our product and our team and are working hard to maintain this momentum. Ultimately, our growth is fueled by strong product-market fit. We’re solving a real problem our users face day in and day out, and the impact Saturn has on their lives has supported our growth.
What sets Saturn apart for potential applicants?
We’re building a product that doesn’t exist anywhere else. And most importantly, we’re creating a product our users not only say they want but have proven they need. Any product that makes people more efficient and helps them spend time with the people they care about naturally has a very high ceiling.
The team is energetic, ambitious and extremely user-focused. Our employees take on significant responsibility from day one to make an immediate impact not only on our product and the success of our features but on the lives of hundreds of thousands of users. If you’re looking to drive impact, ship fast and solve problems, we’d love to hear from you!
Chainalysis provides cryptocurrency investigation and compliance software to banks, businesses and governments that tracks and analyzes suspicious activities on blockchains.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
In January of this year we had about 200 teammates around the world. Now? We’ve surpassed 400! This wild ride has brought to us incredible people from different backgrounds and with amazing talents. In 2022, we’ll continue growing at this pace to achieve our goal of assembling the best team in crypto. You can expect to see new roles opening in product, engineering, IT, security, sales, marketing, legal, operations and more.
All of these positions will help us deliver on our product roadmap and continue to get our products in front of the companies that need them — those who know us and those who don’t. Building the future of cryptocurrency isn’t easy, and we need determined professionals to lay the foundation.
What’s fueling your current growth?
For starters, Chainalysis raised $300 million in the last year from investors eager to take advantage of the 880 percent growth in cryptocurrency adoption. With more people around the world recognizing digital assets as a powerful tool, companies and regulators want to protect those entering the ecosystem. That’s where Chainalysis comes in.
We provide the public and private sector with tools that help keep investors safe through real-time transaction monitoring, blockchain analysis and market intelligence. Every day we’re partnering with new companies and government agencies to help build trust in blockchains. So many new customers means we have a growing need for talented people to hop aboard.
What sets your Chainalysis apart for potential applicants?
We believe the future of finance is the blockchain, and everyone at Chainalysis makes a real-world difference in pursuit of this mission. Our data powers compliance frameworks for hundreds of businesses globally, has helped investigate some of the world’s most infamous criminal cases and provides financial institutions the means to make better investments. So whether you’re finding cool ways to tell the world about us or working on groundbreaking projects to integrate into our platform, we’re all building trust in blockchains and helping the world adopt cryptocurrency safely.
Kustomer has created a CRM for customer service that enables companies to track and manage customer interactions across a variety of platforms and mediums, from Instagram and Twitter to email and SMS.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
We’re planning on nearly doubling in size again this year and will grow from over 300 employees to over 600 in 2022. Every department is going to be growing but the two with the most new “krew” members will be engineering and sales.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Success! We have been making great progress on the goals we set out to achieve and are eager to continue ramping our company and team up to meet new challenges and grow even faster. Kustomer is thrilled to announce we have signed a deal to be acquired by Meta. We are currently operating independently until closing. This is an incredible opportunity to join our fast-growing team and be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
What sets Kustomer apart for potential applicants?
I carve out time throughout my week to meet with krew members. When I ask them how things are going and for their feedback, what I hear most frequently is how they feel so welcomed by the team and really the company as a whole and how they can go to anyone with questions and always get help. I’m proud of the team for being so supportive of one another and really living our core value of “one krew” every day.
Our growth means each employee can see career opportunities unfolding as the months go by and we face the next level of challenges as a business. I’m amazed every day by what we’ve accomplished together. Kustomer has a lot of great adventures ahead and I love that our team thinks about the work we have to do as just that: a new adventure to discover together.
Reachdesk has built a sales and marketing tool that automates direct mail and gift giving campaigns, enabling teams to reach prospects, customers and employees at scale without having to visit the post office.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
We are looking to further expand our presence across the United States from our headquarters in NYC and scale our U.S. team three-fold, growing from a headcount of 50 to 150 next year. We’ll see the majority of our growth in sales — BDRs, AEs and AMs — client success, marketing, logistics/operations and finance. Overall, we expect the company to grow globally from 150 to 400-plus and are looking to secure a larger office in NYC early next year for hybrid working.
What’s fueling your current growth?
We have seen incredible demand from companies looking for additional ways to build personal relationships with prospects, customers and employees in a remote work environment. The current environment also has made it harder to ship from a centralized office location. Being able to outsource the entire operation and leverage software is increasingly a better solution. Additionally, businesses are looking for ways to differentiate and cut through the increasing noise to grab the attention of prospects and clients.
Our customers want a partner who can help them across numerous territories and we want to continue to be the global leader in our space. We have a strong presence in EMEA and the U.S. and we’re growing our presence in Australia and New Zealand. With our recently closed $43 million Series B round, we will continue to expand further in the U.S. and into new territories.
What sets Reachdesk apart for potential applicants?
We fundamentally believe people make the difference between good and great businesses. As such, the vast majority of our Series B funding will be invested into hiring and retaining great people! You don’t just support Reachdesk, you get to use it to send gifts to customers, prospects and employees.
We are a people-first company, and leadership is always available and open to feedback, which enables our employees to drive change. We believe the best ideas come from people on the front line and prioritize developing our team. Ultimately, we work with our people to create a place where every Reachdesker feels seen, heard, valued and supported to deliver moments that matter.
Refersion is a marketing technology company whose platform is designed to provide a single portal for brands to onboard, pay and track the performance of affiliate marketers.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
We anticipate that Refersion will double in size over the next year. All functions across the entire organization are growing, and we are specifically focused on headcount growth within our customer-facing teams: sales, partnerships and customer success.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Refersion’s current growth is fueled by both our industry and our parent company, Assembly. We’ve always known social commerce would make a major impact on e-commerce. but our execution capacity was limited as a bootstrapped company. Since joining Assembly in 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to make larger strategic investments to grow our product offering, services and add key executives in the right areas. This ultimately led to more customers, which leads to more Refersioners.
What sets Refersion apart for potential applicants?
We focus on how we do things at Refersion. We believe in people’s ability to work autonomously and look for folks with technical aptitude who engage in active listening and with deep curiosity. We also have relentless respect for work-life boundaries and provide the necessary investment in tools, resources and holistic programs for employees to be successful. Most importantly, we highly encourage our employees to rest and recharge so they can show up and be their best in the workplace.
Ribbon Health’s data platform is used by payers, providers and digital health companies to construct provider directories, manage referrals and assess the cost of care and insurance.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
Ribbon Health has exciting plans to more than double over the next 12 months! We’re hiring across our technology, go-to-market and operations functions. We’re looking for people with grit and tenacity, kindness, intellectual curiosity and a desire to grow personally and professionally as quickly as Ribbon is growing as a company.
Our engineering team is growing across analytics engineering, data engineering, distribution, special projects, platform and more. We’re looking to hire engineers who are passionate about building new distribution channels for Ribbon’s data through existing healthcare platforms and launching new products to more seamlessly serve customers’ use cases.
Our growth team is also expanding in roles across digital health and health plans at all levels. As we develop new relationships and strike revenue-generating partnerships with health plans, we’re looking for teammates who want to build with empathy and act as the voice of our customers during product development.
What’s fueling your current growth?
Our vision is to power every healthcare decision to be high-quality, cost-effective and convenient, a sentiment that resonates deeply across the market. We continue to see the need for an infrastructure platform that offers accurate data on doctors, insurance plans and cost, and quality of care. As Ribbon steps up to meet this need, more opportunities present themselves for us to build new products, improve upon our existing offerings and meet a long overdue need in the healthcare space. As health care-related technologies undergo a massive unlocking, we get closer every day to achieving our mission of simplifying healthcare.
What sets Ribbon apart for potential applicants?
Our goal is to make joining Ribbon the best career decision anyone has ever made. We understand how ambitious that is and realize it’s no easy task. It takes hard work and commitment, and we aim to live by our values to make it possible.
We are motivated by the toughest challenges and seek out problems that have the most impact. We encourage teammates to take ownership of outcomes that motivate them. We are a family and are all happier and healthier when we take care of each other. We are honest and accountable with each other. We are humble and will make mistakes, but we learn from them and are better because of them. We measure our success by the process it took to get there and always do our very best and are proud of the outcome because of it. When faced with a difficult decision, we do what’s best for people’s lives.
BentoBox helps restaurants elevate their online presence with its website design, e-commerce and analytics tools.
How much will your team grow over the next 12 months?
I anticipate adding two to three additional people to the people function. I will add a people partner to work with our tech teams, product and engineering. I also plan to build out our learning and development function to better create robust in-house programs for people managers and individual contributors.
What’s fueling your current growth?
The company overall has grown dramatically in 2021, so scaling our team to best support the business strategy is key. We need to continue looking at people ops improvements as well as talent-accelerated programs to retain our top talent.
What sets BentoBox apart for potential applicants?
We’re continuing to grow organically across the U.S. and our footprint in restaurants is increasing. I mean who doesn’t want to work with amazing customers that focus on hospitality? We have very competitive benefits and fringe perks, like our tip reimbursement. And in general, the vibe among the staff is creative, thoughtful and inspiring.
