Tech and startup workers are looking for the best startup opportunities in livable (aka affordable) communities, and many are looking for completely remote jobs.
Remote itself can be a huge benefit, but office perks are no longer a part of the situation, and benefits are evolving for a new normal. Remote startups have to make sure their employee benefits packages take care of their people, even when they are distributed across the country.
If you’re looking for a startup job that offers benefits that go beyond the norm, we’ve rounded up some of the best benefits from startups hiring remotely.
Mulitdots is a Wordpress VIP agency. They work with Oracle, Penguin RandomHouse, and many other top enterprise brands. Multidots is a multinational, distributed company at this point, but they still emphasize relationships and fun at the heart of their startup culture.
Multidots Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Flexible work schedule
Continuous learning stipends
Bonuses
Home office stipend
Health insurance
Parental leave
Aduro should have amazing benefits, because workplace wellness is the focus of this remote-hiring company. With student loan debt a top concern among millennials, we can see a workplace led by wellness that offers support through flexible work and so much financial assistance being very attractive to talent.
Aduro Benefits:
Health insurance
Disability insurance
Life insurance
Remote work friendly
401k match
Financial planning resources
Unlimited PTO
Student loan repayment
Flexible work schedule
Dog-friendly office — with a whole Instagram dedicated to it
The OG of remote work, Gitlab retains its startup culture and focus on productivity rather than punching in on a 9 to 5. Gitlab offers great benefits as well. Gitlab remains one of the pioneering startups in the remote work space, so many of their benefits revolve around autonomy. Want a standing desk? You don’t need to ask permission to buy it for yourself with company budget.
Gitlab Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Flexible work schedule
U.S. transgender medical services
Parental leave
Remote office budget
Continuing education budget
Asynchronous work schedule
Automattic is the company behind Wordpress.com, WooCommerce, SimpleNote, JetPack, and other brands. Like Gitlab, they believe in open source. They are a company that supports remote work as the norm. They are dedicated to making the web a better place, and their benefits focus on supporting employees with excellent wellness programs.
Automattic Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Unlimited PTO
Professional development budget
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Adoption leave
Wellness programs
Sabbaticals
Home office budget
Life insurance
Buffer started in 2010 as a small startup to help schedule posts on Twitter. Now it’s a fully distributed remote company with 75,000 customers worldwide. Still retaining its startup culture and ethos and a relatively small team, Buffer hires remotely and offers great benefits. Buffer doesn’t just let you work where you’re most productive: they let you be yourself. The company is dedicated to cultivating an environment of kindness and respect.
Buffer Benefits:
Remote work friendly
4-day workweek
Health insurance
Home office and remote work budget
Professional development budget
401k match
Profit sharing
Parental leave
Sabbaticals
Zapier offers automation tools that can track things like when someone fills out your contact form, to free you up to do the better part of your job. Zapier is fully remote and distributed across the globe, which means if you work remotely you won’t be the odd one out. The company hosts bi-annual retreats to connect in person.
Zapier Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Unlimited PTO
Health insurance
Retirement account with 4% match
Profit sharing
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Office tech budget
Professional development budget
If you want to see a remote-hiring startup focused on wellness benefits, you’ve found it in Toggl. They create planning, time-tracking, and candidate-selection hiring tools for teams, and they take care of their people who keep the company running.
Toggl Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Home office budget
Coworking space or internet budget
Career development training
Gym membership reimbursement
Massage reimbursement
Wellness programs
Tech stipend
A sales communication platform, Close hires remotely across the U.S. and Europe, while offering great benefits to employees. Close is dedicated to diversity and inclusion. And one way to judge the benefits of a company is by how many employees have babies while working for them. Close just had 14 babies born into the company!
Close Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Flexible work schedule
Coworking stipend
Generous PTO
Health insurance
401k match
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Sabbaticals
Office equipment budget
Career development budget
Octane AI has created a messenger and SMS platform for e-commerce. They hire remotely, and their benefits are fantastic. Check out the list.
Octane AI Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Unlimited PTO
401k match
Home office budget
Wellness stipend
Professional development budget
Health insurance
Frontastic is a remote-hiring tech startup that builds commerce sites and web apps API orchestration, workflows, and front-end delivery. Frontastic is big on diversity, transparency, and asynchronous communication, so you know they know how to work together as a team.
Frontastic Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Professional development budget
Tech and home office budget
Flexible work schedules
Contribution toward health insurance
Home office or coworking stipend
Generous PTO
Cypress offers end-to-end testing services on a consulting basis. It’s a rare chance for a QA engineer to land a remote job in tech with a startup that serves customers all over. Cypress connects with the core team in Atlanta on occasion so everyone stays in touch. They’re dedicated to open source, and offer a lot of flexibility for an engineering role!
Cypress Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Health insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Flexible work schedule
Tech budget
Blue Modus is a Colorado-based but remote hiring digital marketing technology startup. For a team that operates from many locations, they seem to have cultivated a very close-knit culture. While many companies are hiring remotely to supplement their teams during the COVID-19 pandemic, we put our hats off to startups like Blue Modus that have built their entire operation around working with the best talent where they find it.
Blue Modus Benefits:
Remote work friendly
Health insurance
401k match
Flexible work schedule
Tuition reimbursement
Career development budget
Gym membership stipend
Daily meals provided
Pet-friendly office
Figma is a remote-hiring startup based in San Francisco, London, and New York, that aims to make design accessible to all. The company lists core values of kindness and connection, and depends on “Figmates” to collaborate in innovative ways to keep the startup growing.
Figma Benefits:
Employee equity
Retirement with employer contribution
Mental health and wellness benefits
Work from home stipend
Health insurance
Parental leave and fertility support
Generous PTO
Learning and development stipend
Cell phone reimbursement
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