Remote-first companies used to be the outliers.
But the last 3+ years have demonstrated that remote-first work can work and location-based offices and commutes aren’t required.
What do we mean by Remote-first?
These are companies that make working remotely the primary option for all employees. It is different than allowing a few team members to work remotely while the rest are at an office (that’s hybrid).
What sets a Remote-first company apart is the infrastructure (documentation, process, policies) they have to put in place and the trust in their employees to work from wherever they are most comfortable and productive.
This doesn’t mean you can’t have an office! Many of the companies below do have office hubs in certain cities. But, when those employees gather in a hub or office, they’re still primarily communicating over Zoom and Slack because that’s where their true office is.
Scroll on down to learn more about these Elpha companies - the problems they’re solving, the remote culture they’re building, and where they are hiring. To learn more about a startup and view their open roles, click on the company name. 👇
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Hiring Remote Globally
Beeper
Beeper gives you a unified inbox to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, Twitter DMs and 12 other networks. You can search, prioritize, and mute messages, all in one spot. They also open source most of their backend.
Beeper launched in early 2021 and is a small (but growing!) fully remote team spread out across the globe.
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global
Canopy
Canopy’s low-code solution helps fintechs, banks, credit unions, and brands to launch and sustain new financial products.
Canopy was founded as a remote-first company and its fully remote team is spread out across the United States and Europe. They give team members autonomy, encouraging work/life integration. In general, the team is offline on the weekend –– it’s understood that they work hard during the week, and value time outside of work as well. They communicate through Slack and Zoom.
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global (oriented around east coast hours)
Just Appraised
Just Appraised makes software for local governments. More specifically, they are building software to streamline local government tax assessors’ workflows using machine learning.
They are a fully remote team that is globally dispersed. They also share compensation ranges upfront in their job descriptions.
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global
Open positions at Just Appraised:
Slab
Slab is building a scalable knowledge base and wiki software to improve how teams share and retain information. As a company building tools for documentation and asynchronous work, they focus on making internal information as transparent and accessible as possible.
They offer new team members a $5k stipend to get your remote workspace dialed. Unrelated to remote work but noteworthy, they offer a 7-year option exercise window.
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global
TRM Labs
TRM Labs mission is to build a safer financial system for billions of people.
TRM is a fully remote, global team. They have employee Hubs in San Francisco, Washington DC and London, where the largest concentration of team members live. They communicate through Zoom, Slack, Notion, Loom and in-person meetings. They bring everyone together once a year for a full company retreat.
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global
Zapier
Zapier is on a mission to make automation incredibly easy and accessible to everyone at work. With Zapier, you can integrate apps like Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Dropbox, to move data between them automatically, so you can focus on your most important work.
Zapier is a 100% remote and distributed team spanning 36 states in the United States and 39 countries around the world. Zapiens live in 39 countries, including the United Kingdom, Thailand, India, Nigeria, Taiwan, Guatemala, New Zealand, Australia, and more!
Where do they hire remote employees?: 🌍 Global
Open positions at Zapier:
Hiring Remote in North and South America
Aptible
Aptible is committed to making security a strength for every startup. Rather than building compliance into your cloud infrastructure, startups can use Aptible to get their product to market faster and be HIPAA-compliant from day one. ☁️
They’ve been a globally distributed and remote team since day 1 and have thought a lot about ‘scaling good decision making across the company’. The real way to get to know a company? - check out their public Zoom and Slack norms.
Where do they hire remote employees?: North and South America
Open positions at Aptible:
Edlyft
Edlyft is a small, women-led team on a mission to create a world where anyone can learn in-demand skills, starting with CS.
They are hiring remotely in the Americas time zones and have monthly virtual bonding activities. They have very clear boundaries around rarely working on the weekends, unless it’s a personal preference. They hold a daily stand-up to ensure they are aligned as a team and unblocked from making async progress.
Where do they hire remote employees?: North and South America
Open positions at Edlyft:
Hiring Remote in U.S. and Canada
Accord
Accord is building a customer-facing workspace to drive alignment, engagement, and consistency during the sales & onboarding process for B2B sellers.
As a remote-first company (even before the pandemic), Accord adopted the mindset to be asynchronous by default. Documentation and writing are their best tools for clear and concise communication. Everyone at Accord writes their preferences on how they work. It includes lines like “My typical hours are” and “What are the things that make me feel respected and valued.”
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S. and Canada
Open positions at Accord:
Chord Commerce
Chord Commerce is building a data and commerce stack to give D2C companies meaningful access to proprietary first-party data insights. They are working to give entrepreneurs more tools to truly understand their customers and respond to them.
The Chord Commerce team is spread out across the U.S. and Canada and recently gathered for their first company retreat.
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S. and Canada
Open positions at Chord Commerce:
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Ethena
Ethena provides compliance training for modern teams. They break larger topics - like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - into smaller and more digestible training delivered throughout the year so it stays top of mind. Ethena was started by two women, a military veteran and a software engineer.
The team is fully remote, with the option for team members to spend as much or little time as they’d like in office spaces near them. They have a hub office in Brooklyn, NY as well as clusters of team members in Toronto, Denver, and the Bay Area.
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S. and Canada
Open positions at Ethena:
Fuse Inventory
Fuse is an inventory solution powering the next generation of commerce. They are tackling the fragmented & legacy $37B inventory planning space with a modern, predictive SaaS solution.
The entire Fuse Inventory team has been remote since 2019. Through weekly team meetings and frequent team hangouts, they have built a team that interacts both as colleagues and friends. They are also a fully female-founded company with 100% of our leadership roles being held by women.
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S. and Canada
Hiring Remote in the U.S.
Binti
Binti partners with county and state governments as well as private agencies across 27 states to improve the foster care system.
Binti’s core collaboration hours are between 10am-4pm PT. They use Slack very heavily, both for day-to-day coordination and for sharing updates and information (to empower others!) across the company.
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S.
Universe
Universe is a magical new way to build websites –– it’s the first website builder designed for phones.
Universe was founded as a remote-first company and its fully remote team is spread out across the United States. Universe has core hours (12PM ET - 5:30PM ET), where everyone is online and working –– these hours allow for team meetings and other synchronous communication. Outside of the core hours, employees have the ownership and autonomy to get work done. In general, the team is offline on the weekend.
Where do they hire remote employees?: U.S.
