For many – including many of its own citizens – New York City is the center of the Western world. Home to unique culture, Broadway, fine dining, sports, and world-class museums, for many NYC is the only place to be.
Here are eleven truly innovative companies in the New York area – and most are currently hiring! If you’ve ever thought about relocating to the Big Apple, getting the lowdown on these companies is a good place to start!
Fitness/Benefits/Wellness
On a mission to defeat inactivity, Gympass helps companies revolutionize how inactive employees engage in physical activity, driving lasting behavioral change. Their 2000+ clients credit Gympass’ unmatched variety, convenience, and flexibility with helping to improve employee engagement, individual performance, and overall business success.
Gympass is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Artificial Intelligence/Enterprise Software
UiPath designs and develops robotic process automation software. The UiPath Enterprise RPA platform offers an easy-to-use automation design tool and supports on-premises and automated cloud deployment. The platform supports both attended and unattended robots and is known for high scale, secure, resilient operations.
“They are customer focused with strong investments in the company culture. There is a tangible sense of direction and desire to do the right thing.”
-Employee review
UiPath employees rated their company culture an A+.
UiPath is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Insurance/Direct Sales
Tranzact provides a turnkey, direct-to-consumer sales capability to insurance carriers. The company leverages and integrates sophisticated digital, data and direct marketing solutions that, when combined with licensed sales execution capabilities, delivers new policy holders to carriers seeking to acquire and manage large numbers of customers in three primary insurance verticals: Health, Life, and P&C/Auto.
Tranzact is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: E-Learning/Language Learning/SaaS
Newsela is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in K-12 education, and currently serves more than 25 million students and 2 million teachers. Our Instructional Content Platform delivers authentic and inclusive content, from the most trusted sources, and turns it into educational material that empowers teachers and supercharges student learning. Newsela’s investors include TCV, Kleiner Perkins, and Owl Ventures.
“As I immersed myself in Newsela’s plans to solve more and bigger challenges for teachers and students, it became clear that this was a place where I could build a product that’s on the cutting-edge of shaping how K-12 classrooms learn about and interact with their world.”
-Employee review
Newsela employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
Newsela is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Fitness/Cycling/Hardware
Peloton is revolutionizing the fitness industry by merging high-design with modern technology to provide access to live and on-demand fitness group classes led by elite NYC instructors. With instant access to classes, performance tracking metrics and a motivating real-time leaderboard, Peloton is changing the way people get fit through a comprehensive and socially connected-experience that makes every workout both efficient and addicting.
Peloton is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Advertising/Content Marketing/Publishing
NewsCred develops and operates a content marketing platform for marketers. It provides access to licensed content from various publishers. It also offers NewsRoom, a freelance-based newswire service to provide content from various journalists, photographers, videographers, and designers.
“The team is passionate about what we are doing.”
-Employee review
100% of NewsCred employees say they’re proud to be part of the company.
NewsCred is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Cannabis/Wholesale/SaaS
LeafLink is a wholesale management platform for the cannabis industry, serving over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the US and Canada. It helps brands and retailers who want to streamline the ordering process, simplify communication, and spend less time on busywork.
LeafLink is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Event Management/Hospitality/Software
Bizly’s mission is to provide technology that improves every group gathering. Bizly currently offers an enterprise SaaS solution that enables every employee to build their own meetings and events from start-to-finish. Bizly has been used to build thousands of recruiting events, training sessions, team offsites, field marketing activations, and sales events.
Bizly is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Gambling/Gaming/Mobile Apps
Jackpocket is the first mobile app in the U.S. that offers players a secure way to order official state lottery tickets, such as Powerball, Mega Millions and more. As a no-cost, no-integration, turnkey platform, Jackpocket helps lotteries drive incremental revenue while attracting new customers like millennials who otherwise would not be active lottery players.
“Knowing we have the potential to reap some huge benefits is a great incentive to doing good work — and committing to the long run.”
-Employee review
Jackpocket employees rated their overall company culture an A-.
Jackpocket is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Publishing/Entertainment/Internet
Betches is the Instagram, the store, the books, the everything that young females go to experience the thoughts that run through their heads, but are too afraid or uncomfortable, to say out loud. Unapologetic is two things, their M.O., and their fave RiRi album. They don’t like the term mean girls, they prefer brutally honest and self-aware young women. If that’s something you can get behind, then welcome to Betches.
“It’s refreshing to work WITH and not FOR extremely intelligent and successful women. All 3 founders are extremely supportive and leaned in – they want us all to succeed together and flip the media world on it’s side.”
-Employee review
Betches employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
Betches is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Construction/Interior Design/Real Estate
Knotel is the world’s leading flexible workspace provider that gets, fits, fills and manages space for customers. Knotel caters to established and growing companies, giving them the freedom to focus on their business, culture and people.
“The leadership team is always looking out for the best interest of not only the company, but the employees that are the foundation of it.”
-Employee review
Knotel employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
Knotel is hiring! Check out jobs here!