12 NYC Tech Companies You Need to Know About

This month we’re shining the spotlight on a wide variety of companies, from a mobile gaming studio to a digital consultancy and healthtech startup, all of which are hiring.
Written by Michael Hines
November 17, 2021Updated: November 17, 2021

With so many companies hiring right now, it’s easy to come down with “decision fatigue,” a term popularized in the tech world by a certain CEO known for wearing the same jeans and t-shirt combination every day. Although it sounds somewhat silly, having so many open roles to choose from can actually make the job search stressful. After all, the larger the haystack gets, the more likely a person is to simply give up on finding the needle within and simply take a nap.

First and foremost, we don’t advise that you combat this stress by stripping all variety out of your wardrobe, nor do we advise settling for anything less than your dream job at a company you love. Instead, check out our roundup of fast-growing NYC tech companies for November. This month, we’re shining the spotlight on a wide variety of companies, from a mobile gaming studio to a digital consultancy and healthtech startup, all of which are hiring.

 

What they do: If you have played a video game in the last decade or so, there’s a good chance it was a Take-Two Interactive title. The company’s portfolio includes the Rockstar Games and 2K labels, the publishers behind the iconic gaming franchises “Grand Theft Auto,” “Red Dead” and “NBA 2K” series, to name just a few.

 

A year of acquisitions: Take-Two has made four acquisitions in 2021. In March, the company acquired the video game division of HookBang, an Austin-based creative technology studio. Then in June, Take-Two purchased Serbian mobile gaming company Nordeus, makers of the soccer manager simulation game “Top Eleven,” in a deal worth up to $378 million.

That was followed a month later by the acquisition of Dynamixyz, which provides video-based facial animation services. Earlier this month, the company’s 2K label brought elite3d, a Spanish creative studio specializing in 2D and 3D video game artwork, into the fold.

 

Health bonus: In addition to offering employees a fitness allowance and sponsoring an in-house wellness program, Take-Two also gives team members the ability to earn up to $500 per year for living healthy. Other standout benefits include a 401k match, access to a charitable giving platform with a company match and invites to game release events.

 

What they do: Rightpoint is a digital consultancy that has worked with Hulu to redefine its user experience, helped Cadillac develop the infotainment experience in its first all-electric car and worked with World Market to launch a virtual in-store shopping experience.

 

The suite life: If you’re a seasoned marketing leader looking to take the next step in your career, Righpoint would like to see your resume. The company currently has an opening for a chief marketing officer, a role that mixes responsibilities for day-to-day marketing team activities with broader initiatives like evolving Rightpoint’s brand architecture and developing strategies for industry and media exposure.

 

Benefits worth bragging about: Rightpoint’s benefit package includes support for continuing education and certification programs as well as a flexible time off policy that gives employees the ability to take time off to volunteer. Other benefits of note include a 401k match, company-sponsored fitness classes and a wide variety of employee resource groups.

 

What they do: Conductor helps marketers step up their content game with software that simplifies the process of keyword research and offers AI-powered content recommendations designed to help writers craft articles that rank on search engines, answer actual questions people ask and solve real problems.

 

From customer to team member: Before Patrick Reinhart joined Conductor, he was one of its customers. Reinhart, who has been with the company now for over six years and is VP of customer success, told Built In in an 2019 interview that the “positive, fun energy” he felt every time he walked into the Conductor office made him want to join the team.

“I used to tell my wife all the time that I would love to work here one day,” Reinhart said. “I’ve known our CEO and co-founder, Seth Besmertnik, for a long time, and he was always someone I admired and trusted. He was always so grateful that I cared about the company and was a very genuine guy. He created the culture here, and it still permeates throughout the office every single day, which keeps me coming back with the same energy as my first day.” 

 

The best of the best: This past summer, Conductor was named as one of the top 100 software companies of 2021 by The Software Report, which covers software news and offers market research and insights. The list features some of the biggest names in tech, including Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe.

 

What they do: The only thing harder than finding a therapist is finding a therapist who accepts your insurance. Headway is working to change that and has built a network of therapists who all accept insurance and can be met with either online or in person.

 

Tripling the team: Headway raised a $70 million Series B back in May of this year, and in an interview with Built In, CEO Andrew Adams said the money would be used to take the team from 75 to over 300 people in the next year. The company currently has a whopping 47 openings on Built In NYC ranging from entry-level roles like provider sales associate to more senior positions such as engineering manager and senior product designer.

 

Come for the mission, stay for the team: Headway’s mission to make it easier to access mental health care is what initially drew Alicia Underhill to the company. However, the software engineer told Built In in an interview this past summer that she didn’t know Headway was a perfect fit for her until she got a chance to work with the engineering team.

“I knew Headway was the right place for me when I saw how deeply supportive and encouraging the team is of each other,” Underhill said. “One of the engineering team values is ‘optimize for trust’ – we measure our success around this by how comfortable teammates feel asking questions and making mistakes.”

 

What they do: Helix is a direct-to-consumer company that sells personalized mattresses, with consumers matched to their ideal bed via a sleep quiz. The company also operates a natural and organic mattress and bedding company, Birch, along with a custom couch and sectional brand, Allform. 

 

Don’t sweat the doctor or dentist: As part of its compensation package, Helix offers 100 percent base plan coverage for both health and dental insurance. The company also provides employees with three months of free access to the online therapy platform Talkspace as well as an annual wellness stipend.

 

Open door and chat log policy: Helix’s culture is built on transparency and openness. CEO and co-founder Adam Tishman said one way the company lives up to those ideals is by making management easy to reach.

“Part of this [culture] manifests in senior leadership’s availability to the entire company, regardless of role and position,” said Tishman. “Whether via a quick Slack message or a scheduled one on one, we feel it is extremely important to be in sync and accessible to the full team.”

 

What they do: YOOBIC has created a digital workplace platform for frontline workers across a wide variety of industries, from retail and restaurants to logistics and manufacturing. The YOOBIC platform features solutions for employee communication, task management and mobile learning and is used by more than 200 companies, including Puma, Mazda and Domino’s.

 

Around the world, around the world: YOOBIC is hiring a global BDR director. This position will lead the global BDR team with a specific focus on ensuring alignment between sales and marketing and creating business development playbooks and templates in partnership with the demand generation and product marketing teams.

Candidates should have familiarity working with platforms like HubSpot, Zendesk and ZoomInfo, experience managing BDR or SDR teams at fast-growing SaaS companies and, if possible, the ability to speak French, Spanish or Italian.

 

Summer funding: This past summer, YOOBIC raised a $50 million Series C in a round led by Highland Europe, pushing its total funding to $80 million. In a company blog post, CEO and co-founder Fabrice Haiat wrote that the funding would be used to help grow headcount to 350 people by 2022, expand the YOOBIC platform and grow the company’s footprint in the United States.

 

The Veeva team at work
Photo by Hannah Cohen

What they do: Veeva develops cloud-based software for the life sciences industry, and its New York office is home to the Crossix team. Crossix is a data analytics platform that leverages anonymous health and non-health data to enable marketers to create more targeted and personalized campaigns for both patients and medical professionals.

 

Get out and do good: Veeva makes it easier for employees to give back by organizing volunteer activities. The company has bi-weekly lunches at the AHRC, an organization that works with intellectual and developmentally disabled adults. Employees can also volunteer to deliver meals with Meals on Wheels or work at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

 

Complete projects, not tasks: In a May interview with Built In, Flavio Fenley, a senior software engineer, spoke about how Veeva devs are given a unique amount of ownership in their work, a big part of which is because projects, not tasks, are assigned to individuals.

“We work on the design, planning and implementation of each feature,” Fenley said. “We are given a certain degree of freedom to decide the best way to develop a given feature, test it out and then develop. We effectively own the work, no matter how large or small.”

 

What they do: Dots is a mobile game studio that is bringing minimalist art to the gaming world. The company’s three titles Dots, Two Dots and Dots & Co. have been downloaded over 100 million times.

 

Want to create games? If so, then you’ll be happy to hear that Dots is currently hiring a creative director to develop new games. In addition to defining a long-term creative strategy for filling the Dots’ new games pipeline, this role will also be heavily involved in creating processes, both for developing new titles and for prototyping games. There is no set requirement regarding “x” years of experience in “y” roles, but candidates are expected to have extensive, hands-on experience designing games and a track record of success in mobile game development.

 

A modern benefits package: In addition to offering more traditional benefits like health coverage and a 401k, Dots also offers a paid parental leave program for primary caregivers, student loan assistance and Citi Bike discounts. Gamers will be pleased to note that employees are offered $20 monthly stipend for in-app purchases, too.

 

What they do: Even with insurance, accessing mental health care can be difficult. Quartet Health is working to change that with its technology platform that is designed to make it easier for primary care providers to refer patients to mental health professionals and collaborate with them on their care.

 

Data team leader wanted: Quartet currently has an opening for a VP of data and analytics. This role reports directly to the CTO and will be responsible for leading the data and analytics team and setting its strategic innovation agenda. Candidates should have experience building and managing a data science or analytics team as well as hands-on data science experience and a familiarity with Quartet’s tech stack, which includes AWS, Python and Docker.

 

Walking the walk: Quartet is committed to making mental health care easier to access, and that goes for its employees, too. The company offers all team members 15 free therapy sessions to go along with the enhanced mental health benefits of its health insurance plan.

 

The BCGDV New York Office
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What they do: BCG Digital Ventures, or BCGDV for short, is the corporate innovation arm of Boston Consulting Group. Since its founding in 2014, BCGDV has helped launch more than 100 digital businesses, has grown its team to over 1,000 people and established 13 innovation centers and labs globally.

 

What they’re working with: Vince Montalbano, engineering director and cohort lead, spoke with Built In this past March about the technology engineers at BCGDV are working with.

“A sample of the software engineering technologies our ventures have used in the past year include Java, Python, .NET, React, AWS and Azure, in addition to emerging technologies such as IoT sensors, computer vision and blockchain,” Montalbano said.

That said, Montalbano was careful to note that, while technical skills are important, his team is also looking for engineers who can communicate as well as they code.

“It’s just as important that our engineers have strong technical chops as it is that they communicate and collaborate well with our non-technical team,” he said.

 

An office worth commuting to: BCGDV’s office is located on the 45th floor of the 10 Hudson Yards building and offers 360-degree views of the New York skyline thanks to floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Unlike a traditional tech office, the space does not feature an open-floor plan, with teams instead free to work from any one of the numerous common areas or meeting rooms.

 

What they do: Chronograph is a technology company whose cloud-based portfolio monitoring, reporting and diligence tools are designed specifically to provide private capital investors increased insight into companies and investment opportunities.

 

Fintech? More like “funtech:” When someone says they work at a company that builds technology for “private capital markets,” you automatically assume they do serious work. Indeed, Chronograph does do serious work. But according to Rachel Haut, a senior analyst on the data operations team, that doesn’t mean the team takes itself too seriously. 

“The atmosphere is laid-back and fun, with a cool office in North Brooklyn,” Haut said. “You would be hard-pressed to find another company in such a serious field with the same casual vibe.”

 

Shape up and ship out (code): The Chronograph engineering team follows the Shape Up methodology of software development created by Basecamp. In a nutshell, Shape Up helps keep engineering teams looking forward by eliminating the engineering backlog. Senior leaders pitch projects to managers, who decide what to take on and set a deadline of six weeks to complete the work. This ensures that engineers don’t get bogged down in overly long development cycles and that they’re continually working with fresh ideas.

 

What they do: ThoughtWorks is a global technology consultancy that works with clients across a wide variety of industries, from retail and consumer companies to automakers and telecoms. The company offers enterprises support with digital transformation, data strategies, customer experience, and more.

 

Why people stick around: Job-hopping is quite common in tech, and one of the reasons people bounce from company to company so often is that they aren’t given compelling reasons to stick around. Kathy Butler, lead, customer experience strategy for North America, has worked at ThoughtWorks for over seven years and explained why she decided to build her career there in an interview with Built In earlier this year.

“I have worked here longer than any other job I’ve had,” Butler said. “One of the key reasons is a very flat, but highly collaborative, organization. I do not have a ‘boss.’ Instead, I am accountable to my teams, my accounts, my org leadership, my service line and my colleagues. I am held to success metrics via ongoing feedback from all the people I work with, so I have goals for leadership, individual contribution, teamwork and selling.”

 

Rewarding longevity: If you thought sabbaticals were only for professors, think again. ThoughtWorks offers eligible employees who have spent 10 years at the company a full 12-week paid sabbatical.

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