Sharon Koifman
Founder & President
@DistantJob
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FlexJobs was created in 2007 to provide a trusted, more effective, friendly, and overall better way to find professional remote and flexible jobs. They were founded by job space pioneer Sara Sutton after she had been looking for a flexible job after starting her family. She realized that millions of others were just as frustrated by the ads, scams, and inefficiencies on other job boards that wasted her time in finding a good flexible job, and so she decided to create the solution she was looking for. It wasn’t their original intention, but somehow FlexJobs has become a leader in the flexible job movement that's currently disrupting the traditional workforce.
FlexJobs first goal is to remove the key pain point of finding great remote and flexible job opportunities that are typically harder and more-time consuming to find anywhere else. They work with thousands of companies who post flexible jobs directly to their site, but their “super powers” really come from their team of excellent, educated, trained researchers who scour hundreds of online job resources every day (including industry blogs, employer sites, reliable job boards, and more)... so you don’t have to! When they find a job listing that appears promising, they dig in for more critical evaluations. If it passes that phase, then the researchers find the most direct way for you to apply to that job (ideally on the employer's site, but not always). Only then is the job added to their site, along with staff-written job summaries, company descriptions, company headquarters, and other useful information.
FlexJobs second goal is to provide you with top notch tools, resources, articles, and tips to support you in your job search to find a job that better fits your life. Company offers their members specialized job search checklists, exclusive access to both Career Coaching and Resume Review at a deep discount, over 170 expert skills tests, thousands of articles, webinars with top hiring companies, educational guides and courses, and more. They also have fantastic Member Perks offers that include discounts on over 60 vetted products and services to help support you in your work and life, such as Dell, Lynda.com, WeWork, Audible, Grammarly, Quickbooks, Sittercity, Costco, and many more.
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. Top companies hire Toptal freelancers for their most important projects. Toptal provides the highest quality of talent for any technology stack or company size.
They focus on finding talented freelancers and creating dynamic teams that will efficiently execute and seamlessly integrate into your company. Their core strength lies in their ability to enhance your current teams with our talent. That being said, they also excel at helping companies build elite teams from the ground up. A global network of top talent means that they are able to work in any country and can even fly Toptalers on-site to work at your company.
They have worked with companies in Japan, Switzerland, Canada, United States, Germany, Russia, Brazil, United Kingdom, and beyond. They are generally able to relocate Toptalers to these locations in less than a week, and can always connect you with our talent working remotely from anywhere in the world. Toptal provides companies with elite talent on an hourly, full or part-time basis. Their talent pool is rigorously tested and curated by a team of highly acclaimed experts. They specialize in providing the most talented freelancers and dynamic cross-functional teams to start-ups, businesses, and organizations based on their specific needs. The company provides a broad range of freelancers that fall into multiple categories including: Front-end Developers, Quality Assurance, Finance Experts, Project Managers, and Product Managers.
Toptal Connects the Top 3% of Freelance Talent All Over The World. By March 2020 they received more than 750,000 talent applications from all over the world. Since its inception in 2010, and today with over 4,000 people working remotely, Toptal has been a fully remote company and has never operated from a physical location.
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Thoughtexchange’s software allows leaders to have a conversation with a large or virtual crowd, listen to everyone in the group and uncover valuable unbiased input in real time.
Owl Labs is a company that develops and builds IoT video conferencing devices. The company provides Meeting Owl - an intelligent video conferencing device that centers virtual conferencing around remote participants for a near face-to-face experience. The company's hardware is an all-in-one device that offers a thermos-shaped, robotic video camera that captures a 360-degree view of a meeting space and automatically shifts its point of focus to show whoever is talking in the meeting and is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 410 processor, enabling users to improve their web-based cross-coastal communications by making it natural. Owl Lab's mission is to create the inclusive meeting experience remote employees deserve. Their products enable productive collaboration across multiple offices, large conference rooms, stand-ups and design reviews, and classrooms and seminars. It will be one of the first IoT devices for the company conference room. Over 30,000 companies use the Meeting Owl to support their teams including RXBAR, Ogilvy, PennState, and others.
Founded in 2014, Owl Labs was seeded by Playground Global Ventures and was the first company to join Playground Global, founded by Android co-creator Andy Rubin to take advantage of the IoT hardware advances brought by the smartphone revolution. Owl Labs has deep roots both from iRobot and HubSpot. Starting with cofounders Max and Mark, a total of six Owl Labs employees are iRobot alumni, making robotics and hardware a strong element of the company's DNA. Karen Rubin and Rebecca Corliss, two of Owl Labs' early leadership hires, were both among the 50 first employees at HubSpot. Owl Labs itself is a hybrid team with a strong mix of in-person and remote teammates, all together working in support of remote employees everywhere. They are part of the 'Work From Anywhere' movement and regularly publish reports on the state of remote work.
GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features and built-in CI/CD. It is an open-source code collaboration platform that enables developers to create, review, and deploy codebases. The company's open-source, code-collaboration platform offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and more, along with continuous integration and deployment tools, enabling users to create, review and deploy codes. GitLab's software is used by more than 100,000 organizations, 40 million users, and has an active community of more than 3000 contributors. GitLab openly shares more information than most companies and is public by default, meaning their projects, strategy, direction and metrics are discussed openly and can be found within their website. Their values are Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging , Iteration, and Transparency (CREDIT) and these form their culture. GitLab's team handbook, if printed would be over 5,000 pages of text, is the central repository for how they operate and is a foundational piece to the GitLab values. GitLab believes in a world where everyone can contribute. Their mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of human progress. With GitLab, everyone can contribute.
Company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. With over 1,200 team members in more than 65 countries, GitLab is now the world's largest all-remote company. Every single team member is remote, with no central headquarters and no company-owned offices anywhere in the world. GitLab has experienced 50x growth in 4 years, reaching the $100M ARR (annual recurring revenue) mark in 2020. This milestone brings them one step closer toward our aspiration of reaching $1B in 4 years. GitLab is currently valued at $2.75 billion and has raised $426M to date.
Once upon a time, an entrepreneur witnessed a major problem: as companies scaled rapidly, they struggled to keep employees engaged, productive, and happy. The existing tools were not getting the job done. An effective, transparent platform for managing everything was desperately needed.
The idea? Create a team management platform to connect people to workplace processes and existing tools, for companies of all sizes, across any industry. But don’t just make something that works --make a platform that people love to use. As of 2020, more than 100,000 companies around the world use monday.com to free their teams to move faster and let them focus on the work that requires their talents including many non-technical organizations. In July 2019, the company raised $150 million, based on $1.9 billion valuation. Monday.com won the 2020 Webby Award for Productivity in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice. 2 million board actions are made every day in this collaborative effort.
monday.com is a cloud-based Work OS, where teams create workflow apps in minutes to run their processes, projects, and everyday work. Teams shape their workflows and projects, code-free, with a platform that adapts to shifting needs quickly, liberates teams from manual grunt work, and connects teams in a collaborative work space. The platform’s features include: customizable workflow templates to manage anything your way, time tracking to meet important deadlines, automations to eliminate manual work, dashboards to gain valuable insights and know where things stand at a glance, and integrations with popular tools and apps to streamline processes. The product is customizable to fit a wide range of business operations, including R&D, marketing, sales, IT, customer support, HR and media production. The platform's capabilities include more than 100 prebuilt automation recipes and over 50 integrations with other work apps. Forrester, Inc. reports that "Monday.com excels at work management, delivering highly flexible planning and tracking capabilities." monday.com are advocates of remote work. They connect your team so you can continue to collaborate, manage and track work in one easy-to-use platform, wherever you are.
The company was founded on the belief that transparency and collaboration create a culture of ownership and empowerment; more empowered teams are more productive. Its headquarters is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. They have 471 team members worldwide.
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Running Remote conference & community is focused on sharing stories and practices to thrive in a world of distributed work.
HR professionals can now earn continuing education credits for the SHRM certification by attending our Running Remote conference. Earn 1 credit per 1 hour of conference learning time.
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