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Linearity
Graphic design tool
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Design
- Art
- Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Company mission
To help artists succeed by empowering them with the perfect tools to explore their creativity.
16% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Founded in 2017, Linearity, formerly Vectornator, is a digital graphic design tool that bypasses the quality limitations of raster-based software, meaning its design quality is more scalable and detailed. Within the Linearity suite, customers can use AI design assistance, community features, and workflow-optimizing tools, all aimed at the digital-first marketplace.
With digital design becoming the norm for creatives in the industry, Linearity is competing against larger competitors like Adobe Illustrator and Affinity but has benefitted from more than $25 million in funding and 5 million app downloads. Linearity is also being used by leading software companies such as Apple and Disney Resort hotels and has won numerous awards and recognition.
Founded by a teenager as a tool for their other startup, the potential of Linearity soon revealed itself and became its own product. With much investor interest in the design tool industry, Linearity is well-placed to grow in popularity over the coming years as it rolls out new products.
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Benefits
- Family-first Culture - We offer generous paid maternity & parental leave and and flexible time off when the family needs you
- Mobile Office - You can choose from where you work - onsite, hybrid, or 100% remote
- Free Language Classes - If you’d like to work on your German or English, we’ll help you polish your skills with Babbel
- Relocation & Visa Support - If the position requires you to join us in Berlin, we’ll help you get here
- 5-Year-Sabbatical - You get 4 weeks of additional fully paid leave for each 5 years of employment to recharge batteries
- Paid Time Off - In addition to our 27 vacation days and local public holidays, we offer period & social responsibility leave
- Company Retreats - We meet in person for company gatherings to ensure you feel part of the team
- Benefit App - You will get access to a monthly budget of €50, which you can spend on our flexible benefits app
Company values
- Creative - Creativity is a big deal to Vectornator, and that starts internally. It hires creative people and gives them the freedom and support they need. Then, Vectornator equips its community members with powerful tools that allow them to translate their imagination into reality.
- Playful - Everyone draws as a kid. Vectornator wants to inspire people to get back into a mindset of playful creative thinking before they became afraid of making mistakes. Pick up the fingerpaints again. Design messy, beautiful, powerful things.
- Trusted - Vectornator builds trust through transparency. By being clear about its goals and values, and building its features together with its community, Vectornator aims to create an environment of positivity and collaboration, both internally and externally.
- Innovative - Anyone can create something new, but innovation challenges the status quo. It’s an entirely new way of doing things. Vectornator wants to dare to reimagine how people create, design, and collaborate.
- Knowledgeable - Knowledge should be shared, not hoarded. Vectornator strives to be a valuable source of knowledge for the whole design community, not just itself. Vectornator isn't perfect, but it fully embraces the never-ending journey of learning together.
- Accessible - Vectornator believes that design should be accessible to everyone, so it strives to provide intuitive design tools that anyone can pick up and use. Vectornator also believes that everyone should be able to be a part of the design community, so it stands against discrimination in all of its forms, and it is committed to doing its part to make the future brighter for everyone.
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2021
$20m
EARLY VC
Nov 2019
$5.3m
SEED
Total funding: $25.5m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Vladimir Danila
(CEO)Previously Founder at VWAS-Studios, Intern at Arte and Ulysses.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Linearity
Dan Matthews (Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist)
- Diversity & Inclusion is possibly the number one topic internally and genuinely across all other companies & why shouldn’t it be? As we aim to collectively forge a more equitable and inclusive world, we’ve made some great achievements over the last 1.5 years with many more to come: 💰 Raised over 35 million euros in funding 👩🏾🦰 80 Employees 🇮🇹 24 Nationalities 🌎 13 Work locations 🥇 5 women in executive & management roles Our Approach / Achievements 👩🏼🏫 We challenge and continue to challenge gender stereotypes and bias in recruitment (offering workshops and educating all employees). 🏆 We’ve made great progress in having a total of 40% of women in the Executive Team. 📈 Kicked off our career leveling (salary bands for pay transparency). 🏳️🌈 Hosted a CV writing workshop to support individuals who have a migration background and identify as woman, non-binary or part of the LGBTQIA+ community. 🕤 We offer flexible working hours, part-time options as well as parental leave for women and men (paid). 💆🏻♀️ We offer 1 day period leave per month.
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Working at Linearity, allows me to be at the forefront of shaping visual creativity and technological innovation. Every day, I collaborate with an amazing team who share the same passion for pushing the boundaries of design tools and the creative industry in general. In my role in the hiring team, I love the fact that I have complete autonomy and ownership to influence hiring processes, making them better and contributing to building the best team, building the best products.
People, HR, Recruitment
Meaningful work
Aug 2023
I have supported hiring many people here from various backgrounds and in all corners of the globe (yes, earth is a sphere and not flat ;). We have over 25 different nationalities, we are constantly working on how to improve our stand point towards building a more diverse and inclusive future. We have made some great progress, yes we are not perfect, but we are growing and progressing in the right direction.
People, HR, Recruitment
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Aug 2023
Working for Linearity has been amazing, the product has grown organically and the business has a huge sense of community with the users that use our product. The feedback on the App store is amazing, the user feedback and the social media posts of assets that our users create are truly amazing. What makes it even better is that we are building and releasing an animation app soon ;).
People, HR, Recruitment
Innovative product
Aug 2023