Upstatement

Digital product studio

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Publishing
  • Digital Media
Fully Remote Boston, MA

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Company mission

To transform organizations by bringing their stories to life.

Our take

Digital assets are arguably some of the most important assets to businesses in our modern era. Upstatement is a digital product studio that blends storytelling, design, and engineering to create and foster digital experiences. The founding team came together in previous roles in the newsrooms of The New York Times and The Boston Globe. This incubation period led the company to bring diverse perspectives into its creative processes.

Boasting a strong team of designers and engineers, the company looks to involve both parties at every stage of the project, ensuring that creative and technical elements are seamlessly integrated. This approach has led to ground-breaking achievements, such as the development of the first mainstream responsive website, a milestone in media design.

Upstatement's success includes partnerships with high-profile clients like MIT, and ESPN and impactful projects that support social causes, from promoting diversity to environmental sustainability. Future plans including continued collaboration with ethical partners and emerging innovators to create products that enrich lives and foster a more equitable society. The social response on its projects will likely be what continues to set the company apart in its space.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Remote-First You should live and work wherever you feel your best. Our fully distributed team can be found in Boston, NYC, LA, DC, Portland, Berlin, and beyond
  • Professional Growth Everybody is provided with a generous annual budget to spend on anything that helps you advance your career or inspires you. Managers, mentors, and coaches help you build an intentional, personal growth path
  • Health & Well-Being Plenty of health, dental, and vision coverage options to fit your needs with HSA/FSA plans for qualifying medical expenses. And 10 health days so you can recharge throughout the year
  • Work-Life Balance With over four weeks of paid vacation, including a company-wide closure between Christmas and New Years and an ongoing 4-day work week experiment, there's plenty of time to clear your head and re-energize

Leadership

Mike Swartz

(CEO)

Previously worked as a Designer for both .complex // media and The Boston Globe.

Tito Bottitta

(CPO)

Worked at Boston Globe Media for several years, most recently as Editorial Design Director, prior to this worked in Graphics & Data Visualisation at The New York Times.

Jared Novack

(COO & CFO)

Worked at Timber as Creator & Lead Maintainer and Newsroom Developer at Boston Globe Media. Also Co-Founded Allpass.