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YNAB

Financial education company with a money management app

101-200 employees

Fintech
B2C
Personal finance
Financial Services
SaaS
DevOps
Social Impact

Lehi, UT

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Company mission

To teach everyone to love how they spend their money.

62% female employees

3% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The average American worker has been feeling the strain over recent years. Rising household debt, poor financial literacy, and a complex labor market has helped contribute to a taxing period for finances. Now, we’re seeing more Americans than ever start budgeting and engaging with personal finance apps. You Need a Budget (YNAB) is one of them.

The YNAB budgeting platform has been up and running for nearly two decades now, and consistently wins a place in ‘budgeting app’ shortlists. It helps users create a budget and spending plan, as well as offering digital resources like live classes.

Whilst YNAB was early in developing this spread of features, other competitors were quick to follow suit, including the likes of Mint or Honeydue. YNAB has, however, secured a strong reputation in the growing sector. Whilst the company may need to expand to survive, YNAB is for now one of the leading players.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

Up Your Game: We’re serious about helping you improve your craft. It’s one of our favorite savings categories, and it’s the most important work of our managers. Think conferences, online courses and subscriptions, dedicated time away from work to learn something new… It's really up to you and your manager. But we love to see our people growing.
100% Remote, Worldwide: Our team is spread all over the world—mostly in the United States, but also in the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and several other countries. Team members who live in the US or UK are set up as employees, and those who live in other countries set themselves up as independent contractors.
Family leave: We offer generous paid parental leave for all full-time team members. (Here's to increasing the world's budgeters, one child at a time!)
Equipment: We want you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a shiny new computer and replace it every three years.
Meet Your Team: Some of our best work (and bonding!) is done in person. You’ll generally have the opportunity to meet with your team once or twice a year, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our company retreat. At the YNAB retreat, we love to catch up on spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Best Western conference room. Just kidding. (It’s actually hard to write that sentence, even knowing it’s such a good joke.) So far, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin in the mountains, a beach house in the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Beach, and most recently, Palm Springs. We work together, play together, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a team and company. Every time we meet up, we leave refreshed, motivated, and excited for the year ahead together.
Flex Your Work Schedule: We’re fully remote, so a lot of our work is done asynchronously, but we love working together in real-time when it makes sense. We try to schedule most meetings between 12-3pm Eastern time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Outside of your meetings, we trust you to set your own schedule by balancing your team’s needs with your own needs. You don’t need to ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the doctor, or be “active” on Slack if you’re working deeply on a project. We look at what you accomplish—not when or how long you're in front of a computer.
4-Day Work Week: We’ve adopted a four-day work week (still 100% paid). For us, this means four regular days of work followed by a three-day weekend…every week!
Purpose: Did we mention that YNAB makes a huge, positive difference in people’s lives? You may not think that matters much, but then a few months down the road you’ll realize it’s made your job really, really enjoyable. Don’t underestimate this one!
Take Vacation (Seriously): We want you to take vacation. In fact, we have a minimum vacation policy of three weeks per year. Five weeks feels about right (plus two extra weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s important to get plenty of downtime and get out and do something. We’ll look forward to seeing pictures of your adventures in our #office-wall Slack channel.
No Outrageous Hours: We want everyone to have a full life outside of YNAB, and we rarely work more than four days per week. There have been a few occasions where things got busy and people had to put some extra time in—but then they took some extra time off, so it all balanced out. We work hard and smart and we care deeply about what we do, but we also love our families and about 2,000 other things. We have perspective and, ultimately, we think it makes us—and our work—even better.