Squarespace
Website builder and ecommerce platform
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Company mission
To help people with creative ideas stand out and succeed.
Employees
1001+
HQ Location
Hudson Square, New York, NY
OTTA INSIGHTS
Otta's take on Squarespace
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Chances are you have already landed on a website developed using Squarespace. Millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals have used the company's suite of products manage their projects and businesses through websites, domains, e-commerce, marketing tools and scheduling.
Thanks to its ability to allow anybody to build a website without any coding knowledge, Squarespace has positioned itself as an industry leader, despite fierce competition from the likes of WordPress and Shopify, who are both larger businesses on paper.
Since its creation in a dorm room in 2003, Squarespace launched a direct-listing on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2021 with a valuation of $6.8 billion. Squarespace has expanded to offer a wide range of tools that go beyond simple website production and remains focused on the further development of new capabilities, all while maintaining its overall goal of simplicity.
Total funding - $378.7m
Last 2 fundraises
Jul 2019
$0.1m
GRANT
Mar 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
This company has top investors
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Up to 20 weeks of paid family leave
- Fertility & adoption benefits
- 401k match
- Flexible PTO
- Mental health coverage, including free access to Talkspace, Headspace, and Ginger
- Equity plan for all employees
- Donation match
Company values
- Be The Customer: Providing the same standard of tools and services to our customers that we would want for ourselves
- Design Is Not A Luxury: We believe that great design should be available to everyone
- Build The Ideal.: We seek to shape the future of our industry by conceiving of and building game-changing products
- Learn Fast, Act Fast: We believe that pursuing the fastest path to learning and having a healthy bias to action are keys to our success
- Protect Creativity: We believe the creative process is critical to our success, and we seek to protect it as we develop new directions for our product and company
- Simplify
Founders
Anthony Casalena
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at University of Maryland. Founded Squarespace in 2003 and has served as CEO since its inception. Rmains actively involved in the engineering, design, and product teams within the organization.
Diversity & Inclusion at Squarespace
- 7 global ERGs with chapters across our office locations
- Histories and backgrounds of all Squarespace team members are especially uplifted through company-wide events and programming during Heritage Months
- Paid Family Care Leave policy offers eligible employees up to 20 weeks of paid leave
- Global and inclusive Fertility & Adoption benefits cover 100% of eligible medical and legal expenses up to $10,000 annually, with a lifetime maximum of $20,000.
- Launched the Inclusion Advisory Council in 2020 to weigh in on the company’s D&I strategy and corresponding initiatives
- US employees have access to mental health resources through the Talkspace app, behavioral telehealth services through the HealthJoy app and a robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Dublin employees have enhanced mental health benefits including reimbursement for psychotherapy visits as well as mindfulness apps and stress management programs. Globally, all employees have access to the full suite of meditations available through the Headspace app
- Through our Personal Care Leave policy, eligible employees may take up to twelve (12) weeks of paid leave to address their own serious health condition
- We are proud to support our transgender community through our comprehensive medical benefits, including coverage for gender reassignment services and procedures
- D&I and inclusive leadership learning opportunities are accessible to everyone, and all employees complete a D&I e-Learning within their first month at Squarespace
- We will match charitable contributions made by Squarespace employees to non-profit and social impact organizations of their choosing up to $/€600 per employee per year
Squarespace is hiring for 22 jobs on Otta!
Software Engineering
People, HR, Recruitment
Operations & Strategy
Finance, Legal & Compliance
Sales & Account Management
