Who’s Hiring In Tech This Week? Help Launch Space Satellites Or Fight Cancer With These Startup Jobs

Yes, even as layoffs spiked dramatically in January, there are still startups hiring. Here’s this week’s edition of Who’s Hiring In Tech, a weekly list of funded startups, sourced from Crunchbase, that are actively hiring for multiple positions and have not conducted reported layoffs in the past year.

Below, we highlight five of the roles from this list that caught our eye.

5 roles that caught our eye

Company: Blacklane

• Position: Global head of partnerships
• Salary: N/A but probably a lot, based on the job description
• Location: Barcelona/Berlin/Dubai/London
• Why it’s cool: I mean, did you read the location(s)? Enough said. Also, Mercedes-Benz is one of the startup’s investors.
• What it does: Blacklane is a global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel.
• Funding history: Blacklane has raised a total of $103 million in funding over 9 rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Dec. 21, 2022, from a Series F round. Blacklane is funded by 13 investors. Mercedes-Benz Mobility and Gargash Group are the most recent investors, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

Company: Orbital Sidekick

• Position: Space operations engineer
• Salary: N/A
• Location: San Francisco (but the listing says the company is open to remote for this role).
• Why it’s cool: Founded in a garage by two entrepreneurs, the startup is about to launch its first two commercial satellites aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-7 rideshare mission. The CIA’s venture partner, In-Q-Tel, is also an investor. Legit.
• What it does: OSK is a satellite-based hyperspectral monitoring service helping organizations meet their sustainability and security goals.
• Funding history: Orbital Sidekick has raised a total of $46.8 million in funding over six rounds. Its latest funding of $10 million was raised on Jan. 31. Oneok and 11.2 Capital are the most recent investors, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

Company: ADC Therapeutics

• Position: Medical director, medical affairs
• Salary: N/A
• Location: New Providence, New Jersey, headquarters or remote
• Why it’s cool: The company’s stated vision: “We will transform what patients and their families can expect from cancer therapy.” Fighting cancer? We like that.
• What it does: ADC Therapeutics develops antibody drug conjugates and non-antibody drug conjugate products that contribute to the fight against cancer.
• Funding history: ADC Therapeutics has raised a total of $751.6 million in funding over 10 rounds. Although the company went public in 2020, its latest funding was raised on Feb. 2, 2023, from a post-IPO equity round, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

Company: MetaCX

• Position: Various roles in its marketing department
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Although based in Indianapolis, staff can work from anywhere.
• Why it’s cool: The company refers to each department as a “community” and is actively seeking “both right- and left-brained marketing pros.”
• What it does: MetaCX sells a SaaS platform that provides an outcomes-based approach for managing the entire B2B customer lifecycle.
• Funding history: MetaCX has raised a total of $33.9 million in funding over six rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Jan. 31, although specifics were not reported. MetaCX is funded by seven investors. IU Angel Network and Silicon Valley Bank are the most recent investors, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

Company: XiltriX (pronounced zil-tricks)

• Position: Marketing manager
• Salary: N/A
• Location: San Diego
• Why it’s cool: It bills itself as “monitoring-as-a-service” and while that’s not the sexiest moniker in the world, what the company does is pretty profound and useful.
• What it does: XiltriX provides continuous development of real-time monitoring technologies for life science (think labs that store blood, samples, eggs etc.). It keeps important stuff safe, and that’s a big deal.
• Funding history: XiltriX has raised a total of $15 million in funding over four rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Jan. 27 for an unreported amount, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

Want to find more companies that are actively hiring? Learn more about how to use Crunchbase’s Actively Hiring feature to find companies that are hiring for multiple open positions and fit your other search criteria. You can also use Crunchbase Pro to filter for companies that haven’t had recent layoffs reported, or check our Layoffs Tracker.

Methodology:

The full list of companies that are hiring is conducted using this Crunchbase Pro query. We include companies that are tagged as Actively Hiring — meaning they have multiple open roles listed — haven’t had any reported layoffs in the past year, have raised at least $1 million in total funding, and have raised funding within the past year.

The five featured roles are based on the above criteria, with Crunchbase News editors deciding which positions are interesting enough to highlight. This list is ultimately based on editors’ discretion.

• Submit an open role at your company for consideration in this feature.
• Have a correction for this list? Email me at jenna@crunchbase.com.
• Learn more about Crunchbase’s Actively Hiring filter 
• Learn how to filter by “No Layoffs Reported” using Crunchbase Pro

Illustration: Dom Guzman

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