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It’s the Best Time of the Year to Get Hired—and These Companies Want Your Applications Now

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Inside BrainPOP’s New York City office, as seen on The Muse.

January is arguably one of the best months for job hunting, and that is even more true today. Not only is the beginning of the year typically the busiest season for recruiters and hiring managers, but we’re still in the midst of the Great Resignation, which means many employers are making it a top priority to find new talent right now—including these 29 incredible companies.

Here, you’ll find quite a mix of industries, from tech and finance to media entertainment and fashion—and these companies have a ton of different roles available (many of them remote!). For instance, you can help build new features as a software engineer at Instacart; support Nike’s online platform as a digital content author; or work directly with customers as an account manager at Hotel Engine.

These are just a few examples of the types of unique opportunities you’ll find on this list. Keep reading to learn more about these amazing companies—hear from them in their own words—and see what roles you can apply for.

1.
Instacart

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Working at Instacart

Instacart is the leading grocery technology company in North America, working with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace.

Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule

2.
NIKE, Inc.

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Working at NIKE, Inc.

NIKE, Inc. is a purpose-driven organization energized by a shared commitment to move the world forward through the power of sport. We champion diversity and amplify individual passions to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

At NIKE, Inc., we are committed to creating the equitable playing field of the future, and that starts with our teammates. We foster a culture of inclusion, empowerment, and respect – a place where everyone can show up fully as themselves. Here, you will leverage a competitive spirit, being challenged, but also surrounded by teammates who have your back. With diverse perspectives being a powerful catalyst in driving innovation, we know that when we all belong, we all win. For more information on how you can contribute to a world-class team, visit our career site at jobs.nike.com and join our talent community here.

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BlackLine

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Working at BlackLine

Companies go to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. BlackLine helps them make the move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. Leading companies like SiriusXM, The Hershey Company, and Domino’s trust BlackLine to deliver accurate results in a chaotic world. When someone joins the team at BlackLine, they become part of a unique and diverse organization that works hard, plays hard, and supports personal and professional growth.

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Pulte Mortgage

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Working at Pulte Mortgage

Pulte Mortgage’s company culture is centered around a core value system which includes Do the Right Thing, Work as a Unified Team, and Smile Daily—just to name a few. Since 1972, they’ve enjoyed building relationships with well over half a million families, helping each of them find the right mortgage for their needs. This also means that they recruit and hire employees who are dedicated to making a difference to be part of their Pulte family.

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BrainPOP

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Working at BrainPOP

BrainPOP makes rigorous learning experiences accessible and engaging for all. Proven to raise academic achievement, the brand has been trusted by educators and parents worldwide for more than two decades. BrainPOP has a presence in over two-thirds of U.S. districts through school and district subscriptions and an estimated reach of 25 million students annually. Beloved by kids, BrainPOP provides endless opportunities for them to take agency over their learning through playful, knowledge-building content and learner-driven experiences that strengthen critical, computational, and creative thinking across the entire curriculum. The company is committed to empowering kids to succeed and thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Founded in 1999 by former pediatrician and immunologist Avraham Kadar, M.D., in 2022, BrainPOP was acquired by KIRKBI—the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO® brand—in its first acquisition in digital learning.

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Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

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Working at Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

By joining Ironwood, you’ll have numerous opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and ultimately transform the lives of gastrointestinal (GI) patients.

We recognize that individuals are essential to Ironwood’s success. We leverage our insights, encouraging diverse opinions and opposing points of view, to help innovate meaningful new possibilities.

Ironwoodians value the flexibility of remote work and the power of in-person collaboration, and we strive to optimize both. Ironwood offers resources and invests in hybrid technologies, reflecting what we learned from our employees about optimizing their productivity and respecting family needs and personal choices. We balance personal autonomy, accountability, and a mindset of ownership in how we approach each day.

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Autodesk

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Working at Autodesk

At Autodesk, we believe that when you have the right tools to work and think flexibly you have the power to transform what actually needs making and to design and make a better world for all. For more than four decades, we’ve worked together with our customers to transform how things are made and in doing so, we’ve also transformed what can be made. Today our solutions span countless industries and empower innovators everywhere. But we’re restless to do more. We don’t believe in waiting for progress, we believe in making it. By combining and recombining technologies, blurring boundaries, reinventing rules, unleashing talent, and unlocking insights across industries, we help our customers converge on solutions to the challenges we all face today.

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Yext

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Working at Yext

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) helps organizations answer every question about their business. Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Learn more at yext.com.

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Broadridge

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Working at Broadridge

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), is a global Fintech leader, delivering technology-driven solutions that drive digital transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. At Broadridge, we are committed to making a difference. Our unique culture is guided by the Service-Profit Chain—the idea that success is mutual, directly connecting employee engagement, client satisfaction, and the creation of stockholder value. We enable better financial lives by providing the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance and communications. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.

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Formation Bio

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Working at Formation Bio

Formation Bio is a tech-driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development. Formation Bio has built a technology platform that optimizes all aspects of drug development, enabling more efficient trial design, faster trial completion, and higher quality trial data capture.

Formation Bio acquires clinical-stage drugs from pharma and biotech and develops them faster and more efficiently, unlocking greater value per program and accelerating access to new treatments for patients.

Join our culture of innovation where your work directly contributes to transforming patient care in areas such as rheumatology, dermatology, CNS, and cardiometabolic diseases. Our dynamic environment blends advanced technology with strategic drug development, speeding up the delivery of new treatments. Here, every role plays a part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

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Dolby

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Working at Dolby

Founded in 1965 by the late Ray Dolby, Dolby was born out of its founder’s passion for connecting science and art. The present-day company reflects the innovative and creative vision of its namesake. True to its origins, Dolby continues to produce cutting-edge audio and visual technologies that enhance and transform storytelling, entertainment, and media.

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Illumio

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Working at Illumio

Illumio provides Zero Trust Segmentation to proactively stop ransomware, malware, and other attacks from moving beyond their initial point of entry in order to end headline-breaking cyber disasters. Since our company’s founding in 2013, the top names in business continue to recognize our innovation and ground-breaking technology. We are a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, and we are positioned as having the strongest current offering and the strongest strategy.

As a business, we’re approaching a major milestone in growth. To help us achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for smart, truth-seeking individuals who value transparency, love both working together and taking the lead, and are eager to make sweeping contributions to one of the world’s most significant and compelling industries.

Here at The Muse, we partner with a lot of great companies to bring you insider looks at their offices and awesome job listings. These employers pay us to be featured on the site, but these Muse-worthy brands made this list not just because they want to be included, but because their culture, policies, and employee feedback showed us that they deserve to be.

Think your company should be on a list like this? Learn more and get in touch!