Upstatement

Founded in 2008, we started in the newsrooms of The New York Times and The Boston Globe. We are a strategic digital studio with an editorial mindset, specializing in building story-driven brands, digital products, applications, and services. This includes large-scale digital platforms, editorial products, brands, and design systems.

Our services include:

• Brand Strategy: positioning, identity, naming, voice and tone, guidelines, design systems.
• Digital Experience: websites, iOS and Android apps, vision and roadmapping, art direction, data storytelling, copywriting and editorial, usability testing, stakeholder and user interviews.
• Overarching Strategy: product creation, brand strategy, business consulting, content strategy, information architecture, user research, workshop design.
• Engineering: technical architecture, technical discovery, website development, application development, prototyping, quality assurance, CMS implementation.

We launched the first mainstream responsive website for The Boston Globe. Our clients include established brands, historic institutions, visionary leaders, and mission-focused startups, such as Vogue, Microsoft, and ESPN. We are part of kyu, a collective of creative organizations, and operate in the Business Consulting and Services industry.

We operate with an editorial mindset, at the intersection of storytelling, design, and engineering. We choose ethical partners and aim for our projects to create meaningful change, such as addressing gun violence, championing diversity, and promoting environmental sustainability. Our work is driven by strong stories and a desire to make a positive impact.

We are part of kyu, a collective focused on creativity that advances the economy and society. Our culture values empathy, candor, and growth.

We are a remote-first organization with a fully distributed team across the US and Europe. We offer options to work from our offices in Boston and Chicago, and we organize an annual company-wide gathering.

Our cross-disciplinary teams bring together design, engineering, and storytelling. Team members participate throughout the entire process, where designers develop, engineers sketch, and everyone contributes to creative concepts. Leadership supports professional growth by helping employees design their own development paths.

We prioritize work-life balance, with initiatives like Calm Fridays and a company-wide closure during the year-end holidays. Our culture emphasizes empathy, candor, and growth.

We offer a competitive salary, full health, dental, and vision coverage, along with HSA/FSA plans. This includes online mental health therapy through Talkspace and First Stop Health, short and long-term disability insurance, a One Medical membership, and health advocacy support. For family planning, we provide gynecology and family-building care with Kindbody.

We make non-elective 401k contributions and offer a $1,000 home office setup stipend, along with a $1,500 annual professional development budget.

Employees receive three weeks of paid vacation to start, plus a company-wide closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and 10 health days each year. Work-life balance is supported by Calm Fridays and 12 weeks of paid parental leave (with an additional 12 weeks available as unpaid leave).