Commit Raises $6M USD
Today is a big day at Commit: We are coming out of private beta with a recent $6M in funding announcement on TechCrunch and launched on Product Hunt. Go check us out, and as a supporter of Commit, we appreciate your comments and upvotes.
We’re using this funding to grow our community rapidly, so please help us spread the word to more engineers → Share this LINK with the world. 🙏🏼
What does this raise mean for the Software Engineers at Commit? 👐
Let me answer this with six statements about what guides our EPX team:
- We believe the future of work is remote 🏡💻
- We believe in supporting the community that supports us. 💫
- We believe that people learn and grow together, not alone. 👥
- We believe that life-long learning and self-discovery are essential. 📚🌱
- We believe that providing financial stability frees up Software Engineers to take risks.🦺
- We believe in a diverse, safe and supportive community to ensure that people feel that they belong. 🤲
We channel those beliefs into our programs for you — the engineer. We help you get peer-to-peer support in our community, become a better engineer, and find the right jobs. Think of us as your local tech community in a remote setting. We raised this money based on the above beliefs, and because we want to do more of this, better for remote engineers.
Here’s what we plan to do over the next six to 18 months:
1. Hire more people to be your fiduciary.
- We will grow our Engineering Partner Experience (EPX) team to keep doing what is right for the Engineer’ and make our customers — engineers — successful. Next week, I’ll post job descriptions for a Director of Customer Success (we’re playing with the role’s title — EPX vs. Customer Success) and a Coordinator of Customer Success. We will be adding other roles around learning and growth, as well as community, in the future.
2. Help you become a better engineer.
- Build a program to help every engineer understand who they are today, who they want to be tomorrow, and how to continually develop self-awareness. Self-awareness is the foundation on which we will build our learning program, but “learning who we are, what we want, and what we’re capable of” takes time, so we’re kickstarting it early.
- An effective way to grow into a better engineer is to make technical and non-technical decisions in challenging situations. These decisions require you to draw on your skills and experience and build your confidence. A mentor and your peers can help you trust yourself when making those decisions and carrying them out. So we plan to expand our 1:1 mentorship program within Commit and outside of Commit, connecting Commit Engineers with external mentors. We’re also building a program around cohort-based learning, a.k.a. group learning.
- We’re establishing a set of essential skills for Engineers who work remotely and help Engineers learn those skills.
- We’re creating an initial set of technical roadmaps for Engineers looking to expand their technical skills, role and responsibilities.
- We’re building a community that’s far more diverse than the current industry makeup (2019).
3. Make it easier for you to find the right job.
- This pandemic has forced everyone to recognize that most work can happen remotely and to consider that the best talent in the world might not live within 45 minutes of your office.
- We’re applying the insights from engineers’ self-awareness and work experience to find more suitable matches more quickly.
- We’re automating the repetitive elements of our career transition program to spend more time with engineers and more time on program development.
- Ensure every program is experiential and beneficial.
