About 829 Studios
What is 829 Studios?
829 Studios is a Boston full-service integrated marketing agency — paid search, SEO, web development, brand strategy, PR and an expanding AI/analytics practice — founded in 2007 and grown to around 230 people. Its client roster runs from REI, Stanley and PLAY Airlines to Stanford, Harvard Kennedy School, Fidelity and Mass General, and its culture credentials are unusually public for an agency: Great Place to Work Certified, plus Outside's Best Places to Work and Adweek's Fastest Growing Agencies lists.
Where will I work?
Remote or from the Boston office — its fifteen current openings post both ways, across strategy, engineering (including an AI Innovation Engineer), media and client services.
What is the 829 team like?
Agency people who apparently also like each other after hours: sponsored kickball, volleyball and softball teams alongside the client work.
Work-Life Balance
Its job descriptions state the summer deal, verbatim: "generous paid vacation benefits that increase each year you're with us, 12 Company Holidays, and Summer Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day" — and the careers page repeats "Generous vacations, sick days, holidays, and Summer Fridays." Agency pace is real; we note openly that review-site checks were unavailable at add time, so ask how summer Fridays survive launch weeks.
Perks and Benefits
- Summer Fridays, Memorial Day through Labor Day
- Vacation that increases with tenure + 12 company holidays
- Extended paid parental leave; fully-paid life + short-term disability
- 401(k) with 4% Safe Harbor match after one year
- Unlimited virtual healthcare access + reproductive-health travel reimbursement
- Remote or Boston, commuter benefits, sponsored sports teams
How we verified this listing
Thirteen of fifteen live postings on 829's own board carried the Summer Fridays sentence when we listed it — the two without it are freelance/contractor listings, which our scraper filters out. The careers page independently repeats the benefit. One agent in our process flagged "agency" as a reason for caution and another verified the distribution cleanly; we resolved it the only honest way — by reading the board ourselves — and the written record supports the listing, with the agency-intensity question disclosed for your interview.