About Grokability
What is Grokability?
Grokability is a San Diego-based software company best known as the maker of Snipe-IT, a free, open-source IT asset management system. According to Grokability's own homepage, Snipe-IT manages over 20.5 million assets and 9.9 million users for nearly 6,000 customers, with more than 12,000 commits from 330+ contributors over 13 years. The cloud-hosted product offers a 99.99% SLA uptime guarantee with servers across 12 AWS regions (Oregon, N. Virginia, Sao Paulo, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Seoul, Hyderabad, Cape Town, Sydney, Montreal).
Snipe-IT was created in 2013 when founder Alison Gianotto, then CTO of an ad agency in New York City, needed to inventory office assets during a move and found existing asset-tracking systems lacking. The first inventory revealed more than $25,000 of missing assets. Today Snipe-IT remains free, open-source and actively developed with releases every few weeks. The Grokability family has since expanded to include GoodForms, an ethical email-address verification service that "literally never store[s] your customers' email address on our servers". Grokability is a proud sponsor of Let's Encrypt.
Where will I work?
Grokability is "a fully-remote company, so pants aren't even required (most of the time)." The company is headquartered at 3960 West Point Loma Blvd Suite H69, San Diego, CA 92110.
What is the Grokability team like?
The leadership team includes Alison Gianotto (CEO / Chief Mohawk Officer, she/her), Brady Wetherington (CTO / Hanzo Main, he/him), Victoria Pak (COO / Support Ninja, she/her) and Jeremy Price (VP of Tech / Cloud Snarkitect, he/him). Engineering is led by Principal Engineers (Marcus Moore — Lead Sleepasaurus; Spencer Long — Token Austin Hipster) plus Developer Godfrey Martinez (Jedi Knight). Quality Assurance is handled by Birgit Zeus (Insektenjäger), with Osei Owusu as Lead Support Engineer (Pool Sharkitect) and Jin Pak on the helpdesk. The team explicitly lists "Maybe you?" as an open spot.
Grokability's stated values include "UI and UX are critical. Software should be easy to use", "Take the work seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously", "Transparency, empathy and respect are core values", "Security is a default" and "Open Source Software (OSS) is crucial". The company's "Animals of Grokability" page profiles each teammate's pets — a small but characteristic detail.
Work-Life Balance
Grokability operates a four-day work week with flexible hours and unlimited PTO/vacation. Uniquely, the company pays employees a $5,000 vacation bonus — "yes, we pay you extra to take your vacation". Quarterly bonuses based on company profit reward shared success across the team.
Perks and Benefits
- Four-day work week
- Flexible hours
- Unlimited PTO / vacation
- $5,000 vacation bonus ("yes, we pay you extra to take your vacation")
- Healthcare coverage
- 401(k)
- $3,000/year education budget
- $3,000 one-time home office upgrade budget plus $1,000/year refresh budget
- $1,000/year hobby/enrichment budget (yes, that includes minifigs and/or legos)
- $1,000/year self-care budget (massages, gym memberships, spa treatment)
- Quarterly bonuses based on company profit
- Fully-remote ("so pants aren't even required, most of the time")