Life at Chromatic

We partner with clients who share our values, we invest in employee training, and we offer more vacation than most Fortune 500s. We also contribute to retirement funds and match donations, so you can help improve your community.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Healthy employees are our best shot at happy employees. Though our team is distributed across different states, no matter where you are, you’ll have health insurance options to cover you and your family.

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  • BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois PPO G532PPO plan
  • Medical insurance premiums are 100% covered by Chromatic
  • 25% of dependents’ insurance premiums covered by Chromatic
  • Guardian DentalGuard Preferred
  • Guardian Davis Vision
  • Short- & long- term disability coverage, and an optional life insurance package both via Guardian

Team Building

There are tons of benefits to remote work, but getting closer to your coworkers isn’t always one of them. We make sure to build in quality time so that our employees can really get to know each other and build strong relationships with their managers.

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  • Annual retreats with the entire team which are equal parts personal-relaxation and team-building time
  • Bi-weekly one-on-ones with your manager
  • Partner and project manager open office hours throughout the week—feel free to drop in and air ideas or grievances.

Life Outside of Work

We know that different employees have different needs. That’s why we offer ample sick and flex time, generous parental leave, and half-day Fridays, so you can make your schedule fit your life.

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  • We provide five days a year for sick leave, but we will never deny or question time off devoted to health—physical, mental, or spiritual.
  • We provide eight consecutive weeks of paid time off (with continued benefits) for parental leave for primary caregivers and four consecutive weeks for secondary caregivers.
  • Where time off doesn’t neatly fall into the categories above, paid time off (PTO) swoops in to ensure you get the time you need. PTO is accrued on a monthly basis (starting at 1.25 days/month, and increasing based on tenure).
  • After seven years at Chromatic, we encourage employees to take a one-month paid sabbatical, and provide a $5,000 stipend to go along with it. The benefit repeats every five years thereafter.
  • Sometimes you just need time away from a screen. The Chromatic culture ensures this time is always available.
  • It’s an endless summer at Chromatic: all Fridays are half-days all year round.

100% Remote Work

We didn't just go 100% remote during the pandemic. We’ve been working 100% remotely from day one. Chromatic was born distributed and will always be distributed. No matter where you call home, you’ve got a place with us.

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  • We invest the money we’d be spending on rent, maintenance, and office supplies right back into our employees.
  • Meetings help us align and move projects forward, but heads-down time is important too, so we have a meetings-free day once a month.
  • We respect working hours in different time zones. It’s always 5 o’clock somewhere, so we’ll toast to that.

Investment in Employees

Community matters to us, and so do our employees. We match 401K contributions and donations you make in your community, and we respect time off to volunteer.

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  • We contribute 4% of your eligible annual income to a retirement plan—even if you choose not to contribute to it.
  • We’ll match your charitable donations up to $600 annually.
  • We’ll help clear your working schedule for volunteering efforts that can make a difference in your community.
  • We encourage you to continue your education via camps and conferences, and will finance your attendance when you are speaking, conducting training, and so on. If a Chromatic team is attending, attendance is fully covered, even if you’re not a speaker.
  • We provide a subscription budget of $150/year and a book budget of $50/year; this is in addition to hardware and software expenses, which are fully covered.

Improving Chromatic Together

Lots of companies say they’re open to new ideas. We mean it. At our annual retreat, we take votes on which new ideas to implement. That’s where we got half-day summer Fridays—and then half-day Fridays all year round.

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  • We are a certified Great Place To Work, and 100% of our employees say that it’s true.
  • Leadership’s doors are always open, and they are willing to hear ideas for optimizations and enhancements—and not just during the annual retreat.
  • Have an idea for a product, code contribution, or spin-off? If it’s approved it can get its own resources—time, budget, and developers—via Chromatic Labs.
  • The experimenting never stops. This summer, we’ll be testing out a four-day work week. Turns out Thursday is the new Friday.
  • What fresh ideas will you bring to the team?

“If you asked me what it is like to work here, I’d tell you about 'Thanksgiving' dinner at the Chromatic annual retreat. I can picture the long table we set up outside surrounded by unique, talented individuals. The candles were anchored in the tiny award trophies we handed out earlier that day. The dishes were full of amazing homemade food. Glasses were raised in toasts of gratitude followed closely by waves of emotion from both managers and employees.” Katie High

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