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24 Remote Companies Offering Equity Compensation

Every equity claim here is checked against the company's own careers pages, handbooks, and SEC filings — exercise windows, refresh grants, and ESPP terms.

24companies1,646open roles87avg REMOTE Score

Updated November 1, 2026 — hand-reviewed list

Openings checked November 3, 2026

"Equity" on an offer letter is a word, not a number. It can mean a real stake in something you would want to own a piece of, or it can mean a line item that exists to make the cash component look better than it is.

The difference lives in the mechanics, and almost nobody publishes them. Ask three questions and most companies go quiet. What happens to my vested options if I leave? Do grants refresh, or is the signing grant the whole story? Has anyone here ever turned this into money?

Linear answers all three in public: early exercise in the US, ten years to exercise instead of ninety days, refreshers as you go, and a tender offer that let current and former teammates sell vested options at the same price the investors paid. That is the ceiling. Most companies on this page do not reach it. Every one of them publishes something you can go check.

We started with seventy-four companies whose records claimed equity.

Twenty-four made this page.

24 Best Remote Companies That Offer Equity

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Kit logo

Kit

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Marketing Technology
MarTechSaaS Platform
100 employees6 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Kit

Kit publishes the equity number, not just the word — full-time postings carry a dollar figure for the grant alongside the salary band. The handbook goes further and prints the profit-sharing split: 52% to the team, 40% to owners, up to 8% to leadership.

2
RevenueCat logo

RevenueCat

Hiring now
Fully Remote
FinTech
DevToolsFinTech+1 more
150 employees19 open remote roles

Fully Remote at RevenueCat

Every RevenueCat posting carries the same two lines: competitive equity, and a ten-year window to exercise vested options. Ten years instead of the usual ninety days means leaving never forces the choice between funding the purchase and forfeiting what you earned.

3
Tremendous logo

Tremendous

Hiring now
Fully Remote
FinTech
FinTechSaaS Platform
150 employees26 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Tremendous

Equity at a company with no outside investors. Tremendous is profitable and owned by its founders and employees, so grants are not riding on a venture exit clock, and open roles pair the equity mention with a published salary band — including roles outside the US.

4
PostHog logo

PostHog

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
DevToolsData & Analytics
200 employees8 open remote roles

Fully Remote at PostHog

PostHog's public handbook documents the entire option mechanic: four-year vest, one-year cliff, and ten years from the grant date to exercise. Grants use whichever instrument is tax-advantaged where you live — incentive options in the US, EMI or CSOP in the UK.

5
Dropbox logo

Dropbox

Hiring now
Remote-First
Software Development
CollaborationSaaS Platform+1 more
2,500 employees26 open remote roles

Remote-First at Dropbox

Dropbox's standard restricted stock unit agreement vests one sixteenth per quarter on four fixed calendar dates, with no one-year cliff. Leave in month four and you keep something, which is not how most public-company grants work.

6
Grafana Labs logo

Grafana Labs

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
DevToolsData & Analytics
1,800 employees122 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs states it in the postings themselves: all of their roles include restricted stock units. RSUs rather than options is unusual at a private company, and the commitment is repeated word for word on roles across Europe, not just the US ones.

7
Circle (Community Platform) logo
Fully Remote
SaaS Platforms
Collaboration+1 more
250 employees8 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Circle (Community Platform)

Circle grants equity with ongoing refresh grants, which is rare this early — refreshers are usually a late-stage practice. Compensation is benchmarked to US rates everywhere they hire, so employees across thirty-plus countries get the same terms, not a location discount.

8
Automattic logo

Automattic

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
CMSWeb+1 more
1,450 employees12 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Automattic

Automattic runs an internal market in a share class only employees can buy: purchase windows twice a year, selling windows quarterly, priced by an outside valuation firm. Leave and you keep the shares, and the right to keep selling them.

9
GitLab logo

GitLab

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
AI/MLCybersecurity+2 more
2,500 employees231 open remote roles

Fully Remote at GitLab

GitLab publishes the grant formula: new-hire equity set by grade level, promotion grants calculated as the difference between level medians, annual refreshes after six months. Its stock purchase plan runs a 15% discount with a lookback of up to twenty-four months.

10
Ashby logo

Ashby

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
HRTechSaaS Platform
400 employees71 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Ashby

Ashby refreshes equity throughout your tenure, sized against current market data so someone finishing an initial grant lands at or above what a new hire would be offered today. It also counts only unvested equity when matching a competing offer.

Equity you can actually read

Work is a Verb covers the companies that publish strike prices, exercise windows, and refresh grants instead of hiding them. Weekly, free.

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Affirm logo

Affirm

Hiring now
Remote-First
FinTech
AI/MLFinTech
2,200 employees232 open remote roles

Remote-First at Affirm

Affirm's employee stock purchase plan buys at 85% of the lower price across a six-month window, so the discount compounds with any rise in the stock. Options vest over four years and carry a ten-year term, though the post-termination exercise window is the standard three months.

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Huntress logo

Huntress

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Computer & Network Security
Cybersecurity
800 employees42 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Huntress

Huntress grants stock options to all full-time teammates and repeats the commitment on its careers page for every country it hires in — the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Canada. Extending options across five jurisdictions is harder than a single sentence makes it sound.

13
Elastic logo

Elastic

Hiring now
Remote-First
Data Infrastructure & Analytics
Data & AnalyticsAI/ML+1 more
4,000 employees291 open remote roles

Remote-First at Elastic

Elastic's stock purchase plan buys at 85% of the lower price across six-month offerings beginning each March and September. It issued 364,236 shares to employees in its 2025 fiscal year, which is the useful part — plenty of plans exist on paper and never open an offering period.

14
Dave Inc. logo

Dave Inc.

Hiring now
Fully Remote
FinTech
FinTech
300 employees9 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Dave Inc.

Equity you can actually sell. Dave trades publicly, so grants under its 2021 plan are liquid stock rather than paper waiting on an exit, and awards generally vest over four years with a ten-year maximum term on options.

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Help Scout logo

Help Scout

Hiring now
Fully Remote
Software Development
SaaS PlatformAI/ML
150 employees6 open remote roles

Fully Remote at Help Scout

Help Scout says every employee can become a shareholder, and that option grant sizes follow a formula transparent to employees, the same way it handles its salary matrix. The formula itself is not published outside the company — a policy to ask about, not one to look up.

16
Reddit logo

Reddit

Hiring now
Remote-First
Social Networking
2,550 employees136 open remote roles

Remote-First at Reddit

Reddit permits early exercise on certain option grants: buy unvested shares now and start the capital-gains clock sooner, with Reddit able to repurchase at your original price if you leave first. Its latest annual filing confirms the practice is still live.

17
Twilio logo

Twilio

Hiring now
Remote-First
API & Developer Tools
DevToolsSaaS Platform+1 more
5,600 employees134 open remote roles

Remote-First at Twilio

Twilio's stock purchase plan sells at 85% of the lower of the first-day or last-day price across roughly six-month offerings. Its own proxy shows what that was worth: employees bought at a weighted average of $88.12 against a fair market value of $118.29.

18
Webflow logo
Remote-First
SaaS Platforms
SaaS PlatformCMS+1 more
850 employees

Remote-First at Webflow

Webflow names the instrument: restricted stock units, not options, so there is no strike price to fund and no exercise deadline to miss — though the shares still wait on a liquidity event. It also publishes its cost-of-labor pay zones and the radius rule behind them.

19
Fleetio logo

Fleetio

Hiring now
Remote-First
Fleet Management
LogisticsTechSaaS Platform
350 employees15 open remote roles

Remote-First at Fleetio

Fleetio's careers page states it plainly: the company grants all of its team members options to acquire an ownership stake. Universal coverage is the claim actually worth checking on any equity page, and Fleetio makes it in its own words rather than leaving it to a recruiter.

20
Instacart logo

Instacart

Hiring now
Remote-First
E-commerce
RetailTechLogisticsTech+1 more
3,600 employees92 open remote roles

Remote-First at Instacart

Instacart writes annual refresh grants into the job posting itself, alongside the new-hire grant. Most companies leave refreshes invisible until you are deep in an offer conversation, so publishing them upfront tells you the signing grant is not meant to be the whole story.

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Linear logo

Linear

Hiring now
Remote-First
Software Development
DevToolsSaaS Platform+1 more
150 employees28 open remote roles

Remote-First at Linear

Linear stacks the terms that usually show up one at a time: early exercise in the US, a ten-year extended exercise window, and periodic refreshers. It has also run a tender offer that let current and former teammates sell vested options at the price investors paid.

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1Password logo

1Password

Hiring now
Remote-First
Computer & Network Security
CybersecuritySaaS Platform
2,500 employees65 open remote roles

Remote-First at 1Password

1Password's job board lists a restricted stock unit program for most employees. RSUs at a private company are unusual — no strike price to fund and no exercise deadline, in exchange for waiting on a liquidity event. Note the "most"; it is not claimed as universal.

23
Veeva logo

Veeva

Hiring now
Remote-First
Enterprise Software
HealthTechSaaS Platform+1 more
7,950 employees67 open remote roles

Remote-First at Veeva

Veeva sizes equity as a stock bonus — a percentage of base salary rather than a negotiated one-off — and says the program is designed for the vast majority of employees to participate. A formula beats a negotiation if negotiating is not your strong suit.

24
Gruntwork logo
Fully Remote
Software Development
DevTools
25 employees

Fully Remote at Gruntwork

Gruntwork computes every stock grant from a formula based on title and hire date, so grant size is not a negotiation. It also runs a change-in-control bonus plan, inspired by progressive equity, that tilts more of a large exit toward employees.

How We Ranked These Companies

Equity is the easiest benefit in the world to claim. It costs nothing to put "competitive equity" in a job posting, and aggregator sites will copy that phrase into a benefits checkbox that gets scraped into somebody else's listicle by the weekend. So we ignored the checkboxes.

Every company here was checked against first-party sources only: the company's own careers and benefits pages, public handbooks, official blogs, job postings on the company's own applicant tracking system, and, for public companies, SEC filings — where the actual plan documents live. Aggregator data was allowed to point us toward a page. It was never allowed to be the evidence.

We checked forty-nine companies. Forty confirmed they grant equity at all. Twenty-four produced a specific worth printing: a vesting schedule, an exercise window, a refresh policy, a purchase-plan discount, a published grant formula. The rest said "we offer equity" and stopped there.

Seven claims came off our records during this pass. In four of those cases the company's own job postings itemize the entire benefits package — medical, retirement, stipends, parental leave — and never mention equity at all. One record described restricted stock units carrying an exercise window, which is a thing that cannot exist, since RSUs are not exercised. Tracing it back, the apparent corroboration was our own site being read back to us. Verification has to end at a primary document, not at a search result.

The list is limited to companies classified Fully Remote or Remote-First, because a page about remote companies should be about remote companies.

Ranking is by REMOTE Score, our rating of how well a company actually works remotely. No company can buy a higher score, and nobody paid to be on this page.

Read the full methodology →

Frequently Asked Questions

Do remote companies actually give equity?
Most venture-backed and public tech companies do, remote or not — equity is close to standard in the industry, which is exactly why the word on its own tells you nothing. The harder question is whether equity reaches everyone. Some companies grant it to every full-time employee in every country they hire in; others grant it to "eligible roles," which quietly means senior, US-based, or both. Several companies we checked list equity on US postings and omit it from the same role in London or Mexico City. If you are remote and outside the company's home country, ask specifically whether your offer includes it.
What is an extended exercise window, and why does ten years matter?
Stock options give you the right to buy shares at a fixed price. When you leave, a clock starts: traditionally ninety days to hand over the cash and exercise, or you forfeit options you already earned. For anyone at a company whose valuation has risen, that bill can run into six figures plus a tax event, on shares you cannot sell. An extended post-termination exercise window stretches that deadline — commonly to ten years — so leaving does not force the choice between finding the money and walking away from vested equity. It is the single most consequential term in an option grant, and a company that offers it usually says so in the job posting.
RSUs or stock options — which is better at a startup?
They fail in different directions. Options let you buy shares at a fixed strike price, so if the company grows a lot they are worth more, but you have to fund the purchase and you are exposed to exercise deadlines. Restricted stock units simply become shares when they vest — nothing to buy, no window to miss, no strike price to go underwater — but at a private company they still cannot be sold until there is a liquidity event, and they are taxed as income when they settle. Options reward upside and punish illiquidity; RSUs are steadier and cap less of your downside than people assume. At a public company RSUs are straightforwardly better, because the shares are immediately sellable.
What is an equity refresh grant?
A refresh, or "top-up," is an additional grant made during your employment rather than at hire. It matters because a standard four-year new-hire grant is fully vested at year four, at which point your forward-looking equity is zero and the only way to get more is to leave. Companies that refresh — annually, at promotion, or on a fixed cycle — keep ownership growing without requiring a job change. Very few publish the policy. When one does, it is usually because they want you to know the signing grant is not the whole offer.
What is early exercise, and should I do it?
Early exercise lets you buy your options before they have vested, with the company keeping the right to buy the shares back at your original price if you leave before vesting. The appeal is tax: exercising early, when the strike price and the fair market value are close, can minimize the spread you are taxed on and start the long-term capital gains clock sooner. The risk is equally simple — you have spent real money on shares in a private company that may never be worth anything, and the tax election that makes it work has a hard thirty-day filing deadline. It is worth understanding, and worth a conversation with an accountant rather than a job board.
Can I get equity if I work remotely from outside the US?
Yes, but the instrument often changes. Tax treatment of employee equity varies enormously by country, so companies that hire globally either grant the same thing everywhere and let employees absorb the local tax consequences, or match the instrument to the jurisdiction — for example an EMI scheme in the UK instead of US incentive stock options. A third group cannot grant to employees hired through an employer of record and substitutes a cash equivalent. None of these is inherently worse, but they are genuinely different, so the question to ask is not "do I get equity" but "what instrument do I get, in my country."
What is an employee stock purchase plan, and is it worth joining?
An employee stock purchase plan, or ESPP, lets employees at a public company buy shares through payroll deduction at a discount — typically fifteen percent. The detail that matters is the "lookback": the better plans price at fifteen percent below the lower of the share price at the start or the end of the offering period, so if the stock rose during the window your discount compounds. Plans without a lookback are worth much less. Also worth checking whether the plan actually runs; a plan can be registered and sitting dormant for years with no offering period ever opened, which is more common than you would expect.
How do I check whether a company's equity claim is real?
Go to the primary document. For a public company, the proxy statement and the equity plan exhibits filed with the SEC contain the actual vesting schedules and purchase-plan terms, and they are free to read. For a private company, the company's own job postings on its applicant tracking system are more reliable than its marketing pages, because compensation language there tends to be standardized across roles — and if the equity line appears on every posting rather than some, that tells you about coverage. Treat aggregator benefit checkboxes as a hint about where to look, never as the answer. If a vesting schedule appears on three aggregator sites and nowhere on the company's own properties, assume somebody guessed.

## Four questions to ask before you sign The companies above are here because they answered these in public. Any company can answer them in an offer conversation, and how they answer will tell you more than the grant size does. **"What happens to my vested options if I leave?"** The default is ninety days to find the cash or forfeit everything you earned. A ten-year window — the terms PostHog, RevenueCat, and Linear publish — is what turns a vested option into something you actually own. **"Do grants refresh?"** A signing grant that never repeats is a four-year retention device wearing a bow. Ashby, Circle, GitLab, and Instacart put refreshes in writing, and Instacart puts them in the job posting. **"What is the current 409A valuation, and how many shares are outstanding?"** A percentage means something. A share count on its own means nothing. A company that will not give you the denominator has told you something. **"Has anyone ever sold?"** Automattic runs quarterly internal sell windows and lets you keep the shares after you leave. Linear has run a tender offer. For most private companies the honest answer is "not yet," which is fine — it just needs saying out loud instead of being implied. Equity is the one part of an offer where the paperwork outranks the pitch. Read the paperwork.

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