We connect parents who need childcare with stay at home parents who can care for their kids.
What we're doing matters
If we succeed in closing the childcare gap, every child will have access to safe, high-quality childcare and every stay at home parent will be economically empowered in a way never before possible.
The childcare gap
of American families can't afford childcare
of families live in a childcare desert, where there are 3 kids for every seat
women left the workforce during the pandemic
parents are stay-at-home parents who don't work outside the home
of stay-at-home parents and their families live in poverty
childcare seats have been lost since March 2020
Our values
What guides us
Our values
Our operating principles
Our operating principles
Benefits
In addition to competitive salaries and equity ownership in the company, we offer:
Our compensation philosophy
We articulated our compensation philosophy when we were still a team of two. It was our way of taking care of our team before they walked in the (metaphorical) door.
Current Positions
To build childcare that feels like family for families everywhere, we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.
Here are some of our open roles:
Interested in joining the team but don't see a fit above?
Reach out to earlyhires@withotter.com and tell us how you see yourself joining our team.
People who think we'd be lucky to have you
Helen Mayer founded Otter to help every family find their village.
Helen was raised by a stay-at-home mom and started Otter in 2020 while she was a stay-at-home parent to her toddler twins.
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“I feel so lucky to get to tackle a problem I'm passionate about with people I admire.”
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