18 East Coast companies to check out now

We know: Job searching can be tough. Whether you’ve been looking for months or are just starting to think about your next step, finding the company with the perfect culture and job opening for you—and in the right location—is no small feat.

That’s why we wanted to give you a little boost with 18 companies that are all hiring now, right in your stomping grounds. Take a peek inside their offices, browse job openings, and see if your perfect “next thing” just landed in your lap.

1. GSK

GSK dedicates itself to creating a healthier population the whole world over by researching and developing a broad range of innovative products in pharmaceutical, vaccine, and consumer healthcare arenas. The company boasts commercial operations in more than 150 countries, as well as 89 manufacturing sites and R&D centers in the UK, US, and Belgium.

2. Newsela

An education technology startup, Newsela is dedicated to transforming the way students access the world through words. The amazing team combines powerful technological know-how with real-world experience earned in classrooms, newsrooms, and the boardroom. Five days a week, Newsela publishes high-interest news articles at five levels of complexity for grades 2 through 12, using unique and proprietary processes.

3. PURE Insurance

PURE Insurance is a purpose-driven and member-obsessed organization focused on growth. PURE provides comprehensive property and casualty insurance exclusively in the high net worth market and serves over 88,000 members nationally. The company aims to make its membership smarter, safer, and more resilient so they can pursue their passions with greater confidence. Since inception in 2006, PURE has experienced tremendous growth and has expanded to 10 office locations with more than 800 employees nation-wide. Deeply committed to providing employees with a career that is part of a fulfilling life, PURE invests in developing its employees both professionally and personally, and recognizes and rewards success.

4. NEP

For over 30 years, NEP Group, Inc. has been the leading production partner supporting premier content producers across the broadcast and live events industries—and around the globe. NEP provides the technology and know-how to support the most prestigious sports, entertainment, music, and corporate events worldwide. The company's technical services include remote production, studio production, audio visual solutions, host broadcast services, premium playout, post-production, and innovative software-based media management solutions. NEP’s 3,000+ employees are driven by a passion for superior service and a focus on technical innovation. Together, they have supported productions in over 85 countries on all seven continents.
NEP is headquartered in the United States and has offices in 22 countries. Learn more at nepgroup.com.

5. Gartner

Gartner is known as the world's leading research and advisory company with a presence in 100+ offices. But what exactly does that mean? Gartner's teams conduct research, then design products and services based on those objective insights to help clients make the right decisions and be successful. The focus is C-suite senior executives and their teams across the enterprise.

6. GEICO

Standing for Government Employees Insurance Company, GEICO was originally founded in 1936 to provide quality insurance for government employees and military personnel. Today, GEICO has kept its tradition of exceptional service alive, but has expanded its coverage. GEICO serves over 14 million people across the U.S. and offers a diverse array of policies from auto to homeowners to identity theft insurance.

7. Ellevest

Ellevest exists to close the investing gap with an innovating digital investing and planning platform for women. This mission goes beyond just marketing to women—the investment advice tool was shaped around 200 hours of women’s interviews and 500 different economic scenarios. By fusing research into every decision, the startup is assembling a company for the long-term—with meticulous attention to detail in everything from the platform’s interface to its daily operations.

8. Knot Standard

Knot Standard is a custom-menswear company—allowing clients to meet in one-on-one appointments to create their own unique garments. Knot Standard makes fashion-forward custom clothing accessible to the masses—from suits, shirts, and pants to overcoats, rain jackets, and hoodie and jogger sets. Catering to the sophisticated man who is looking to attain a high-quality, fitted look, consumers can make their very own bespoke creations online or in one of Knot Standard’s eight global showrooms.

9. SmartBear

SmartBear is behind the software that powers over 20,000 of the world's most innovative organizations. More than six million people use its tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster.
SmartBear's high-impact tools are easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to use. The tools are backed by a team of people passionate about helping people create software that transforms the world.
Those tools are SmartBear tools. That team is SmartBear.

10. The Medici Group

The Medici Group is a strategy firm that helps companies innovate and teaches them how to continue innovating by explicitly leveraging the diversity of their team. The firm’s approach shows organizations how they can innovate faster, from ideation and evaluation to selection and execution, by activating the diverse experiences, skills, cultures and perspectives of their employees. The firm is passionate about rewriting the ways companies do business—enabling clients to grow new revenue streams, develop leaders, and increase their speed and agility.

11. Accenture Federal Services

Accenture Federal Services brings together innovation, new technologies, and commercial leading practices to help clients across defense, intel, public safety, health, and civilian organizations solve their toughest problems and make a difference. Its 9,000 dedicated colleagues and change makers play a key role in helping federal organizations evolve to be more impactful, responsive, efficient, and resilient. New isn’t on its way—Accenture Federal Services is applying it right now.
See Accenture Federal Services' career site for more information.

12. Consumer Reports

Every day, in every job, the team at CR makes a difference for consumers and society. Whether by testing products in its labs or cars on the track, exposing scams through fearless investigations, or advocating for policies that serve and protect consumers' interests, CR makes an impact on people's lives. A trusted independent voice the public can rely on, Consumer Reports continues its tradition of service using the tools of the 21st century—cutting-edge digital technology, sophisticated analytics, and an evidence-based approach to decision-making.

13. Feedvisor

Since 2011, Feedvisor has set out to give small online retailers the power of Big Data and machine learning to grow and make business-critical decisions. Its cloud-based algorithmic repricing and revenue intelligence solutions include everything from pricing strategies and product replenishment to managing inventory—which all come back to making sellers happy while helping them maintain a competitive edge.

14. mParticle

mParticle is the customer data platform for every screen. Sophisticated marketers at companies like Walmart, Starwood, NBC Universal, Spotify, and Airbnb use mParticle to integrate and orchestrate their entire growth stack, enabling them to win in key moments of the customer journey.

15. HealthcareSource

HealthcareSource is a leading provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry, serving more than 3,000 organizations across the United States. The company’s Quality Talent Software Suite helps healthcare organizations build a more patient-centered workforce by selecting, aligning, continuously developing, and retaining highly engaged people. The company’s cloud-based platform of software, content, services, and analytics assists with applicant tracking, reference checking, behavioral and skills-based competency assessments, compensation analysis, performance and learning management, e-learning courseware, education, and advisory services.

16. System High

System High was founded to provide high-end secrecy solutions for some of the nation’s most sensitive activities and has become a leading provider and integrator of global protection and security engineering services. System High’s reputation of succeeding where others have failed is a direct result of bringing together and delivering the most innovative, critical thinking professionals to solve the most complex security challenges across both government and commercial sectors.

17. Earnest Research

Earnest Research is a data innovation company driven to change the way professionals understand consumer and business behavior. Working with world-class data partners, the organization transforms raw data into a source for business and investment professionals to ask better questions so they can make better decisions. Earnest believes that in the right hands, data has the power to change the way people work.

18. Stryker's Joint Replacement Robotics Development

Get to know Stryker’s Joint Replacement Robotics Development businessStryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. They offer innovative products and services in Joint Replacement, Trauma & Extremities, Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Instruments, and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. Stryker achieves this through the dedication of its more than 33,000 employees globally. The company was founded in 1941, by orthopaedic surgeon Homer Stryker, as he started to find current products weren’t meeting patient needs and invented new products. Today innovation continues to be a top priority and new technologies such as robotics differentiate Stryker as an industry leader.