Created By Employees
For Employees
Cooptimize is a worker cooperative – structurally different than most companies.
Traditionally a company has three types of stakeholders – owners, managers, and workers. In a worker cooperative, everyone takes on all three of those personas. Shares don’t vote; people vote. Everyone makes decisions. Consensus and autonomy both have importance.
Transparent
Salaries
Everyone gets paid from the same salary schedule. If the formula is wrong, we all have a voice in changing it.
Profit
Sharing
When Cooptimize makes money, we all make money. All workers are part of the profit share plan.
Whole Family
Benefits
100% Platinum Health Care for the whole family, 2% Retirement, 5 Weeks PTO, and more!
4-Day Work
Weeks
We value focus, automation, and efficiency. Most importantly we value a sustainable work environment.
Democracy at
Work
In a cooperative, decisions are made under the principles of finding consensus and one person one vote.
Seriously.
Show Me The Money!
| 💼 Wage Escalators | 💵 Salary (per year) |
|---|---|
| 📌 Baseline | |
| $85,000 | |
| 📚 + Knowledge | |
| $0 | |
| $1,000 | |
| $2,000 | |
| $3,000 | |
| 🧠 + Microsoft BI Experience | |
| $0 | |
| $5,000 | |
| $12,500 | |
| $22,500 | |
| 🏷️ + Level | |
| $0 | |
| $15,000 | |
| $35,000 | |
| 🤝 + Worker Owners | |
| $0 | |
| $10,000 |
Not included above: Profit Share and Benefits.
Profit Share
Profit Share For All
All employees participate in the profit share plan from their first quarter.
85/15 Split
85% of profits are paid to workers. 15% are owned by the cooperative in the “Worker Development Fund”.
12 Quarters
Profits are paid out over 12 quarters to manage cash flow and encourage long-term focus.
Share Math
Updated quarterly, a new employee will reach parity with longer-tenured, same-Level colleagues after three years.
Benefits
- 4-Day, 32 Hour Work Weeks
- 5 Weeks + 2 Hours PTO
- 1 Week of Accrued PTO on your first day
- Accrued PTO paid if you leave Cooptimize
- 100% Platinum Plan Health Care Premiums for You, Your Spouse, and Your Dependents
- 100% Dental and Vision Premiums paid for whole family
- Short-Term Disability
- 2% SIMPLE IRA contribution on salary
- Home office (internet, mobile phone, electricity, physical space) reimbursement @ $200/month
- Home office equipment (computers, monitors, desks, Cooptimize clothing, etc) reimbursement @ $100/month up to the amount you paid. You keep the equipment.
- No post-employment restrictions, such as non-solicit or non-compete agreements.
Does Cooptimize Have Open Positions?
No, until we do.
Cooptimize is a small company. In 2023 we grew 150%! Which means we went from 2 to 5 employees.
Because of our size, our hiring is opportunistic. We have to have enough work lined up to support another employee. And then we find someone who has the skills for the work we have lined up.
We encourage you to apply. Even if there’s no position today, we try to make connections to have a shortlist for future positions. We prefer to not start a search from scratch.
What Skills Do We Look For?
Microsoft BI: Power BI Reports • Power BI Apps • Power BI Security • Paginated Reports (Report Builder) • Power Query • Dataflows • Microsoft Fabric
General BI: Data Modelling • Normalized ERP/CRM data transformations into Star Schema Facts and Dimensions • Application and database research • Visual design • General business process knowledge • Finance concepts • Process automation
Microsoft Data Stack Which Will Eventually All Be Microsoft Fabric:
Pipelines (Azure Data Factory / Data Factory) • Serverless SQL (Synapse / Lakehouse) • SQL Server • Dataflows • Warehouses • Notebooks
Intermediate SQL: Joins • Aggregations • Table/View creation • Stored Procedures • Basic indexing
Advanced SQL: Clean star schema builds • Incremental loads • Merge/upsert logic • Query performance tuning • Effective use of temp tables and indexing
Microsoft Business Solutions: Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain • Dynamics 365 on Dataverse • Dynamics 365 Business Central • Power Apps • Power Automate
Consulting: Listen • Ask Questions • Figure Shit Out • Collaborate • Teach • Kindness • Empathy • Directness
General Nerd: You don’t need to call IT • APIs • Troubleshooting • Automation • Other Programming Languages (Python, PowerShell) • Chatty G • Google • You have the skills to fix their printer and the wisdom not to do it
6 Things We Don’t Like
You Won’t Believe Number Five!
Timesheets
We are going to do our best to avoid time based billing. We deliver value, not hours.
Random Calendars
We block Focus Time™️ so client work comes as a priority, work levels aren’t overloaded, and collaboration happens by design.
Dress Codes
It’s weird to make rules about someone’s appearance.
Manual Processes
Our robot, Kat 🤖, keeps this place running smooth.
Secrets
We are all equal participants and make collective decisions. Complete transparency should be the default answer.
Pointless Meetings
We love collaboration and hate meetings that could have been an email.
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