Nonprofit digital platform supporting people who learn and think differently
Understood.org runs a content-driven nonprofit platform on React, Next.js and Django with Contentful, but its stack reads like a product company: Pinecone, LangSmith and Gemini point to retrieval-based AI features, while Snowplow, Statsig, dbt and Snowflake show a mature experimentation and analytics practice. Accelerating, senior-weighted hiring across engineering, data, design and product centers on a conversational assistant and AI-assisted experiences.
Understood.org is a New York-based nonprofit founded in 2014 that provides resources for people with learning and thinking differences, including ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia and executive functioning challenges. Its content also covers special education topics such as IEPs and 504 plans for families and educators. The organization employs 51–200 people and hires in the United States and Canada. Its team spans engineering, data, design, marketing and product functions.
Understood.org builds on React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Django and PostgreSQL, with Contentful for content, Snowflake, dbt and Fivetran for data, and Pinecone, LangSmith and Gemini for AI work.
Yes. Job posts describe a conversational assistant, multimodal and AI-assisted experiences, an AI-assisted analytics semantic layer, and Claude AI adoption, supported by Pinecone and LangSmith in the stack.
Understood.org is headquartered in New York, New York, and hires in the United States and Canada. It is a nonprofit founded in 2014 with 51–200 employees.
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