2 years with Nectar! 🤘🔥
My favorite highlights:
→ Our team’s growth from 23 employees to 90 employees. Product alone grew from 6 of us to 21 strong now 🙌🏼, and we’re a sleek, efficient, resilient team under Brian Cressall and Nate Tingey.
→ Established Nectar’s Design System and built our component library, significantly improving speed, consistency, and quality of design and implementation.
→ Completed a massive UI design refresh for the existing product (bless the devs still building it 🫡 ).
→ Launched Nominations, the largest and most impactful new feature we’ve built at Nectar yet.
→ Completely scrapped a project, because it was the right thing to do. Grateful to work on a team that’s hyper-focused on our ultimate goals, and is sincerely willing to let sunk costs be irrelevant.
→ Ideated, designed, and launched our new product Internal Communications in 8 weeks with a small, mighty team 🤯 I’m still amazed we managed it.
→ $40M Series B funding in April 2024 with PeakSpan Capital.
→ Saw our efforts, motivation, and passion pay off when Nectar was recognized as the 2nd Fastest Growing Company in Utah County, 1st fastest growing software company in Utah, 8th fastest growing software company in the U.S., and 87th fastest growing company in the U.S. (across all industries).
→ 300% increase in revenue in Q3 2023 vs Q3 2024 (Q3 was also 50% above our revenue Q2 2024).
→ Saw every department at Nectar grow in excellence. I’m in awe of the caliber of Engineering, CS, Marketing, Sales, and what they accomplish.
→ Relished the challenge and variety of asks in the beginning as Nectar’s sole designer, including working on print design (looking at you, 28’ tradebooth) and animations for the first time. That animation announcing Nectar’s new logo a year ago? That was my first animation, and I’m still proud of myself for figuring it out enough to make that 😂.
→ Spent way too much on Holiday gas station runs (RIP old office).
This is a long list, but for the record I cut it in half from what it was 😅.
I’m grateful Nate reached out on LinkedIn right at the perfect time when I was looking to switch things up, and that we’ve made a great team ever since. Getting to work closely with our little product design team—Nate, Mason, Tyler, and Maya—and many, many others keeps me growing and keeps me motivated on the daily.
Nectar’s mission and way of working resonated with me from the beginning. It’s rewarding to see our company continue to gain momentum and maturity, all while seeing how much room we still have to grow.
Very, very grateful to be part of the journey.
As we say, it’s still Day 1 at Nectar. 🚀