Smartsheet

What is Smartsheet?

Smartsheet is an enterprise work management and collaboration software company. Its cloud platform started from a simple idea, give teams a familiar spreadsheet-like grid they can use to manage real work, and grew into a full platform with dashboards, forms, automated workflows, reporting, resource management, and content collaboration. Organizations use it to plan and track projects, assign and automate tasks, collect and organize data, and coordinate work across departments, often at large scale, which is why much of the Fortune 500 uses it. It competes with tools like Asana, monday.com, Airtable, and Microsoft Project. Smartsheet launched in 2005 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Mark Mader has been CEO since 2006, and the company was co-founded by Brent Frei. Smartsheet went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018 under the ticker SMAR, and in a major recent change it was taken private: Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners acquired it in a deal valued at about $8.4 billion ($56.50 per share), which completed on January 22, 2025, after which its stock stopped trading. It now operates as a privately held, private-equity-owned company with more than 3,300 employees across its Bellevue headquarters and international offices.

Mission & values

Empower anyone to drive meaningful change by giving teams and enterprises a flexible platform to plan, manage, and automate their work.

Qualifications

Smartsheet hires across the functions of a large enterprise SaaS company. On the technical side: software engineering (backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, data, and platform/infrastructure), site reliability and security engineering, data science and analytics, and product management and design. On the go-to-market and customer side: enterprise and commercial sales, sales and solutions engineering, customer success and onboarding, professional services and consulting, technical support, and partnerships. It also hires marketing, finance, legal, IT, and people functions. Application flow lives at smartsheet.com/careers. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and hires across the US and in international offices (locations have included places like the UK, Australia, Costa Rica, and others); some roles are remote or hybrid while others are tied to an office, and work authorization requirements depend on the country. Experience with enterprise SaaS, work management or productivity software, and (for go-to-market roles) selling or supporting large organizations are strong signals. Check each posting for location and remote eligibility.

Leadership

Hiring process

1. 1

   Apply at smartsheet.com careers

   Browse engineering, product, design, data, sales, customer success, professional services, and corporate roles across the US and international offices, and submit through the Smartsheet careers site.

2. 2

   Recruiter screen

   Confirms role fit, level, country and work authorization, remote/hybrid vs office expectations, and pay.

   About 7 days

3. 3

   Technical or role-specific interview

   Engineering/data: coding and system design. Product/design: portfolio and case. Sales/CS: a discovery or scenario exercise relevant to enterprise work management.

   About 10 days

4. 4

   Panel interviews

   Cross-functional interviews with the team and stakeholders on depth, collaboration, and fit.

   About 10 days

5. 5

   Offer

   Offer with base, bonus/commission where applicable, and equity, aligned to role and location.

   About 7 days

Funding

Awards & recognition

• Taken private by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for ~$8.4B · 2025

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• Enterprise work-management platform used across much of the Fortune 500 · 2026

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Company information

• Industry: Work Management / Collaboration SaaS
• Location: Bellevue, WA, USA (US + international offices; some remote/hybrid)
• Founded: 2005
• Employees: 3,300
• Website: www.smartsheet.com ↗
• LinkedIn: Company page ↗

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