We’re so excited to announce that phData has again been recognized as a 2025 Best Places to Work by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. This marks our ninth consecutive year of receiving this special honor. Within the past year, we have won this award across three regions: the US, India, and LATAM.
This recognition holds significant meaning for us, reflecting our continuous growth since our establishment in 2014. It serves as a testament to the crucial role played by our exceptional team and the thriving culture we have at phData. From our commitment to remote-first flexibility to our core values that guide us and our investment in our employees’ professional development and well-being, they are the driving force behind our ongoing success.
What is the BPTW Award?
Now in its 27th year, this list recognizes businesses that provide an exceptional work environment, as determined by their personnel through a comprehensive survey.
Once a company applies for the award and meets the entry criteria, a survey is sent out on behalf of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal to employees. The survey is meant to gauge employee feedback on their company based on culture, communication, efforts, leadership, benefits, and more. After the survey results, BPTW determines honorees and later announces winners.
What Our Employees Love About phData
Since 2014, the phData team has emphasized the employee experience. As our team continues to expand globally, one constant remains: our commitment to putting employees first.
As we face new challenges and opportunities, we continue to adapt to ensure the best environment to cultivate a learning, innovation, and development community.
Our Values
What sets phData apart from the rest is the core values that navigate our decision-making, prioritization, and innovative practices. Our core values, Psychological Safety, Curiosity, Grit, and Community, are the wind behind our sails throughout every success and challenge.
Psychological Safety
Together, we create a climate where it’s safe to take risks and be vulnerable. This allows us to be creative, make mistakes, and speak up about ideas or ask questions without fear of embarrassment or punishment. Psychological safety leads to an environment that truly fosters learning, innovation, and teamwork.
Curiosity
We deeply desire to understand our technology, each other, and customers. We strive to learn technology at a fundamental level. We are passionate about better understanding each other and our customers so that we can deliver the technical and business outcomes they need.
Grit
Grit is a mixture of intense passion and intense perseverance. We take creative approaches to design solutions and are dedicated to following through until the problem is solved. Grit allows us to solve our customers’ most complex problems and deliver superior results.
Community
We are better as a whole than as individuals. We appreciate and combine our different expertise, perspectives, and ideas to develop better, more well-rounded solutions. We support, challenge, and encourage each other along the journey.
Remote-First Organization
Working remotely gives our employees the autonomy to work within their defined working hours from anywhere.
While they can work and visit our beautiful workspace in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, our team holds numerous team-building activities via Zoom, including weekly coffee chats, music trivia, holiday parties, lunch and learn presentations, and more. These virtual events ensure our team can maintain relationships and team-building no matter where our team is in the world.
Fast Growing
Gryphon Investors, a leading middle-market private equity firm, has made a majority growth investment in phData, further accelerating our momentum and ability to serve customers worldwide. This strategic partnership will support the continued expansion of our end-to-end data and AI services, strengthen our global delivery capabilities, and position us to scale even faster. Combined with growing opportunities from our partners and clients around the globe,
phData has experienced significant growth in recent years, including our expansion to India in 2017 and, most recently, to LATAM (Latin America) in 2023.
phData was recently awarded the 2025 Snowflake Americas Partner of the Year!
This is our fifth consecutive time earning Partner of the Year status with Snowflake, and we couldn’t be more proud of our team, clients, and partnership for making magic again!
This award is one of the highest attainable partner recognitions within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud partner ecosystem.
The Main Benefits of Working at a Fast-Growing Company
Exploring Multiple Facets of a Career or Job Position
In any role at phData, you have the flexibility and support to explore your passions. We encourage our employees to try new challenges and avenues to help shape their career experiences.
Opportunity to Grow With The Company
Working at a growing company can lead to promotions, new positions, and even the opportunity to change departments entirely within the company if desired.
Fast-Paced Environment
No two days are the same at phData. Technology moves fast, and we move faster to stay on top of projects and innovative solutions for our clients.
Hands-On Experience Early On in Your Career
Our entry-level employees don’t have to wait for years of experience before they are client-facing. While we invest in their training and development early on, we believe that the best learning and growth manifest in working hands-on with projects internally and externally.
Exciting and Rewarding Projects
At phData, we have a stream of new, exciting projects ready for talented individuals to ideate innovative solutions. Every project offers unique opportunities to build skills and challenge the status quo.
Learning Environment
With psychological safety at the core of our organization, nurturing your employees’ skills is paramount as they progress. From our e-learning platform certification bonuses, our employees are supported at every step of the learning journey.
What Sets phData Apart
- Remote-first culture (flexible work environment)
- Four paid weeks of PTO
- Competitive compensation
- Challenging and rewarding projects
- 401(k) matching
- Professional Development Allowance
Closing
Thank you to The Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal for this distinction. Reminders such as these serve as a source of pride for our team, reflecting on our remarkable achievements and progress throughout our ten years of operation. These moments reinforce our dedication and drive to continue pushing boundaries and achieving even greater milestones in the future.
Are you ready to make an impact in your career?
We are hiring! phData looks forward to welcoming talented individuals to join our team of data experts.
