For those of you who don’t already know, Santa Barbara Women in STEM in partnership with CrossnoKaye is hosting a Speed Networking event on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 6:00pm PST at CrossnoKaye in the Granada Building.
We will have food, drinks, and - for the first time - a headshot photobooth to refresh your LinkedIn profile (if, like us, it's been a few years...)!
After hearing from CrossnoKaye, we'll start our Speed Networking session - a fun, low-stress facilitated networking activity where you can meet others, share experiences, and learn effective networking skills! These skills will help you make a great impression, whether you're looking for work, hiring, or just like connecting with others.
Speed Networking is SB Women in STEM's most popular kind of event, so we will cap RSVPs when we reach our limit.
This past week, we connected with Katie Castillo and Carey Caulfield, both from CrossnoKaye, an actively growing tech start-up here in Santa Barbara, CA. They shared what they love about working at CrossnoKaye, what they’re looking for in applicants, and what makes CrossnoKaye unique. We even got to learn some fun facts about these STEM gals! Check out their interviews below, and be sure to attend on June 22!
Q: What do you love about CrossnoKaye?
Katie: I love the people! Everyone who works here is not only someone I enjoy working with on a day-to-day basis, but I want to hang out with after work.
Katie Castillo, CrossnoKaye
Carey Caulfield, CrossnoKaye
Carey: Supportive leadership, Flexible work schedule, great teammates, a place right here in Santa Barbara where I can have a huge impact.
Q: What are key things (skills, experience, interests) that you look for in applicants?
Katie: We love to see driven and innovative applicants with wide variety of both tangible and intangible skills who are looking to make a difference and create meaningful impacts in the world. We are a close-knit team who empower and inspire each other everyday, and we have a lot of fun along the way. Every new team member brings a refreshing perspective and energy and we’re excited to keep expanding and diversifying our CrossnoKaye family. Joining this company is a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Q: Are you able to tell us about CrossnoKaye's sense of work culture, community, and collaboration?
Carey: We have diversity. 25% women and growing. My favorite is our CK Women in Tech group. A place for women to support each other. We truly believe the saying "empowered women, empower women.”
CrossnoKaye celebrating their first customer going “live”.
Q: What is unique about CrossnoKaye?
Carey: CK is unique because we are a small company of 45 people, but we are solving a BIG problem that many people don't even know about yet affects them daily. We are a part of keeping America's food supply fresh, safe and healthy before it hits the grocery stores. That takes a lot of power to keep everything refrigerated and frozen! But because of smart technologies like ML, AI, we are able to save food storage warehouses millions of dollars on their monthly energy bill, not to mention, reduce pollution and greenhouse gases. Another unique thing is that our team, including our development team, is all located in the US.
Q: What’s your go-to work snack?
Katie: Snacking is a true weakness of mine and the endless amount of snacks available is not helping my lack of self-control. I think I’ve had every snack available in the kitchen, but you will most commonly see me eating some popcorn, pita chips, and almonds, but always ending the day with a little dark chocolate (because it’s good for my health).
Carey: Cheetos (guilty pleasure!)
Q: What was the last song or Podcast you listened to?
Katie: Fleetwood Mac-Dreams
Carey: My First Million! Love podcasts!
Q: Favorite hobby/activity to do outside of work?
Carey: Pickleball!!! (plus we have a Pickleball Club at CK!)
Q: Is there anything else you’re thinking about or would like to share?
Katie: Feel free to reach out! CrossnoKaye loves Santa Barbara and investing in the community. If you want to learn more about us, see what positions are coming down the pipeline, or apply for a position you see available. I am always willing to chat and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
CrossnoKaye is an actively growing tech start-up here in Santa Barbara, CA with a mission to make a measurable impact on climate change. We are a B2B SaaS company building a cloud-connected operating system that will revolutionize the heavy industrial sector and bring them into the digital age.