SmartNews is a machine-learning powered news aggregation platform that employs about 200 people worldwide. The organization has experienced modest net growth, adding slightly more employees than it lost while maintaining a lean overall structure. With roughly two dozen recent hires, the company continues to invest in product development and market expansion while keeping overall attrition in check.
Engineering is SmartNews’ largest function with 79 employees, accounting for just over 40 % of total headcount and underscoring the firm’s technology-driven approach. Marketing & Product follows at 32 employees, while Business Management, Sales & Support, and Finance & Administration collectively represent another quarter of the workforce. Smaller teams in Human Resources, IT, Operations, and Publishing round out the staff, reflecting a balanced mix of technical, commercial, and operational roles.
SmartNews maintains a distributed workforce anchored by its Tokyo headquarters, which houses roughly one-third of all employees. Around 18 % of staff work from the San Francisco office, and a further 6 % are based in New York. Smaller clusters operate in Shanghai, Singapore, Seattle, and several Silicon Valley cities, while a significant group of employees work remotely or from other locations around the world.