There are 500 to 800 women working in tech at the senior IC level and above across the Phoenix metro. I’ve spent months on the data. That’s the range.
Most of them don’t know each other.
They’re remote. They came from the Bay or New York or Austin and landed in Scottsdale or Chandler or Gilbert. Or they’ve been here for years, heads down building, and just never found their people. They work for companies headquartered somewhere else. They go to conferences in other cities. They’re in national Slack groups full of strangers.
But the woman ten miles away doing the same job at a different company? They’ve never met.
That’s what Alta exists to fix.
The Room
Alta is a curated community for women in tech across the Phoenix and Scottsdale corridor. Every member interviews with a founder before joining. That isn’t gatekeeping for its own sake. It’s how you build a room where trust is the default.
When everyone was chosen intentionally, you skip the part where you’re sizing people up. You walk in and everyone there is someone worth knowing.
The room is capped. We launch with 50 founding members and grow to 200 over time. It will never be a list anyone can sign up for. The size is the point. You can know 50 people. You can’t know 5,000.
What the room gives you is a peer group outside your own org. Women going through what you’re going through, at a different company. The person you text about an offer. The person you’re honest with about how work is actually going. The one who tells you the truth about the company you’re interviewing at because she worked there two years ago.
Everyone at this level needs that. Almost nobody has it locally.
The Support System
Kaity and I both come from people and talent. Between us we’ve spent close to two decades inside venture-backed tech companies building teams, advising on comp, helping people navigate transitions. That background is built into the membership.
Every member gets at least one career strategy session per quarter with a founder. Comp negotiation, offer evaluation, transition planning, interview prep. If you’re thinking about leaving big tech for a startup, or you’re over the startup grind and want to understand what a move to a larger company looks like, we’ve helped people through that exact decision dozens of times.
The bigger thing is the connecting. If you need something we can’t give you, we know who in the room can. A member who just went through what you’re facing. A member who works in your space and can give you the real story. A member who’s hiring and you should talk to before the role is posted.
The structured version of support is the strategy session. The unstructured version is everything else. The DM in Slack asking if anyone has used a specific vendor. The group thread about how to handle a reorg. The text from a member you met three weeks ago who heard about a role and thought of you.
That’s what a support system looks like when the people in it were chosen carefully.
The Visibility
This is the piece most communities leave on the table.
When you join Alta, you join a network of loud supporters.
You post about a promotion on LinkedIn. Within an hour, 20 Alta members have liked, commented, and shared. Your post reaches five times the audience it would have on its own. Next week someone else posts and you do the same for her.
You launch something at work. Alta members amplify it. You speak at a conference. You publish something. The room shows up, publicly, every time.
Alta also spotlights members across our own channels. Your wins get a megaphone. Your name gets in front of the other women leading tech in this market.
Over time, being a founding member of Alta becomes a signal. It says you were identified as a leader in this market and chosen through an interview process. It’s shorthand for: she’s in the room.
You can’t get that from a certification. You can’t buy it.
What this isn’t
Alta isn’t a networking group. I’ve been to those. You stand in a hotel ballroom with a name tag, talk to three people, and leave. Nobody texts you the next day.
Alta isn’t a national Slack community. I’m in those groups. They’re fine. But nobody in them lives near me, and I can’t meet them for coffee on a Wednesday.
Alta is the room that should have existed already. Fifty women, then a hundred, then two hundred. All in tech. All in the valley. All vetted.
The events are designed around how women actually live. Morning coffee for people with kids in daycare who can’t make a 6pm happy hour. Evening events for people who want a glass of wine and an actual conversation. Not one-size-fits-all. Not stuffy.
We launch June 2026. Founding rate is $59 per month, locked forever. Most members expense it through their company’s L&D or wellness budget. At $590 a year it’s well within range, and we’ll send you the language to use with your manager.
The women leading Arizona tech should actually know each other. That’s the whole premise.
Ready to be in the room?
Apply at join-alta.com