Working here
A small team, and a short list of jobs.
We are the size of one table. Most months there is nothing open, and we would rather say so on the first line than let you read three paragraphs to find out. When there is something, it is on this page. When there is not, the form at the foot still gets read.
What it is like
Everyone here packs boxes.
There is no floor of the building that belongs to somebody else. The person who writes the product page also tapes it shut, and answers the email when it arrives creased. That is not a charming detail, it is the job: small company, wide edges, work that does not stay in its lane.
The days are quiet. We read every note people tell us they have rolled up inside a pen — some are funny, some undo us for the rest of the afternoon — and that tends to set the tone of the place. We write plainly, we do not run countdowns, and we say no to things more often than a growing brand is supposed to.
What we cannot offer: a ladder, a department to hide in, a salary that competes with a technology company, or the certainty that this will all still be here in ten years. What we can: your name on the work, a decision made the same week you raise it, and nobody between you and the person who buys the thing.
If that reads as a warning, it is meant kindly. Some people find it the best job they have had. Others last a fortnight.
Open roles
What we are hiring for.
One line per role, with the contract and the place written where you can see them before you invest an afternoon. If this table is empty, we are not hiring, and the speculative form below is the honest route in.
| Role | Location | Contract |
|---|---|---|
| [Role] | [Location] | [Contract] |
| [Role] | [Location] | [Contract] |
| [Role] | [Location] | [Contract] |
| Speculative application | Anywhere we can legally employ | Open all year |
Pay is written into every advert, not discovered at the third conversation. Roles stay open until they are filled, so there is no closing date to race.
How we hire
The process, written down before you start it.
Hiring badly costs a small team more than it costs a large one, so we take it slowly and we tell you where you are at every point. What follows is the whole process, what we can offer, who we hire, and what happens to what you send us.
Nothing here is a trick. If a stage does not work for you, say so and we will change it rather than quietly mark you down.
Last updated
The short version
- Team
- Small enough to sit round one table
- Where we work
- [City], and remote across [Country]
- How to apply
- The form at the foot of this page
- First reply
- Within 5 working days, whatever the answer
- Stages
- Two conversations, and at most one exercise
- Exercises
- Paid, at your normal rate, and always short
- Pay
- Written in the advert
- Adjustments
- Ask for what you need and we make it
- Applications kept for
- 6 months, then deleted
- Contact
- [Email]
1How we hire
Four steps. You can stop at any of them, and so can we, and either way you will be told why.
- You write. The form below, or an ordinary email to [Email]. A CV is welcome but not required; what you would want to do here matters more.
- We reply. Within five working days. If the answer is no, it arrives as a no, not as silence.
- Two conversations. The first is about the work and the money. The second is with whoever you would sit beside, and is mostly you asking.
- One short exercise, if any. Paid at your normal rate, a few hours at most, and never work we intend to use.
We do not run timed tests, personality questionnaires, or panels of people you will never meet again.
2What we offer, and what we cannot
The pay for a role is written in its advert, and the figure you are offered is the figure in the advert. We do not ask what you earn now, and we do not pay two people differently for the same work because one of them negotiated harder.
Hours are ordinary hours. Nobody here is expected to answer anything in the evening, and the founder switching his laptop back on at ten is his own bad habit, not a standard.
What we cannot offer, plainly: a large salary, a title that means anything outside this company, a defined career ladder, or a guarantee about the size of the business in five years. If any of those matter to you now, they will matter more in a year.
3Who we hire
We hire on what you can do and how you treat people. Nothing else is any of our business — not your age, background, gender, race, religion, disability, sexuality, accent, or whether anyone in your family has ever done this kind of work before.
We know the shape of a team this small: a handful of people, mostly friends of friends, is exactly how a company ends up narrow without meaning to. So we write adverts in plain words, we say the salary out loud, and we do not treat a degree as a filter.
We are not going to claim a diversity record; a team this size does not have one. What we can promise is that the process is the same for everyone who comes through it, and that being different from us has never been a reason for a no.
4Making the process work for you
Tell us what you need and you will get it. No diagnosis, no letter, no explaining yourself twice.
- The questions in advance, in writing.
- A written exchange instead of a call, or a call instead of writing.
- More time, a different time of day, or a break in the middle.
- Camera off, captions on, or a room you can leave.
Ask at any point — in the form, in a reply, or an hour before the conversation. Nothing you ask for here is recorded against your application, and it does not travel with you if you are hired.
If part of this site is getting in the way of applying, that is a fault at our end: the accessibility page says how we handle it and how to tell us.
5What happens to your application
What you send arrives as an email in our own inbox. It is read by the people hiring and by nobody else. We do not run it through a screening tool, and no software rejects anyone here.
We keep an application for six months in case something opens up, then delete it. Ask us to delete it sooner and we will, the same week, without asking why. Ask what we hold and we will send it.
Anything else about how we handle personal data is in the privacy policy.
Questions before you apply
Write to [Email]. Ask about the pay, the hours, the person you would sit next to, or anything the advert has dodged. Asking has never counted against anyone here.
If it helps you decide: the story behind the pen, and the page where we admit the paper does not recycle. That second one tells you more about how we work than this page can.
Speculative applications
No vacancy. Write anyway.
Most of the people here arrived this way. Tell us what you are good at and what you would want to do with it — a paragraph is plenty, and we would rather read that than a CV rewritten for a job that does not exist yet.
Everything is read by a person. You will hear back within five working days, whatever the answer is.
One last thing
Read the page we are least proud of.
Before you write, read the materials page — the part where we explain that the paper cannot be recycled and that we have not found a way round it. How a company writes about its worst fact tells you more than a careers page ever will.
Then, if you still want to: the form is above, and [Email] works just as well.