This isn’t your typical work-from-home job. Learn more about our culture, our creed, and life as an Automattician.
“One of the best things about working at Automattic is the chance to rotate across different teams. It keeps things fresh, and we bring our insights to different products.”
This isn’t your typical work-from-home job. Everyone works from the location they choose. We’re spread out all over the world in 80 countries. In addition to Linear, we track our projects on P2-themed WordPress.com blogs, in private chat rooms, and on Slack. Because of our geographic variance, we’re active 24/7.
We care about the work you produce, not just the hours you put in.
Coming on board
When you make it past the interview stage we’ll do a project together on contract, typically lasting between two to six weeks depending on how much time you can spend, to see how we work together (learn more about our global hiring guidelines). When you join full-time, you’ll do customer support for WordPress.com for your first two weeks and spend a week in support annually, for evermore, regardless of your position.
We believe an early and ongoing connection with the people who use our products is irreplaceable. (If you’re applying for an engineering position, you can learn more about the process you can expect.)
The Jetpack design team recently met up in Edinburgh
Meeting up IRL
Distributed we may be, but we also value getting together in person. Since the pandemic, we’ve focused on smaller groups, division meetups, and so on, that accomplish bonding and coworking on a manageable scale. In addition to our larger meetups, individual teams meet for five to seven days to brainstorm team-level strategy and bond in locales ranging from Boulder to Buenos Aires, Las Vegas to Lisbon, Montréal to Mexico City, and Vienna to Vietnam. If you join our merry band, expect to travel three to four weeks per year.
Awesome places we’ve met include San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; Oracle, Arizona; Breckenridge, Colorado; Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec; Seaside, Florida; Budapest, Hungary; San Diego, California; Santa Cruz, California; Park City, Utah; Whistler, Canada; Orlando, Florida; London, England; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and many more.
As a distributed company, we also know how to connect with each other from afar, and consider day-to-day social communication at least as important as breaking bread in person.
“Despite being a fully distributed company, I believe it’s still important to meet face-to-face — just not every day, in the same office. ”
The way we were: Automatticians at the 2019 Grand Meetup in Orlando.
What do we look for?
Automatticians are curious, driven, compassionate, tenacious, autonomous, friendly, independent, collaborative, communicative, supportive, self-motivated, and amazing with GIFs. We strive to live up to the Automattic Creed and we want to work with people who will do the same. AI literacy and competency are also expected, with expectations varying by role. Are you interested in making the web and the world a better place? Apply today.
Getting to know us
Would you like to know more about what it’s like to be part of Automattic? Check out Distributed, our podcast and blog of interviews and resources for remote work, or this Business Insider interview with Matt on how our company runs without offices or email.
Still on the fence? Karen says you should really just apply. (And, after you apply, learn what you can do next to learn more about this company and help yourself become an even better candidate.)
“I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague,” says Yida Yin, Growth Marketer for WooCommerce.
Our development process: data-informed, user-driven
For every feature we launch, we gather metrics about its usage, interaction, and growth in addition to listening to the masses of feedback we get on our blog and through support channels. This helps us inform decisions about new features and enhancements. It’s not uncommon to launch a feature and then iterate immediately.
We have a one-button deploy system for WordPress.com, and we push code to the site 60–80 times a day. WordPress.com is synced with the WordPress.org trunk pretty much every weekday. We’re strong believers in Open Source, and we try to open-source everything we can.
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