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We’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place, and strive to live by the Automattic Creed.
We’re a distributed company with 1500 Automatticians in countries around the globe, speaking 120 languages, our mission is to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source.
In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where in the world they live.
Speaking of which, where in the world would you like to work? In a time when companies are demanding employees return to the office or lose their jobs, we’ve been a remote-first company since our founding in 2005. Meaning we don’t force Automatticians to work in the same building and smell each other’s sandwiches at lunchtime, and we don’t tell them where or when to work. That’s the virtue of our asynchronous, fully distributed ecosystem.
We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. And we’ve proven you can build an open-source-driven business—earning half a billion $US in annual revenue!—while providing top shelf, future-friendly services that help our customers build their own businesses, tell their own stories, and manage their work and family lives.
If you’re independent, creative, skilled, smart, and looking to do the most meaningful work of your career, on your own turf and your own terms, and with a high-impact footprint improving the lives of millions of people worldwide, you’ll love working here . . . and we’d love to hear from you.
Automattic is Disability Confident Committed (UK) and has been a Most Loved Company since 2022.
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As global politics fracture, Automattic’s mission to democratize communication and commerce grows more important than ever. That’s why our WordPress platform, already powering over 40% of the internet, continues to grow, and why we show up for work each day happy to be part of the solution. More than 1 billion people use our products every month! We’re also huge believers in the power of Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.
We’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion; our common goal is to democratize publishing and commerce so anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, race, politics, language, or where they live in the world. Making the web better for all is the drive uniting all Automatticians. Along with our shared belief in Open Source, and our passionate adherence to the Automattic Creed, as members of a distributed company, we have the freedom to work from absolutely anywhere. This empowers us to bring our full selves to work.
As you’d expect of the leader behind the web’s most popular publishing platform, CEO Matt Mullenweg blogs frequently on his WordPress website at https://ma.tt/, where he shares his experiences and evangelizes open source software, distributed work, and the open web. As a CEO, he encourages experimentation; he’d rather see employees try something even if it fails than be afraid to try new things. A frequent guest on tech shows and podcasts, where he speaks casually and openly about life at Automattic, Matt also hosts the Distributed podcast (“The future of work is here”) at https://distributed.blog/.
Our ERGs (Queeromattic, Neurodiversomattic, Cocomattic, and so on) give voice to groups that are traditionally underrepresented and thus silenced. Further, per our CEO, “a key philosophy of Automattic is that good ideas can come from anywhere, and often do. Everyone in the company can influence any other part of the company; in fact if you believe in something, you are expected to.” Communication is our oxygen—we facilitate regular horizontal and vertical feedback and encourage folks to share their views with the whole company via monthly Town Halls, Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions, and an anonymous HR AMA.
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 95 countries. We track about 70 percent of our projects on P2-themed WordPress.com blogs, 25 percent in private chat rooms, and the rest on Slack. Because of the geographic variance, the company is active 24/7 – but individuals work whenever they choose. We care about the work our folks produce, not just the hours they put in.
From leadership development to improving your writing skills, we have a comprehensive list of programs and resources available to everyone, and we’re also happy to pay for any hardware, software, books, or conferences that promote continued learning.
Career Coaching sessions help you set and achieve professional goals are available for all Automatticians. This benefit resets each calendar year.
Paid three-month sabbatical every five years.
We offer home office setup and co-working allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your co-working allowance for the requisite latte!
Parental leave, anniversary awards, open vacation policy, more.
In a world of tech companies fighting for growth at any cost, imagine one that gives away its most successful product for free—and has been doing it for 20 years.
Whereas an increasing number of tech firms spend their energy locking customers into closed, ever-worsening platforms designed to extract value at any cost (including the customer’s right to privacy), picture yourself working at a company that prioritizes and protects our customers’ freedom to use all the tools of the open web. Including those we don’t make ourselves.
With a founding product so successful, schoolchildren know it by name. A product so ubiquitous, it powers over 40% of all websites. And that’s just one of the things we make.
