🌟 Product-Driven

Our mission is to make it easy for people to share their ideas and stories by automating the process of designing, creating, and formatting presentations.

We’re building Plus for a customer that we know well. Our founders, Chloe and Dan, met as teammates on their first project as management consultants, where they spent a lot of time creating presentations to influence business decisions.

As a team, we expect everyone to have a shared understanding of our mission and how their work impacts our customers. Every engineer participates in customer interactions and contributes to shaping product solutions. We believe that investing more deeply in product understanding enables our feature teams to operate with more ownership and autonomy, make better technical decisions, and deliver value faster.

We spend a lot of time talking to customers, and we try to understand their underlying problems rather than just taking their feedback at face value. Every decision we make is grounded in our product principles to keep it simple for the end user. It also allows us to rely on familiar concepts and work with existing collaboration tools and workflows.

🧠 EQ > IQ

We have an incredibly impressive team, but we demonstrate that with our work, not by talking about our resumes.

We’re proud to work with people who are talented, humble, and authentic. As an early stage company, we have significantly more options and constraints when making decisions. This means our challenges are inherently more multifaceted and ambiguous than those facing more mature businesses.

These problems raise the bar on the level of collaboration we need across our team and often require us to wear lots of hats (or at least try on new ones). For instance, in his first month at Plus, one of our software engineers, Zach, quickly ramped up on our code base and started making major contributions to our app. However, in addition to his engineering work, he also helped us iterate and improve on our recruiting process after going through it himself and synthesizing feedback from other members of the team.

People join Plus because they want to not only build a great product, but also build a great team, culture, and company from the ground up. We are looking for people who can put the team above themselves and who can admit to being wrong or not knowing an answer. We know that no one on our team is perfect, and we would rather work with imperfect people who are open to growth and learning. It’s important to us to build a team that works together to achieve exceptional things, which is why we look for great team players, not “10x engineers.”

🤝 Start-to-Finish Ownership

We can count on each other.

As a team, we have a bias for context over control – we develop a shared understanding of the most important problems, and then give team members the autonomy to develop and validate the solutions. We hold each other accountable for outcomes, not hours spent. No one is watching over your shoulder to make sure you’re getting work done. You have the autonomy to figure out a work schedule that makes sense for you.

In return, we expect our teammates to own their work and deliver what they promise. Engineers keep the bar high on quality, security, and end-to-end customer experience, not just executing the tasks they are assigned. People who thrive here are able to remove their own roadblocks without waiting to be told what to do.

As a company, we want to empower people to do their best work and give everyone the tools, support, and resources necessary to achieve their goals. We strive to create an environment that removes as many distractions as possible, and an important part of that philosophy is making sure our team can come to work, focus on what they do best, and not worry about non-work-related concerns.

To help reduce anxiety around questions like, “Am I getting paid enough?” or “How much will my family’s medical bills cost?”, we pay top of market compensation for cash and equity, and we pay 100% of premiums for best-in-class healthcare for all employees and dependents. In our offer process, we are transparent and share the benchmark data we use to create offers so that we can try to minimize bias and help candidates and employees feel good about working here.

Everyone on the team also has a $500 monthly outsourcing budget to find creative ways to offload tasks that are not a good use of their time, like manually testing our “Snapshot” system on different business apps or getting new icons drawn for our web app. Our primary goal is to find people who are great at what they do and create a work environment where they can focus on what they do best.