GoodNotes Comes to London! Here’s Why You Should Join Us
We’ve made a pretty big milestone.
After 9 years of being headquartered in Hong Kong, we’ve officially started a new office in London, UK 🇬🇧
Why, you ask? There are several things that made London an attractive landing pad for the second GoodNotes office:
Firstly, London is a major global tech hub. We’re excited to make our mark in the tech ecosystem here as we grow and reach a more diverse pool of talent as well. Secondly, London is English speaking, which is also our primary language for work. Lastly, the time zone overlap with Hong Kong makes it a more convenient location too.
Meet the GoodPeople in London
In the first cohort, 6 existing team members have relocated to London in order to pave the way for the next chapter for GoodNotes (and for an exciting new project).
Because of the global pandemic, our physical office space in London will have to wait. With social distancing restrictions in mind, we’ve arranged a GoodNotes house, where our team members can choose to live and work out of before they find their own accommodations. It’s a unique experience to live with your coworkers, and we’re making a good time of it.
“I really enjoy the productive atmosphere despite being locked in together in the house and not being able to go to the office. Spontaneous meetings and sync ups on the stairs included.” - Gabriel
We’re in the process of preparing our new office space, so new joiners will have the option to work from a beautiful co-working space when it’s safe enough to regularly see each other in person.
“It almost seems like we’re astronauts on an experimentation migration to Mars. We need to stay inside the safe house, so we work, play and live together… We just don’t need to grow our own crops.” - Sherry
Communicating between London and Hong Kong: How we make it work
We’ve been developing our remote-friendly working style for a long time, even before COVID forced us all to work from home.
One of our new Londoners had actually been working remotely from Germany for 4 years. We also have several team members working remotely in SouthEast Asia.
As a result, we have a strong culture of evidence-based decision-making and documentation — meaning that people can pick things up right where we left off, access the same information, and make meaningful contributions no matter the time zone.
Slack, Quip, Notion, and Webex are a few of the essentials in our remote-friendly toolbelt. What’s more, while most people are bilingual, the general language of our workplace is English.
That being said, we’re still sorting out the bumps in the road, and if you have some great ideas on how to work smoothly across different time zones, we’re all ears!
Exciting things are happening: Here’s why you should join us.
We’re building something new, and you’ll get to help shape the blueprints.
Our new office is working on a slightly different project than the core team in Hong Kong, and we have a soaring vision for it. We’re looking for people who have big questions and ideas, and aren’t afraid to test their hypotheses.
Work with the agility and creativity of a startup with the stability of a profitable company.
When it comes to this new project, you can think of it like a startup within a profitable tech company. We have the space to test bigger ideas without the risk that usually comes with failure. We’re experimenting and trying something different on top of a solid foundation, to build the GoodNotes brand and product in an exciting way.
“The small team moves quite fast. I love the productivity and efficiency.” - Eric
We have a dedicated community of engaged users (which makes user testing and feedback a dream!)
At GoodNotes we’re extremely thankful to have such a strong community of users, who are always willing to give us feedback, fill in our surveys, and help us continue to build with a user-centric design. To put this into perspective, our surveys can already generate thousands of responses within the first few hours — it’s a luxury, we know!
We offer a generous relocation package, so you don’t have to worry about logistics.
We’re hiring talent from all over the world — and if you’re not already based in the UK, we’ll make it easy for you to make the move. We’ll cover the cost of the flight and initial accommodations.
We make no compromises on health; we can compromise on office location.
Right now, particularly in light of COVID, our first priority is to keep our team members safe and healthy. If you’re not ready to make the move to London, remote work is definitely an option.
We’ve hit a big milestone and hope you’ll come along for the ride
If you’re a creative thinker and want to build something meaningful from the ground up, we’re confident you’d like it here with us.
