Superhuman
At Superhuman, we are driven to do good. We are passionate about productivity. We are serious about increasing wealth creation and positively impacting the economy.
Email is a huge point of leverage: there are 1 billion professionals in the world, and on average we spend 3 hours a day reading and writing email. This is more than almost any other aspect of our work.
That’s why we're rebuilding the email experience. We are 10x better than Gmail. 10x better than Outlook. So fast, delightful, and intelligent — you'll feel like you have superpowers.
At Superhuman, you'll shape the future of email, communication, and productivity.
Let’s show the world how it should be.
Why join us?
Team - Emuye, our Head of Engineer, led Apple TV through the first 3 iterations and built our Mobile Product from the ground up.
- Conrad, our CTO and Co-founder, was previously the first engineer at Rapportive and created PRY, a popular IRB alternative used by 25% of all Ruby developers. - Rahul, our CEO and Co-Founder, previously founded and sold Rapportive to LinkedIn and wrote the Product Market Fit guide - https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/ - Our broader executive team includes our Head of People (grew Flexport from 40 to 880) and Head of Marketing (scaled Peloton from $10M to $xBn)Massive global market, clear value proposition ⏰ Over a billion people in the world spend more than 3 hours a day on their inboxes. We save our users on average 1.3 hours every single day.
Build products that create Delight 💜 Hear directly from our customers at superhuman.com/love
Engineering at Superhuman
We have 5-person Desktop and Mobile Engineering Teams, a 3-person Backend Team, and an amazing QA Engineer. The engineering team is very close-knit and has the opportunity to work across our different stacks. with the following recurring meetings during a sprint: • Sprint planning (every two weeks) • Weekly planning (every week) • 1:1s with managers (every week)
We have a lot of performance work and challenges here. We're engineering things to work at 50ms, which requires getting down into systems level and understanding how things work under the hood.
We care a lot about user experience. One of our core values is to Create Delight: if it's better for users, its not over-engineered. As an example, our CTO reverse engineered the Google Chrome layout engine, to build our own framework so we could have a custom font which snapped to grid and had perfect vertical rhythm.
Working at Superhuman
We value: • Being Intentional • Creating Delight •Remarkable Quality
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Team Activities
Regular team activities including games nights, barbecue, museum, art gallery visits, and a weekly celebration of what the team has achieved!
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Generous Vacation
We have an unlimited annual vacation policy
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Free Food
We're all currently remote and we offer $15 a day for groceries or takeout while we're all sheltered in place. Once it's safe, some of us will return to the office and others will work from home. We'll continue to offer this benefit.
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Beautiful Office
We have a beautiful, quiet, open office space in the Financial District, in the inspiring Merchants Exchange Building. We're a short walk from Montgomery BART/Muni and the Ferry Building.
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Company Retreats
Every 6-8 months the entire company retreats for a few days to work on bigger projects as a team, do hackathons, and bond :)
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Workshops/Conferences
We encourage and pay for engineers to attend conferences. It's important not only to stay abreast of the latest technologies, but to also network with thought leaders in the field!
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Health Insurance
We provide full medical and dental insurance.
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Maternal/Paternal Leave
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401(k) Contribution
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Flexible Hours
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Work from Home
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Relocation
External Links
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/rapportive-founders-new-startup-superhuman-is-what-gmail-would-be-if-built-today/
- https://cheddar.com/videos/email-client-that-claims-it-can-cut-your-time-spent-emailing-in-half
- https://twitter.com/SuperhumanCo/timelines/911278863216340992
- https://medium.com/@TWiStartups/email-productivity-with-superhuman-f4d934fe8668
- https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/
- https://www.forbes.com/profile/conrad-irwin/#50718f6e2358
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-million-stealth-startup-wants-000000120.html
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90260656/beyond-gmail-the-new-race-to-reinvent-your-inbox
- https://www.wired.com/story/email-is-broken-can-anyone-fix-it/
- http://www.women2.com/2018/08/02/she-helped-invent-apple-tv-now-shes-reinventing-email-at-superhuman/
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