Calliper Manifesto

Is there space to work for people that do not want to be remote?

Yes. We have an office space in London which can used if requested for co-working with your team. For deep-work we do recommend working from home.

What are the team like at Calliper?

We are an optimistic, collaborative and supportive team that believes having fun reaching our goals brings better outcomes for our customers. We are also competitive and have lots of internal initiatives to express this side of ourselves (steps taken per week, fantasy football, chess league, etc)

How is performance tracked and rewarded at Calliper?

Being the best you can be is a fundamental principle at Calliper and is rewarded accordingly. We work with you to set objectives each year and you will receive a bonus for achieving all your goals

What is our meeting culture?

We want to be multi-disciplinary and cross-functional and so to enjoy working at Calliper you should enjoy speaking with and collaborating with your colleagues. We recommend 10-25% of your working time should be spent in meetings but this is flexible and depends on your chosen working style. The most important rule is that if you're in a meeting you should be contributing.

How do we organise our time?

• 60-75% our day will go to your primary “job description” where you will be in a squad of 3-4 people working towards common objectives
• 10% our time will be dedicated to a cross-functional project with an employee from a different department. These projects will rotate every 3-6 months
• 10-25% our day will be meetings with team members or customers. This is flexible based on what works best for you. We encourage all team members (from engineers to product to design to sales and marketing) to participate in customer research and support. If you don’t speak to a customer at least once per month, something is going wrong.
• 5% Retros - We enjoy sharing and communicating with other team members so expect everyone to spend a small portion of their time capturing learnings from their work to share with the wider team (through documentation, voice notes or even videos - get creative!)

How do we approach work-life balance?

We do not track or set your hours working at Calliper. We are OKR focussed so we work together with you to set objectives and key results and expect you work as hard as is reasonable to achieve those. Ultimately, we believe that building a startup is a marathon and not a sprint, in such we want to work at strong but sustainable pace.