Careers at Wonderbly
About Wonderbly
Wonderbly is a unique, award winning start-up that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. Backed by some of the best VCs in town, we are building a global personal-publishing business that brings the power of meaningful personalisation into the hearts and homes of everyone in the world.
With over 4 million products sold in over 150 countries we are the world's leading personalised books company. We create uncompromisingly high-quality personalised books to inspire courage, curiosity and kindness in children all over the world. We truly believe that imaginatively personalised stories are one of the greatest ways to make a child feel loved, unique and capable of anything. To show them that any story they imagine could be their story.
We’ve spent the past six years obsessing about all aspects of personalisation in design and storytelling, optimising our rendering engine and scaling our Print on Demand network to four continents. We recently started an exciting shift from personalised books for children, to a global Personal Publishing leader. While we continue to publish the world's most innovative personalised books for kids, we started to think about the power of meaningful personalisation beyond the children market.
Recently we announced the launch of Wonderbly Studios: a strategic partnerships (B2B2C and joint ventures) platform offering access to Wonderbly’s world-leading personalisation expertise across design, tech and manufacturing. We could not ask for a better suited partner than the Wizarding World - the official Harry Potter digital hub and fan club. Powered by Wonderbly Studios' design, tech and operations,The Keys and Curios journal (a welcome gift for Wizarding World Gold members) is a real creative triumph.
Our Culture
Our culture, or vibes as we call it here at Wonderbly is built on three core values that are at the heart of the Lost My Name book which started it all. We have extended the idea that "with a little bit of courage, curiosity and kindness anything is possible (including finding your lost name) to all aspects of our work.
Be Courageous - building a new business, pushing all kinds of creative, operational and technical envelopes every day, going places no one has been before - these tasks are not for the fainthearted. We value taking (calculated) risks, rising to the constant challenges startup life present to us, making bold decisions. The people having the greatest success here are self-starters who thrive on autonomy and consciously work towards great leaps of personal growth. We like to help our employees realise they are even braver than they think.
Be Curious - we pride ourselves on being an organisation that is obsessed with learning. Our curiosity and childlike sense of wonder is one of the most amazing attributes we have as human beings – it’s what weds us to the world. Curiosity is the spark that helps us learn and grow. It also makes an obvious business case - it goes hand in hand with being inventive, ingenious, with learning new skills, with taking risks, with breaking new grounds.
Be Kind - at Wonderbly there's one rule above all: no assholes in the building. In order for people to be kind, they have to pay attention to what is happening around us. Kindness at Wonderbly manifests itself externally - how we treat and empathise with our customers, and internally - how we treat each other. We want to design a company culture that’s not just looking at how we can make the world better for ourselves, but how we can make it better for others as well.
Benefits, perks and stuff
- Each year you'll accrue a generous 28 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
- We support being active; with numerous running groups, gym lunches and yoga in the office. We have some sparkling new showers on site, secure bike parking facilities and are part of the Cycle To Work scheme
- Childcare vouchers, health insurance are also available
- Matched pension contribution
- Every full time employee is a partner with share options in the business
- You’ll get a sweet training budget to enable you to do your best work and develop as a professional, combined with weekly Lunch and Learns
- We have heaps of snacks, drinks, and comforts in our fully-stocked kitchen
- PLUS team lunches and breakfasts. Every Thursday, our Studio Manager orders some super delicious healthy food and we gorge ourselves - occasionally with a guest speaker to broaden our minds
- We love having dogs in the office [well behaved ones anyway]!
We are an equal opportunities employer
Our team are committed to providing equal opportunities for employment regardless of of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, disability, family structure, socio-economic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis (it's the law, but it's also just the right thing to do).
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