We're excited you're considering working with us, and we want to do our best to explain why OutPoint is one of the best places to build a career in 2022 and beyond.
We started OutPoint to build a world-class, human-centric company that fundamentally improves the lives of our customers, teammates, and external stakeholders. We hire for principle fit (see below), as well as an impeccable code of conduct and high integrity.
We are building the type of company that attracts the best & brightest people from diverse backgrounds across various disciplines.
OutPoint is on a mission to grow the digital economy through marketing science. 🌊 📈
Growth isn't zero-sum. Using data to unlock dollars for profitable scaling, OutPoints empowers new digital businesses, new customers, new transactions, and new economic activity.
Curious to learn more? Read this post on how OutPoint works.
From a functional perspective, we use technology to help growth marketers diversify ad spend and discover the benefits of an optimized marketing mix.
Our thesis is that an intelligent modelling system will sit at the “top of the funnel” for allocating tens of billions in B2C ad spend by 2025, enabling de-risked growth, higher valuations and more efficient capital allocation.
OutPoint is building it. Here are three shifts we think are inevitable as a result of OutPoint’s success:
We're focused on solving real problems faced by our customers as they scale.
The following principles represent specific behaviours and skills that we value most at OutPoint. As an early-stage, fast-moving, company we recognize that the specifics of what we work on will change over time. But, every strong organization starts with a kernel of principles that shape its success.
We're focused on building a culture that enables our teammates and customers to exceed their potential. The following principles inform our hiring process and are referenced directly when we make decisions.
We are all owners
Actions speak louder than words. We do what we say and each embrace responsibility for both creativity and accountability. We reward increased commitment and creative freedom.
Growth for all
We are committed to the personal and professional growth of our teammates. We encourage taking risks and support each other every step of the way. We hire for slope (where they are going) over Y intercept (where they are today).
Customer obsessed
We maintain deep empathy for customer problems and the resulting solutions. If it doesn’t work for the customer, it doesn’t work for us. We only win when the customer wins.
In data we trust
We make decisions based on data and evidence, not gut opinions. We put in the research to form a point of view and seek out alternative data points to test our logic and assumptions.
Transparency and collaboration over control
We design our processes and information flow to prioritize honesty and transparency in all directions. We share context and communicate clearly. We believe we are most innovative when teammates make decisions using the best information available.
Humanize & simplify
We prefer to simplify and abstract away complexity. We operate in a complicated ecosystem, and we empathize there are humans involved at every step of the process.
Balance with urgency
We move with urgency, while respecting and encouraging personal balance. We are intentional in recognizing the trade-offs between long-term and short-term decisions.
We're committed to building a safe, supportive, and inclusive team at OutPoint. We are committed to a workplace free from discrimination of all kinds.
Getting to the best outcomes for our team and customers calls for diverse perspectives and experiences. Quite simply, we won't fulfill our mission if our team looks and thinks the same.
We promise to foster a workspace where everyone belongs from day one. We create a space where all voices are respected, and people of all backgrounds can do our best work.
We do our best to be responsive and communicate expectations throughout the hiring process—integrity matters.
Our interviewing philosophy:
1. Standardized for consistency and effectiveness: When it comes to hiring, we operate like scientists, keeping as many variables consistent in the process to evaluate candidates. Standardization lets us reduce the impact of bias and increase our predictive powers so that our interviews are more effective.
2. Technical and Principles-based process: We use technical and principles-based assessments with our candidates, including case studies and : questions. We use frameworks and rubrics to assess candidate knowledge, skills, and behaviors on merit rather than making biased or inaccurate assumptions about a candidate's abilities based on their resumes, warm intros, or our "gut feel" about their candidacy. After a technical and principles-based interview (remotely), we'll ask for a few references, such as past managers and colleagues, as we value team effectiveness and think it is essential to hear from teammates.
3. Exceptional candidate experience: We create a hiring experience that gives folks a realistic understanding of our company's role and makes a positive impression of OutPoint (whether or not they get the job).
4. Put people first: We understand that talent is the most valuable resource in the world: potential future team members assess us as much or more than we evaluate them. We recognize that we are in a fortunate position to work with exceptional people and we want to do right by them.
OutPoint was founded by Rob Palumbo (CEO) and Sean Billings (CTO) in early 2021 as part of Entrepreneur First. Our collective backgrounds include high-growth startups like Properly, Borrowell, and Spherical Labs and scaled organizations like Amazon, Arup, and PepsiCo.
We've benefited from serving as early team members and leaders at a handful of startups and have seen the ups and downs of scaling a business, product, and culture.
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