“Two winters ago I could not manage more than four hours a night. I stopped chasing sleep and started leaving a bit of room for it instead, and the rest of it turned up on its own eventually.”
WrenFernwick member since 2020
In a decade of restless nights, thin margins and always-on work, sleep and mental fitness have finally earned the attention they long deserved. The ground is shifting under all of us.
What began as a small breathing app has grown into a habit that millions of people keep. Along the way we built a community that ignores borders, languages and time zones.
Our ambition is to make Fernwick one of the most trusted names of the next twenty years. To get there we need sharper minds than the ones we have.
A Fully Distributed Company
Where you sit is not part of the job here. We hire from, and we live in, a lot of different places, and that keeps widening the range of experience and viewpoint across a team that is still growing quickly. All of it happens while staying close to one another and doing work that we are genuinely proud to sign.
Work That Matters
At Fernwick we are pulled along by the sense that the work lands quietly in millions of ordinary evenings.
“I kept going with it, and now I have been at this for nearly three years. It has taken the edge right off the sort of worry that used to eat whole evenings out of my week before I started.”
MarisolFernwick member since 2017
“Slowly but surely I found some workable ways of handling pressure, of reading the moods of my own head, and I have been able to slow right down since then, most days.”
ObioraFernwick member since 2013
“I never pictured myself as someone who sits still. The thought of being alone with my own head was daunting. Now the daily habit is one of the better parts of my whole week.”
CallumFernwick member since 2018
“My work sits in a loud open office and my head used to follow it home every night. Ten minutes before dinner turned out to be the whole trick, as far as I can tell.”
IdrisFernwick member since 2016
Our Belonging Commitment
At Fernwick we want people to bring the whole of themselves to work, and we work at keeping a place where everyone is welcomed, included and set up to do well. We are actively building a culture of respect and belonging, one where we look for what makes each of us unlike the others and hold open a safe space for all of us to make something of those differences. For the people who use what we make, we are committed to resources that meet varied individual needs and the real experience of our community. Everyone should feel welcome inside the product and the company.
Before You Apply
Job hunting can wind you up. Take thirty seconds to settle your nerves and clear your head with this breathing bubble.
Breathe out
Open Roles
Thanks for your interest in Fernwick, and for scrolling this far. We read hundreds of applications every week, so if you want to stand out, write us a cover letter worth reading. We like to see how you put things, what you would do with the role, and why you think it is yours.
Department
Fernwick for Teams
Team Marketing
Team Operations
Partnerships
Our Values
Quiet & Driven
We want to shift something real, and we are pulled by what Fernwick could still become. We also know the road is a long one.
01
Read the Room
We practise what we publish. We stay mindful and take other people in, and we treat empathy as a working skill.
02
Outcomes Over Output
We optimise for impact. We mark the wins together and take the lessons out of the misfires, and we never stop testing.
03
Plain Speaking
We say the awkward thing early and in person. Clear beats comfortable, and we assume good faith on every side.
04
Craft in the Details
Small finishes are the product. We would rather ship one thing that is well made than four that nearly work.
05
More Than Perks
We are set on backing our people in the rest of their lives too. That reaches well past the word ‘perks’.
Investment + Growth
Fernwick only grows if you do. Expect a strong salary, real equity, and a retirement match.
Health + Wellness
A proper benefits package for health, dental and vision, plus a monthly stipend towards whatever keeps you moving.
Time + Space
When we say take what you need, we have no hidden number in mind.
Parents + Kids
Your family counts as part of ours too. That is why every full-time colleague gets paid bonding leave when a child arrives.
Home + Office
Your desk at home should work as well as any office desk. We put money towards making it so.
Culture + Connection
A running calendar of gatherings, online and off, so you stay close to the people you work with.
Magic in the Making
At Fernwick we believe in magic, though not the supernatural sort. Standing out in a crowded market takes work that is inventive and hard to forget. We did not become a household name by playing it safe. We got here by rewriting the rules.
From inventing a whole new shape of bedtime story, Dusk Tales, to working with the runner Ines Okonkwo to recast rest as training, we think magic happens when the right people meet at the right moment with the right frame of mind.
“Fernwick’s working culture is genuinely entrepreneurial. It is a place where you are trusted with the resources, the discretion and the creative room, and then given space to get on with it. That suits me well.”
Nerys VanceHead of Dusk Tales