Home office budget
Alongside the laptop (and some genuinely good merch) you get €400 for the desk, chair and lamp situation, because comfort compounds over four years.
Made by people who ask too many questions
We exist so that product teams can talk to the right people this week instead of next quarter. We do not simply believe that speed changes what a team learns — we have watched it happen, over and over, in our own research calls. Fieldnote would not exist if we had not gone and asked.
Need to get in touch? Email hello@fieldnote.co
3 co-founders, 2 companies, 1 Fieldnote
We are a distributed team trying to change how often companies actually speak to the people they build for. We know the alternative well: our first company shipped quietly for eighteen months and met its audience about four days too late. Read the origin story.
It gets better from there — we raised a €19.4M Series B to help more teams put research back at the front of the work rather than the end of it.
SUMMERFIELD
Brightwater
Ventures ACCOMPLISH Halden Partners PORT & LOOM Meridian Fund
Ventures ACCOMPLISH Halden Partners PORT & LOOM Meridian Fund
Fieldnote by the numbers
$29M
dollars raised
96
teammates
21
countries
68K
studies launched
2.3M
participants recruited
Fieldnoters are alright
Quietly confident. Independent, but never precious about it. There is no single Fieldnote type, and after eight years of hiring we think that is most of the point.
"The people here are thoughtful in a way that is genuinely rare. Every review makes the work better, and nobody is doing it to look clever."
Wren A. (she/her)
Senior Product Designer
Lisbon
"No commute means I get an hour back at the start of every day, and I spend it with my daughter before anyone opens a laptop."
Dario B. (he/him)
Lead Software Engineer
Turin
"Fieldnote is a group of curious people working on genuinely hard problems and having a slightly suspicious amount of fun doing it."
Marguerite S. (she/her)
Director of Consumer Marketing
Ghent
Leadership team
The Fieldnote leadership team sets the strategic direction for the company, shaped heavily by customer research and a healthy amount of internal argument.
This month we asked our leadership, "what is a fandom you are part of?"
See what they had to say below:
Ines Vasquez
CEO & Co-founder
Lisbon, PT
Fan of: competitive bread baking
Tomas Bergqvist
COO & Co-founder
Malmö, SE
Fan of: 1990s rally racing
Rafael Duarte
CTO & Co-founder
Porto, PT
Fan of: obscure synthesisers
Nadia Rehman
SVP, Marketing & Growth
Manchester, UK
Fan of: courtroom dramas
Peter Halloran
VP, Revenue
Cork, IE
Fan of: sea kayaking
Yara Diallo
VP, People & Talent
Lyon, FR
Fan of: seventies soul reissues
Arjun Mehta
VP, Operations
Rotterdam, NL
Fan of: speedrun archives
Elin Sørensen
General Counsel
Aarhus, DK
Fan of: Nordic crime novels
Kenji Watanabe
VP, Engineering
Kraków, PL
Fan of: long-form science fiction
Marcus Feld
VP of Finance
Leipzig, DE
Fan of: model railways
Looking for the whole team? Fair warning: it is not the biggest company in the world.
Meet all the Fieldnoters.Team spotlight: engineering
Our CTO Rafael Duarte on how the engineering team built a way to keep business logic out of the corners of the codebase — and why it took three attempts to get right.
How do you begin to describe a company culture in a few words?
We are fully remote and always* have been. We care, we work hard, we are relentlessly customer-obsessed in a way we hope is not annoying, and we are curious to the point of being a little odd. Fine — quite odd.
Remote asks for autonomy, self-starting, trust running in both directions, and communication you have to be deliberate about. So those are the things we practise. We would rather you stayed yourself than absorbed a company personality.
*Technically there were eleven months in 2017 when four of us shared a borrowed room above a bike shop in Lisbon. Fully remote since 2018.
Pension contribution
We add €180 a month to your pension regardless of what you put in, so the boring compounding happens whether or not you ever think about it.
Equity, properly explained
One year cliff, four year vest. You get in on the sensible floor of a company that is growing without setting anyone's money on fire.
Health cover, fully paid
Medical, dental and optical covered at one hundred per cent, plus free membership with two telehealth services we use ourselves.
Time away that you take
Unlimited leave is a lovely idea that quietly discourages leave. Instead you accrue days, you carry them over, and you are paid for whatever you leave behind.
Fully, properly remote
We chose this before the world made everyone try it. If it suits you, you already know. If you are undecided, read our remote working notes.
Flexible hours
Work where you like, in whatever room works for you. Work when you like, as long as some of it overlaps with your team. We mix synchronous and asynchronous on purpose.
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