I am a Talent Acquisition Manager for Snowplow Analytics.

Snowplow is a behavioral data platform, built to empower data teams to capture and operationalize behavioral data at scale. Released in 2012, Snowplow was initially launched as an open-source project to free data professionals from the limitations of traditional analytics solutions which act as ‘black-boxes’ offering little transparency or control over your data. The Snowplow pipeline runs in your cloud account (AWS and/or GCP), giving you complete ownership of your data. Snowplow frees you to ask and answer any questions relevant to your business and use case, using your preferred tools and technologies.

How big is it?

• ‍As Snowplow scaled into the US, I am the first member of the People team to sit in the US. It is such an exciting time to be part of the organization as we build our team in the US!
• Head of Talent: 1
• Talent Acquisition Managers: 5 (1 US, 4 UK)
• People Team: 4

‍Where are your teammates located?‍

The majority of our team is in the UK. We will be bringing a People Manager to the US soon!

‍What does your team do? What are you responsible for?‍

The Talent team supports our hiring managers on finding the right talent for roles globally.

The People Team focuses on employee engagement, employment law and support employees through the entire employment lifecycle with Snowplow.

Building the remote workstyle into the culture is imperative. If a company doesn’t highlight the benefits of remote work, it can lead to employees feeling disengaged or lead to remote loneliness.

Having multiple ways for the team to stay engaged with each other. Invest in instant messaging platforms such as Slack, Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

Have ‘non-work’ meetings where the team comes together to chat as if they were all in the office together.

Understanding that we are in a ‘new normal’ for the working culture. Employers need to demonstrate flexibility for employees in their work days.

• Happy hours
• In-person retreats
• Virtual off-sites

We all participate in weekly trivia on Fridays. We build this into our ‘Afternoon Tea’ non-work call.

Two truths and a lie is a popular one with our team!

We use multiple channels on Slack that team members can join based on their interests such as fitness, pets, LGBTQ+/allies and social chatting channel.