In our mission to automate data analysis, we're doing something that's never been done before. Every day we find ourselves in uncharted waters.

What's more, this innovation lies at the intersection of computer science, data science, and product development. Our success lies in being able to marry all three into something incredibly simple.

In order to solve this problem, we're dealing with difficult to grasp, abstract concepts. Many of these concepts are unique to DataGPT, built by us from first principles.

Remote is great. Done right, it makes building a happy, productive team even easier. At DataGPT we've mastered remote work, and we're all really happy doing it.

Here are some of the many benefits we experience being remote:

• No commute – reclaim hours per day
• No distractions – easy to do deep work
• Easy to take breaks – we'll go on walks or nap during the day
• Flexible schedule – work when you are most productive. If that's early morning, late at night, you do you!
• International, diverse team – we're hiring people from cultures across the world
• Automatic paper trail – good use of remote tools means it's easy to find old conversations and decisions.
• Perfect setup – customize your work setup however you want.

And fully remote doesn't mean we don't see each other. We'll regularly meet for drinks and team activities and have fun together. And while remote, we still have fun. We all meet first thing in the morning for a scrum, where we share our "grateful thought" and spend some time teasing one another and laughing.

We only hire people who are intellectually rigorous. People who care deeply about finding the truth. People who back up their arguments with data and experiments. People who are intellectually rigorous spend more time asking questions than offering opinions and are excited to be told they are wrong because it means they have learned something new.

We also only hire people who are effective communicators. To build on others' ideas constructively, you have to be able to clearly articulate the flaws in them. This means being able to speak simply and concisely about difficult abstract ideas.

Finally, we hire people who are kind. Having a lot of passionate people with strong ideas occasionally means things can get heated. But it works because we trust each other, we have fun together and we never take things too seriously. No matter how involved our arguments get, we'll be laughing together the next second.

The combination of these three things – intellectual rigor, articulate communication, and kindness, means that we have wonderful arguments and tear through difficult problems.

Talking about and solving difficult problems is great, but in isolation is meaningless. We must first make sure we are solving the right problem, and that our solution is the right solution.

There is only one way to do this, which is to talk to customers. Everyone working on the product can attend customer meetings and hear their direct feedback. This provides foundational context for solving difficult problems.

We do this on a weekly basis. We'll deliver reports to customers and get their feedback and interrogate them about how we can make things better. We want to understand their thinking more deeply than they do, so we can over-deliver.

This means we have a bias for shipping. We need to have meaningful improvements to show our customers every week, and so we merge a lot of PRs.

On a daily basis we are asking for a lot of feedback. Whether that's in PRs, proposals, or just socialize ideas while brainstorming – we're constantly trying to get help improving our craft.

Because we love what we do, we work hard. We don't work hard because we have to, but because we get to. We're so excited by the problems we get to solve that we think about them as we fall asleep and first thing when we wake up.

There are only a few of us at DataGPT, but together we get to achieve an outsized amount. This means we get work directly on root problems and architect solutions together. There is a lot that needs to be done and we're each willing to roll up our sleeves and do it.

This means that we embrace the small stuff. We don't mind manually creating reports, hiring, bug fixing, putting out fires, writing tests, talking to customers, writing documentation. We do things that don't scale because it gets us closer to our goals. We'll put extra effort into the mundane to make things a little bit easier for the next person to touch the problem.

There is no task too small. If there is something that needs to be done we jump on it, without hesitation.

There seems to be some myth in modern professional life that humans can work relentlessly, every day without ever stopping.

At DataGPT, we love resting. We love sleep. We love vacation. We take breaks during the day to take a walk in the sun or take a nap. We take personal days when we feel sick or tired. We take vacation regularly.

We realize that resting like this is the foundation for high-performing mental work. Athletes prioritize their sleep as one of the building blocks of their training because without it all of their training is going to waste. The way we look at it, we are mental athletes and some good old R&R is essential to take our performance to the next level.

At DataGPT we offer unlimited paid vacation, personal days, as well as 1 week break over Christmas.