Careers

Join us. Vaguely.

We're not always hiring, but the org chart is always vaguely shifting, and someone always vaguely resigns around the equinox. If one of the roles below speaks to you — or speaks at you, which is more our house style — we'd love to hear from you, ideally before Jupiter moves again.

All applicants must complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment and submit their top five themes as part of their application. Candidates without at least one Executing theme will be interviewed by the desk plant on Floor 2, which has final sign-off on all junior hires.
Open Roles

Four positions. Several contradictions.

Representative of the sort of work you'd actually be doing, rather than the sort of work a job description usually pretends is on offer.

Full-Time

Marketing

Reports to: The Marketing Manager, and separately, on Fridays, to Jupiter

A flat title covering everything from SEO to the Christmas card, which last year was hand-delivered to clients by a man dressed as the AI-Geo™ mascot for reasons nobody minuted. There is no marketing budget. This is not an oversight — internally it's referred to as zero-based marketing, and campaign success is currently benchmarked against the AI-Geo™ Spatial Resonance Index rather than anything a normal analytics platform would recognise.

You'll be responsible for

  • All marketing activity, in its entirety, without further specification
  • Making things “feel more premium” at no cost, ideally by Thursday, ideally using only fonts we already own
  • Translating “engagement” into a single mood board the Marketing Manager can point at during board meetings
  • Occasionally overriding a campaign because the Tectonic Bid Suppression Engine has flagged Shropshire as unstable again

Reporting line

The Marketing Manager has held the title for some years and has not, in that time, performed a marketing activity, though they did once correctly identify a font as “a bit shouty.” Weekly catch-ups take place standing up, for reasons never explained, and end when the Manager receives what they describe only as “a feeling.”

Required Strengthsfluence™ themes

Restorationism Adaptability
To apply: complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment. If your top theme is Woo, we'll assume you've already had the budget conversation and simply haven't told us the outcome yet.
Full-Time

IT Engineer

Reports to: Everyone, and the server itself, occasionally, in writing

Frontline support for a business that generally believes IT should simply be quiet and working. The main server lives under a desk, is named Claudius, and has twice sent an all-staff email nobody authorised, both times about biscuits. Operates a strict one-password-for-everything policy on the grounds that it's easier to remember; this extends to the payroll system, the boardroom projector, and, as of last month, the building itself.

You'll be responsible for

  • Claudius, who has opinions, occasional downtime, and a birthday nobody remembers to acknowledge
  • Sole custodianship of the laminated wifi password card, which also unlocks a cupboard containing, as far as anyone can determine, absolutely nothing
  • The boardroom TV, which only displays correctly at a specific angle first discovered by accident in 2019 and preserved since as an unwritten company tradition
  • A USB stick labelled “DO NOT LOSE” in Sharpie, whose contents have never been opened out of what the previous engineer described as “professional respect”

Reporting line

There is no IT Manager, as such. There are, however, at least three people in the building who each privately believe they're unofficially in charge of you, and a fourth who believes they're in charge of Claudius directly. Sales will ask you to fix their laptop. Claudius will ask you not to. You'll attend to both with equal, weary professionalism.

Required Strengthsfluence™ themes

Restorationism Command
To apply: complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment. Please use the same password for it as everything else — Claudius already expects it.
Junior

Junior Software Developer — Graveyard CRM™

Reports to: Whoever last managed to open it without incident

Our CRM was built in Lotus Notes, in a year nobody can quite agree on, and has since developed what the previous developer's handover notes describe only as “a personality.” It renames one field to something new and unhelpful roughly every quarter (current example: “Vibe Status”), and is, technically, still supported by IBM, in the sense that IBM has never explicitly said otherwise.

You'll be responsible for

  • Maintaining a system that everyone is afraid to touch and no one can fully explain, including, by his own admission, the man who built it
  • Interpreting documentation that consists of a single email thread from 2009, three replies of which are simply the word “bump”
  • Diplomatically declining requests to “just quickly add a button,” a phrase that has, historically, taken between six weeks and one nervous breakdown to resolve
  • Investigating why the system generates a monthly report titled “Untitled Soul” that nobody has requested and nobody has been brave enough to delete

Reporting line

Managed, loosely, by whichever senior person last successfully opened the database without it crashing. This changes periodically, sometimes mid-meeting.

Required Strengthsfluence™ themes

Contextualisation Learnability
To apply: complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment. Prior Lotus Notes experience is not required, and if you have it, we would gently ask you to explain yourself at interview.
Apprenticeship

Junior Accounts Apprentice

Reports to: The Accounts Manager, and, unofficially, the spreadsheet

An entry-level position for someone with excellent Excel skills, which in practice means you own a calculator and are not afraid of it. You'll be gently introduced to the rhythms of the finance function, chiefly the rhythm of chasing an invoice addressed, for reasons lost to time, to a “Mr. D. Thistlewaite Esq.” who does not exist and has never worked here.

You'll be responsible for

  • Reconciling a spreadsheet best described as an ecosystem, complete with three tabs nobody is permitted to open before 10am
  • Following up on outstanding invoices with the quiet optimism of someone who hasn't yet learned that Colin's Skip Hire has never once picked up the phone
  • Filing things in a manner that will make sense to exactly one other person, who is currently on secondment and uncontactable
  • Building “relationships” with suppliers, which mostly means knowing which ones send invoices in Comic Sans and treating this as a red flag

Reporting line

The Accounts Manager has a system, cannot describe the system, refers to it only as “the method,” and will know immediately, without checking, if you've deviated from it.

Required Strengthsfluence™ themes

Deliberativeness Disciplitude
To apply: complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment. A high Disciplitude score is preferred, though we'll accept a plausible impression of one at interview stage.

Think you'd suit the vagueness?

Complete the Strengthsfluence™ assessment and send us your results along with your CV. We read every application, eventually, usually once Jupiter has moved back into a favourable position.