Update careers page (#334)

* Make pay formula generic.

* Make bonuses generic.

* Clarify progressive equity.

* Make health insurance more generic.

* Clarify laptop.

* Removed precise numbers from wellness benefit.

* Fix vacation policy.

* Make sure non-USA folks are first class, too

* Rework sane working hours section.

* Updates to senior designer role.

* Update salary formula wording.

* Fix personal budget.

* Remove numbers from benefits.

We want to minimize risk of this getting out of date.

* Final set of clean up and typo fixes.

* Simplify benefits.

Author: josh-padnick

pages/careers/_human-friendly.html

@@ -17,32 +17,35 @@ <h3>How We Work</h3>
     we got to $1 million in annual recurring revenue with $0 in fundraising</a> for all the details on what we do, how we fund it, how we hire, and how we work.</p>
 
     <h3>Benefits</h3>
-    <p>Our benefits reflect our values. We believe compensation should be fair, transparent, and generous.</p>
+    <p>Our benefits reflect our values. We believe compensation should be fair, transparent, and generous. We hire Grunts in many countries, so some details may vary.</p>
     <ul>
-      <li><strong>Above-Market Salary.</strong> We compute your salary <a href="https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-we-hire-at-gruntwork-42193d583e24">formulaically</a>, using as inputs the average salary for your job title in New York City, the Gruntwork multiplier (currently 1.45) and the cost of living in your home city relative to New York City as reported by numbeo.com. We aim to systematically pay above market.</li>
+      <li><strong>Above-Market Salary.</strong> To reduce bias and increase transparency, we compute all salaries <a href="https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-we-hire-at-gruntwork-42193d583e24">using formulas</a>. The formula factors in your title and location and uses a multiplier to produce a result that's above market for that title and location.</li>
       <li><strong>Profit-Sharing Bonus.</strong> We set aside a pot of money at the end of each year based on profits and distribute bonuses according to a formula that uses as inputs your level within the company and the length of your tenure at the company.</li>
-      <li><strong>Performance Bonus.</strong> We give performance-based bonuses of $5,000 - $15,000 as often as once a quarter, depending on your performance.</li>
-      <li><strong>Progressive Equity.</strong> We grant <a href="https://medium.com/detour-dot-com/introducing-progressive-equity-f424a51ee3a4">progressive equity</a> to all new Grunts.</li>
-      <li><strong>Medical Insurance.</strong> We offer high-quality plans, including some with no deductible through JustWorks.com. We cover 80% of your health insurance costs and 55% of those of your family.</li>
-      <li><strong>Dental Insurance.</strong> We offer high-quality plans and pay for 100% of the cost.</li>
-      <li><strong>Vision Insurance.</strong> We offer high-quality plans and pay for 100% of the cost.</li>
+      <li><strong>Performance Bonus.</strong> We give performance-based bonuses as often as once a quarter, depending on your performance.</li>
+      <li><strong>Progressive Equity.</strong> We grant <a href="https://medium.com/detour-dot-com/introducing-progressive-equity-f424a51ee3a4">progressive equity</a> to all new Grunts. This means that, in the case of a large exit (e.g., acquisition), the financial benefits get distributed more evenly across the whole team rather than solely going to the founders.</li>
+      <li><strong>Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance.</strong> We offer a range of high-quality plans with a large portion paid by the company.</li>
       <li><strong>FSA and HSAs.</strong> We don't contribute to these accounts, but we do offer them as an option.</li>
-      <li><strong>401(k).</strong> We contribute 3% of your salary to your 401(k), regardless of how much you contribute yourself.</li>
+      <li><strong>Pension/401(k).</strong> We contribute a portion of your salary to your pension or 401(k).</li>
       <li><strong>Disability insurance.</strong> If you get disabled, we have a policy that will pay out a portion of your salary.</li>
-      <li><strong>Hardware budget.</strong> We'll buy you a brand new 16" Apple MacBook Pro upon joining. It will be owned by you, not the company.</li>
-      <li><strong>Personal Budget.</strong> We'll give you a personal budget of $500/month to spend on improving your health, productivity, or knowledge.</li>
-      <li><strong>Minimum Vacation.</strong> We require that you take at least 4 weeks of vacation per year.</li>
+      <li><strong>Hardware budget.</strong> We'll buy you a brand new 16" Apple MacBook Pro (or other computer of your choosing of equivalent value) upon joining. It will be owned by you, not the company.</li>
+      <li><strong>Personal Budget.</strong> We'll give you a personal budget of several hundred dollars per month to spend on your workspace (e.g., a co-working space), health (e.g., gym, yoga), time (e.g., babysitter), and/or learning (e.g., books, courses).</li>
     </ul>
 
-    <p><em>The above benefits reflect our offering package for Grunts based in the USA. For Grunts based in other countries, we make every effort to offer an equivalent total package specific to that country.</em></p>
-
     <h3>100% Remote</h3>
-    <p>Gruntwork is a remote-first company.</p>
-
-    <h3>Sane Working Hours</h3>
-    <p>Although we're a distributed team, we only hire candidates between the time zones of GMT-7 (San Francisco) and GMT+2 (Berlin). This means you'll never be separated by more than 9 hours from your colleagues and never pressured to work at crazy hours just to get your work done.</p>
-    <p>We also plan project teams based on geography so that most of your collaboration will be with team members in a similar time zone.</p>
+    <p>Gruntwork is a remote-first company. That means you can work from home, a co-working space, cafe, or wherever else
+      you prefer, there's no commute, and you have complete control over your work hours. To allow at least a few hours
+      of overlap between all employees for the occasional live meeting or pair-coding session, we are currently hiring
+      from most countries in the time zones between GMT-7 (e.g. California, USA) to GMT+2 (e.g., Berlin, Germany).</p>
 
+    <h3>Life First, Then Work</h3>
+    <p>We believe in planning our work around our lives, not the other way around. To help achieve that we offer:</p>
+    <ul>
+      <li><strong>Remote work</strong> that lets you control your hours and physical location.</li>
+      <li><strong>Normal working hours</strong> that usually amount to not more than ~40h per week, and no working on weekends or holidays.</li>
+      <li><strong>Deliberate project planning</strong> that takes into account the time zone of all team members.</li>
+      <li><strong>A minimum vacation policy</strong> where you must take <em>at least</em> 4 weeks per year away from work.</li>
+      <li><strong>No one carrying a pager</strong> and no on-call rotation. We enable this by only offering support contracts with SLAs of responses on business days / hours only.</li>
+    </ul>
 
   </div>
 </div>

pages/careers/_open-positions.html

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ <h4>What You'll Work On</h4>
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         >: create reusable infrastructure modules for a variety of
         infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, ELK, Consul, Vault, Kafka, InfluxDB,
-        etc), using a variety of tools (e.g., Terraform, Go, Python, Bash,
-        Docker, Packer, etc), across many clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP, and Azure).
+        etc.), using a variety of tools (e.g., Terraform, Go, Python, Bash,
+        Docker, Packer, etc.), across many clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP, and Azure).
       </li>
       <li>
         <strong>Gruntwork Platform:</strong> build a fundamentally better DevOps
@@ -203,23 +203,19 @@ <h3>Senior Product Designer</h3>
 
     <p>Help us make Gruntwork delightful!</p>
 
-    <h4>What's Gruntwork?</h4>
-    <p>We give software teams a complete, world-class cloud infrastructure that lets them go to prod in days. Typically,
-       the process of launching prod infrastructure in the cloud is awful. It takes months of tedious work, hundreds of
-       thousands of dollars, and often results in poorly maintained code and anti-patterns in the end. We call our company
-       "Gruntwork" because we take away this Gruntwork for our clients so that they can focus on the parts of their software
-       that are unique to them.</p>
-    <p>We are 100% remote, ~15 people, profitable, growing (even during COVID!) and fully bootstrapped with no debt and
-       no investors. Our small company works with both startups and name companies like Toyota, Adobe, and the US House
-      of Representatives. We also <a href="#gruntwork-is-a-human-friendly-company">care a lot about humans.</a></p>
-
-    <h4>What's the opportunity?</h4>
+    <h4>What You'll Work On </h4>
     <ul>
       <li>
-        <strong>Product Design.</strong> We're building a SaaS platform that will become the primary customer experience of our product. Today, customers access our product as private GitHub repos plus a patchwork of links to training and documentation. Working with you, we envision a portal where customers login to discover and use all the elements of our existing product, brand it to themselves, and ultimately offer a UI-based way to learn, deploy and manage infrastructure in the cloud, all backed by infrastructure as code under the hood.
+        <strong>The Gruntwork Portal.</strong> We're building a SaaS platform that will be the primary customer experience of our product. Today, customers access Gruntwork via private GitHub repos plus a patchwork of links to training and documentation. Working with you, we envision a unified portal where customers login to discover and use all the elements of our product.</li>
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Improved Docs.</strong> For products targeting developers, the docs <em>are</em> the product. Working with you, we envision unifying our <a href="https://gruntwork.io/guides">sprawling</a> <a href="https://gruntwork.io/repos/v0.20.4/terraform-aws-eks">set</a> <a href="https://gruntwork.io/devops-checklist/">of</a> <a href="https://blog.gruntwork.io/">thorough</a> <a href="https://gruntwork.io/repos/v0.4.1/cis-compliance-aws">documentation</a> into a single "Gruntwork Docs" site that streamlines the user experience.
       </li>
       <li>
-        <strong>Branding and Marketing Website.</strong> We have an improved understanding of our business that we'd like to reflect in a new public marketing website. We'll look to you lead the design effort here.
+        <strong>Developer Self-Service.</strong> You'll own the user experience and product design for a completely new product. On the surface, it's a simple web interface that our customers' Dev teams can use to deploy and manage infrastructure. Under the hood, the web interface and how it manages infrastructure are completely defined and controlled by the Ops team using infrastructure as code.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Branding and Marketing.</strong> You'll be the owner of Gruntwork's public face to the world. How do we tell the world what we do? How do we explain and showcase our highly technical products in a way that visitors can understand? How do we convert visitors to leads?
       </li>
       <li>
         <strong>Design system.</strong> You'll be our first full-time designer so you will set the design direction for the entire company across all areas of design, working directly with the founders and closely with engineers.
@@ -228,30 +224,30 @@ <h4>What's the opportunity?</h4>
 
     <p>Although you'll be the only professional designer on the team, our company cares deeply about design so you'll have many eager collaborators when it comes time to brainstorm.</p>
 
-    <h4>What skills are we looking for?</h4>
+    <h4>Your Ideal Background</h4>
 
     <ul>
       <li>
-        <strong>Product sensibility.</strong> When we present our product vision, we'll look to you to offer opinions, insights, and methodologies to help us translate that vision into a fantastic product.
+        <strong>Product sensibility.</strong> We're looking for a product designer—someone who can be an equal partner in helping us design and develop our products. We'll look to you for leadership, insights, and methodologies that will help us translate our shared vision into a fantastic product.
       </li>
       <li>
-        <strong>Design skill.</strong> At the end of the day, the designs you create should look great and be easy to use. Our hope is that you can make our users smile.
+        <strong>Design skill.</strong> At the end of the day, the designs you create should look great and be easy to use. Help us make Gruntwork customers smile. :)
       </li>
       <li>
-        <strong>Domain expertise.</strong> We don't expect you to have a complete vision for our product on day 1, but we're looking for someone who either already understands our domain (DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, AWS), or who feels comfortable ramping up on it.
+        <strong>Domain expertise.</strong> We don't expect you to have a complete vision for our product on day 1, but to design products in our space, you must be able to thoroughly ramp up on our domain (DevOps, software delivery, cloud software, CI / CD, infrastructure as code).
       </li>
       <li>
-        <strong>Bonus: HTML/CSS.</strong> If you can roll up your sleeves and review our engineers' work in HTML/CSS, you can help us make sure the final product is true to your vision.
+        <strong>Bonus: HTML/CSS.</strong> If you can occasionally roll up your sleeves and work directly in HTML/CSS, you can help us make sure the final product is true to your vision.
       </li>
       <li>
-        <strong>Bonus: Engineering Background.</strong> If you happen to have an engineering background such as previous experience coding an app or a computer science degree, that may give you additional insight into how our product might especially delight users.
+        <strong>Bonus: Software Background.</strong> If you happen to have prior experience in software engineering, working on dev tools, or other technical domains, that may give you special insight into how our product can delight the users.
       </li>
     </ul>
 
     <h4>What time zones do we work in?</h4>
     <p>While Gruntwork <a href="#sane-working-hours">generally</a> hires anywhere between San Francisco and Berlin, for this role, you'll be working with a team based in the USA/Canada (GMT-7 to GMT-3). We prefer to hire candidates located in the USA or Canada, but are open to hiring in any country within those time zones. Unfortunately, this role is not available outside the GMT-7 to GMT-3 time zones.</p>
 
-    <a href="https://apply.workable.com/gruntwork-io/j/03345F97D6/apply/" class="btn btn-primary-hollow btn-sm d-inline-block btn-dpa"" role="button">Apply Now</a>
+    <a href="https://apply.workable.com/gruntwork-io/j/03345F97D6/apply/" class="btn btn-primary-hollow btn-sm d-inline-block btn-dpa" role="button">Apply Now</a>
 
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