Careers at Space
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The actual perks
Careers pages usually list snacks. Ours lists absences.
The people
Everyone here cleared two bars: senior enough to own their calls, and kind enough to be trusted with yours. Smart and kind is the rarest pairing in this industry, and it's non-negotiable in ours. No A-minus players, and no brilliant jerks either.
The roster
No interns. No juniors. No middle managers, and no managers of middle managers. We hire one kind of person: ultra senior, still in love with the work, allergic to supervising it. If your proudest recent output is a review of someone else's output, this isn't your room.
The problems
We work with funded companies at launch moments, in categories that resist easy answers: energy tech, fintech infrastructure, health, complex B2B. The briefs are difficult on purpose. Easy work doesn't need the people we hire.
The autonomy
We're light on process because we're high on trust and talent. No approval chains, no review theater, nobody checking whether you're at your desk. You were hired because you don't need managing, and we act like it.
The hours
The machines took the busywork. Agents write the status, book the meetings (the twelve-email calendar dance is dead), format the deliverables, and answer every "I should probably know this" question through Spock, our internal knowledge agent, so nobody has to perform knowing. The bureaucracy that eats most careers is automated here, which returns the workday to the work.
The culture
Candor and care run on the same rail. Feedback is direct because we respect you enough to be clear, and we engineered kindness into the stack itself: an agent we call the Empathy Engine catches the heated Slack message before it lands and privately offers the version you meant. Fixed fees and predictive margin models mean no death marches to rescue a mispriced project. Remote by design, because trust doesn't need a floor plan.
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First principles
We can afford to be light on process because the principles carry the load. There are twelve, they're written down, and everyone here has been held to at least a few of them out loud.
Constraints create greatness.
Less time, fewer people, tighter briefs. Limits force focus, breed intensity, and close every exit except the clever one. When you can't outspend a problem, you outsmart it. We install the constraints on purpose.
Speed above all else.
Fast or good is a false choice, usually posed by someone who can't do both. Speed and rigor travel together here: plan hard, then sprint.
Humans own judgment. Machines own everything else.
The whole model in seven words. Our published AI rules draw the exact line.
Client's growth > the work > Space > your pod > you.
The tiebreaker when interests collide. Everyone you work with ranks themselves last on it, which is what makes them safe to build beside.
Go straight at the pain.
In client strategy and in hard conversations. Naming the uncomfortable thing early is a kindness to whoever would have inherited it late.
Build scalable systems.
Solve it twice, then teach a machine to solve it forever. It's how 127 agents happened.
Radical candor always.
Clear is kind. Vague feedback is the cruel kind, because someone still has to act on it.
No A-minus players.
No passengers. No cultural misfits. The bar is the perk. Every person you'll ever work with here was held to it, including on kindness.
Launch is only day 1.
The market grades the work, and we stay for the grading.
We're only as good as the next referral.
We grow entirely by word of mouth. No sales machine protects anyone here; the work is the pitch.
03 · Who thrives here
People at Level 4 or above on our published AI Fluency Ladder, because leverage is the floor and judgment is the ceiling. People with a kill list: work they shipped and now hate, work they killed that a client loved, and the reasons for both. People who read "one decision-maker per side" and feel relief instead of exposure. People who want their name on things.04
The honest caveat
Read before applying
There is no ladder here, because there are no rungs below you. Senior-only means growth comes as scope, craft, and reputation, never as a bigger title over a bigger bench. You will never manage anyone here, because nobody here needs it. The autonomy cuts both ways: light process means there's no process to blame. The candor takes about two weeks to stop stinging. And we're small on purpose, three always-on leaders and an on-demand collective of 82, so anyone who needs a big-company cocoon should keep looking. The people who stay read this paragraph as the job description.
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Open roles
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