Small Roads Career
Come and join us at Small Roads
Looking for your dream career in travel? Take a look at our current available roles and apply today. Friendship profoundly improves our emotional well-being, sense of belonging, purpose, and levels of happiness. Everyone wants more human connection, but making new friends is really hard. That’s why Small Roads is on a mission to create meaningful friendships across the globe, using the power of travel and technology.
Our platform connects travelers to enjoy authentic, stylish, and rewarding adventures together. In a world that increasingly plays out behind screens, we facilitate authentic friendships between people at the same life stage. We are solving a unique problem for a prominent niche with our global brand appeal. We are dedicated to preserving traditional cultures, promoting community empowerment, and leading sustainable travel. Over 60% of our customers now come from China, with many others from various countries. As a new company, we are actively expanding into international markets, and the potential for growth is limitless.
Small Roads is shaking up the travel industry. We are revolutionizing the outdated image of the group travel sector with an on-point and aspirational lifestyle brand experience.
We are a high-growth, mid-stage start-up with proven product-market fit in over 15 global markets. With the backing of fantastic venture capitalists, we have massive plans for global expansion in 2024 and beyond.
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Workplace & Culture
We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Our culture is centered around high performance, high conviction, and humility. We value teamwork over grandiosity, great questions over corporate euphemisms, and autonomy over conformity. We care deeply about surrounding ourselves with ambitious, exceptional, but humble individuals and believe that our culture is our greatest advantage against our competitors as well as thriving as the industry changes.
Our Values
Customer, Team, Self
You seek what is best for Small Roads before yourself or your group. Service is the foundation on which this business is built, and we believe a culture that fosters non-ego, servant leadership is a truly differentiated advantage that can only be built on trust.
Growth Mindset
We compete in a hyper-competitive industry where benchmarking against competitors is the norm. We’re looking for people who want to set the benchmark rather than celebrate incremental improvements over the competition.
Simplify, Focus, Execute
We value simplicity over complexity. We strive to ruthlessly prioritize. We say no to many things so we can focus on the things that are truly meaningful to us. Bias-to-action and avoid analysis-paralysis. Focus on great results rather than on process.
Humility
No A’holes please, this includes staff and customers. We bring together exceptional individuals but we optimize for the best team outcome. There is no individual bigger than the team and we don’t tolerate egotistical or selfish behavior. Be self-critical, welcome feedback, continuously experiment, and seek perspectives and solutions from outside the company.
Embrace the Adventure
To us, this means embracing challenges, using feedback, and learning from failures and mistakes rather than dwelling on them. Be a curious and continuous learner, focus on bettering oneself and your team rather than protecting oneself.
Perks & Benefits
- Remote flexible - We are a remote-flexible business with employees across the globe. Our regional teams get together about every 6-8 weeks for collaboration and social interaction, and we do all-team virtual socials every 4-6 weeks.
- Flexible working hours - We know everyone works best differently, so you can choose to work in a way that suits you and your team. All we ask is that you are available for 3 hours of overlap per day with your core teams.
- Transparent salary bandings with growth opportunities - Our progression and compensation framework is completely transparent to our team. We benchmark our salaries annually, and performance and compensation reviews take place bi-annually.
- Stock Options - We believe everyone should share in the success of Small Roads, so all employees get stock options after your first year of employment.
- Matched Pension - We want you to feel prepared for the future, so we will match your pension up to 5% (UK employees only). In the US, our EOR partner matches contributions at a rate of 2% of earnings per pay period.
- Unlimited Mental Health & Wellbeing Support - Access to therapy and counseling services through Oliva are available to ensure you feel supported and enabled at all times.
- Enhanced Parental Leave - No matter how your family gets started, you’ll be supported here. We offer 16 weeks full pay if you’re the primary caregiver & 4 weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver. Ask about our comprehensive offering.
- Enhanced and Flexible Annual Leave - You’ll get 25 days annual leave, plus your bank holidays. If you celebrate different holidays, you can use these days elsewhere! In addition, we close between Christmas and New Year. Plus, you’ll get your birthday off every year, and an additional day leave for each year at Small Roads (capped at 5 days). (Annual leave policies vary based on the country of employment).
- Work from abroad - Experience new cultures, meet inspiring people and fuel your creativity with the opportunity to work from abroad for 45 days of the year.
- A diverse and inclusive team - We recognize and celebrate the diversity of our team and celebrate each and every one! We’re led by a BAME female CEO and have employee groups such as our Neurospicies who help us make Small Roads better each and every day! DEI&B is the golden thread that ties our culture together, weaving it through the very fabric of our ways of working, policies, benefits, and code of conduct.
- Small Roads Adventure - Experience the magic of Small Roads firsthand with the opportunity to travel and join one of our unforgettable adventures after your first year of employment.
- Life-Change Care Plans - Our Care Plans focus on personalized accommodations, flexibility, and understanding to provide the right level of support for each individual. This covers, but is not limited to life-changes involving: miscarriage, pregnancy loss, IVF, menopause, and gender transition.
- Refer someone in - If you bring a new team member to Small Roads, you’ll get a £1000 bonus!
A diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us. As we rebuild Small Roads post-pandemic we’ll be focused on promoting self-education through our anti-racism and anti-sexism reading list and building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance, and progression framework. We have trail-blazed a totally transparent compensation calculator to eradicate any kind of pay gap in our company. If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how we can do better, we would love to hear from you.
We’re a growing team and happy to make any accommodations we can for individual needs. If you have an additional accessibility or other requirement we haven’t considered, we will do our best to adapt and make sure your needs are met.