DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION AT BUBBLE

We want you to join us!

Who we are

We care a lot about having an incredibly warm, empathetic, diverse team. There’s no such thing as an outsider here: we’re an eclectic group of people who are very different from each other but also incredibly excited to work together.
Among other things, we have a number of immigrants to the US (including one of the founders), many people who’ve switched industries or taught themselves the technical skills for their jobs, a surprisingly large number of people who’ve started their own businesses prior to joining us, and a wide representation of different educational backgrounds, majors, and origins.

Because of that, there’s no one right way to be a Bubble team member: anyone who shares our passion for helping empower our users, cares deeply about the work they do, and who is an authentic, considerate person is someone we want on our side as we try to transform the way technology is built.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion based on the following beliefs:

A diverse team is a stronger team.
People who want to grow surround themselves with people who they can learn from, not people identical to themselves. We believe it’s important for us to be diverse in measurable terms across race and gender, and that it’s also important to be diverse across backgrounds, life experiences, beliefs, personalities, and skill sets. We are willing and committed to go out of our way to ensure Bubble stays diverse as we grow.

Building an environment of trust and psychological safety for all team members is vitally important.
We want people to be their genuine, authentic selves. We do our best to hire genuinely kind people who care about their teammates and our users.

We want to give people opportunities equitably in relation to their abilities and talents.
We’re working on very hard things, and we don’t have room for bias distorting our evaluations of what people are capable of. We believe in investing in people and getting the best out of everyone.

Fundamentally, our commitment to DE&I is grounded in better serving the users of our software. We exist as an organization because we believe that people are better off with access to the capabilities that Bubble unlocks for them, and our internal culture is a means to an end to bring that into reality. We think a diverse team, where everyone feels included, and where people are given opportunities equitably, is a team that is better able to achieve our mission.

PRACTICES AND COMMITMENTS

So what does that all mean in practice?

Hiring

• We follow structured, standardized interview formats with defined scorecards in order to reduce bias in the interviewing process. We believe interviewing is a hard skill, and we are committed to investing in our interviewing team (for instance, by having them shadow each other and give feedback, and to train them in techniques for avoiding bias). • For senior leadership openings, we commit to interviewing at least one diverse (in terms of race or gender) candidate for each position.
• For evergreen hiring, we commit to building a diverse funnel, and spending extra time and money as necessary to ensure we are regularly making offers to diverse candidates. We commit to tracking metrics in our hiring pipeline to ensure we are seeing enough diverse candidates at the top of the funnel and detecting and correcting for bias in any of our interview stages.
• As we grow, we commit to being transparent about diversity statistics for the team. For now, we’re small enough that you can see for yourself.

External Impact

• We are committed to investing time and money in making sure Bubble’s promise of tech empowerment reaches members of underserved communities. Currently, the program we are most excited about is Immerse, a free pre-accelerator for BIPOC founders. • We regularly give discounts to or otherwise support non-profits using Bubble. Read about Bubble apps being used to mitigate the impact of COVID.
• We serve a global user-base: although most (but not all) of our team is based in the United States, we have users from 223 different countries. Only 20% of our users are based in the US as of 2021.
• We conduct an annual 3rd party Environmental, Social, and Governance audit to get objective outside feedback on our impact and governance.

Team Culture

• We regularly perform anonymous employee surveys to keep a pulse on whether everyone is feeling included, and to allow people to air problems. In addition to anonymous channels, our People team, our senior leadership, and our managers have regular 1-on-1 checkins with the team to make sure everyone is feeling connected and heard. • We perform annual DE&I training for all employees to ensure that everyone is aware of our values and has the skills necessary to implement them.
• We have regular opportunities to ask questions of leadership, including town halls where we accept anonymous submissions.
• We have a culture that values feedback, and we conduct 360 reviews to ensure that everyone gets a chance to learn about their blindspots. We especially encourage giving feedback to managers: we believe in a servant-leadership philosophy and view management as an enablement role for the team.
• We have a regular, structured performance and compensation review process (performance on a quarterly basis, compensation on an annual basis), with senior leadership providing quality control to make sure people are given clear feedback and assessed fairly.
• We have a ton of just-for-fun slack channels on a wide variety of topics and interests. We also regularly organize social events, with a variety of different activities to suit different tastes. We have a lot of fun!
• This isn’t a formal practice or commitment, but we’re really kind to each other. We have a culture of it being okay to ask dumb questions, and valuing people who help their teammates. Come get to know us better and see for yourself!

We put a lot of work and thought into making sure Bubble is a place where everyone feels welcome. Our attitude towards this work is excitement and joy, because there’s nothing better than seeing people come together to accomplish something huge. We’d love to get to know you and talk about how you can join the mission!
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