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We're 100% open source, and we're hiring.

Open positions

To apply for an open position, please send your resume and a brief cover letter (which can be in the body of your email) to the email provided in the description for the opening. Your cover letter should explain what makes you excited about working at Zulip in the role you're applying for. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

We are not actively recruiting for any engineering roles at this time. However, if you are an experienced engineer, and you believe that your background would be a great fit for Zulip, please email us at jobs+engineer@zulip.com with your resume and cover letter.

All openings are remote, or partially in-person in our San Francisco, CA office.

Go-to-market leader (full-time)

Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Zulip’s 100% open-source software is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution, and is used by thousands of organizations around the world.

We’re looking for a B2B go-to-market leader with hands-on startup experience to take our business to the next level. You'll be working closely with the rest of the leadership team to develop new and existing markets for our product.

What you’ll do:

  • Own and drive the company’s GTM strategies.
  • Develop market hypotheses, and run experiments to figure out where to go deeper. You'll be responsible for both vision and hands-on execution (with appropriate support from the rest of the team).
  • Build out processes and teams to scale what's working.
  • Work closely with the other leaders to align product and GTM strategy.
  • Build on the strength of an amazing product to develop an amazing business.

Essential qualifications:

  • A start-up mentality. You will do whatever is needed to make things happen. If you don't know how, you'll figure it out.
  • A deep understanding of B2B sales, demand generation, and revenue growth strategies, with extensive hands-on experience.
  • Excellent writing skills. We expect all our published content to clearly and concisely get the message across.

Bonus qualifications:

  • Experience setting up partnerships.
  • Experience selling open-source or self-hosted/on-premise software.

You’ll love this job if:

  • You want a high degree of freedom and responsibility. You love to experiment, and to be the one writing your own playbooks.
  • You’re excited to grow an independent business built on shared values: building software that will always be there for our users, keeping Zulip 100% open-source, investing in community and mentorship, and supporting other worthy organizations.
  • You’re energized by the idea of working on a complex product with heterogeneous use cases and buyer personas, in a market dominated by giant corporations.

Email us at jobs+gtm@zulip.com with your resume and cover letter to apply, or learn more about how we work.

Senior Product Designer (full-time or part-time)

Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Zulip’s 100% open-source software is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution, and is used by thousands of organizations around the world.

We are looking for an experienced product designer with a strong background in visual design to make our web application, mobile application, and marketing pages shine.

You will work closely with Zulip's leadership team.

What you’ll do:

  • Improve and maintain a web app design system in Figma. You'll be developing design patterns, guidelines, and reusable components to help create a consistent and maintainable application.
  • Break down design changes into manageable pieces that can be incrementally integrated into an actively evolving product.
  • Actively participate in design discussions. Review design implementations and tune designs in response to feedback.
  • Help design new product features, working in a dynamic collaboration with product, engineering, and users.
  • Design new marketing pages and redesign old ones. Strengthen our brand's look and feel to make it instantly recognizable across apps, landing pages, social accounts, and ads.
  • Create and prepare icons for web and mobile apps.

Essential qualifications:

  • Your portfolio showcases a track record of designing high-quality web applications. You've had a leading role in designing a complex application.
  • You have a strong understanding of mobile and web UI guidelines, standards, approaches, and patterns. Working within those structures, you can think creatively to develop elegant solutions to complex problems.
  • You communicate with clarity and precision, and are comfortable in a distributed work environment. You thrive in an inclusive culture where ideas are debated openly and everyone is treated with respect.
  • Expert knowledge of Figma.

Extra credit for any of the following:

  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Your portfolio includes mobile applications (iOS or Android).
  • You've worked on a chat app in the past.
  • You are deeply familiar with a team chat app as an advanced user or administrator. Better yet, you are an experienced user of Zulip.
  • You've created an icon set.

Email us at jobs+designer@zulip.com with your resume and cover letter to apply, or learn more about how we work.

How we work

Open source. The Zulip software is 100% free and open source. We're an open-source project first, and we’re building an independent sustainable business as a means to support the project's growth and long-term future. We provide the same open-source code to our largest customers as to anyone with git clone.

Open project. The Zulip project is one where people really do show up through the Internet and start making real changes. That doesn’t happen by accident; it takes work and thoughtfulness. Most of us work remotely, and we discuss our code and our plans in public, in writing, primarily asynchronously, using Zulip and GitHub.

Inclusive community. The Zulip community is made up of a mixture of volunteers and professionals from all walks of life. Diversity is one of our strengths, and we strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities from anywhere in the world.

Globally distributed. Our company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, but like our community, we work from around the world. Our roles are open to all applicants without regard for location.

Maintainable software. Great software over time depends on a team’s shared understanding of a system and how to change it, as much as on the code itself. Beyond writing our code so it works today, we put equal effort into writing code, tests, comments, commit history, and documentation clearly, to share with each other and future contributors our understanding of how and why it works, so we can build on it tomorrow.

What we're building

People working together need to communicate with their teammates, and they also need to tune out the conversation to get work done. Teams tired of wasting time in meetings move discussion to email; tired of waiting all day for email replies, move to a team chat like Slack or Microsoft Teams; and then team chat becomes an always-on meeting, leaving people constantly distracted, missing out on important conversations, or both.

Zulip is reinventing chat so teams can accomplish more together. We've created a place where a conversation can shift seamlessly from the immediacy of chat to the reply-whenever efficiency of email, and back; where you can participate in the conversations that matter to you and efficiently tune out the rest, no matter whether you're there in real time, coming online after a morning hard at work, or returning from a vacation away from it.