Benefits and perks

Benefits are where companies love to perform generosity: catered lunches, foosball tables, a wall of logos for perks nobody uses. We're not interested in that. The point of a benefit is to make your life better and get friction out of your way so you can do good work and then go live your life. Everything below is judged against that, not against how it looks on a careers page.

We're small and early, so some of this is intent we're building toward rather than a fully-loaded package today. We'll tell you plainly which is which, because a benefit you can't actually use is just marketing.

Equity for everyone

If you help build Flagon, you should own a piece of it. Not just the founders, not just the first few, everyone. It's how we play the long game with the people who build the thing.

Everyone gets options on a standard vesting schedule, and we'll be clear about what you're getting and what it could mean, without the hand-waving that usually surrounds equity. The details live alongside the pay framework in compensation.

Remote-first, for real

We're remote-first by default, not as a reluctant concession. You work from wherever you work best. We optimize for written communication, asynchronous by default, so your calendar isn't hostage to someone else's timezone and you're not punished for logging off to have a life.

Time off you actually take

The worst version of flexible time off is the one where the policy says "unlimited" and the culture says "don't." We're trying hard to build the opposite: time off that's genuinely encouraged and genuinely taken, with leadership modeling it rather than quietly competing to never unplug. The full thinking, and how we keep it honest, is in time off.

The tools to do the job

You can't do good work on a machine that fights you. We set you up with the equipment you need and a real home-office setup, because the cost of good tools is trivial next to the cost of your time and frustration. If something you use every day is slow or broken, replacing it is a good decision, not a favor you have to ask for.

A budget to get better

We want people who keep sharpening their craft, and that costs money and time. So there's a learning budget for the books, courses, conferences, and tools that make you better at what you do. We'd rather you grow here than stagnate here. The culture around it, spending it without a permission slip and sharing what you learn, is learning out loud.

Health and family

Solid healthcare and real parental leave, because people should be able to take care of their bodies and their families without it becoming a crisis. We'd sooner run lean elsewhere than cut a corner here. We're a young company standing these up properly right now, and each specific goes into the open the moment it's set, which is what the note below is about.

What we're not going to do

We have a bias toward removing friction over adding gimmicks. Given the choice between a perk that photographs well and one that quietly makes your week easier, we'll take the boring, useful one every time.

No ping-pong-table nonsense, no "we're a family" act, no perks designed to keep you at your desk longer. The best benefit we can offer is a job that respects your time, pays you fairly, and gets out of your way. The rest is in service of that. If we ever add a perk that's more about looking good than doing good, that's a bug; the Discord is open.