Work with us

We’re a multi-disciplinary and distributed team based around the globe. What’s important to us is using the context and local conditions of projects to grow our knowledge and use it to iterate our knowledge and practice across all of our work. We pride ourselves on learning, experimentation and intuition, and look to provide members of the team ways in which they can grow their own knowledge and practice. We view projects, processes and how we work as an evolving design that you would be part of shaping.

Here’s a little on how we currently organise:

• We all work remotely, with flexible working hours around schedules (most people do main hours between 9-6).
• We work as dynamic hierarchies. We don’t organise through fixed line managers or fixed JDs but through teams and circles - we have different areas of expertise and focus and we pick up and shed roles as required. This requires good communication, high emotional intelligence and levels of trust.
• We run on a series of digital tools that we use daily to coordinate, learn and govern together (Slack, Notion, Google Worklace, Miro among them)
• We’re organised in multidisciplinary working groups that span mission, deep codes, projects, orgdev and operations. Each working group is flexible and spans a series of projects to form a portfolio work.
• This setup allows us to be a platform organisation and to nurture and grow ideas the team are passionate about and believe are needed, and align advance our core values and mission.
• In time and experience, we invite everyone to grow our portfolio of work as a way to grow our collective skills, knowledge, and ideas – this is an invitation, not an obligation.

We highly value lived experience as a form of expertise and we consider having a broad and diverse range of lived experience within the team, as being critical for us to be able to do our best possible work together and to create a range of spaces and accommodate a broad spectrum of life experience into our planetary team.

Dark Matter Labs continues to educate, question and critically review ourselves on how we can improve. We recognise and celebrate the true value of a safe and accepting working environment that - among other things - a diverse team with distributed power can unlock, and work to address our underlying biases and power structures that can prevent that from materialising.

This type of work requires the willingness to work on yourself, your relationships with power, the assumptions and experiences that influence how you think, and more.*

*We recognise that our work deals with some existential questions and content that can be triggering. We have a team focused on the team’s mental health and personal development and we continue to incrementally build the necessary psychological infrastructures for this work.

We know that there is more that we can do to make this recruitment more accessible, particularly if you have experienced exclusion, disadvantage or discrimination, or if you have particular accessibility needs. We would be happy to provide any further support that you may require - please get in touch so that we can work together to provide that.

Our approach to pay has always been a participatory and collective process involving the entire team. Over time, we’ve experimented with different models, and we’ve recently launched our new Base Pay Formula, which is composed of the following elements:

• Geographic living costs
• Starting assets each individual brings into their Dm role upon joining in the following categories:
• Professional Standard Accreditation
• Relevant Relationship & Network
• Renowned and Trusted Reputation in the Field
• Applied Technical Skills
• Commitment to the Mission
• Tenure at Dm

You can estimate your pay using this calculator. We recognize that no formula can fully reflect the unique context of every individual. That’s why we also have a Pay Rebalancing process in place, reviewed annually, to accommodate individual circumstances.

In addition, we offer Shared Benefits and Leave Budgets, which are added to the gross salary. These were set collectively by the team and vary based on statutory provisions in different geographies. We’ll be happy to confirm the specific approach relevant to your location and contract type.

Our holiday policy includes a minimum of 28 days per year (pro-rata), but we encourage you to take as much time as you need to truly rest and recharge.

Dark Matter Labs is an equal opportunities employer, and we continue to educate ourselves on how we can improve. Humans from all nationality, race, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation and identity are welcome. We recognise and celebrate the true value of a safe and accepting working environment that only a diverse team can unlock, and work to address our underlying biases that can prevent that from materialising. Our projects and partners are spread across the globe and we aim to reflect the same diversity on multiple levels in our team and with the partners we work with.