About Automattic
What is Automattic?
Automattic is a fully distributed technology company founded in 2005 by Matt Mullenweg, the co-creator of WordPress. The company's mission is to democratise publishing, commerce, and messaging by building tools that make the open web more accessible. Automattic operates without a central office — its ~1,800 employees ("Automatticians") work from over 90 countries, choosing their own location and hours.
Key products include WordPress.com (hosted publishing platform), WooCommerce (the most-used open-source ecommerce plugin in the world), Jetpack (security, backups, and analytics for self-hosted WordPress), Akismet (spam protection), Tumblr (social blogging acquired in 2019), Day One (journaling app), and Pocket Casts (podcast player). Automattic powers a meaningful share of the entire web — WordPress (the open-source project Automattic stewards) runs more than 40% of all websites.
Where will I work?
Wherever you want. Automattic is fully remote, globally distributed — there is no head office. New hires set up wherever home is, and the company offers a coworking-space stipend if you prefer working out of one. Synchronous meetings are kept to a minimum; most collaboration happens asynchronously via P2 (an internal WordPress-based blog system) and Slack. Once or twice a year, teams gather in person for "Grand Meetups" and division-level offsites in cities around the world.
What is the Automattic team like?
Around 1,800 people from 90+ countries, organised into "divisions" (Jetpack, WooCommerce, WordPress.com, etc.) and small cross-functional teams. The culture is famously async-first, transparent (all decisions and discussions are written down on internal P2s, accessible to every Automattician), and meritocratic. The company has been remote-first since day one — long before remote work was mainstream — and has refined the playbook through 20+ years of running this way.
Work-Life Balance
Automattic's work-flexibility quote is direct: "Everyone works from the location they choose, during the hours they choose." There are no fixed schedules, no required hours, no required time-zone overlap (except where teams agree among themselves). Open vacation policy — take what you need. Parental leave is generous (16+ weeks for primary caregivers). The combination of full async, location independence, and self-set hours is the most genuine flexible-hours setup in the industry.
Perks and Benefits
- Work from anywhere — no office, no required location
- Set your own hours — no fixed schedule
- Open vacation policy (take what you need)
- Annual home-office equipment stipend
- Coworking-space allowance
- Generous parental leave (16+ weeks primary caregiver)
- Health, dental, vision insurance (US) and country-equivalent benefits globally
- 401(k) matching (US) and country-equivalent retirement plans
- Annual Grand Meetups and team retreats
- Open-source contribution time encouraged
- Sabbatical after 5 years