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Careers · remote, hybrid or in the studio

Every website we sell is drawn and written by a person, which is the only kind of person we hire.

The work here runs in weeks. A brief lands on a Monday from a business you have never heard of, in a trade you may know nothing about, and by the Sunday that business has a website with its prices on it and a form that reaches the owner the minute someone fills it in. Designers, a writer, a developer, local SEO and support do that work, and every one of them is a person. No offshore build house, no reseller in the middle, no template with the colors swapped and a new logo dropped in the corner.

If you’d rather finish things than manage them, this is a good place to work.

Open roles How we hire
Where
Remote, from anywhere in the United States
How we work
In writing. Core hours 10am to 3pm, the rest of the day is yours
The team
A small team, and two in three of us design, write or build
The cycle
Briefed on Monday, live on Sunday. Seven days, every site
Hiring
Two conversations, one paid exercise, about twelve business days
Applications
[email protected]

The work

Web design jobs where you own the whole site

Most design and development jobs hand you a fragment of someone else’s plan. Here you get the brief, the business, the deadline and your name on the build. The week that produces it is drawn out day by day on the websites page.

You own the site, brief to live

A questionnaire comes in from a plasterer in Akron who has been in business eleven years on a Facebook page. By Sunday there’s a website with his prices on it, his photographs, the areas he covers and a form that reaches him the moment someone fills it in. You did that. Not a component of it, and not a design someone else will interpret badly on the way to production.

The customers are real, and small

A bakery, a bike workshop, a family law practice, a dog groomer, a roofer. The website is often the first proper one they have ever had, and it’s the thing that brings them work. That’s a better reason to get the typography right than a brand guideline is.

Pace is part of the craft here

Seven days is the promise, so seven days is the deadline, and it’s met. The skill is knowing which decisions matter, having a design system good enough to lean on, and not spending three hours on a hero you were always going to redraw. Nobody is asked to work weekends to hit it. If the backlog is too long we hire, which is why you’re reading this.

We have a system. We don’t sell templates

There’s a house design system and everybody uses it, because reinventing a form field for the four hundredth time isn’t craft. What we don’t do is hand a customer a stock layout, swap the photographs and call it custom. A barber’s site and an attorney’s site shouldn’t look the same, and on our watch they don’t.

One pod, four seats

You aren’t dropped into a department of thirty. Everybody sits in a pod of four, and the pod carries several builds at once, each on a different day of its week, so there’s always something being drawn, something being written and something going live.

  1. Designer Reads the questionnaire, draws the whole site, chooses the photographs, hands over with the states and breakpoints already decided.
  2. Writer Turns what the owner said about their trade into pages a customer will read, in their voice, with the prices in it.
  3. Front-end developer Builds it for real: semantic markup, CSS that survives the customer’s own photographs, fast on a phone with two bars of signal.
  4. Support specialist Is on the launch, and is still the name on the chat six months later when the opening hours change at Christmas.

Nobody hands their work to a stranger and walks away. When a customer writes in a year later, it goes to the pod that built the site. Who those people are, and why the company is built this way, is the about page.

How the team works

Written first, and quiet

The company runs the way the product does: by email and by chat, in writing, with a record of what was agreed. It suits people who think best with their hands on a keyboard.

Decisions live in writing
If it wasn’t written down it didn’t happen. That’s what lets someone in Tucson pick up a build that started in Tampa without a handover ritual, and what lets you read back exactly what a customer asked for in March.
No standing meetings
There’s one review a week and it’s a written document, about thirty minutes to read and comment on, at whatever time of day suits you. Everything else is a thread. We don’t hold a stand-up to find out what everybody did yesterday.
Core hours, then your day is yours
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern is when we overlap. Start at seven and finish at three, or take the middle of the day back for the school pickup. Hours are counted once, at the end of the week, and nobody is watching a green dot.
Remote or hybrid, your choice
The studio is a proper studio with desks, a decent kitchen and people in it most days. Use it every day, twice a week, or twice a year. Two roles below need more studio time than the others and say so up front.
Your work is live within days
You’ll watch something you drew on Tuesday earn someone an inquiry on the following Monday, and you’ll hear about it, because support forwards those.
We’re a company, not a family
It’s a job. It’s paid on the last business day of the month, time off is taken, not accrued as a badge of honor, and if you leave we’ll give you a reference and mean it. Nobody here is expected to be grateful for the privilege.

What we look for

Judgment, and a finished thing to show us

The same six things whichever role you’re reading. Two of them aren’t on anyone’s resume, which is why the process below is built to find them.

What matters here

  • Taste you can explain. Not "it felt right". Why that measure, why that weight, why the price list is above the fold on a plumber’s site and below it on a florist’s.
  • You finish things. A portfolio of eight live sites beats a portfolio of forty concepts, every time. Shipped is a skill, and it’s rarer than talent.
  • Plain English. You can tell a scaffolder what a nameserver is without making him feel stupid, and you can write it in two sentences rather than six.
  • Speed without shortcuts. Knowing which corners are decoration and which are load bearing. Fast is a habit; sloppy is a different thing entirely.
  • You like small businesses. Or at least you’re curious about them. There’s no hiding from it: this is fifty weeks a year of tradespeople, cafes, clinics and shops.
  • You take a correction well. Work gets read here, and read closely. The point is the site, not whose idea it was.

What we aren’t going to ask about

  • A degree. Nobody has ever been asked for one and nobody ever will be. Two of the best designers here came out of print and one came out of a kitchen.
  • Where you worked before. An agency name on a resume tells us who hired you once. The exercise tells us what you can do on a Tuesday.
  • A tidy career. Gaps, a change of trade at thirty-four, five years raising children: none of it counts against you and we won’t ask you to account for it.
  • Your current salary. We don’t ask, because it’s how underpayment gets carried from one job to the next. Every band on this page is published and the offer comes from the band.

How we hire

Twelve business days, start to offer

Applying should cost you about five hours in total, three of them paid. Here’s every stage, in order, with the days on it. If we can’t keep to this we’ll tell you why instead of going quiet.

  1. Day 0 15 minutes of your time

    You apply

    Email [email protected] with the role in the subject line, a resume or a link to your work, and a few lines on why this one. There’s no form with eleven required fields and no account to create.

    What we are reading for: what you have made. For designers and writers, the link matters more than the resume.

  2. Days 1 to 3 Nothing from you

    A person reads it

    Every application is read by someone who does the job you have applied for, not by a keyword filter and not by a recruiter who has never opened a stylesheet. You get an answer within three business days either way, and if it’s a no it says why in a sentence or two.

    Who does it: the lead for that discipline, plus one other person in the pod you would join.

  3. Days 3 to 5 Under an hour

    Five questions, in writing

    Five questions by email about the actual work: how you would handle a customer who sends fourteen photographs and none of them in focus, what you would cut from a home page that’s trying to say six things, that sort of thing. Answer them in your own time, in your own words, at whatever length you think they deserve. There’s no timer and nothing is being recorded.

    Why in writing: the company runs in writing, so this is a fair sample of the job, done without a stranger watching.

  4. Days 5 to 9 3 hours, paid $120

    A paid exercise, three hours

    A real brief off the board, cut down to three hours: for a designer, a home page for a business we’re about to build for; for a writer, the services page and the meta descriptions; for a developer, one section built from a design. You have four days to fit it in wherever it suits.

    The terms: $120 flat, paid within seven days whether or not we take it further, and you keep the work. Three hours means three hours. If you’re still going at five we’d rather see where you got to.

  5. Days 9 to 11 Half a day, travel paid

    An afternoon with the pod

    At the studio, with the three people you would sit with. We go through your exercise together, show you the live board and what a week looks like, and you ask us anything you like: money, hours, what goes wrong here, who left last year and why. Travel is paid, and lunch isn’t a test.

    If traveling isn’t practical: we do the same session in a live written thread over a couple of hours instead. It has never counted against anyone.

  6. Day 12 Then a week to think

    An answer, and the offer on one page

    Yes or no, with the reasons, by the twelfth business day. An offer comes as a single page: salary and where it sits in the published band, start date, time off, 401(k), equipment, notice. Take a week over it. There’s no exploding deadline and nobody will chase you on day three to create a sense of urgency.

    If it’s a no: you get the actual reason and, if you want it, the notes from the exercise. Apply again in six months and we won’t hold it against you.

12 business days

Applying to offer, for every role on this page. Roughly five hours of your time, three of them paid, spread over two weeks so it fits around a job you already have. Need longer at any stage, for childcare, a vacation or anything else? Say so and we’ll move the dates. It has never lost anyone an offer.

And what we don’t do

  • No unpaid trials. If we ask you to do work, we pay for it. A "trial day" you fund yourself is us getting free labor and calling it an opportunity.
  • No take-home task that eats a weekend. Three hours, once, paid, and you keep it. Anyone asking you for a full brand system on spec is taking liberties.
  • No eight-stage interview. Two conversations and one exercise. Nobody is meeting a founder in stage seven to be asked where they see themselves in five years.
  • No trick questions. No whiteboard algorithms, no "sell me this pen", no puzzles about manhole covers. We ask you about the work you would be doing.
  • No ghosting. An answer at every stage, including the no, including after the exercise. If we’re slow you’ll hear that we’re slow.
  • No haggling over the band. The band is published on this page. The offer lands inside it and reflects the exercise, not how hard you push.

Open roles

No open roles right now

We aren’t recruiting at the moment, and we’d rather say so than leave a list of roles up that nobody can apply for. If you build websites, write for small businesses or work in local search, send us your work anyway at [email protected]. We read everything that arrives and we keep it on file for when a role does open.

Nothing here that fits? Send us your work anyway at [email protected]. With your permission we keep it for six months and write to you when something opens, and we delete it on request the day you ask. If you’d rather send work our way than come and do it, that is the partner program rather than a job.

What we offer

Ordinary things, done well

No slide about our mission. These are the terms, and they’re the same whichever of the six roles you take.

  • Salary Paid on the last business day of the month. Bands are published inside the company and on this page. Reviewed every twelve months in writing, whether or not you ask.
  • Paid time off 25 days plus the federal holidays. The studio closes between Christmas and New Year and those days are ours, not yours. It isn’t unlimited, because unlimited PTO is how people end up taking less.
  • Retirement A 401(k) with a 5% employer contribution, not a match you have to fund first, starting in your first month with no waiting period.
  • Sick leave Full pay for the first four weeks in any year, from day one, with no doctor’s note wanted for the first week.
  • Parental leave 13 weeks at full pay for the parent who gives birth or adopts, and four weeks at full pay for the other parent. From your first day, with no one-year wait, and separate from any unpaid job-protected leave you qualify for under FMLA.
  • Where you work Remote by default, because the work runs in writing. Travel to the studio for a team day is paid, including the flight and a hotel if it’s a long way.
  • Equipment A laptop of your choosing up to $2,000, a second screen and a proper chair delivered to your home if you work there. Replaced on request rather than on a schedule.
  • Learning $400 a year for books, courses, tools or a conference ticket, spent on your say-so with no approval form and no business case.
  • Two days for something else Two paid days a year to work for a charity or community group. If they need a website out of it, we’ll build them one and it won’t cost them the dollar either.
  • Notice One month either way after probation, and the same month for us as for you. Six-month notice periods are a way of trapping people and we don’t use them.

And what there isn’t

No equity, no share options and no promise of any. No ping-pong table, no beer fridge, no company retreat you’re expected to give a weekend to. No bonus scheme, because we’d rather the money was in the salary where you can plan around it. If those matter to you, that’s a fair reason to read a different careers page.

Applying

One email, fifteen minutes

There’s no application portal, no account to create and no set of nine competency boxes to fill in. There’s an inbox, and a person reads it.

Send it to

[email protected]

  • Put the role in the subject line so it reaches the right desk.
  • A resume, or a LinkedIn page, or nothing at all if your work speaks for itself.
  • A link to what you have made. For designers, writers and developers this is the part we read first.
  • A few lines on why this role. Three sentences beats three paragraphs, and a cover letter written by a chatbot is worse than no cover letter.

An answer within three business days, either way.

Do you work remotely?
Yes. The work runs in writing, so it doesn’t depend on everybody sitting in one room. When a role does open, whether it’s remote, hybrid or on site is stated on the role itself instead of being left to stage four of an interview.
How long does the hiring process take?
Twelve business days from your application to an answer, for every role on this page. That is two written conversations and one paid exercise, about five hours of your time in total, spread over two weeks so it fits around a job you already have.
Do I need a degree, or agency experience?
Neither, for any of the six. Nobody here has ever been asked for a qualification. What we read first is a link to something finished and live, and after that the exercise, which is the only part of the process that tells us what you can do on a Tuesday.
Do you sponsor visas?
Not at the moment, and we’d rather say so here than at stage four. You need the existing right to work in the United States, and you need to be living here, because the whole team is and the bands are set against the US market.
I need an adjustment to take part.
Tell us in the first email, or at any point after it, and we’ll make it. More time on the exercise, a different format for the questions, a written session instead of coming to the studio, a quiet room, anything else. We don’t ask you to explain why and it plays no part in the decision.
Can I apply for two roles?
Yes. Send one email, name both, and say which you would take if we offered you either. We won’t make you run the process twice.
What happens to my data?
Applications are kept for six months and then deleted, or deleted the day you ask us to, whichever comes first. They’re never passed to anyone outside DEVIQO. The privacy policy has the rest of it.
Are you hiring for anything not listed?
Sometimes, and the six above are the ones open today. If you’re a photographer, an illustrator or an operations person who has read this far and thinks you would fit, write anyway. It has worked before, and the about page is the best guide to whether you would enjoy it here.

One last thing, in case it helps you decide. We charge $1 for a website that takes a team of four people the better part of a week. The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size. Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. We make the money back slowly, over years, on that hosting. That only works if the sites are good and the people who own them stay. Everything on this page follows from that one fact. If you’d rather look at the work than read about it, the websites page is what a build contains, and the blog is what we have learned making them, a piece a week.

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