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BuddyX

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Come make boring products well

Sixty-one people in Portland, Chicago and at home. We make cleaners, so most of the job is chemistry, logistics and answering customers honestly.

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BuddyX team in the formulation lab

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What it’s like

Small team, unglamorous problems

Nobody here has a job title with the word “visionary” in it. The work is reformulating a degreaser so it passes without a solvent, or finding a pouch supplier who’ll take them back. If that sounds satisfying rather than tedious, we’ll get along.

We hire slowly and we say no clearly. Every candidate hears back from a person.

  • Real health cover

    Medical, dental and vision fully paid for you and dependants.

  • 4% match, day one

    No vesting cliff, no waiting period.

  • 20 days + shutdown

    Plus the week between Christmas and New Year, company-wide.

  • 16 weeks parental

    Same for every parent, however the child arrives.

  • Profit share

    Every employee, same percentage of salary.

  • Product, obviously

    A refill box on the house every month.

Open roles

8 open right now

Nothing fits? Send a note to jobs@buddyx.com — we read speculative applications properly.

Hiring process

Four conversations, three weeks

  1. 01

    Application

    A form and a CV. No cover letter unless you want to write one.

  2. 02

    Half-hour call

    With the hiring manager, not a recruiter reading a script.

  3. 03

    Paid exercise

    A real problem from our backlog. Three hours, compensated.

  4. 04

    Team day

    Meet the people you’d work beside. Ask us anything.

We pay for any take-home exercise and cap it at three hours. Salary ranges are on every posting because withholding them wastes everyone’s time.