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Nous is an intelligent assistant helping households manage their bills
- 21-100 employees
- Fintech
- B2C
- Energy
- Personal finance
- Farringdon, London, UK
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Company mission
Nous is on a mission to make life simpler and fairer by creating an intelligent assistant that helps UK households manage their bills, saving them money and time. We founded the business on the belief that its wrong to penalise people if they don’t have the capacity or inclination to ensure they’re always getting the fairest deal for basic utilities. Our response has been to create a service that takes care of this for them.
Our take
8 out of 10 households pay much more than they need for household services. Some households overpay by thousands of pounds each year. Nous is building a new consumer service that will fundamentally change the way we run our homes, revolutionising a market worth more than £100B just in the UK.
The founding team is a bunch of seasoned entrepreneurs who have built startups from scratch through to exits for hundreds of millions of dollars. They have turned household names like Ocado into unicorns, built world-class engineering teams at Facebook, and even advised and invested in other startups, and taught entrepreneurship at Harvard. They’ve now raised one of the biggest-ever seed rounds in Europe and are set to build a business that improves the lives of millions.
Nous is an early-stage start-up building a tech platform that brings together advanced decision-making heuristics and optimisation algorithms, automation technologies, and behavioural economics to make all our lives simpler and fairer.
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Benefits
- Generous equity with life-changing upside
- Stakeholder pension scheme, health and dental cash plan, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans and more...
- Office-first culture (based out of our HQ with free food and fantastic coffee in Farringdon) but with scope to work from home as required
- Regular team socials and meals, including volunteering opportunities with local charities
- The hardware and software you need to do your best work
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company values
- Change begins at home - You have more power than you think. Start with what you can control and soon you'll see the difference we can make
- Solve for people - We're on the side of people, tackling problems households can't or don't have time to fix alone
- Action this day - We're impatient for progress, we take purposeful action each day, and we resist inertia with every step
- Tech to power - By using tech to empower people and enhance their real lives, we hope also to help redeem its reputation
- Be good company - By using tech to empower people and enhance their real lives, we hope also to help redeem its reputation
- See through - We're making business more open, transparent, and responsible. And we won't give up the fight against unfairness
Leadership
Greg Marsh
(CEO)Founder and CEO of onefinestay, a pioneering accommodation startup they built from zero to a team of 700 and sold to a major hotel chain in a deal worth >$200m. Ex-VC @ Index & Angel investor.
Glen Walker
(COO)Co-founder, COO & CGO, and now a non-exec director at Trouva (successful marketplace startup, investors incl. Index, Local Globe, Octopus) Previously leadership team @ onefinestay, consultant @ McKinsey.
Jon Rudoe
(CCO)Ex Ocado - responsible for the whole of the retail business and scaled it 3x to £600m. Ran all of digital @ Sainsbury's. Lots of experience with mission-led companies & scaling subscription businesses.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at nous
Lydia Howland (Head of Service Design)
- We're committed to recruiting a diverse team - with a variety of different experiences and backgrounds - because we're building a service for a diverse audience and we want our team to represent the variety within our target market
- We already have a range of professional experiences, personal backgrounds and life stages represented amongst our colleagues, and we're keen to hear from anyone whose interests, expertise and ambition align with our mission and values
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Meaningful work (1)
Intelligent people (1)
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I joined nous because I wanted to help people and be proud of what we are trying to achieve. I am blown away by how much the company enforces being good and ensuring we are all on the side of the consumer.
Software Engineering
Meaningful work
Mar 2022
Being a small product team, a lot of responsibility for building the platform and making ideas become reality falls on our shoulders. I appreciate how much we are trusted to complete our job to the best of our ability and given all the resources to do so.
Software Engineering
Autonomy
Mar 2022
I love how much emphasis we put on developer experience; you should enjoy what you do and look forward to coming to work everyday. We make sure everyone is listened to and anything which makes your work-life better is quickly put to the top of the priority list.
Software Engineering
Tech & tools
Mar 2022
As soon I joined Nous, I was amazed by how resourceful my colleagues are. Everyone is talented in their own area of expertise, always thinking ahead and sharing their knowledge with the rest of the team.
Design
Intelligent people
Mar 2022
I joined a few months ago and the progression of the business is astonishing. Each week we are meeting new people, experimenting, testing and learning so many things to make our service strong for a large audience. Everyone can measure their impact on the growth of the business which is a strong motivation point.
Design
Growing fast
Mar 2022
It is really easy to have an open discussion and provide feedback about everything in the business, from small things about the office to our overall strategy. We have weekly catch ups and all-hands, plus the leadership team always makes time for regular one-to-one meetings with everyone in the company.
Design
My opinions are valued
Mar 2022
