Lead Product Designer, Howbout
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
The social app to keep up with friends based on how they spend their time.
Job no longer available
The social app to keep up with friends based on how they spend their time.
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To redefine Gen Z's relationship with time.
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Company mission
To redefine Gen Z's relationship with time.
31% female employees
Our take
Howbout is a social calendar app looking to take the stress out of planning private trips, outings, and meetups. Users can synch calendars from other sources and with each other to check availability, make plan pages with dedicated chats, and add polls, maps, and even event countdowns.
For a social app launched over the pandemic period of prohibited in-person meetings, Howbout has demonstrated remarkable growth in evolving into a calendar app that revolves around circles of friends. It currently has over 4 million downloads worldwide and users in over 125 different countries, generating hugely positive customer reviews.
This is a big coup: customer onboarding is a key obstacle for any app requiring high levels of uptake amongst social circles. Especially given people’s predisposition to using simpler (if less efficient) means like WhatsApp group chats.
This issue may have been what caught out similar social planning app MESH, which was launched in the early 2010s and appears to have fallen off. Howbout has had a strong start with an impressive Series A and awards under its belt. Today’s social media climate is perhaps more inclined towards leveraging different forms of social media so this high-growth company could be the one to break through.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous share option package
- Opportunity to shape the direction of a high-growth startup as one of its earliest employees
- Regular company events with a social team
- Day off in your birthday week and extra annual leave for every year at Howbout
- Professional development budget to support training, skills & progression
- Social allowance - £500 per year to spend on plans with friends
- Remote working policy to allow you to work abroad
- Forward-thinking, enhanced employee wellbeing policies
- + more as we continue to put in place additional benefits and perks
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2024
$8m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$2.4m
SEED
Total funding: $11.2m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Neil Tanna
(CEO)Ex-corporate lawyer focused on the tech sector, Neil heads up our product & business vision. Previously awarded “Student Leader of the Year” at University of Exeter.
Duncan Cowan
(CTO)Duncan worked as a spacecraft engineer before Neil convinced him that co-founding Howbout would be as exciting as putting satellites in the sky.
Jake Jenner
(CFO)Ex-investment banker turned private equity investor, Jake’s focused on harnessing & applying our data, analytics and trends as well as our financials & forecasting.