Careers
Interested in working on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic? There are a variety of opportunities to join our distributed company.
Location: Remote!
About us
WordPress VIP, part of Automattic (the open source powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, and much more), is the leading enterprise CMS, combining the unparalleled WordPress user experience with top-grade infrastructure and world-class support, and serving billions of web requests per day.
We help the world’s largest companies (including Meta, Salesforce, Al Jazeera, Capgemini, and hundreds more) create innovative experiences online. We give them the key insights they need to ensure that their content reaches its potential.
As some of the biggest brands on the web, our customers are often defining and evolving models for using WordPress at scale. The WordPress VIP team helps our customers get the most out of WordPress. We guide successful launches, monitor security and performance, develop tools to improve our platform, provide industry-leading customer support, maintain our growing global infrastructure, build strong customer relationships using our expertise, and more. And we’re the only enterprise WordPress platform that’s achieved FedRAMP authorization—the U.S. federal standard for cybersecurity risk management.
“Together, we weave a global narrative of innovation and excellence, and every day is a new opportunity to be extraordinary.”
AJ
We’re a diverse group of people from a wide variety of backgrounds who bring excellence in communication and problem-solving, plus a passion for learning. Our teams rely on skills in software engineering, sales and business development, product design, customer success, and more to help our customers and partners do amazing things with WordPress. Our company is completely distributed (remote-first and -only), so we work from anywhere we can find a good broadband connection, and we meet up a few times a year in different spots around the globe.
“I love how I can actively work on scaling WordPress for the enterprise sector and be amazed at what is possible with WordPress.”
Lucas Radke
About you
If you want to join the WordPress VIP team, you should be passionate about building partnerships; collaborating to solve complex problems; and helping innovative organizations run some of the most high-profile, high-traffic WordPress sites out there. You’re an amazing communicator. You’re proactive, you get things done with minimal or no direction, and you rarely pass up a chance to learn something new.
“My favorite thing about working at VIP is the sense of accomplishment when you help big organizations solve issues with their applications. Plus, you’re on a team with very, very smart people who are always willing to help out!”
Suyogya Shukla
We’re serious about increasing diversity in the tech industry. We want to build Automattic as an environment where people love their work and show respect and empathy to those with whom we interact. Diversity typically includes, but is not limited to, differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political and religious affiliation, socioeconomic background, cultural background, geographic location, physical disabilities and abilities, relationship status, veteran status, and age. To work on diversity means that we welcome these differences and strive to increase the visibility of traditionally underrepresented groups. Read more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
“I learn new things every day working on WordPress VIP—from my teammates, from clients and from the code. I’ve found WordPress VIP to be a place where I can bring my whole self to the job—the team’s diversity is a big part of our strength.”
Matt Perry
How to apply
First, read all about Automattic and working with us. You can send in your application to an individual role or share interest in one of our teams or focus areas on Automattic’s Work With Us page.
If you’re not ready to apply just yet, follow the WordPress VIP blog to stay up to date on our latest news.
About Automattic
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Texts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.
We’re a distributed company with 1,932 Automatticians in 95 countries speaking 119 different languages. We’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our goal is to democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.
We believe in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.
We strive to live by the Automattic Creed.
Diversity, equity, & inclusion at Automattic
We’re improving diversity in the tech industry. At Automattic, we want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all. We welcome differences and strive to increase participation from traditionally underrepresented groups. Our DEI committee involves Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change. For example, this group has helped facilitate private online spaces for affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly DEI People Lab series for further learning.
DEI is a priority at Automattic, though our dedication influences far more than just Automatticians: We make our products freely available and translate our products into and offer customer support in numerous languages. We require unconscious bias training for our hiring teams and ensure our products are accessible across different bandwidths and devices. Learn more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.
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