Creating the Space We Couldn’t Find in Tech.

Open Positions:

• Web Architect

Creating the Company We Always Wanted to Work for.

Consensus was born from conversations around what was missing in the tech industry, and what a dream company to work for would look like. We are a remote, cooperative and democratic organization, committed to consensus-based decision-making and open source advocacy. We value our humanity and autonomy as workers. We prioritize transparency and accountability, encouraging freedom to set our own schedules, priorities, and agendas.

We are a collective of individual professionals who wanted the flexibility of contract work with the structural resources and supportive teammates of a full-time in-house position. We have grown thoughtfully to establish a friendly and supportive culture.

It can be done. We are doing it.

We aren’t perfect. We are conscious of our relative uniformity (mostly white, majority men), but also celebrate our own diversity. We actively seek value in our different ideas, perspectives, skills, and experiences. Our awareness of this and commitment to changing it is what makes us special.

We are mission and values led as an organization. Before moving forward in your application, make sure you have a look at what we are about. Alignment is magic for making our small space on the internet flourish.

Core Competencies

Here are the primary characteristics that we look for in our teammates:

• Curiosity: The desire to know or learn new things.
• Empathy: The ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation.
• Initiative: The ability to use your judgment to make decisions and do things without needing to be told what to do.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness Spending Account
• Unlimited Sick Time
• Equipment Subsidy Program
• Flexible Hours of Work

We ♥ Open source

We are staunch Open source advocates and proud members of the Drupal community. Even as we expand our scope into more varied technologies, our guiding principle is Open. We promote Copyleft software, documentation, and culture. We stand in solidarity with each other and our communities.

What it’s like to work with us

We work entirely remotely, and we embody an overarching recognition that each of us have lives outside of work. We are humans first.

As we grow, we take responsibility for establishing a process that actively reduces bias and promotes diversity. More broadly, we aim to better reflect the diversity of our communities, making it a welcome facet of our team culture.

We strive to:

• Empower each worker to take initiative, responsibility and accountability over their work and working conditions;
• Recognize and reflect on our own personal Will to Power;
• Resist any individual exercise of authority over others; and
• Institutionalize mechanisms to ensure workplace democracy.

For more details, check out this interview with one of our founders, Dan Friedman

Clients

• Ontario Coalition of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)
• Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU)
• Ontario Digital Service (ODS)
• Drupal Association
• Shared Services Canada (SSC)
• Statistics Canada
• Health Canada
• Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
• The YMCA
• Peaceworks
• rabble.ca
• MeetGary.ca

Governance: Sociocracy

Sociocracy is the governance system we use as an organization. You can find more about it at Sociocracy for All, and we talk a bit about our internal process in this blog post about our Company Retreat.

Our Team

The Consensus team is a collection of experienced, vibrant, and varied professionals. Check out our team profiles!