The Mayday Team in 2024

At Mayday, we’re building automation tools and artificial intelligence to save finance teams from the pain of manual work, starting with multi-entity businesses that use Xero as their accounting system. We’re hyper ambitious with a huge long term vision.?

We’re now over two years into our journey. We had an incredible end to 2023. We grew our revenues by 2.7x in the fourth quarter, off the back of strong product-market fit. We raised an additional ￡1m of investment to be able to double the size of our team and accelerate to the next stage. We’re currently hiring for a Head of Marketing, someone to lead Product, in software engineering (both UK and Australia), a marketing and sales intern and a Founder Associate (more on those roles below).

We ended 2023 as a team of six. Six became seven at the start of 2024 with Jack Thiel joining us as our APAC Commercial Lead. Jack spent three weeks with us in January for onboarding. The final three days of that trip saw us all head to Barcelona for a team offsite to celebrate hitting our stretch goal in Q4.

Our Barcelona trip

It was such a fantastic trip.

Day One saw us visit the offices of Arbolus , our first ever customer back in 2022. Harriet and Alex have been so supportive of us over the last couple of years, so generous with their feedback. It was great to see them again and meet Yona, Wijdane and Seb. We split into teams for a finance function hackathon: mixing Mayday and Arbolus team members together to identify unmet needs for Arbolus as a finance function, and coming up with software solutions to solve them. There were brilliant ideas all round, with the winning idea for a flux analysis solution being so good that it has now been installed in our Mayday product vision! We followed that session with a lovely tapas dinner with the Arbolus team.

Day Two started with a team session on our long run vision followed by a rich session on our values of delight, ownership, curiosity, boldness and balance. We visited the Segrada Familia, before a 3-hour mosaic making class with MOSAICCOS which was such fun. We ended the day with dinner and a fantastic Flamenco show.

In advance of the trip, we’d all prepared our own 'user manuals' about how best to work with us as individuals. I’m so glad we invested the time to do this. It enriched our understanding of each other and how we can work together most effectively as a team. We spent two hours on the morning of Day Three speed dating over coffee discussing our user manuals. We then took a trip to the beautiful Park Güell, had our final lunch together before heading to the airport.

It was brilliant to be able to have this time together as a team and set ourselves up brilliantly for 2024.

What Now?

Griff and I are so proud of where we’ve got to as a team, and excited for where we get to go now.

We ran an anonymous net promoter score (NPS) survey in advance of the offsite. We scored 71 with no detractors (5/7 team members rated Mayday 9 or 10 in terms of their likelihood to recommend working here, 2/7 rated it 7 or 8). Good, but also room for improvement for us to get that 71 up to 100.

Adjectives that were used by more than one team member in describing what it’s like to work at Mayday were: collaborative, exciting, stretching, rewarding, flexible and challenging.

In doing a lot of recruitment recently, I’ve been asked for advice about working in a startup. I channeled that into this mini-series that I wrote recently with it’s posts about:

• Why Work For An Early-Stage Startup?
• When (in your career) To Work For An Early-Stage Startup
• How To Choose An Early-Stage Startup To Join

For the right person, Mayday offers an amazing, career-defining, place to work. Which brings me to the roles we’re currently recruiting for!

• Head of Marketing - Lead the building of our customer acquisition machine on top of the great product-market fit we already have!
• Product Manager - Join as our first Product Manager and help us shape the future of month end automation!
• Software Engineer (Aus) - Join our growing engineering team and help us build the next generation of accounting software!
• Software Engineer (UK) - Join our growing engineering team and help us build the next generation of accounting software!
• Internship in Marketing, Sales & Analytics - You'll get mentorship, flexible remote work, and will have real impact in a leading tech startup. It's not just an internship; it's your springboard into a thriving tech career!
• Founder Associate - dive into a dynamic role that spans sales, customer success, operations, and more

If you’re reading this and like the sound of working at Mayday (or know someone who does), please do get in touch! We’d love to have you with us on our next team offsite.