Founders Charter

Founders Charter

Our purpose is making life better for people at work.

Intent - in pursuing this purpose, we also intend to:

  • Make life exceptionally good for the people of Joyous
  • Build a new category of software, and the best product in that category.
  • Create an iconic New Zealand headquartered business: sustainable, global and economically significant.
  • Structure the business to stay true to its purpose over time.
  • Be caring about each other, our shared values and our planet.

Principles - things that we do differently to others

  • We prioritise based on our purpose. Does it make life better for people at work?
  • We focus on user success - people at work and their leaders.
  • Our customers will end up being successful if together we focus on the success of their people.
  • We market to people at work and their leaders first, buyers second.
  • We are product-driven. Our value is built on engineering, design, science and brand.
  • We sell the product we have, not the one we’d like to build, to large enterprises.
  • We are and will grow as an agile organisation of cross-functional team(s).*

Aspirations - things we want to be recognised for:

  • Impacting employer choice: People prefer to work at organisations that use Joyous.
  • The archetype and leader in a new category.
  • A large employer that offers an exceptional employee experience.
  • Engineering leadership, and active contribution back to the tech community.
  • The people of Joyous learn and grow faster than they could elsewhere.

Our purpose is making life better for people at work.

Intent - in pursuing this purpose, we also intend to:

  • Make life exceptionally good for the people of Joyous
  • Build a new category of software, and the best product in that category.
  • Create an iconic New Zealand headquartered business: sustainable, global and economically significant.
  • Structure the business to stay true to its purpose over time.
  • Be caring about each other, our shared values and our planet.

Principles - things that we do differently to others

  • We prioritise based on our purpose. Does it make life better for people at work?
  • We focus on user success - people at work and their leaders.
  • Our customers will end up being successful if together we focus on the success of their people.
  • We market to people at work and their leaders first, buyers second.
  • We are product-driven. Our value is built on engineering, design, science and brand.
  • We sell the product we have, not the one we’d like to build, to large enterprises.
  • We are and will grow as an agile organisation of cross-functional team(s).*

Aspirations - things we want to be recognised for:

  • Impacting employer choice: People prefer to work at organisations that use Joyous.
  • The archetype and leader in a new category.
  • A large employer that offers an exceptional employee experience.
  • Engineering leadership, and active contribution back to the tech community.
  • The people of Joyous learn and grow faster than they could elsewhere.

Our purpose is making life better for people at work.

Intent - in pursuing this purpose, we also intend to:

Principles - things that we do differently to others

Aspirations - things we want to be recognised for: