Howdy folks, I look after a team responsible for R&D and AI within a much larger, financially successful / bootstrapped SaaS company. In the new year I'll be hiring and/or building more Haskellers.

# hypothesis

there is a huge pool of people out there wanting to do Haskell as their day job and use it build real products that make money. This is a way companies can solve their talent acquisition problems.

# timebox & decision

I'm not currently hiring at the moment but please leave your digits at https://ghuntley.com/im-hiring and when I am you'll be on the shortlist of people to catch up with before publicly advertising any positions.

# implementation

- stimulating work at a SaaS product company w/competitive renumeration and perks (inc flexible working)

- existing knowledge of functional programming not required as new faces bring new perspectives and ideas.

- building an inclusive (gender, sexuality, neuro, kids/no-kids) aka diverse team that teaches and shares knowledge freely

- usage of functional programming in the industry to build products that make money

- optimising for approachable codebases that are easy understand and work with

- regular deployments into production (min once a day) with appropriate telemetry

- building local and international brand awareness by:

  - contributing back to open-source projects (financially & labour contributions) 

  - teaching people who attend the https://www.meetup.com/SydneyHaskell/ study group

  - authoring technical content on medium

  - attracting and building public speakers by supporting them via T&E

# goal & success metric

build a short-list of people who:

- are currently doing functional programming OR are interested in switching to Haskell / functional programming

- live in Sydney, Australia or Chicago, Illinois and/or would consider a relocation to Sydney, Australia or Chicago, Illinois.

hiring candidates from this short-list or through word of mouth recommendations based upon activities our team does in the community