OLIO
Careers at OLIO
OLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and our mission is to solve the problem of food waste in the home & local community, at scale. We do this by connecting anyone with spare food – which can be households or food businesses – with neighbours living nearby who would like it. Globally, over one third of all the food we produce gets thrown away, which is worth over $1 trillion; and in a country like the UK half of all food waste takes place in the home. OLIO solves this problem with our award-winning mobile & web app.
Over the past 7 years OLIO has grown from a local initiative in North London to a global movement. We now have just under 6 million users who have given away over 50 million portions of food, in 63 countries. OLIOers have also given away 5 million household items in our non-food section.
Underpinning OLIO’s incredible growth has been our volunteer programme, with over 75,000 people reaching out to spread the word about OLIO in their local community. We also work with over 4,500 business locations across the UK via our Food Waste Heroes Programme to enable them to have zero food waste locations.
We have a bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030, given that reducing food waste has been identified by Project Drawdown as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. Our work has been widely recognized, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” for the world, and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO "Next European Unicorn".
https://olioex.com/about/our-impact/
Escape's take on OLIO
We throw away millions of tonnes of food across the world every year, more than enough to feed the world, and yet that food never makes it to the hungry mouths. Olio are on a mission to change that, using technology to facilitate the sharing of food that would otherwise go to waste with others in your local communities. So far they've helped more than 9 million portions of food to be shared among neighbours, saving the planet the equivalent of more than 28 million car miles.Their eco credentials are sound, achieving one of the highest planet scores of any organisation that we reviewed as part of the Escape 100 campaign in 2021. But they don't just make the planet healthier, but the people who make up their ambitious team too. They received one of the highest 'people' scores of the campaign too, facilitating great work-life balance, focusing on inclusion and diversity in their team, and building an organisation where anyone's ideas are considered and valued. If you're looking for a remote gig with an incredible organisation, look no further!
Stats we are proud of
5.8m
Signed up OLIO users
76k
OLIO volunteer Ambassadors and Food Waste Heroes!
50m
Portions of food shared
146m
Car miles saved
Behind the scenes
Benefits & progressive ways of working
🌍 Flexible working
Working hours
Flex hours
Nomad friendly
Nomad - Anywhere
What the team says
Best for...
(as reviewed by current employees)
- 📣 Mission & Purpose 58
- 🏖 Flexibility 39
- 👩👧👧 Team members 31
- 👭 Inclusivity 24
- ⛑ Employee wellbeing 13
- 👻 Transparency 12
- 😎 Autonomy 9
- 🥰 Employee recognition 5
- 📖 Opportunities to learn 3
- ❤️ Benefits 2
- 🤩 Flat hierarchy 1
* Employees annoymously reviewed this organisation as part of our Escape 100: Top Organisations to escape to campaign.
- RB
Ruby B
Apr 2022
📣 Mission & Purpose
OLIO is 100% mission driven, everything we do works towards our goal!
👩👧👧 Team members
Colleagues are fantastic and all mission obsessed, this really aligns the whole team!
🏖 Flexibility
It's a remove first company, the freedom to work autonomously is really refreshing and encourages you to be super productive as well.
Overall
Working at OLIO is brilliant, we have incredibly inspirational co-founders, a hardworking and driven team and I couldn't imagine working anywhere else where I would feel I'm making as much impact! - JB
Jan Bernet
Mar 2022
🏖 Flexibility
I am working for OLIO in a very flexible way. Potentially not everyone works as flexibly as me, yet that has to do with my function in the team. Each week I am in touch with our ambassadors all around the UK, to whom I am sending out material. This includes letters, flyers, posters and things like Tote bags. These materials are sent to our amazing users and ambassadors, who are giving their best to spread the word, engage with their local community as well as are working with local shops in order to help them save food from going to waste, instead it is being shared with local members of the community, happy days, which are only possible through their prolific engagement. I work depending on the need, so I come into our office in London around once a week, where I work for as many hours as it needs, which usually comes to around 5-10 hours a week. This allows me to plan my week very flexibly. When I need to take a break/go on holiday, I can always share my plans and I am being treated very welcoming.
📖 Opportunities to learn
There is always something going on here to learn, there is not a week where I am not receiving an invitation for a zoom meeting with an interesting person having something interesting to say. Also, the owners and the management team, as well as much of the whole team, is very experienced in various fields of business, education, sustainability. We can always ask everyone, everything, there is no such thing as a wrong question, that's at least how it feels. So the opportunities to learn and grow, seem to me, very abundant.
👻 Transparency
Since I always felt and always feel that I can get in touch with anyone in the team, if I have certain questions, I can always feel good about just going for it, whenever I do, the answers I get are very transparent. The communication really does feel very transparent. I don't feel like anything is being hidden, which is a great feeling, and to me, very important when working in such an environment. I worked for various corporations in the past, often I felt differently, there was hidden agendas between employees, giving each other benefits, the team managers would not be clear with their communications, I always felt a lack of transparency, which often led to a bad gut feeling, which always eventually led to me leaving the company because of growing mistrust. This definitely doesn't feel like that here at OLIO where transparency is key.
Overall
The coolest thing to me is, as a person with some business experience, but not the greatest business experience, is to work so closely with the management team, I would be able to pick up valuable information by being part of interesting team meetings, where we would be able to be inspired and benefit directly from our managements shared insights into world affairs, business in general or ethics that is based on their long experience working in various fields. Coming from banking and finance, they took important business knowledge and combined it with personal ethics and human morals, to create a holistic approach to business making, that benefits all. How impressive. - B
Bruce
Feb 2022
Overall
Collaborative, lovely group with a great mission. User-focussed work driven by our values. Flexible working hours, nice holiday policy and the team is diverse.
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