People Power: Hiring and Developing Your Success

On this week’s episode, we take you back to one of the panels we hosted on the SaaStock17 stage. Benedicte de Raphelis Soissan, founder of Clustree, Phil Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Peakon, and Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder and COO of Aircall discus the power of people, and how to hire, keep and develop people for the success of the company.

Benedicte shares how she has grown Clustree to 25 people in the past three years, carefully crafting a hiring plan and an idea who is a right fit.

Phil eludes to the importance of alignment, which Peakon has aimed to get from the first moment and has scaled to 70 people spread between three offices.

Jonathan shares how Aircall has developed an outcome based onboarding process, where every employee has a bespoke and detailed plan, making sure that they get quickly on track with everything they need to know and be able to execute.

Listen on to hear:

• What are the recruiting processes of three of the most exciting European SaaS companies
• How to onboard people so they feel part of the organisation and can quickly deliver
• How to transcend company culture through geographical boundaries
• How to create the company values and get a buy in from people
• When is the right time to establish remote teams

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