Summary
Welcome to the “Head of Remote” resource link list. This site is intended to provide a repository of the best people to follow, resources to reference, and tools to utilize in leading a remote-first implementation or transformation in a company of any size. This site was inspired by GitLab's "Head of Remote" page. It reminded me of the old remote-only.org page, and this site is meant to be a straight link list similar to the 2019 version of Remote - Only (dot) org before it became The Remote Playbook written by Darren Murph and Jessica “JJ” Reeder.
Note from the maintainer:
I became a successful remote job seeker, worker, leader and eventually HEAD OF REMOTE thanks to the Gitlab Handbook and the excellent summary and curation thereof by by Darren Murph and Jessica “JJ” Reeder in The Remote Playbook. I invite you to join Gitlab, Darren, Jessica, myself and many of the other names below in #LearningOutLoud in the true open source spirit of collective wisdom building.
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Maintained by:
This site is maintained by Tyler Sellhorn (LinkedIn, Twitter), former Head of Remote and host of "The Remote Show" from We Work Remotely. If you'd like to pitch Tyler to appear on "The Remote Show" you can do so here.
Remote Leaders
Heads of Remote (or similar)
🟢Jessica “JJ” Reeder (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Upwork’s mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives has taken us so much further. As a result, we've become the world's work marketplace where every day businesses of all sizes and independent talent from around the globe meet here to accomplish incredible things.
✨Darren Murph (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🔷Annie Dean (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Atlassian makes tools like Jira and Trello that are used by thousands of teams worldwide. And we're serious about creating amazing products, practices, and open work for all teams.
- Are you hiring a director of remote work? Here’s why Facebook did
🟥Chase Warrington (LinkedIn, Twitter)
👑Valentina Thörner (LinkedIn)
💎Mikaila Read (LinkedIn)
📗Niamh McGarty (LinkedIn)
🔸Leigh Staub (LinkedIn)
🐉Maria Chardakis (LinkedIn)
⛵Tyler Sellhorn (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🍦Rachel Russell (LinkedIn)
🌱Alaina (Garcia) Dexheimer (LinkedIn)
🗃️Paul McKinlay (LinkedIn)
🗃️Andy Bowen (LinkedIn)
🟠Meaghan (Wall) Williams (LinkedIn)
✈️Stephanie Lee (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Formerly Remote Lead at cargo.one
- cargo.one is a booking platform that gives you access to real-time prices and available capacities of multiple airlines.
🐦Tracy (Still) Hawkins (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Former VP of Work Transformation at Twitter
🦪Rhys Black (LinkedIn, Twitter)
📱Lara Owen, FMP, SFP (LinkedIn, Twitter)
📱Justin Tomlin (LinkedIn)
👍👍Jennifer Wilson (LinkedIn)
- Dell’s story began with a belief and a passion: that everybody should have easy access to the best technology anywhere in the world.
🩴Kenneth Hellem (LinkedIn)
0️⃣Samantha Fisher (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Okta is the World's #1 Identity Platform and is consistently named a leader by major analyst firms. Trusted by 14,000+ customers to secure digital interactions and accelerate innovation.
📦Terry Tran (LinkedIn)
📦Alastair Simpson (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🕴️Shannon Hardy (LinkedIn)
Remote Company Leaders
⚪Job van der Voort (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🦊Sid Sijbrandij (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- GitLab accelerates modern DevOps. Bring velocity with confidence, security without sacrifice, and visibility into DevOps success.
- CEO page on GitLab Handbook
- CEO Shadow Program page on GitLab Handbook
🦊Laurel Farrer (LinkedIn)
- Former CEO, Distribute
- Forbes bylines
- Laurel's appearance on "The Remote Show"
- Distribute
- Personal Website
🕸️Matt Mullenweg (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Automattic is the parent company of WordPress.com, Tumblr, Day One, WooCommerce, Jetpack, WP VIP, VaultPress, Akismet, Longreads, Simplenote, Happy Tools, and Gravatar.
- Automattic company about page
- Distributed.blog podcast featuring Matt
- Appearance on "The Remote Show”
♦️Alex Bouaziz (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Deel is the platform built for today's world of work. With Deel you can hire anyone in a new country in minutes and automate onboarding, payroll, and compliance. Deel is a world-class experience for your business and entire international team.
🦪Tony Jamous (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Oyster helps you hire, pay, and provide benefits to your team across borders. Oyster helps you manage HR and payroll, and automate compliance across 180+ countries -all in one, easy-to-use platform.
- Tony’s appearance on “The Remote Show”
- Tony’s personal site
🦪Kim Roher (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Oyster helps you hire, pay, and provide benefits to your team across borders. Oyster helps you manage HR and payroll, and automate compliance across 180+ countries -all in one, easy-to-use platform.
- Oyster blog
✖️Gonçalo Hall (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- NomadX is a European accommodation marketplace for remote work travelers and digital nomads with over 11k listings across 18 countries with stays for 2 weeks to 12 months and average stays of 3 months.
🦬Joel Gascoigne (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Buffer is the most intuitive, affordable, and authentic way to reach more people on social media.
- Joel’s appearance on "The Remote Show”
🦬Hailley Griffis (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Buffer is the most intuitive, affordable, and authentic way to reach more people on social media.
- Making Work Work is a podcast by two friends from across the Atlantic who immediately bonded over the work around the work and kept the conversation going around growing their careers, doing creative work, and striving to be better.
🧊Hrefna Helgadóttir (LinkedIn, Twitter)
📙Katie Burke (LinkedIn, Twitter)
⭕Mercer Smith (LinkedIn)
- Also the author of Remote Company Culture
⚙️Wade Foster (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Zapier is an API integration and automation platform.
☕Darren Buckner (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Workfrom builds unconventional tools to gather, work, and be inspired—from anywhere.
- Darren's appearance on "The Remote Show" from We Work Remotely
- Darren's appearance on "Founder Interview" from Techstars
🗺️John Lee (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- The Work From Anywhere Compliance Framework
- Also: Co-Founder and COO at CultureMee. CultureMee opens your eyes to cultural and emotional intelligence.
❇️Natalie Nagale (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Wildbit is a small software company that believes business should be human.
Remote Thought Leaders
💡Tammy Bjelland (LinkedIn)
🍀Brian Elliot (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Future Forum enables leaders to reimagine work through data and dialogue, to create a people-centric and digital-first future of work. Slack is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
- Harvard Business Review, It’s Time to Free the Middle Manager
- Harvard Business Review, WFH Doesn’t Have to Dilute Your Corporate Culture
- Fortune, Reimagining the C-suite for a digital-first world
- Fast Company, The Great Resignation antidote that costs companies nothing
🍀Sheela Subramanian (LinkedIn)
- Harvard Business Review, Why Flexible Work Is Essential to Your DEI Strategy
- Fast Company, Remote work is the cruel new ally in the War on Working Moms
- Inc., What You Need to Know About the 'I Refuse' Movement Among Employees
🍀Helen Kupp (LinkedIn)
- Forbes, Are You Ready For Seismic Changes In The Workplace?
- Inc., Slack Research Reveals These 3 Strategies Can Make Hybrid Workforces More Successful
- Fast Company, Why the 9-to-5 schedule has lost its place in the workplace
- Next Big Idea Club, How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives
🍀Christina Janzer (LinkedIn)
🏢Dave Cairns (LinkedIn)
- CBRE is the global leader in commercial real estate services and investments.
🧑🏫Nick Bloom (LinkedIn)
Co-founder of:
🪑Ryan Anderson (LinkedIn)
- Miller Knoll leverages the power of design to improve people's lives (especially furniture)
- “Hybrid is Hard” appearance on “Late Night IT” with Baratunde Thurston and Kate Lister
Consultants
🏙️Kate Lister (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Appearance on "The Remote Show”
- “Hybrid is Hard” appearance on “Late Night IT” with Baratunde Thurston and Ryan Anderson
- Global Workplace Analytics
🦆Darcy Boles (LinkedIn)
🚣Rowena Hennigan (LinkedIn)
Rowena works as an Educator, Speaker and Consultant based in Zaragoza, Spain.
"Being productive when you work and travel - "Becoming a Digital Nomad" - Released June
🟧Marisa Goldberg (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🟦Phil Kirschner (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🟣Daphnée Laforest
Podcast Host:
🕶️Lance Robbins (LinkedIn)
🎤Scott Markovits (LinkedIn)
🏖️Mitko Karshovski (LinkedIn)
🇬🇧Pilar Orti (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🇬🇧Maya Middlemiss (LinkedIn, Twitter)
👤Peter Du Toit (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🏁Molood Ceccarelli (LinkedIn, Twitter)
↔️Dr. Karen Sobel Lojeski (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🎒Iwo Szapar (LinkedIn, Twitter)
6️⃣Ben Whitter(LinkedIn, Twitter)
- HEX Organization exists to help you build the knowledge, skills, and advanced capabilities that are urgently required for the modern human-centred professional & brand leader.
🎵Art Lapinsch (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- remote fabric is a knowledge and product studio for remote teams
🔤Chris Dyer (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- PeopleG2 has been a nationwide leader in background checks and drug testing since 2001
Authors
💡Lisette Sutherland (LinkedIn, Twitter)
👩🏽🏫Tsedal Neely (LinkedIn, Twitter)
⬇️Scott Dawson (LinkedIn, Twitter)
🏡Ali Greene (LinkedIn)
- Remote Works was co-written by Tamara Sanderson (LinkedIn)
🐻Tamara Sanderson (LinkedIn)
- Remote Works was co-written by Ali Greene (LinkedIn)
Other Remote Leaders
Resources for Heads of Remote
Community
Links
🦊Head of Remote: how to hire, job postings, job description, courses, and certifications (GitLab Guide)
🦊All-remote (GitLab Guide, the new GitLab branded version of the old Remote-Only dot org)
🗺️The Work From Anywhere Compliance Framework (Tax and employment compliance considerations for companies considering international mobility policies for their workforce)
Tools
Small Stacks tool repository from Tammy Bjelland