About Tandem

Empty offices, endless Zoom meetings, what’s that you say about “hybrid work”?

We’re on a mission to bring human connection back to work by making the hybrid office a reality. Founded in early 2023, we’re a venture-backed startup spun out of Stanford that matches like-minded companies to share office space. The result: lively, energized office space — with people you know and trust — without all the waste.

So far we have 250+ companies in our ‘match pool’ and have paying customers in the Bay Area, LA and NYC, with >$1M in annual rent volume running through us. Tandem was founded by Rafi Sands (Bain, Pano, Marqeta, Stanford GSB), Brendan Suh (Bain) and Kristen Gallogly (CBRE). We’re backed by Soma Capital and supported by Stanford Professor Nick Bloom.

What We're Looking For...

Acting almost like “recruiters for office space”, today we are hands-on in every detail of the transaction — matching compatible companies, negotiating space pricing, drafting legal agreements, billing monthly license fees, etc. This has allowed us to rapidly learn what demand wants and how to serve it.

We’re now at the point where it’s time to leverage technology to build a customer-friendly, scalable service model.

So far we’ve relied mostly on outsourced engineers to help us build ad-hoc tech solutions (such as our website and CRM integration), and we’re now looking for a fourth partner to join the team.

This person will:

1. Listen and learn from our early customers in order to think strategically about what to build and in what order
2. Translate broad / high-level technology needs into an actionable roadmap
3. Execute - managing outsourced engineer(s), or, in many cases, building yourself

Can you help us with one of these problems?

• Build a matching algorithm to turn our scrappy Google-sheets/Hubspot/morning-standup routine into an automated process
• Build an AI agent to cut a 20-hour/100-email-per-deal highly manual servicing process in half
• Build a “smart onboarding” process for potential Hosts to quickly share information about their space and sign our terms of service
• Build a multi-party tour optimization tool that helps Hosts and Seekers coordinate office tours and next steps
• Build a Slack bot that helps newly-moved-in companies get to know each-other, understand terms of space use, and triage issues that come up

We’re open to contract/part-time work, with the intent to find a full-time founding engineer by June

The ideal candidate would have:

• Skillset

  • ENGINEERING: Full-stack experience including frontend web development and backend customer data management
  • PRODUCT: Ability to empathize with customers and think strategically about what to build and why

• Character

  • Go-getter with extreme levels of ownership and an A+ positive / get-shit-done attitude
  • Team player who takes responsibility and finds THRILL in CHALLENGE!

• Experience

  • Experience working at a large / reputable technology company + ideally, some time working in a small team / startup environment
  • An interest in taking career risk and experiencing the early stage roller-coaster in a supportive environment

Our tech stack today:

• Next.js / Typescript front end
• Node / Express / GraphQL powering our backend

We will provide:

1. Meaningful equity in the business as a member of the founding team
2. Hard working & extremely supportive + kind team
3. Chance to have ownership over building something from 0 to 1 in a space with existing / proven demand

If you’re interested…

If you’re interested, please send a short email telling us why. Rafi Sands at rafi@tandem.space.