Angela Raiford, Chief of Workers
Angela helps Patreon’s Operations and Advertising groups working to drive organizational excellence and foster workforce engagement by a dynamic working cadence. She additionally leads the Characterize ERG for folks of coloration at Patreon.
What’s most rewarding about working at Patreon?
In my spare time, I really like tackling new handcrafts, so it’s a enjoyable expertise discovering new creators and watching them develop, due to their utilization of membership. We’re engaged on providers which have improved creators’ lives and have impressed thousands and thousands of patrons. That’s unimaginable.
What’s the perfect piece of recommendation you’ll share with somebody who’s becoming a member of the Patreon workforce?
Discover the tailwinds. That’s the key to success wherever. Steady exhibits of worth and progress will allow each your profession development and worth creation for creators and patrons.
Ellen Satterwhite, US Coverage Lead
Ellen works on Communications and Coverage at Patreon.
Our core values assist carry our mission to life. Which of Patreon’s core values stands out to you most?
Considered one of our core values is “Put Creators First.” That resonates for me as a result of I consider in making tech work for folks, not the opposite means round. That’s what’s so thrilling to me about what Patreon is doing; serving to creators make the most of the technological advances of the final a number of a long time to pursue their passions and construct these superb communities. And serving to folks be compensated pretty and with dignity for his or her work is inspiring and never simply one other job.
What’s most rewarding about working at Patreon?
We’re creating one thing solely new with a few of the most gifted folks I’ve ever labored with. That’s motivating, thrilling, and an attention-grabbing puzzle to unravel.
Zoë Gordin, Software program Engineer
Zoë is a part of our Creator Instruments workforce, constructing software program to allow creators to know, handle, and develop their enterprise on Patreon. As a backend engineer, she works on designing and constructing the info fashions and APIs that energy these options.
What excited you about Patreon and in the end led you to hitch?
I’ve been a Patreon consumer since 2017 when one in all my favourite podcasts began posting an additional episode each week on the platform. Many different podcasts I’m a fan of have adopted, and I’ve beloved seeing how creating on Patreon has allowed podcast hosts and plenty of different creators to flourish, create content material they love, and construct neighborhood with their followers. I jumped on the alternative to hitch Patreon and construct software program to assist creators succeed.
Which of Patreon’s core values stands out to you most?
I really like that our core worth, Construct With Craft turns all of us into creators. I’ve by no means thought-about myself as being very artistic, however working at Patreon has taught me that my work is my craft — constructing the perfect instruments and options for creators requires cross-functional teamwork, fast resolution making, and assembly excessive requirements of excellence. Specializing in constructing with craft has each helped me develop as an engineer and helped my workforce to ship the perfect work potential to creators.
Ngoc Sotelo, Director, Design
Ngoc leads our Development Product Design workforce, targeted on serving to creators get began and develop on Patreon. She additionally leads UX Content material Design, a self-discipline inside Design that makes use of the facility of phrases to craft clear and compelling consumer experiences.
What’s the perfect piece of recommendation you’ve obtained in your profession?
As a naturally quiet individual, I confronted some imposter syndrome early in my administration profession. I noticed leaders because the outspoken, loud voice within the room. My supervisor on the time inspired me to lean into my very own strengths and magnificence, and I’ve come to like that I may be an instance of soft-spoken and efficient management. Do it your means, for you – don’t measure success in opposition to another person’s concept of success.
What’s most rewarding about working at Patreon?
It’s an thrilling time to be constructing for creators, and you’ll really feel it within the air, in each dialog, and in each doc. Not solely are all of us laser-focused on making the world higher for creators, however we’re additionally having enjoyable and constructing significant relationships alongside the best way.
Sarah Penna, Senior Supervisor, Creator Partnerships
Sarah leads our Creator Partnerships workforce. She’s additionally a co-lead for our Sprouts ERG, which helps mother and father at Patreon.
What challenges have you ever been most excited to sort out since becoming a member of?
The Creator Financial system is absolutely heating as much as the concept of membership, and my workforce is entrance strains in serving to to coach {the marketplace} on why membership is a must have vs. a nice-to-have for creators. I really like coming to work each day to work with a few of the smartest, most collaborative folks to sort out this problem.
What’s the perfect piece of recommendation you’ve obtained in your profession?
Uplift others and rent folks smarter than you in skillsets you don’t have. I discover that individuals’s egos can get in the best way after they’re in management positions – they are often scared of getting people who’re smarter than them within the room or default to considering they must be the loudest or take credit score for others’ concepts. I attempt to domesticate a management fashion that empowers and helps my colleagues whereas acknowledging my very own data gaps. This philosophy has yielded optimistic outcomes for me, and I’ve noticed many like-minded leaders at Patreon take an identical method.
Vertika Srivastava, Software program Engineer
Vertika is at present engaged on Patreon’s experimentation framework and processes to allow higher and quicker A/B testing. She additionally spends time mentoring and on Range and Inclusion initiatives.
What first you within the Creator Financial system?
Creating and experiencing artwork, particularly dance, music, and writing, has all the time been a big a part of my life. I really like figuring out that the work I’m doing helps construct a extra sustainable monetary path for creators.
Emily Lakin, Head of Creator Neighborhood
Emily leads the Neighborhood pillar of our Creator Growth workforce, the place we offer the assets and peer connections to assist creators really feel much less remoted of their journey and supported to attain their objectives.
What’s the perfect piece of recommendation you’ve obtained in your profession?
“Know what fulfills you in your work and the legacy you wish to depart in your job.” For me, probably the most fulfilling a part of my work is creating experiences that carry folks collectively whereas serving to them domesticate a higher understanding of themselves and their connection to the bigger world.
I’m lucky to work with gifted and passionate individuals who care in regards to the function creativity performs in our society. After I started operating neighborhood applications at Patreon, I developed A. Membership (peer accountability golf equipment), which has related creators for significant conversations throughout 70 nations so far. Now that I’m main a workforce, I’m constructing on this legacy to assist extra of our creator neighborhood discover and help one another by the work of our Creator Growth workforce.
Hayley Rosenblum, Head of On-line Neighborhood
Hayley oversees the Official Patreon Creator Neighborhood Discord server, the place creators can join, help, collaborate, and develop with each other on-line. Hayley can also be co-chair of Patreon’s Intersections Worker Useful resource Group, whose mission is to help, join and promote allyship for underrepresented genders at Patreon.
Which of Patreon’s core values stands out to you most?
I’m an enormous believer and practitioner of Patreon’s core worth Put Creators First. Previous to becoming a member of Patreon, I spent a few years as an integral a part of musician Amanda Palmer’s unbiased administration and label workforce, the place I managed her fan neighborhood and Patreon web page. This provides me a singular perspective in representing Patreon’s creator neighborhood as I advocate to inside groups in order that creators’ wants, concepts, and views may be integrated into our work. Creators are the “why” behind all the pieces we do at Patreon, and I respect that it’s deeply ingrained into our tradition and firm mission by this core worth.
Melissa Montgomery, Senior Director of Accounting
Melissa’s workforce runs our inside day-to-day accounting and monetary operations, which spans from getting distributors paid to producing our month-to-month monetary outcomes.
What excited you about Patreon and in the end led you to hitch?
Patreon is within the midst of adjusting the best way folks make a dwelling on a a lot bigger scale. The alternatives Patreon supplies to creators are opening doorways that they by no means imagined. We’re inspiring youthful generations to fully rethink what it means to have a profession as a creator. For all of these causes, I wished to be a part of an organization that’s really evolving our tradition and transferring us ahead.
What’s the perfect piece of recommendation you’ve obtained in your profession?
A mentor of mine as soon as cautioned me on how folks of their careers might assume their profession steps ought to match completely like items of a puzzle. It caught with me as a result of a profession is a journey, and you’ll’t all the time pressure it. Generally alternatives fall into place, generally they don’t. However, each alternative I’ve ever had is one thing I’ve discovered from – good or dangerous – and we be taught or change from it. This small piece of recommendation helped me to give attention to what I’m studying and rising from and to be affected person on the journey.
Val Sales space, Software program Engineer
Val is a part of our Frontend Platform workforce, writing code for Patreon.com. She’s constructing frameworks that assist her coworkers write options; suppose tooling to allow higher Typescript checking or the a part of the tech stack that ensures you obtain Patreon.com from the web rapidly.
What’s completely different about constructing for creators?
I’m studying about new creators we help on a regular basis, and our creators are far more various than solely the highest YouTubers or podcasters I anticipated to come across after I joined. Patreon had Rock M Sakura host a drag bingo on the workplace, we’ve a rising group of 3D miniature file artists, and one in all my teammates helps a creator who teaches her woodworking.
What excited you about Patreon and in the end led you to hitch?
Whereas I used to be interviewing with Patreon, a creator I help, Brian David Gilbert shared his ideas about his first yr being unbiased on Patreon, which resonated with me. Due to the help from his patrons, he might make wacky area of interest content material, be choosy about advert offers, and pay collaborators. Now that I work at Patreon, I’ve a second option to help him and different superior creators like The Free Black Ladies’s Library and the Cat Man of West Oakland.
Molly Hayden, Senior Government Assistant
Molly helps executives in our Finance, Operations, and Advertising groups. She’s additionally the co-lead for Intersections, ERG for minority and underrepresented genders.
What’s most rewarding about working at Patreon?
Supporting creators and placing them first in each single resolution we make. With out them, there is no such thing as a us. I’m grateful to come back to a job that I really like with extremely gifted folks each day.
Lindsey Sanford, Senior Director of Worker Expertise
Lindsey works on creating an interesting worker expertise and constructing connections within the enterprise between our office expertise, IT, inside communications, and our D&I technique. What this implies is tackling troublesome issues like inclusion, our range efforts, and the way forward for work.
What first you within the Creator Financial system?
As I began researching the chance at Patreon, it ignited a fireplace within me. That sounds cliche, however there’s one thing uniquely particular about discovering your neighborhood – it makes you are feeling included and makes you are feeling at house. Constructing an organization of intensely curious people who find themselves all pushed to make a distinction on the earth – one which revolves round serving to folks construct communities the place they’re embraced, accepted, and celebrated – that’s actually particular.
What’s it like working at Patreon?
Patreon has plenty of hurdles forward of us – however you’re operating a race with a gaggle of extremely gifted individuals who wish to make a distinction on the earth. You’re going to hit blockers and immense challenges in an surroundings that’s hungry to make a change. Which means the tempo is quick, and also you won’t all the time have all the data you need, all of the solutions to the questions – nevertheless it’s that frenetic tempo and power that retains me coming again to my desk day after day.
