Valerie Krämer
Co-founder
Running Remote Community is a membership for remote-first leaders building & scaling their companies while getting the support they need, when they need it.
People who actively run remote operations for their established companies of min 5+ employees. Whether you’ve been remote-first from the start or just transitioning now it’s a place for you. Founders who are scaling & building their business and need help with remote management.
Executives who “design work” to enable employees to bring their best to the job every day. They are pro-actively involved in shaping strategic decisions around work by understanding high-level business objectives and crucial aims for remote-first companies.
Executives who are focused on making remote work as easy and rewarding as possible for the company’s employees. People who serve as a cross-functional internal consultant to evolve key pillars e.g. L&D, knowledge management, and onboarding so that each function becomes more effective in a distributed setting.
Every member of our diverse community has been in your shoes. They’ve built remote companies like TaxJar, HelpScout, Insured Nomads, Time Doctor, and Forshay, MURAL. They understand the struggle of building and running a remote-first company.
Join a community that has your back whenever you need
Get access to a community of remote-first leaders for immediate support & first-hand advice
Participate in curated peer-to-peer masterminds to help you resolve challenges & achieve goals
Join Ask Me Anything events with industry experts & ask your burning questions live
Week-long async AMA with senior, experienced remote-first founders & leaders in our Slack workspace
Get tailored connections with other members of the community based on your unique challenges
Get a FREE ticket to the live Running Remote conference in 2023 (applies to yearly membership)
Get access to an ever-growing curated library of tips & advice shared by other members
A highly interactive deep-dive workshops into practical tips, concrete tools, frameworks, methods, and strategies to solve common challenges remote companies face
Every 3 months, we bring in an expert to dive into advanced topics that you can’t find anywhere else.
This is your ticket into a conversation with some of the most successful remote-first founders and executives.
Previous speakers include:
Join yourself or invite your team as these events are open to the public.
Join us in October to discuss the transition of enterprise companies towards remote & hybrid work. For the past two years, Paul has led the transition from being remote-averse to a remote-first model with great results:
90% of their employees would recommend Cimpress/Vista for an outstanding remote work environment
Job applications have grown 300% since they went remote.
63% of team members say working here feels like a masterclass in remote working that will help them for the rest of their careers.
At the heart of the Running Remote community is our Slack workspace for remote-first founders. That’s where:
We work together during a monthly live video group coaching session with the structure and focus you need to resolve your challenges.
A private Slack channel gives members always-on support and an easy way to keep up the momentum created together during live sessions.
Get practical tips and guidelines in a safe environment from individuals who’ve been there.
We invest a lot of effort in carefully curating each cohort to make sure you level-up.
From building remote hiring, communication and collaboration, team engagement through to remote tools & payroll, you’ll find over 200 advice & recommendations by the likes of HotJar, Doist, MURAL & more in our growing Notion library.
Some of the topics covered include:
If you’re a founder, CEO, Head of Remote, or People Ops executive at a remote company, apply today.
Access to Running Remote Community is $490/year and includes a free ticket to the Running Remote conference. No payment will be asked of you until your application has been approved.
Running Remote Community is for founders & executives (i.e. C-level executives, HR and People Ops professionals, Heads of Remote) who are actively running and leading remote-first (or hybrid) companies with over 5 employees.
The community is not intended for non executive managers, junior employees, marketing & sales professionals, remote work consultants and companies with less than 5 employees (whether that be contractors or full-time employees).
We are vetting every application to ensure high-quality connections and opportunities. To apply, we ask you to fill in a short questionnaire to understand your unique challenges and expectations. We’re reviewing applications on a weekly basis, so expect an answer from us within 5 working days.
Once accepted, we will send you a link to pay for your membership so that you can get access to our Slack workspace and other resources and we can begin the onboarding process.
We understand that your time is valuable, so it is absolutely up to you how much time you’ll spend in the community.
However, we have consistently seen that you get out what you put in: Often, the biggest contributors are the biggest beneficiaries.
The feedback we consistently receive is how much our remote leaders appreciate the true unity and collaboration within our community. They also especially love getting together at our annual Running Remote conferences, as it feels like a face-to-face reunion of people they’ve gotten to know so well online.
Given that the yearly membership includes a free ticket to the Running Remote conference, the community is priced to be accessible for remote leaders at $490 per year.
In order to maintain the quality of connections, opportunities, and information, all applications are thoroughly vetted and only founders & leaders of remote-first established companies are eligible to join.
We do not. Trials make more sense with things like SaaS products, where once you’re in you get a general understanding of what a full commitment will look like and the capabilities that are available to you.
We work to make sure that the community stays a relationship-centric thought exchange and relationships cannot be built in a short month-long trial period.
We value the time of our community members as well as the content that is distributed. Part of the vetting process is to make sure that people who join will actively contribute to the community, can relate to the caliber of what is discussed, and are not there purely to sell their own projects or perceive it as a great leads list.
Financial commitment is asked to support the effort from our team that goes into curating this community, organizing monthly events, peer-to-peer masterminds, personal introductions and more. We do provide a script to send to your employer if the Running Remote Community is something you’d like reimbursed as part of your education credits or benefits.
The yearly membership includes a free ticket to the Running Remote conference, making it a fantastic investment for a business into their remote work efforts.
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