At Salonkee, we strive to build an extraordinary company that is inspiring, full-filling, and fun to work at. To achieve the latter, we are very selective in our recruitment process and we focus on hiring the right talent, with the right mindset and values to fit into our team. Our company culture defines who we are as a company, what we stand for by striving towards ambitious goals as an A-Team.
Being Part of Salonkee is more than a simple job.
💪 A-Team and workplace
Being part of Salonkee means that you are part of an A-team. An A-Team is one in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and are highly effective and inspiring collaborators. Our version of a great workplace is not about fancy offices or our famous self-made beer. Our version of the great workplace is an environment where you can work and strive together with likeminded people in pursuit of an ambitious mission we all deeply care about. It is in such a team we all learn the most, perform at our best and have the most fun. At Salonkee we believe that satisfying work is a key ingredient to building a great Company.
🧩 The right fit
Being part of Salonkee’s A-team is not right for everyone, and that is OK. Many people value rather repeatable, predictable, consistent work environments over a more agile, always evolving, ambitious and challenging environments. Salonkee likely isn't the right fit for the former type of people. However, if you are constantly seeking a challenge, if you are always hungry for more, love to be surrounded by ambitious colleagues and if you are not afraid to leave your comfort zone, you are likely to be a good fit to our mission.
🤝 We get our hands dirty, together
We get things done as a team and we are not afraid to get our hands dirty. We strive to move the company forward and help team members in need to the best of our ability. This is also why we’ll never say “It’s not in my Job Description / not my responsibility”. It’s in everyone’s job description to nurture, grow, develop, represent, support and to be Salonkee. Each and every one of us not only has, but feels a responsibility for and to who we are. It’s the passion for what we do, which cannot be defined by a job description.
🎯 Result-oriented rather than time spent
We believe that people thrive on being trusted, on flexibility, and on being able to manage their time efficiently. So we foster flexibility over fixed working hours and results over time spent. We believe in putting the right person in the right positions and giving them the needed freedom to perform at their best. In fact, we think that results (and also the lack of them) speak for themselves. Time only plays a secondary role, if you enjoy what you're doing.
🚀 Ambition
We have high ambitions and encourage and allow everybody to reach for the stars. We are not aiming for marginal improvement and we are not satisfied with being average.
🎙 Honest Communication
Communication is a key ingredient for any high performing team. We strongly value and encourage regular, open and honest communication across all levels of the whole company. When we need to balance between honesty and kindness, we lean into honesty. No matter how honest, though, we always treat people with respect.
💡Make mistakes and learn from them
We don’t condemn mistakes. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. We try all sorts of things and make plenty of mistakes along the way. Making mistakes is part of the process to success. Openly admitting mistakes, facing them with humility, and most importantly, learning from them is what moves Salonkee forward.
🚫 Asshole-free Environment
Strong teamwork is key to the success of Salonkee. This is why we don’t tolerate “brilliant jerks” in our Teams. Our view is that brilliant people should also be capable of decent human interactions, and we insist strongly on that. When highly capable people work together in a collaborative context, they inspire each other to be more productive and ultimately more successful as a team than they could be as a collection of individuals.
🧡 Loyalty
Loyalty provides some peace of mind and helps everybody to focus on the big picture rather than the noise around it. Employees with a strong track record at Salonkee get leeway if their performance takes a temporary dip. Similarly, we expect our employees to stick around in case of any temporary challenges that might arise in the future. However, this doesn’t mean we expect an unconditional allegiance where people stick around in a declining company or where we keep employees in positions that don’t fit their skillset.
😍 Excellence in service
We are masters of customer satisfaction. Low churn/high retentions are part of our secret sauce. ZERO customers should ever stop working with Salonkee due to bad customer service. No matter the job position or job title, our current and upcoming customers are at the heart of what we do. We expect from everybody to always strive for the highest possible customer satisfaction. Being the “Love brand” in our industry already started in the early days of Salonkee, and is deeply ingrained in the DNA of our team.