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Obvious University
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  • 👋Welcome to Obvious University!
  • Strategy
    • Sprints
      • 1️⃣Map
      • 2️⃣Sketch
      • 3️⃣Decide
      • 4️⃣Prototype
      • 5️⃣Test
    • Benchmarking
    • Research
      • 1️⃣Research guide
      • 2️⃣How to recruit users
      • 3️⃣How to conduct an interview well
      • 4️⃣How to take notes
      • 5️⃣How to prep for remote research
      • 6️⃣How to throw a watch party
      • 7️⃣How to create artefacts
  • Working with Features
    • Building with AI
      • 1️⃣Understand the tech
      • 2️⃣Map your product
      • 3️⃣Build a proof of concept
      • 4️⃣LLM Inputs
      • 5️⃣LLM Responses
    • Building Help and Support
      • 1️⃣How to scope a support experience
      • 2️⃣How to design discovery for support
      • 3️⃣How to design a support centre
      • 4️⃣How to write good support articles
  • Product Design
    • Microcopy
      • 1️⃣How to write well
      • 2️⃣How to write phrases
      • 3️⃣How to write messages
      • 4️⃣How to create a voice
    • Typography
      • 1️⃣How to compose type
      • 2️⃣How to create a type scale
      • 3️⃣How to pick typefaces
      • 4️⃣How to pair typefaces
    • Design System
      • 1️⃣Introduction to design systems
      • 2️⃣How to audit a design system
      • 3️⃣How to run a design system pilot
      • 4️⃣How to set up a design foundation
      • 5️⃣How to build components
      • 6️⃣How to document a design system
      • 7️⃣How to enable adoption and govern a design system
    • Mobile Engineering
      • 1️⃣Trunk based development
      • 2️⃣Agile development terminology
      • 3️⃣Git commit messages
      • 4️⃣Code review and pull requests
      • 5️⃣Readings
  • Delivery
    • Project Management
    • Collaboration
  • Hiring and Growth
    • Growth
      • 1️⃣Design growth framework
      • 2️⃣How to give ongoing feedback
      • 3️⃣How to check-in every quarter
      • 4️⃣How to address underperformance
      • 5️⃣FAQs
    • Hiring and careers
      • 1️⃣The Hiring Process
      • 2️⃣Diverse and Inclusive Hiring
  • PEOPLE EXPERIENCE
    • Benefits and Perks
      • 1️⃣Paid time off
      • 2️⃣Insurance and healthcare
      • 3️⃣Continuing education
      • 4️⃣Speaking at conferences
    • Starting at Obvious
      • 1️⃣Introducing Obvious
      • 2️⃣Set up your workspace
      • 3️⃣Onboarding
      • 4️⃣Finances
      • 5️⃣Code of Conduct
    • Employment policies
      • 1️⃣Equal opportunity employment
      • 2️⃣At-will employment
      • 3️⃣Employee records and privacy
      • 4️⃣Prevention of sexual harassment
      • 5️⃣Drugs and alcohol
      • 6️⃣Fraternisation
      • 7️⃣Non-compete and non-solicitation
      • 8️⃣Non-disclosure
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  • 👋🏼 Introduction
  • 1️⃣ Our values
  • Curiosity
  • Craft
  • Compounding
  • Our vision
  • 2️⃣ Meet the team
  • Executive
  • Administration
  • Communications
  • Design Team
  • People
  • Finance
  • 3️⃣ Life at Obvious
  1. PEOPLE EXPERIENCE
  2. Starting at Obvious

Introducing Obvious

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Last updated 1 year ago

👋🏼 Introduction

We are pleased to have you join Obvious. We're building a team that understands our mission and core values and will help us to advance these objectives.

1️⃣ Our values

We’ve been in the business for 10 years. Every year we’ve evolved a bit, and with us has evolved something else: our values.

At Obvious, our values help us make sense of the world, while making intelligent and conscious choices. They’re the foundation of everything we do as individuals and as a team.

Curiosity

We are curious people. We are curious about how we can create a better world for ourselves and those around us. We explore the unknown, ask hard questions, and in the process, give life to new ideas.

Craft

We channel our curiosity to build great products. We bring simplicity and beauty to them. We consistently raise the bar by crafting products users love. Craft is how we express our curiosity to create magic.

Compounding

Only when every byte of code, every pixel and every word compounds, great products are built. We amplify each other’s skills to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

Our vision

2️⃣ Meet the team

A great team is multiplicative and not additive! Take a look at the people that make Obvious, obvious here.

Executive

Dhruv Saxena (CEO)

Rahul Gonsalves (COO, Sales)

Administration

Jayapriya M is our Admin Manager. She manages the day-to-day operations of the company, the office, and the bills and salaries.

Communications

Sindhu Shivaprasad and Sidika Sehgal together run our Communications Team. They are responsible for ensuring that everyone outside (and inside) Obvious knows what we are up to and why we’re a great place to work.

Design Team

Vishwanath Pasumarthi, Subhankar Das and Elson D’Souza lead our design team.

Each team (or pod) consists of between 3-5 designers, with one person, usually the person with the most experience, acting as a Lead.

People

Monica Pillai takes care of People Ops and is your point of contact for all things people-related.

Finance

We work with an outsourced CFO-as-a-service offered by Entrust Family Office. They take care of our bookkeeping, ensure that we are compliant with all applicable laws and provide high-level financial guidance. If you have a question about finance, start by emailing Jaya, and she will direct it appropriately.

Most concerns fall pretty clearly within the responsibility of a specific team at Obvious, and the head of that team should be the first point of contact.

At the same time, every single person who works at Obvious is approachable and more than willing to point you in the right direction. If you have a question, you're probably not the first, so speak up!

3️⃣ Life at Obvious

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