By Pierre-Camille Hamana (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pchamana/), CEO at Smartbnb (https://www.smartbnb.io/) It’s fascinating watching Smartbnb grow. This solution for guests is a recipe for success: A fully remote team, with great culture & processes, extremely focused & super in terms of execution. What else? Oh yes, a super friendly & kind CEO, Pierre-Camille, who will be with us to describe the way they manage their team remotely. Good practices & learnings to expect from this one!

2. Who am I
Founder & CEO
https://smartbnb.io)

3. Who am I
Launched yesterday 🎉
footshake.com
sales@footshake.com

6. Let’s start with a secret
remote management hack

7. How to mute/unmute yourself on Zoom like a pro
• Go to Zoom > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Tick "Enable Global Shortcut" to Mute/Unmute.
• Map it to any keyboard shortcut you like.
You can now mute/unmute yourself, even if Zoom is
not the selected window.

8. Managing

9. Employees don’t leave companies,
they leave their managers.

10. Employee retention at remote-first
companies is 90%+.

11. Managing
Recruiting Compensating Onboarding
Meetings 1:1 Morale

12. Values

13. Trust & Autonomy

14. Transparency

15. Intentionality

16. Efficiency

17. Recruiting

18. Spoiler alert:
nobody recruits today.

19. - Any CEO (−3000 BC - March 2020)
Recruiting is so hard.

20. Stripe C-Suite Survey (https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient−2018)
61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer
talent is a threat to the success of their business. This threat was
even ranked above capital constraints.

21. It’s hard in a different way
10210 0.2%applicants
per week
interviews
per week
applicant
success rate

23. Compensating

24. Transparent and public

25. Location: Basecamp vs Gitlab

26. The reference is Buffer

27. Onboarding
as-a-service

28. Written culture
async, timezones

29. Scalable

30. Tooling
Async Sync

31. Manager

32. Output-driven

33. Carry context

34. Document

35. Protect against burn out

36. Day to day

37. You don’t go remote
to have more Zoom calls.
M E E T I N G S

38. Agenda / Brainstorm / 1 hour max
M E E T I N G S

39. Embrace the social
M E E T I N G S

40. No daily standups.
Trust your people.
M E E T I N G S

41. Weekly 1:1 check-ins (45m/1h)
M E E T I N G S

42. Weekly reviews
(for each team, for the company)
M E E T I N G S

43. Care

44. Create social opportunities

45. Celebrate, not alienate

46. Retreats 😭