Job

Co-founder and CEO @remote

Making it easy for companies to find, hire, pay, and manage their teams globally.
Job is really my first name.

[Job @Jobvo]

Low drama, amazing support, compliance first: @remote for payroll anywhere in the planet, and everything else your HR team needs

(like recruiting from 800 million profiles, or device management, or performance management, or compensation benchmarking)

[Marcelo Lebre @marcelolebre]

People assume a company like @Remote gets built from behind a laptop. For the first few years, @Jobvo and I were getting on planes.

We flew country to country to set up our own legal entities, open bank accounts, document compliance, and learn the local details that make payroll work.

Here's us in 2023, celebrating Japan, the latest country expansion at the time, with our favorite food.

When we started, people told us we were nuts. "Just buy some local companies, duct-tape something on top, and sell that." We didn't want to. Payroll has no shortcuts, and the shortcut always comes due for the person on the other end: someone gets deported, or doesn't get paid on time, or opens their payslip to a surprise.

So we did the slow thing. We went into every country we operate in and built the stack from the ground up, one country at a time, laying those rails by hand. We're the only company that did it that way.

Now everyone's racing to put AI on top of payroll and finding out useful AI only works when there's something real underneath it.

Seven years of flights, entities, and paperwork, so that one day this could feel effortless.

Now we've opened it up and the best is yet to come. Any company, any tool, any workflow, any AI agent can plug into Remote and run on the global payroll infrastructure we spent seven years building: https://t.co/pa8RwLOdru

Let's go!

[Job @Jobvo]

Incredible work on making the worst interior displays ever

[CarsInPixels @cars_pixels]

Leaked!

Here's a look at the all-new Audi Q7 ahead of its official unveiling. Thoughts?

[Marcelo Lebre @marcelolebre]

We cancelled a $60,000 contract this year because someone on the @remote team built the replacement in an afternoon.
It took 3 hours and 17 minutes. Total cost: $216.

The tool tracks where our people are, surfaces live travel advisories, and automates the outreach workflow when something needs attention.

This is the part of AI that I care about:
A person close to the problem saw a workflow that did not fit how the team worked, used the tools available, and built something better. No long procurement cycle. No waiting for a vendor roadmap. No pretending that a generic tool would understand the exact edge cases we needed.

Remote has spent years building the boring infrastructure underneath global employment: payroll, contracts, entities, payments, local rules, permissions, approvals, and workflows.

Boring is good here.
Boring means the system knows enough to be trusted.

When you put agents on top of that kind of infrastructure, they become a way to get very real work done.

The hard questions in HR are usually messy.
What does this country require?
What does payroll need?
What needs approval?
What happens next?

Most software makes people stitch those answers together across tabs, exports, dashboards, and Slack messages.

Agents should shorten the distance between the question and the work.

That is the part I am excited about: teams building what they need, on top of the same data, permissions, and guardrails already inside Remote.

Get started: https://t.co/4uW4He5ueh

[Job @Jobvo]

Remote Agents are powerful enough to - on the fly right in our payroll platform - build DOOM.

Coming soon to all @remote customers

(also useful for paying people)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@PeterDiamandis SpaceX had achieved nothing of note after 3 years and was written off as dead after 6 years with 3 consecutive launch failures.

But you may have noticed that things are different now.

[Milos @milos_gis]

My map shows shipping traffic density.
Or, as pirates called it:
market research

[Job @Jobvo]

moved a pretty complicated home server from one machine to the other (different version OS) by giving claude ssh access to both and said "make the new server like the old"

worked.

[Job @Jobvo]

@ScottHickle Honestly never gets old.

[Job @Jobvo]

Most sci-fi thing I’ve seen

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

Liftoff of Starship V3, from the dunes right outside the pad.

This is the most insane shockwave action I have ever seen on video. Absolutely mad.

📽️ Me for @WeAreSpaceScout

[Job @Jobvo]

Everyone hating on this design, but I actually like it.

However not being able to turn off the fake engine noise is ridiculous.

[Motor1 @Motor1com]

The Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door has gone electric. Gone is the V8, and in its place is a huge battery.

• Up to 1,153 horsepower
• 2.0-second 0-60
• 186 mph top speed
• All-new interior screen setup

The AMG GT 4-Door will roll into dealers in late 2026.

[Sofia Silva @StaminaLoops]

We just launched @remote MCP. Your AI agent, connected directly to your workforce and payroll data in Remote.

We built the right foundations. Now anyone can build exactly what fits their needs. Check how we're using it internally here 👇
🔗 https://t.co/TQhiVbGgz1

[Marcelo Lebre @marcelolebre]

We shipped @remote MCP this week. I ran it with the team to see what it could actually do. A few things that stuck with me.

Total cost of employment, by country, all in: salary, taxes, fees, FX. Used to be a finance project. Days of work for a number that was already slightly stale by the time it landed. One prompt. Back before my next call.

[Marcelo Lebre @marcelolebre]

We’re changing how we hire Product Managers at @remote, and what’s interesting is that AI is making the interview more human, not less.

For a long time, our process included an async take-home. A candidate would get a challenge, go away, work on it, and come back with something polished.

There is signal in that, but it’s a specific kind of signal. It shows how someone works when they have time, space, and the ability to clean up the messy middle before anyone sees it. Product work rarely happens that cleanly.

So we’re moving to a live product session. The candidate works through an ambiguous problem, uses an AI tool of their choice to prototype quickly, and then has to respond as the problem changes.

You start with something vague. You try to understand the user, make assumptions, and build something imperfect.

Then reality arrives: a stakeholder adds a constraint, a customer reacts differently than expected, or a metric moves in the wrong direction.
That moment is where the signal is.

The prototype itself is not the point. Generating something with AI is quickly becoming the easy part. What matters is what the person does with it.

Did they accept whatever AI gave them, or shape it with judgment?
Did they understand the user, or jump straight into features?
Did they think about risks, trade-offs, and what belongs in v1 versus later?

It also changes the interviewer’s job.
In a live process, you are part of the environment. You have to create enough structure for the candidate to do good work, enough space for them to think, and enough pressure to see how they handle ambiguity.

That matters because people think in different ways. Some talk through everything. Some need silence. Some are expressive. Some are quiet. We want to bring out the best in every candidate and see if there's a fit.

Huge credit to Parul, Chiara, and everyone on the product team who helped build this.

To find great product people, we want to design the interview like we design the product: with care, structure, and the human on the other side in mind.

We're hiring: https://t.co/6rPwrKHedX

[Job @Jobvo]

@villi @marcelolebre @remote omg

[Marcelo Lebre @marcelolebre]

Those stories where girlfriends drag boyfriends into meeting friend with boyfriend, that was pretty much how I met @Jobvo, my co-founder at @remote.

I had just moved to Lisbon. I’m from a small city up north in Portugal, and I knew no one.

My girlfriend at the time, today my wife, said: remember this friend of mine from college? She’s in town and she’s with her boyfriend. Should we go meet them for coffee?

I was like, come on, I don’t feel like it. I’m not that kind of double-date person.
But anyway, I had nothing better to do. I was about to start working the next day. So I thought, let’s just go and it will be easy to kill off the nerves anyway.

We arrived and Job was there with his girlfriend. He was doing his PhD at Champalimaud. He was in neuroscience but loved technology.

We ended up talking geek stuff, nerd stuff.

And the thing that brought us together was this thought of: why do people suffer through professions or careers or tools or things they have to do every day?

You go to a reception, a public office, a private practice, and people are like, computer says no. They don’t want to help you. They don’t want to do business. They’re just collecting a paycheck.

Why is this?

The reality is that a lot of people have that job because they couldn’t find the thing that made them happy. They need the money, but they didn’t have the opportunity to do the thing they’re really good at.

So we started talking about this.

What if we found a way for the best companies to hire the best people in the world and vice versa?

A week later, Job sent me an email saying he had an idea and wanted to talk.
That’s how it started.

We stayed friends for years. We built a bunch of things together before Remote was a thing.

Then, years later, I told him, look, I just quit.
This was in the morning.

And in the afternoon, his wife, who I’m friends with as well, sent me a video of him coming downstairs.
She was narrating it, saying: he’s coming downstairs. He just spoke with the CEO of GitLab. He quit as well.
That was the moment.

The picture is from 2019. Job and I on a Remote team call with our babies, June and Pedro. Two dads trying to build a company from home, with babies on the team call and a lot to figure out.

At the time, Remote was still tiny. No playbook. No big team. No obvious path.

Today, that same idea has become global payroll and employment infrastructure for companies around the world.

We started with a simple question: what would it take for companies to work with anyone, anywhere, and still get payroll, compliance, and employment right? Turns out, the answer was a lot of infrastructure.

Luckily, we ended up marrying our girlfriends, so it didn’t become awkward to tell the story.

[Job @Jobvo]

Drove from NL to Belgium on FSD:

Two interventions, both because of navigation reasons: FSD started to take over another car slowly, while the exit was coming up. Second one it almost missed a left-exit (not very common).

NL-Belgium border it gave a warning, then errored out. Had to park to enable Autosteer. FSD wouldn’t gracefully go back to Autosteer.

Other than that, it just worked. It drove itself super well. Extremely impressive. Well done @Tesla

[Job @Jobvo]

Genuinely fantastic work. The walls that don’t reach the ceilings in shared spaces. The position of the windows.

[Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto @gomezdetejada]

Casa Pescher, Wuppertal, Alemania. Richard Neutra, 1969.

Uno de los últimos proyectos residenciales de Neutra, terminado poco antes de su muerte.

Fotos: @iwanbaan

[Job @Jobvo]

@SamuelBeek Top right

[Job @Jobvo]

Long Figma

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Quick update: not dead.

$FIG Q1 results:

→ 46% YoY revenue growth, accelerating for the 2nd straight quarter
→ Net Dollar Retention Rate increased to 139%, our highest rate in over two years
→ Raising 2026 revenue guidance for the year

Design matters more than ever.

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS