Ox is a start up that works in emerging markets to provide clean affordable transport to people
in rural areas who would otherwise used bicycles or carry things themselves and to do that
we are a logistics business but we have our own electric truck which we developed ourselves
and also a digital platform that enables us to coordinate the activities as well trucks
most people in this planet don't really have access to transport probably 3 billion people
live in countries with low incomes and very low numbers of vehicles and that fundamentally
stops people developing in and contributing economically so our vision is to expand across
emerging markets we want to be you know working in most countries in sub saharan Africa over
the next few years and we will do that from a UK base because of the automotive and expertise
that we have here I said we're looking for people in literally every role as we grow
you know two years ago there were two of us today there’s about 40 and in a years’
time we expect to be 100 people majority by workforces engineers working on the truck
but also we are developing a number of diesel tools in the UK and therefore we need people
skilled in IT and systems and what we mostly look for in people is at the ability to work
independently as a team we don't have a traditional management hierarchy structure people work
in autonomous teams and therefore they need to be people who are prepared to take on multiple
tasks and collaborate with their colleagues in order to deliver the results for the business
I am the head of growth although we don't place much emphasis on what titles are . we
consider the cultural fit of an employee just as important if not more important than their
technical qualifications and everything that we do including recruitment is centred around
our values as business really when we recruiting we're looking for people that can come and
abide by our values and be part of the team we have grown significantly at a very fast
pace there's rarely been a time when we're not looking to recruit and we are about to
scale up on an even bigger level and we will be looking for people to join our team most
importantly we're looking for a diverse and inclusive team coz that's where we really
feel that high performance comes into its own Im John Im the multi skilled prototype
technician for OX my role is to help the engineers turn the design into the actual product so
I've only worked for OX for 4 weeks now I've loved every minute of it it's really satisfying
to be at the cutting edge of the design everything we do is new it's untested with it's a prototype
so there's always problems and challenges something to overcome and help the team I
only worked a short time but the company is amazing work environment is is a great team
of people who are all very focused on what we are providing to people in Rwanda and we're
working hard to try to provide them an opportunity to workout out of poverty supporting them
and their and their businesses out there this companies can offer you is a work environment
where you can be comfortable safe and ask questions learn develop move yourself forward
My role involves variety of things and it pretty much goes from concept to production
including a design development test all the way through but a predominantly Im focused
on chassis an example currently in the chassis instructions team but have also been involved
in recruitment and other aspects of business in general as well I think that that's the
thing I enjoy most is it's so easy to get over the people and embed yourself in that
culture and the openness of the business is well an ability to try so many different things
even outside of engineering it's been and work on such an amazing project that is only
going to help people as a wonderful so why enjoy about my role as a whole as how different
is a day today and how many things I get to sort of lay a hand on and have a bit of influence
on because you learn so much I've got the opportunity to work in a sector where I'm
not just benefiting people with money it is affecting people who lives in emerging markets
an essentially just love the fact that it's going to be helping people sustain themselves
as well so at OX where startup from with comes very flexible approach from everyone so whilst
my role is notionally as a design engineer primarily I'm involved in everything like
I said from design all the way through to testing and equally I take part in some the
admin roles in the company so I look after the payroll and that's something we can expect
something remember one of the team that we wanted to have a broad experience not just
be pigeonholed into a certain role we think that gives you better value of your time at
work it also makes you more valuable employee so I recruitment process with trying to keep
it fairly simple but we do have a couple of stages too it's all start typically with a
phone interview with potential candidates just kind of going through that CV talk about
their experience today well then we flow into a technical interview where we dig into that
bit more understand their fit for the role technically then the final part of it which
is the bit that is a little bit more unique for us is we do a team interview where we
try to link with a few more people from team to give an opportunity to see how they fit
with the with the rest of the team and also for them to understand who they are going
to work with so the primary place to look is on our website or alternatively linked
In there are the two main places you can find out more about roles about the company but
in general it's worth just keeping an eye on the various social channels to see news
about the company and you can find out more if you go through those.