At Hummingbird, we’re committed to building a diverse
team from the ground up. To clarify and codify our
commitment, we’ve decided to publish this manifesto
to explain what diversity means to us, why we believe
it’s so important, and what we’re doing to build an
inclusive culture and a diverse team.
At Hummingbird, our goal is to build a team of people with different viewpoints that originate from different past experiences. We believe that people with different backgrounds, cultures, and identities experience the world in different ways and gain different perspectives. As we build our team, we want to bring a breadth of perspectives to the problems we’re solving. Because we think of diversity as fundamentally originating from different life experiences, our goal is to hire a team with diversity across a wide range of factors. Our ideal team combines people with different genders, races, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, abilities, economic classes, past work experiences, and more.
Different perspectives provide new ways of thinking through problems and lead to more creative solutions.
By proactively working to build a diverse team early on, we are setting ourselves up to support the best people from a wide array of backgrounds as we continue to grow.
As a provider of anti-financial crime solutions, we want to avoid biases that can have a disparate impact on disadvantaged groups. Diverse perspectives helps us avoid blind spots and bring about positive change.
We’re a team that enjoys learning and experiencing diverse viewpoints. We love to travel, read, listen to podcasts, and expand our own perspectives. As a group, we want to work with a diverse team.
Every employee must go through inclusion training to understand our commitment to diversity and their role in achieving it.
We understand that part of an inclusive culture is awareness of different obligations that might interfere with a traditional interview schedule. In order to welcome a wide array of backgrounds, we accommodate a wide array of interview schedules.
We are all committed to the success of Hummingbird, but we are also committed to our loved ones and families. We find ways to balance those two commitments in order to be inclusive to people with different sets of commitments.
We believe that it is necessary to continuously, consciously, and diligently reinforce our commitment to diversity. If you think we’re missing something in our understanding of diversity or have an idea for other actions we can take to build a more diverse and inclusive company, we welcome your input. If you have a perspective we might be missing at Hummingbird, email us – we’d love to talk about how you can contribute.