Workflows from leading startups

Deel (W19) has transformed the way companies hire, pay and manage contractors and employees in over 150 countries. They use Notion as a single source of truth across the entire company. Their Comms team built this template to stay on top of tight PR deadlines and drive clarity around what needs to be done.

With employees in 16 time zones, transparency is core to Buffer’s culture and operations, guiding how people work and collaborate. Take a page from their Notion workspace and make your company, team, and individual goals accessible to everyone.

AngelList’s product team uses Notion to streamline its weekly updates. Members of the product sub-teams submit short, written updates before each meeting. Participants read through updates relevant to them or their teams and make comments for the first few minutes of the meeting — then, the rest of the time is designated for conversation. What used to be many meetings is now consolidated into a single standup.

Headspace's design system helps their team store and stay up to date on shared design resources. Use their template to maintain a single source of truth for your team, stay consistent, and reduce duplicative work.

Edlyft is a personalized tutoring platform for STEM students. They use Notion to optimize their product-market fit process. Use their template to run tests consistently and get results fast.

To stay on track, Mixpanel's (S09) engineering teams meet twice a week to recap progress and plan ahead. Use their template to give your whole team a searchable record of meetings as they work through complex projects.

Former Netflix VP of Product Management 

As a fast-growing startup, Synctera runs monthly retros across the whole company to keep priorities straight and feedback flowing. These syncs used to take a full day — now they take one hour in Notion.

Multiverse is revolutionizing the world of tabletop role-playing games. As a startup, they host their public jobs board on Notion for easy editing and maintenance. Use their template to host your own job openings, and free up time and energy for your developers to focus on building your core product.

+1 Labs, the innovation lab at Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid) built this roadmap to prioritize their big bets for the year and maintain vision and focus. Use their template to drive clarity around what the team wants to run after and when.