Faces of Skedulo: Jess Ahrens

People are the heart of Skedulo, and success—for us, our team and our customers—is a collaborative effort. We are proud of our team’s achievements and celebrate them every month with our Skedgend Awards. A Skedgend is a teammate who has been nominated by their peers for consistently demonstrating excellence in our values:

What motivates you to work hard?

The projects motivate me the most. I find them really interesting. Especially working in the product space, developing new and exciting features is something that really gets me going.    

What’s your proudest accomplishment at Skedulo?

Probably the continuity of projects when we’ve had other people move on to different projects. They’ve fallen into my hands, but I feel like we’ve been able to make a lot of progress under my supervision.   

What’s been the biggest surprise about working at Skedulo?

The biggest surprise was that when I first joined, I didn’t know Skedulo was part of the start-up culture. So coming in and seeing a kitchen with free drinks and free food was jaw dropping! 

Also, we have a lot of drummers here. I’m a drummer, Matt (our CEO) is also a drummer. Dave on the design team is a drummer. Ricky from support is a drummer. There are others too…we should start a band!

What are you most excited about for the future?

Being an Australian I’m pretty excited for the UK summer. I’ve only been here 3 months so I haven’t seen summer yet. 

How does being at Skedulo allow you to be your best self?

I can be my best self because of all the opportunities at Skedulo. I have grown in so many ways and learned so much in the 5 years I’ve been here. 

What is a fact about you that nobody else knows?

When I was in university, I was in a progressive metal band. We toured on the east coast of Australia. We were called Mouth of Kala, which is a song name from a band named Gojira which we were big fans of at the time.