YunoJuno
- Janica Daryanani (Unlicensed)
This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.
Summary
What is YunoJuno?
YunoJuno is revolutionising the future of work. What started out as a curated marketplace for the creative industries has grown into the leading platform for London's elite freelance creative network. Our platform supports the entire engagement lifecycle, from finding the perfect freelancer for your brief, through transparent and direct communication (no intermediary), to contract and time management, billing, and analytics.
The YunoJuno platform pairs the best creative professionals with the best freelance jobs in London.
YunoJuno is redefining what work means by enabling freedom and flexibility for both organisations and the freelancers they partner with.
YunoJuno's Mission is to Unlock the True Potential of Freelance.
We chose the word 'freelance' instead of 'freelancer' because YunoJuno is about both the supply and demand of creative jobs. So our drive to unlocking the freelancing's true potential must consider the other half of the equation — the clients/employers on YunoJuno who hire these brilliant freelancers.
When we first started the company, our dream was to empower our freelance community and our clients with a direct and transparent path to connect. We wanted to make 'going freelance' more than just a leap into the unknown. We believe that freelancers are fast becoming the single most valuable workforce for creative and tech industries. YunoJuno isn't about outsourcing work, we're about leveraging creative talent to enhance your existing team with the skills you need to accomplish something great.
As YunoJuno continues to grow — 72 months and counting! — our company becomes less about that connection and more about what that connection enables: the ability to simply focus on that creative work in the best possible environment. That means we are continually enhancing our end-to-end freelance management solution — based on feedback from both sides — to make sure we enable clear expectations, clear conversations, and clear finances, so creative projects become beneficial, innovative partnerships.
YunoJuno is a solution where a community of the best freelancers can connect with the world's most innovative companies in a completely direct and transparent way.
Why just creative? Why not all kinds of freelancers?
We believe creative people own the future of work. YunoJuno stands for these unique individuals who think, design and build that future from a position of independence and tactical engagement.
Why is YunoJuno a city-based marketplace?
"We see tangible benefits in hiring freelancers to augment an existing team. A person who can appreciate — and build on — the dynamic of other people working on the same problem, in the same room. So for us, that happens when both parties are physically accessible to each other. London and New York were the most logical launchpads to streamline our service for the ever-increasing creative workforce. But every day sees more incredible creative professionals, from designers to developers, strategists to project managers, from all over the world register on YunoJuno to influence where we go next."
Shib Mathew is the CEO and Co-Founder of YunoJuno. Starting his career in advertising in the early '90s, he dove head first into the internet in 1996, founding two internet companies in his hometown of Sydney, Australia. After relocating to London, he continued in the creative and tech sector when in 2012 he teamed up with two ex-colleagues to launch YunoJuno.
Our team
There's no point saying you have an answer for the global shift in freelancing if the people building that solution don't have first-hand experience of what's going on. Just about everyone working at YunoJuno has experience as a freelancer or in working with them.
Every iteration of YunoJuno has not only been heavily influenced by the freelancer community — the platform has been built by freelancers from the YunoJuno Network. From design to development to communications, we've wanted to practise what we preach.
The story so far
YunoJuno's beginnings are much like many other good ideas - born from a frustration of the manual process, its founders knew there had to be a better way.
In early 2012, three guys from the creative and tech world came together to build a community and platform by which quality freelancers and great clients could connect with each other in a direct, transparent and cost-effective way.
What started as a platform to connect the greatest freelancers with a handful of forward- thinking companies is now changing how the creative and tech industry resource their business and manage their workforce. Whether it's building a new department for one of the most awarded creative agencies or building an enterprise human resource solution for the world's largest communications network, we use technology to power the freelance revolution.