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Trainline

Train Ticketing platform

1001+ employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Travel
  • Sustainability
  • Transport
  • eCommerce
120 Holborn, London EC1N 2TD

Company mission

To make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible.

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

42% female employees

14% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Their app is intuitive and well designed. and they're even pioneering paperless travel, allowing you to store your tickets in the app.

They're hyper focused on customer experience and have a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers.

Their customers make 170,000 journeys a day and they sell 200 tickets a minute.

They're continuing to innovate to stay ahead. They're using machine learning to predict price movements and are integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets just by speaking to their phone.

Benefits

  • Flexible working
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Gym memberships
  • Health and dental Insurance
  • Pension
  • Income Protection
  • Share Incentive Plan

Company values

  • Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
  • Do Good - We make a positive impact
  • Travel Together - We're one team
  • Think Big - We are building the future of rail

Funding (1 round)

Jan 2006

$199.6m

LATE VC

$199.6m

Total funding

Founders

Jody Ford

(CEO, not founder)

Previously Non-exec Director of Moonpig and Photobox Group

Milena Nikolic

(Chief Technology Officer, not founder)

Previously Engineering Director at Google

Lisa Hillier

(Chief People Officer, not founder)

Previously Chief People Officer at Gousto , The Restaurant Group and Just Eat

Mike Hyde

(Chief Data Officer, not founder)

Previously at Meta

Dave Price

(Chief Product Officer, not founder)

Previously at Spotify and GoEuro

People progressing

Joined as a Product Manager. Promoted to Product Manager after 1 year. Then promoted again to Principal Product Manager after 7 months and is currently Product Director.

Joined as Business Performance Analyst. Promoted to Senior Analyst after 1.5 years. Then promoted again to Commercial Manager after 7 months

Endorsements

All

Challenging work (1)

Career progression (1)

Great work is recognised (1)

The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented environment help us go deep and create excellent products.

Software Engineering

Challenging work

Nov 2021

They do care about your current position and where you want to go. If you want, they can support you all the way and show the path you need to walk to get there

Software Engineering

Career progression

Nov 2021

As you deliver and show your work you will be recognized. All Teams are open to talk so you will get visibility by what you help and deliver all the time.

Software Engineering

Great work is recognised

Nov 2021

Jobs (31)

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