We are a small but mighty team of designers, developers and product managers.
Meet Horizontal Labs, a well-oiled little team of 10 that has built tech together for over 6 years.
Whether you’re looking for a single developer to work on a new feature, a consultant to support your transition toward more ethical tech, or an entire team to build an app from start to finish… we’ve got you!
How can more businesses and organizations have tech tools that are more ethical, safe and sustainable?
Horizontal is a technology non-profit dedicated to building privacy-preserving technology and educating at-risk users. After almost a decade developing apps for journalists and human rights defenders, we decided to open up our services to wider communities. This is how Horizontal Labs was born.
With Horizontal Labs, we want to harness the expertise, skills, and team synergy beyond the world of human rights, and support organizations who align with our values.
From digital surveillance to identity theft, the threats of the digital world are becoming widespread and increasingly complex to navigate. More than ever, all organizations and businesses must have the ability to create and use technology that is secure, privacy-preserving, accessible and user-friendly.
This is where we can help. We’re excited to support you to bring tech that is easy and safe to use to your teams, customers and communities.
What we bring to the table:
technical expertise as product managers; UI/UX designers; iOS, Android, web and infra engineers, and more.
specific skills around building more ethical tech, including around privacy, security, open-source, and Design Justice.
a commitment to users and marginalized communities in challenging contexts, operating tech with low literacy and access.
a multilingual team, with 6 languages spoken and experience localizing tech into over 30 languages.
a dynamic team that’s ready to go, with 6 years of well-oiled product development processes in place.
true to our name, we value moving with honesty, openness, and trust—both internally and with partners like you.
Our team
We are:
Fully remote
10 people distributed across 5 continents
80% of us are members of the “Global South”
70% of us are women or gender nonconforming
Only 1 of us speaks English as a first language
We are developers, product managers, designers and operations staff. We are also organizers, activists, writers, artists, gardeners, musicians, artists, parents and more.
At Horizontal Labs, we’re all about moving at the speed of trust — working together with openness, honesty and deep respect, while building tech solutions that are secure, efficient, and easy to use.