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Roleshare

Roleshare matched professionals to share full-time jobs with employer support tools.

Pre-Seed $1.75M total Founded 2019 London, England 21 employees

Roleshare built a marketplace and management platform that matched two professionals to co-apply and share one full-time job, enabling companies to run job-sharing pilot programs. The platform allowed employees to post their current roles as shareable and matched talent pairs from both internal and external sources. Roleshare served enterprises like JP Morgan and BP seeking flexible workforce solutions. Note: The company is no longer operating.

Problem solved

Professionals seeking flexible or part-time roles cannot find career-matched opportunities, while companies waste talent by not offering job-sharing options for roles structured only as full-time positions.

Target customer

Mid-market to enterprise companies seeking flexible workforce arrangements and job-sharing pilot programs; HR and talent acquisition teams managing alternative work arrangements

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Founders

Sophie Smallwood

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Former Workplace by Facebook employee who worked with enterprise customers on adoption; sought flexible work arrangements to balance family life, inspiring Roleshare's founding.

Dave Smallwood

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Former Director at PayPal with experience managing employees seeking reduced hours.

Polly Howden

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Funding history

Pre-Seed $550K November 2021 Led by Super Angels (primarily UK-based) · Ian Hogarth, Azeem Azhar, Gabbi Cahane, Brendan Gill, Thish Nadesan

Seed $1.2M August 2022 Led by Plug and Play VC · Forward VC, Rethink Capital Partners, Techstars VC, Invested (Anna Brandt and Noor Van Boven), Phil Chambers, David Blake, Athena Karp, Roger Wade

Total raised: $1.75M

Industries

Internet Recruiting Software

Pricing

Freemium model: individuals can add jobs for free; companies pay a fee to post roles. Specific pricing tiers not publicly available.

Notable customers

JP Morgan, BP, X's Moonshot Factory (pilot programs), Contented Brothers (case study)

Integrations

Custom integrations with major ATS (Applicant Tracking System) providers

Website

roleshare.com/

Competitors

JobTandem

Competitor in job-sharing space; Roleshare differentiated by allowing companies to source talent pairs internally and externally with AI matching.

Metiway

Job-sharing platform; Roleshare's unique value was matching talent pairs across internal and external candidate pools.

DuoMe

UK-based job-sharing competitor; Roleshare offered employer-side management tools and integrations with ATS providers.

Tandemploy

German job-sharing platform; Roleshare differentiated through enterprise focus and pilot program support tools.

Why this matters: Roleshare addressed a significant gap in the future-of-work market by automating job-share matching and providing enterprise tooling for flexible arrangements. Founded by former Facebook and PayPal executives with strong investor backing (Plug and Play, Techstars), it was recognized in World Economic Forum reports and MIT Sloan on workplace flexibility, though market adoption challenges ultimately led to its closure.

Best for: Enterprise organizations piloting flexible work arrangements and seeking to match internal talent to job-share positions without restructuring existing roles.

Use cases

Internal Talent Redeployment

An employee at a large corporation wants to reduce from full-time to part-time due to caregiving responsibilities. Instead of losing the talent, their manager can post the role on Roleshare to find an internal or external match to share the position. This prevents brain drain and keeps institutional knowledge within the company.

Pilot Program Execution

An enterprise like JP Morgan wants to test job-sharing as an alternative to losing experienced staff. Roleshare provides both the matching marketplace and the operational tools to manage the pilot—vetting pairs, handling onboarding, and tracking pilot outcomes—reducing the friction of running informal experiments.

Strategic Hiring for Flexible Candidates

A high-growth startup needs specialized talent but cannot attract full-time commitment from experienced professionals with family obligations. By posting a role on Roleshare, they access a pre-filtered pool of high-quality candidates actively seeking job-share arrangements, reducing hiring cycle time.

Alternatives

JobTandem Direct competitor focused on job-sharing matching; less emphasis on enterprise pilot program tooling and ATS integrations.

Metiway Alternative job-sharing platform with different geographic focus; positioning and feature set not as well documented.

DuoMe UK-based job-sharing alternative; operates more as a candidate marketplace than an enterprise management platform.

FAQ

What does Roleshare do? +

Roleshare was a marketplace and management platform that matched two professionals to co-apply and share one full-time job. It allowed employees to post their roles as shareable and provided employers with tools to run job-sharing pilot programs and manage matched pairs. The company is no longer operating.

How much does Roleshare cost? +

Roleshare operated on a freemium model where individuals could add their jobs for free and companies paid a fee to post roles. Specific pricing tiers were not publicly disclosed.

What are alternatives to Roleshare? +

JobTandem, Metiway, DuoMe, and Tandemploy all offer job-sharing matching platforms with varying feature sets and geographic focus.

Who uses Roleshare? +

Roleshare served mid-market and enterprise companies including JP Morgan, BP, and X's Moonshot Factory. Target customers were HR teams and talent acquisition departments at organizations piloting flexible work and job-sharing programs.

How does Roleshare compare to JobTandem? +

Both platforms match professionals for job-sharing, but Roleshare differentiated by offering enterprise-focused management tools, pilot program support, and ATS integrations. Roleshare also uniquely enabled internal candidate redeployment through employee job posting, whereas JobTandem focused more narrowly on matching candidates to open job-share positions.