Bonami

We started as a shopping club and e-shop with designer furniture and accessories. We've been in the black since our second year, which is rare for an e-commerce company. We expanded abroad and are now in 11 other European countries besides Czechia. We have physical stores in Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest. We created our private label, Bonami. We are significantly strengthening B2B partnerships and are now a strong omnichannel player in the market. We've built a strong brand and a resilient internal culture. We are a mature company where enthusiasm is matched by responsibility and smarts. Yet, we've still kept our start-up energy, the drive to do things our own way, and the ability to react quickly. Most importantly, at Bonami, you'll meet people who love moving themselves and the company forward, toward our vision of being the Central European number one in the Home & Living category.

As a company, we've grown up and become much more pragmatic. We base our decisions on data, but we haven't lost any of our speed and flexibility. We can be extremely fast in executing good ideas. You don't need to create a 20-slide presentation and call endless meetings. If you want to push an idea, opinion, or change, a simple pitch deck showing you know what you're getting into, what the execution entails, and what its real benefit will be is enough. In practice, it looks like this: you bring something up on Monday, we discuss it on Wednesday, and if it makes sense to everyone, we execute it on Friday. Thanks to common sense, we are just as quick to bury bad ideas, learn from them, and move on.

There's a lot of things you can work on here. You'll find plenty of projects to take ownership of, or you can jump into ongoing ones. The result? Zero boredom. We always try to stay a step ahead, follow trends, and above all, listen to our customers. When we realized customers wanted to touch the furniture and test out the sofas, we opened physical stores. After initiating collaborations with designers, we are building a "Designers club." In short, we aren't afraid to dive into things no one else in the market is doing. We enjoy paving our own way, which brings a sea of opportunities for our people to shine in a very short amount of time.

You won't find arrogance or politics at Bonami. We are still a relatively non-hierarchical organization where everyone's opinion matters. The final say at Bonami isn't dictated by your position or seniority, but by a quality idea and the drive to improve something or create something entirely new. We are looking for people with strong ownership. Those who put their skin in the game, own the results, and responsibly drive toward them. We want Bonami full of colleagues who feel personal responsibility toward the company, customers, and their teammates. For most of us, Bonami isn't just a job. Having the chance to shape what Bonami looks like is a huge benefit for many of us.

Because of this, you'll enjoy Bonami for three, five, or ten years. You can truly be yourself here; you don't need to put on a mask in the office. You can have your own opinions and share them openly. You can have a specific sense of humor, bring your dog to work, or even your kids if your babysitter cancels. Even your grandma would like it here. A huge benefit at Bonami is the level of freedom and trust you receive from us. We don't support micromanagement. Instead, we seek people who don't wait for tasks, but once their work is done, go help colleagues or look for what else they can improve. Everyone here knows that in order to have Bonami, we must deliver results and run a profitable business.

Open communication has always been and remains the foundation of our culture. Once a month, we meet at all-hands to openly communicate our results, as well as plans and visions for the coming months. We know how to give each other feedback, praise one another, but also admit what we're doing wrong and how we can grow from it. We know how to celebrate when we succeed. It's great that our board plays with open cards and sugarcoats nothing. So even when the company goes through tougher times, we hear it firsthand. When big changes come, they always try to explain them and provide broader context. Everyone has the opportunity to ask questions. Publicly, on Slack, or in person during 1-on-1s. You can safely and fearlessly approach anyone in management. A sense of safety and trust is more than essential in today's turbulent times.

Bonami is flexible in giving everyone the space to work in a way that fits them. Naturally, there are boundaries, often defined by team setups, and the baseline is perfectly executed work, happy customers, and a happy team. But we have plenty of room to set up our work according to our preferences. We have set office hours and meet in the office two days a week, because brainstorming and chatting by the coffee machine are still the best ways to move things forward. It's not sugarcoating when we say we can truly agree on anything and accommodate current life situations and conditions. We have students, mothers on maternity leave, and fully remote workers.

From your first interview to your first day on the job, a warm welcome awaits. We've always cared about making people feel good at Bonami, looking forward to coming here, and supporting each other both professionally and personally. Even though we are growing, have faced ups and downs, and people leave while new ones arrive, we manage to maintain an exceptionally good atmosphere. We can handle even the non-rosy days with perspective and humor. We succeed in this partly because we carefully hired colleagues who fit in—and when we missed the mark, those who didn't fit didn't stay long. The ones who stay have a positive outlook on life and an open mind.

You'll fall in love with our Karlín offices. You'll find various nooks for quiet work, plenty of sofas and armchairs for meetings, or you can easily change scenery when you need deep focus or a more creative vibe. Every month, HR comes up with different events to brighten our workdays. We've had a coffee day with specialties, pumpkin carving, baking contests, and an immunity restart in the winter. Fresh juices and exotic fruit are just the norm. But the best part is having friends in the office to share all these little things with.

At Bonami, we've always managed to spot potential in people and find them the right spot where they thrive and grow. That's why we aren't afraid to hire people without massive industry experience. You'll win us over much more with your energy, proactivity, and eagerness to learn than with a stuffed CV. That doesn't mean there's no room for seniors. On the contrary—we love when experienced industry pros join us, bringing their expertise and a fresh perspective. At the same time, we remain a company open to juniors who can grow incredibly fast here, access exciting projects, or completely change roles and directions if they find something they're naturally good at.

The key to turning mistakes into growth opportunities is accepting criticism and feedback. This works perfectly at Bonami because we create the opportunities for it. One-on-one chats aren't traditional "boss-evaluating-subordinate" meetings; they serve for mutual information sharing, enrichment, and inspiration. We pass info both top-down and bottom-up. We have no problem telling our boss they messed up, as long as our criticism is constructive and makes sense. Many Bonami projects started from scratch. For instance, our kitchen studio turned out to be much more complex than we thought. We stumble sometimes, but the great thing about Bonami is that we always get to learn from our mistakes.

We want every customer to furnish their home in their unique style through Bonami. Whether they seek a high-end design piece, are redoing a kids' room, or furnishing a rustic cottage. We have a truly broad assortment featuring the latest trends, but also original products and brands you won't easily find elsewhere. We have our private furniture label and physical stores where you can experience the Bonami vibe firsthand. Beyond a diverse assortment, Bonami is full of inspiration. We shoot our own campaigns, collaborate with influencers, and thanks to Bonami's positive reputation, the most popular influencers in the market reach out to us themselves. We show that a home makeover doesn't require replacing all your furniture; sometimes one well-chosen original piece or a bold decoration is enough. Bringing people the joy of living every day is what makes working at Bonami so much fun.

Bonami has long ceased to be just a furniture and home decor e-shop for end customers. We can furnish offices, cafes, equip a stage or a conference lounge, and we aren't afraid to explore and test new opportunities. For example, within three months, we launched collaborations with developers, which is growing successfully today. We have long-standing partnerships with designers, allowing our customers to use the "Bonami Interior Design" service. Now we're launching the "Designers club," aiming to offer designers various forms of collaboration, but also to connect, inspire, and host events for them. Simply put, to give them something extra.

We pride ourselves on ensuring people always have a great experience with Bonami. Whether they're picking products online, trying out a sofa in our stores, handling a return, or needing advice, we're always here for them. With a smile, a good mood, and the goal of passing that good energy on to them. That's why we call our customer support the WOW team. Definitely don't picture a typical call center with a manual for every answer and a main KPI of the shortest call time. Our main added value is a personal approach to everyone who contacts us via chat, email, or phone. If it isn't WOW for us, it won't be for the customers either.

You'll find our offices in Karlín, right across from the Křižíkova subway. Just cross the street, take the elevator to the second floor, and you'll find yourself in an environment where you can be yourself. Before you know it, you'll fit right in. It's that easy. We have physical stores in Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest.

Bonami has long stopped being just an e-shop that we constantly tweak to be simple, fast, and intuitive for customers. We are an omnichannel service, meaning alongside our great e-shop, we have stores, a robust warehouse system, logistics, and back-office systems that fit perfectly together. We custom-built all of this. From the start, we've held the philosophy of fully implementing key parts of Bonami ourselves to keep everything under control. This allows us to react flexibly to various changes. Thanks to this, the developers working with us never have a dull moment. Within development, everyone can find areas they enjoy, or explore new technologies and approaches they want to master.

In Dev and Product, we work with a mix of seniors and juniors. Some have been with us for years and were even there when Bonami was founded. Working alongside senior IT consultants with deep know-how is reflected in our work style and the discussions we have. At the same time, we also team up with university students and young people with huge potential. They bring a fresh perspective to Bonami, aren't afraid to try new technologies, and experiment with AI. What they value most about working with us is the opportunity to grow incredibly fast.

For a great shopping experience at Bonami, you need not only an intuitive e-shop full of beautiful things, but also a guarantee of fast delivery and well-handled returns. And again, it's about the people and the atmosphere. At the Jeneč warehouse, we pride ourselves on wanting to maintain a good atmosphere where people work well and deliver results. Most of our colleagues joined us through recommendations from current employees, and the biggest proof of our culture is that they only recommend people they vouch for 100%, because having a great team here is everyone's goal. We have a stable and excellent team because we treat people with respect and value their work.

If we had a time-lapse documentary of the Bonami warehouse, it would be the most visible proof of the growth and development Bonami has gone through. We used to hold small items here and act as a transfer station; today we have tens of thousands of items, from mugs to sofas, leaving us for places like Italy or Hungary. But what you will find here all these years is well-managed logistics, a great team, and an atmosphere where it's great to work and where even the toughest logistical challenges can be easily handled thanks to the people.

There is no doubt Bonami is a successful company. A company that manages its growth and expansion well while remaining financially healthy and profitable, which is exceptional. We are a mature company serving a large number of customers and suppliers across 12 markets, and we are most proud of managing to maintain an internal atmosphere where young people thrive and which still offers plenty of challenges for experienced colleagues. We appreciate that we've always had an approachable, thoughtful management that factored people into the equation. It's definitely worth coming over to take a look and experience it for yourself.