š¼ Who we are
Alan envisions a world where anyone holds the power to actively influence their physical and mental health. We strive every day for a healthier humanity, starting with healthier people and healthier businesses.
Alan simplifies access to care, and empowers everyone to be healthier, physically and mentally, thanks to preventive care, health and insurance all in one experience. From prevention to extra-fast reimbursement of health care, and overcome together, as easily as possible, health related issues. We go the extra-mile for our members, becoming a resource for them, and obsessively creating solutions to help them in their day-to-day obstacles with a caring, tailored, personalized approach. They are never alone with Alan.
We partner with 25,000 companies, with 500K members, and cumulate ā¬350m+ and growing ARR. We operate in France š«š·, Spain šŖšø and Belgium š§šŖ. The team is 580+ people, all over Europe.
š¤ How we do it ?
People joining Alan are always surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as: - Members first. We put our members first, our team second, our shareholders third.
- Radical Transparency. We make all choices in writing and adopt a direct and honest style of communication.
- Personal & Team Growth. We are self-improving whilst helping others grow. Weāre no ego-doers and we all edit the company.
- Distributed Ownership. We trust our colleagues to make the right choices. We are not afraid to fail fast individually to learn collectively in the long run.
- Fearless ambition. We shoot for the moon and work backwards. We focus on solving complex problems with simple principles far from ready made ideas. We embrace AI to increase our productivity and be at the forefront of technological changes.
Alan - CTO Founder Associate Internship
The position is open for immediate starting date, ideally for a six-month internship.
Missions
Founder Associates support Founders and Senior Alaners on top business priorities, such as unlocking new growth, driving alignment on strategy and building new processes/standards internally and externally.
You will be highly involved in key challenges for Alan, and will be asked to support high added value tasks for Alan.
Detailed missions
As such, you canāt be exhaustive on the missions you will perform as a FA, as you can be asked to help on almost any subject.
Possible projects include:
- Tech (exploring companies, new technologies and their potential use cases for Alan)
- Strategy (contribute to the strategic vision of the company, screen markets and competition, produce business analyses, build models of growth, etc.).
- Product (identify and explore strategic product opportunities).
- Corporate & Governance (support for the constitution of our board packs, legal research, fundraisings, key Alaners meetings, and public affairs work..).
- Brand & Communication (develop the Corporate and Foundersā brands at major business events, on social networks).
- Growth (coordinating Rfp for big prospects, supporting marketing initiatives, partnerships...).
- Talent (sourcing and recruiting).
In this position, you will get a great overview of the key strategic topics at Alan and you will have the chance to work with senior Alaners on topics that are instrumental to our success.
You will grow exponentially with the guidance of senior Alaners. It is a unique chance to work on so many tasks in a different and non traditional environment.
Examples of recent projects
- Artificial Intelligence - Exploring cost-reduction opportunities: exploring opportunities on fraud detection, care optimisation and more to reduce cost-to-serve.
- Product - Exploring new health services (sleep, mental wellbeingā¦): in-depth market research to understand the opportunity to build new health services within Alan , scoping of a MVP
- Company org & roadmap - Taking part in the elaboration of the 2023 plan: acting as a project manager between tech & product communities to make sure roadmap meets the key objectives
- Sales - Being project manager for the renewal of Alanās biggest client: involvement throughout the whole process, coordination of Sales and Insurance teams to make the best offer possible
- Finance - Taking part and coordinating Series E fundraising: preparation of Pitch Deck, financial analysis to assess valuation, coordination of fundraising with investors
- Recurring tasks - Coordinating the weekly internal communication, supporting the CTO with his weekly social posts, organizing the monthly event gathering all the Alaners, recruiting the next batch of FAs
- And many more...
Key outcomes by the end of the internship
By the end of the internship period, the intern will have:
- Supported the CTO and other Senior Alaners, owning and delivering on a high-volume and broad range of topics. Doing so, the intern will interact with most of Alanās communities (Engineers, Product, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Talent).
- Created new processes and resources, and contributed innovative ideas to improve Founders Associates team efficiency and autonomy.
- Contributed directly/acted as project coordinator to/for at least one strategic company project (new product launch, AI model implementation, etc.).
Profile & competencies
Skills
- Analytical sense and critical thinking: FAs have a lot of research and analysis to produce. This requires the ability to frame the right questions, objectively analyze and evaluate a problem or issue, and problem-solve including simulating possible outcomes.
- āBusinessā and product sense: FAs often have to think at the company level, assessing what would be best for the business, and working on topics that have cross-cutting impacts. The ability to understand what can make a business great (product wise, commercially, in terms of image, etc.), and usually make correct decisions, even in the presence of ambiguity, is paramount.
- Execution and collaboration: given the scope, volume and timeline of work, the ability to direct peopleāincluding oneselfātowards a particular objective that may require active orchestration is key.
- Versatility and education: given the scope of work, FAs should be able to jump from one topic to another with similar impact
- Organization, time management and autonomy: you are well-versed in missions requiring precision and reliability. You are able to manage a project from start to finish with minimal external assistance.
- Communicate effectively: given the number of Alaners that FAs interact with on a daily basis, the ability to communicate your specific needs and to inspire action in others is essential.
- Always looking for the extra-mile: as a FA, you will be expected to be able to deliver quickly and well on the tasks assigned to you, but also to be proactive in proposing new initiatives, going beyond the task assigned to you if you think it is necessary, as well as anticipating future needs to propose potential solutions
- Growth mindset: you know how to ask for and receive feedback in order to grow as an FA in your early professional life.
- Fluency in spoken and written English. All our communications are written and in English.
