Join Alan Where excellence meets (health)care
Improve lives through a culture of ambition and excellence nurtured with transparency and care
More than insurance, Alan is a one-stop health partner.
Our mission is to empower everyone to live a longer, healthier life.
Our objective is to become the market leader in healthcare, and one of the biggest and most member-centric companies in the world.
At Alan, we help members take care of their physical health and mental well-being on a daily basis by putting an emphasis on prevention. We support members via our virtual clinic, with a simple and responsive health insurance and innovative and proactive services, all accessible directly from their pocket.
Alan is the best HR investment any company can make. Employees, now more than ever, hold employers accountable for taking care of their health and wellbeing, and those that do are rewarded with a significantly more engaged and loyal workforce.
Our Mission
Hear from our CEO & Co-Founder, Jean Charles Samuelian-Werve as he explains Alan's vital mission to help people live a longer and healthier life
How it all began
In 2016 Jean-Charles Samuelian and Charles Gorintin set out to revolutionize the healthcare industry. They identified a huge problem to solve: Healthcare is expensive, unadapted to individual needs, reactive rather than predictive or preventive, complex and hard to navigate, while burning-out doctors. So, they created Alan, which started out as the first fully digital health insurance and has now evolved into so much more!
As of today, Alan operates in 4 countries (🇫🇷, 🇧🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇦) and covers more than 700,000 members, representing over €500m+ of annualized revenue. In 2024 we raised a further €140M in a series F funding round bringing the company’s total valuation to €4bn. The team is 600+ people and growing.
We are recurrently named as one of La French Tech’s Next40 startups.
How we work
Reaching our mission requires us to attract and groom the best talent who believe in our mission and want to achieve excellence.
Our leadership principles are built around a Healthy Business culture. They are at the heart of our work methods and are reflected in every decision we take.
Mission is the boss
We are focused on achieving our mission and seek success of the mission above the rest.
Member & customer-led
We are obsessed with solving customer and member problems and always talk about our members and customers when making a decision.
Excellence like the best Athletes
We raise the bar continuously and work hard to achieve our goals.
Enlightened despots: distributed ownership with accountability
We expect a lot of autonomy and empower the right stakeholders to make the best decisions, through context not control.
Radically transparent
We are public first and written first, we structure information and document everything, we don't leak key information externally.
A team of kind methodic optimists
We collaborate genuinely and care about others, we are no-ego doers, we assume positive intent and display an appreciative approach to life, fighting cynicism.
How we continuously improve
Empathetic challengers: growth through candor and conviction
We are disagreeable givers and give feedback effectively: we start from people's strength and tell the hard truth even if it hurts. We react to feedback with a a long term perspective, lowering our defensive shields.
Bold, creative, contrarian and often right
We do not seek consensus and challenge expertise with first principles. We look for new ideas starting with heart, intuition, guts and taste. We learn from failures and successes.
Disciplined in execution
We clarify ownership, focus on A+ problems, are biased to actions, challenge only if worth it, display self-organization, respect ETA or over-communicate if late, keeping each other accountable.
Fight for simplicity
We fight the small easy decision, kill bureaucracy, show concision in writing and speech, adopt a smartly frugal approach, and use our common sense to think global
Is Alan for me?
We continue to build a culture where Alaners feel a strong sense of belonging, by believing in our mission, aligning on how we achieve it and through meaningful relationships.
A strong and mission-aligned culture will not please everybody, that is why we are explicit on why it can be amazing for you (and when it is not).
What makes an alaner?
Pioneers innovating to improve people's lives: Our members’ needs are at the heart of everything, and we are excited to tackle new challenges, constantly learn along the journey and share discoveries across the business and the wider industry for the benefit of everyone.
What kind of environment is it?
A healthy place to thrive: Our culture encourages humility and radical transparency to help each other grow to perform at their best to achieve our mission. It’s a place where Alaners feel fairly rewarded, whatever their background, with extra benefits and perks, and all the tools they need to achieve work/life harmony.
How do we work?
Accountability fostered through flexibility & trust: We give Alaners the flexibility and trust to build and edit the company and reward them fairly by growth opportunities and equity. Career progression is a top priority, providing Alaners with varied, ambitious and non-traditional career paths they could not have outside Alan.
How do we approach technological advances?
Embracing new technologies: We believe recent developments in AI can support us in our mission and every team at Alan, from Care to HRs to Engineering, incorporate it to unlock new possibilities. We strongly believe in being innovative and remaining ahead of the curve.
What we are not
We don’t pretend to suit everyone and as radical transparency is one of our core values, we want to be open about what we are not, to help you decide if Alan is a place for you.
Alan is not always a comfortable place, high performing culture can be demanding as we expect people to push for excellence.
Alan is not a place where you will get it right every time, Alaners are comfortable with sometimes failing and learning from the experience.
Alan is not somewhere you can rinse and repeat: Rather than rely on prior knowledge, we prefer Alaners to try to break problems down to first principles and try an even more innovative approach.
Alan is not always an easy ride: Transparency can take you out of your comfort zone and receiving feedback can sometimes feel uneasy.
Alan is not a place where you’re spoon-fed: Being autonomous and taking ownership by setting your own objectives takes a high level of self-sufficiency.
What is life really like at Alan?
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