Last updated: October 2026
Most companies that raise half a billion euros go on a hiring spree for specialists. Alan did something stranger. It stopped advertising for product designers and started advertising for builders. That shift is visible in Woody's own data, and it tells you more about working at a European health unicorn than any careers page will.
Alan is a French health insurer that behaves like a software company. In June 2026 it closed a โฌ480 million Series G led by Prosus at a โฌ5.5 billion valuation, one of Europe's largest insurtech rounds (Tech.eu). It serves more than 1.1 million members and over 37,000 businesses across France, Belgium, Spain and Canada, and reported โฌ785 million ARR for 2025, up 53% year on year, with a โฌ1 billion target for 2026 (fintech.global).
If you want your product work to touch a million people's healthcare rather than their checkout flow, few European companies operate at that scale.
What Alan actually does
Alan launched in 2016 as a digital health insurer, which in France meant competing with mutuelles built for paper. The product was the wedge: reimbursements in days instead of weeks, an app people did not hate, pricing you could understand. The 2026 version is more ambitious. Alan is repositioning from insurer to prevention platform, bundling coverage with care navigation, mental health services and AI-assisted triage. It launched Mo, an AI health assistant, in late 2024, and the Series G funds new markets, acquisitions and more AI in the product.
The AI connection runs deeper than most insurers. CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve is a co-founding advisor and board member of Mistral AI, and Alan holds a stake in the company (Lombard Odier). AI here is not a feature someone else owns, it is the bet of the person running the company.
What the Woody data shows
Alan's company profile on Woody counts 21 postings. Reading them in order is the interesting part.
In 2024, Alan posted a Senior Product Designer and a contract Product Designer, both France and remote. In February 2026, a Product Lead for its billing platform, Paris and hybrid. Then the titles change. The two most recent product-side openings are both called Senior Ops & Product Builder, one in Belgium in May 2026 and one in France this week. A role titled "Product Designer" has not appeared since October 2024.
Three roles are current, all posted since 1 September 2026, every one tagged Remote with France as the location:
- Senior Ops & Product Builder, senior level, full time
- Senior User Researcher, mid level, full time
- Product Marketing Manager B2C, mid level, full time
Two more patterns. The geography drifted: early 2026 listings were Paris and hybrid, the current ones France and remote. And not one of the 21 Alan postings carries a salary band, unusual at this size. The reason is not secrecy, as we will get to.
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What "builder" actually means
This is not title inflation. The Ops & Product Builder listings describe operations as a strategic function that defines vision, builds systems and owns outcomes, with missions like standing up online psychotherapy delivery from scratch, building fraud detection, and owning build-versus-buy calls on tooling.
The requirements are the giveaway. Candidates must be fluent in SQL and build automations themselves with tools like Zapier or n8n. At senior level Alan asks for around ten years of experience and people who are "thought leaders implementing innovative uses of AI and automation."
The picture is clear. Alan wants people who can design a system, instrument it, automate it and ship it, not people who specify it and hand it over. If your skill set is Figma plus a strong point of view, that is half the job here. If you have been quietly learning SQL and wiring up automations, Alan has written a job description for you.
What it is like to work there
Alan's culture is unusually well documented and genuinely different. Five values anchor it: Member First, Fearless Ambition, Distributed Ownership, Radical Transparency, and Personal and Community Growth. Three consequences reshape your working day.
Decisions do not happen in meetings. Alan makes business decisions in written GitHub issues, asynchronously, and documents everything in Notion, which is where people go for answers instead of asking someone.
Communication is public by default. Alaners avoid direct messages and do not email each other internally (Sifted). For a designer, your reasoning is the artifact, not just your screens. A well-argued written case beats a polished deck.
Authority follows proximity, not seniority. Distributed ownership means whoever is closest to a problem makes the call.
Be precise about what remote means here. Alan calls itself "work from anywhere" rather than remote-first, and the distinction is real. It has offices in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels and Ghent, rents coworking rooms in cities like Lyon and Lille, and some roles require three or four days onsite (Remote Work Europe). The three current Woody listings are the remote ones. The design team works remotely and gathers quarterly in Paris.
The hiring process
Expect five stages: a 30 minute screen, written questions answered in English within about three days, a one hour craft interview, a fit interview on background and values, and an "Alan Day" of interviews and case work. Glassdoor puts the average end to end at about 26 days.
Everyone at Alan interviews regardless of role. Prepare for the written round properly. In a company that decides in writing, that stage is the real test.
Salaries
This is where the missing Woody bands get explained. Alan publishes a pay scale with more than 15 levels, sent to every applicant at the start of the process. Pay is set by the grid and is not negotiable, which Alan argues removes the inequities negotiation creates.
Published figures put C0 at roughly โฌ65,000 to โฌ76,000, C0 to C1 mid-senior profiles at โฌ65,000 to โฌ84,000 base, Staff+ at โฌ127,000 to โฌ139,000, and Principal at โฌ184,000 to โฌ203,000.
Public aggregators tell a messier story, as they do with small samples. Levels.fyi reports Alan Product Designer total compensation in France between โฌ64,900 and โฌ92,500, median around โฌ64,850, and a handful of Product Manager points near โฌ52,500 (Levels.fyi). Treat those as thin and the published grid as the real signal.
Do not read the absent Woody bands as secrecy. Ask for the grid on your first call.
Should you apply?
Alan suits a particular person. You should want healthcare as a problem domain, be comfortable arguing in writing rather than in rooms, and be willing to build the thing instead of handing off the spec. Pay is fixed by the grid, a relief if you dislike haggling, a constraint if you wanted leverage.
If that sounds right, browse Alan's roles on Woody, or look more broadly at product, UX and remote openings. Alan roles fill fast, so set a Woody job alert to hear about the next one the day it posts.
FAQ
Is Alan hiring designers in 2026? Yes on the product side, but the titles have changed. The three current Woody roles are a Senior Ops & Product Builder, a Senior User Researcher and a B2C Product Marketing Manager. A "Product Designer" title has not appeared since October 2024.
Are Alan jobs fully remote? Alan calls itself "work from anywhere" rather than remote-first. Some roles require three or four office days, others are fully remote. All three current Woody listings are tagged Remote, in France.
What does Alan pay? A public, non-negotiable grid with more than 15 levels, shared with candidates upfront. Published figures run from about โฌ65,000 at C0 to โฌ203,000 at Principal.
How long is Alan's hiring process? About 26 days on average per Glassdoor, across five stages including a written round and a full-day "Alan Day".
Do I need to speak French? Alan operates in English internally and the written round is in English. Some operations and customer-facing roles also ask for French, Spanish or Dutch.
