Insurance Legal Counsel
Alan🐼 Who we are
At Alan we are on an important mission to empower everyone to live a longer, healthier life. Our goal is to extend the quality years of life expectancy for everyone.
We are empowering our members to live a longer and healthier life with a ‘one-stop health partner’ model seamlessly integrating insurance, prevention, affordable care access and well-being services. We are redefining healthcare by being both a health insurer and a provider, creating the most member-centric experience in a vast market. We go above and beyond for our members and companies to overcome the day-to-day health obstacles and our product is built to address the biggest pain points they face.
We partner with 30,000+ companies, with 700K+ members, and cumulate €500M+ and growing ARR.
The team is 600+ people, and we operate in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.
🤘 How we do it ?
People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:
Mission is the Boss: We have a mission-first focus with long-term thinking, where all employees act as owners seeking the company's success above all else.
Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust.
Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance.
Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility.
Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data.
Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best.
Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication.
Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks.
Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces.
Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically.
📚About the role
We're looking for an Insurance Legal Counsel to join Alan's Corporate Unit and help us reinvent health insurance through the lens of simplicity, transparency, and member-first innovation.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how regulatory excellence can become a competitive advantage in the health insurance space. At Alan, compliance and legal work is about finding innovative ways to say "yes" while ensuring the highest standards of insurance and regulatory excellence.
🦸Key missions
Here are some of the ways in which you would contribute:
Sales campaigns
Protect our competitive edge and improve our offering by defining Alan’s position on key contractual terms and keeping up-to-date on latest legal developments
Contribute directly to the success of our sales campaigns by taking part in strategic meetings with key prospects and clients
Partner with the Sales community to design and implement our regulatory obligations (duty of advice, transparency, conflicts of interest) directly into their tools and practices
Empower the team across Europe with practical regulatory guidance and autonomous decision frameworks
Insurance operations
Contribute to the quality and member-centricity of our insurance product & processes through expert contributions
Challenge market practices to find the best ways to meet regulatory requirements and transform complex insurance regulations (such as product oversight requirements, tax requirements, collective bargaining agreements) into simple, practical solutions
Strategically consult our regulators or challenge their approach with tact when needed
Protect Alan’s interests in the outsourcing of critical processes and manage relationships with key partners
Implement internal controls and reporting on key processes and support the team to mitigate operational risks
Compliance & regulatory excellence
Contribute to the development and implementation of innovative product initiatives with high regulatory stakes across our European markets, in insurance or other spaces (health, labor law, payments)
Drive the implementation of key compliance programs (anti-money laundering, Sapin II, etc.) with a distributed and tech-enabled approach
Develop strategies to influence regulatory evolutions and scrutiny, communicate with regulators and external auditors
Identify our main risks and report on our compliance obligations to Alan’s board
👋 Profile
Skills
The Insurance Legal role requires specific expertise in key areas:
Preferably ~5 years of experience in insurance, compliance, regulatory affairs, or legal roles
Thorough understanding of insurance regulatory frameworks, including ACPR guidelines, insurance distribution rules, and legal regulations applicable to insurance contracts
Experience developing and deploying operational compliance programs
Fluent in English and French (written and spoken)
You'll thrive in this role if:
You see regulatory requirements as opportunities to innovate, not just boxes to check
You have the ability to zoom out for strategic goals while diving deep into operational details
You're energized by the challenge of building something new rather than following established playbooks
You're naturally curious about technology and excited about automating processes
You can balance pragmatism with excellence, knowing when to be scrappy and when to be thorough
Relevant background
Any of these backgrounds could set you up for success:
Experience in an insurance company’s compliance or legal departments
Time spent at an innovative insurtech or healthtech company
Background in regulatory consulting focused on insurance
Experience at regulatory authorities (ACPR, EIOPA) would be a plus
For this opportunity, we are aiming to hire within the B-D level range.
But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus.
🙌 Perks & Benefits
At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need, and it starts with our employees. This is why Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
Therefore, we offer:
Fair rewards. Generous equity packages complement your base salary.
Flexible Office. Amazing office space at our HQ, sponsored co-working hubs or a full-remote experience with home office equipment sponsorship, we want you to live where you’re the happiest.
All the tools you need. Top of the range equipment: Macbook Pro, keyboard, laptop stand, monitor, and noise-canceling headphones.
Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.
Delightful healthcare insurance. Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family.
Transport. Country-specific commuter benefits.
Learning & Training opportunities. A highly flexible training policy, free books and budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises.
Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents.
Important note: we hire people not roles.
After reading this job description, if you feel like you don’t have all the necessary prerequisites but that it matches where you are now or what you'd like to grow into in your next position, we encourage you to apply!
Not everybody will enter our recruitment process, but all, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.
🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.