Careers

Interested in working with us? Ventana seeks bright, passionate people with a mission to change healthcare to join our team. We are a tight-knit, collaborative group, with a consensus-oriented approach to making decisions.

All positions below are full-time, and include competitive salary, equity, and excellent benefits. Please contact us at jobs@ventana.com. No recruiters or services please.

• Developer

  If you're looking to do serious software development, work with outstanding people, solve incredibly difficult computation and machine learning problems, and embrace agile techniques — all while revolutionizing our $2.4 trillion healthcare industry by empowering consumers — this is the place for you. We're looking for talented, dedicated, and passionate developers to join our team.

  While we would be surprised if you had all of the following in your quiver, some examples of what we would love to discover in your background or professional goals include:

  • Deep mastery of at least one object-oriented or functional programming language
  • Fluency in machine learning, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, or artificial intelligence — or just an excellent record in math
  • A true passion for coding and the ability to inspire others to create great code
  • Interest in and experience with Lean Thinking and Agile practices (TDD, XP, etc)
  • Proficiency with relational databases and/or tuning complex, resource-intensive, mission-critical applications to achieve maximum performance
  • A taste for exploring innovative technologies such as Ruby, Clojure, Git, Cloud Computing, Key-Value stores, RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Map/Reduce, etc.
  • A passion for startups

  Right now, we primarily use Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Linux, and Apache because we believe that technology should work for us, not the other way around. We understand that new problems may require new solutions, so we're looking for people who can identify the next big thing and share it with us, but are pragmatic enough to understand that Clojure is not a cure for cancer and TokyoCabinet will not broker world peace.

  Let us know if this sounds like your kind of environment and you want to join our team. In addition to a resume and a note about yourself, please send us a solution to one of the puzzles below.

  Puzzles

  We know that solving a puzzle takes some time, so all puzzle submissions will receive a response.

  An enchanted hat

  At a particular school, an enchanted hat assigns each incoming student to one of four residential houses. School lore says that the hat sorts students into houses entirely on the basis of personality and moral character. But this year, a rumor is circulating that the hat actually assigns each student completely randomly.

  The Headmaster hopes to disprove the rumor and reasons that if she can show the hat's assignments to be somewhat predictable, it cannot be assigning randomly. Before the students are sorted, she speaks with each student and privately writes down her prediction of which house that student will be assigned to.

  What is the smallest number of students (m) that allows her to make one incorrect prediction yet still establish a high level of confidence (say, 99% certainty) that the hat is not completely random in its sorting?

  If the headmaster's predictions are always wrong, would a sufficient number of wrong predictions (w) disprove the rumor with similarly high confidence?

  Odd bag out

  You have 5 unmarked bags with 100 beads each. Bags #1-4 contain 4 red beads and 96 black beads; bag #5 contains 7 red beads and 93 black beads. You randomly select one of the five bags and remove three beads without looking inside the bag. One is red, and the other two are black. What is the probability that you drew the beads from bag #5?

  Return the three beads to the bag and give it a good shake to mix things up. In the best-case scenario, what is the minimum number of beads you can withdraw, one at a time, to identify this bag as bag #5 with at least 50% certainty?

  Why Join Ventana?

  Excel

  Putting people first is deeply ingrained in Ventana's culture. We hire only the most talented individuals and empower them to make a difference and get things done. We have daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives. We figure out what we're doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we're doing right so we can make it better.

  You will be given the freedom to hone your craft without endless buy-in meetings or dull tools. For example, on your first day at Ventana, you tell us which computer, keyboard, mouse, office chair, and code editor make you the most productive, and we'll get them. (Within reason — no MetroNaps!)

  Change the world

  The impact of your opinions, ideas, strategies, and potential will not be limited by your role or job title. This is your opportunity to play an active role in Ventana from the beginning, to make a mark and call it your own. You will have the support of a proven management team and a strong business model — take that, Social Networking Company #644!

  It is also a unique chance for you to deliver ground-breaking, disruptive services and technology that will fundamentally change one of the largest and most powerful industries in the United States.

  Ventana is small enough that you can make a difference, yet big enough to positively impact the lives of millions at the most fundamental level: the health of themselves and their loved ones.

  Do the impossible

  We know what you're thinking: "Anyone can change the world, even that Pet Rock guy. I want to do something hard."

  As a software developer at Ventana, you will have to solve some of the toughest business, data-analysis, machine-learning, design, integration, and scalability problems of the IT world. You will be pioneering innovative engineering tools and techniques at the heart of one of the most challenging business domains.

  Our leaders are successful healthcare entrepreneurs who know how to navigate the complex healthcare industry. We have a market opportunity, well-defined goals, a pragmatic mindset, and the funding to execute.

  So why not join? Get in touch!

  Ventana is an equal opportunity employer. Please do not respond to this job posting in person.

• User Experience Specialist/Designer

  Can you envision user-friendly healthcare in America? With hidden prices, complicated insurance plans, disaggregated health data, and confusing medical jargon, every step of the way to getting care is fraught with usability problems. We need someone who can take on the healthcare jungle and clear out a refreshingly simple user experience. We need someone to be the voice of our users and help us build a company where we are in touch with and driven by their needs.

  Why Join Ventana?

  Excel. Putting people first is deeply ingrained in Ventana's culture. We hire extremely talented individuals and empower them to make a difference and get things done.

  Do the impossible. At Ventana, you will solve some of the toughest usability problems out there. The challenge: start with incomplete user medical histories, insurance plans with complicated coverage rules, constantly evolving employer benefits, incomprehensible medical procedures—and transform it all into an experience the user “gets” and loves.

  Change the world. This is a unique chance for you to deliver a ground-breaking, disruptive service that will fundamentally change one of the most powerful industries in the United States. Ventana is small enough that you can make a difference, yet big enough to positively impact the lives of millions at the most fundamental level: the health of themselves and their loved ones.

  Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the process for gathering usability insights and incorporating them into our product
  • Develop and regularly conduct usability sessions
  • Manage various types of usability processes (e.g. A/B testing, competitive testing)
  • Measure and track progress of the product’s usability
  • Propose designs based on findings and create user-interface mockups
  • Collaborate with marketing team on researching user needs and workflows
  • Collaborate with product and design team on developing and designing product features
  • Collaborate with engineering team on implementing designs and usability testing mechanisms
  • Stay on top of recent trends in usability and educate others in the company
  • Help build a company culture that is in touch with our users

  Requirements:

  • 4+ years of user experience and design for web applications
  • Experience with various usability strategies and techniques
  • Passion for understanding and representing the user
  • Excellent eye for simple, beautiful, user-friendly designs
  • Excellent “common sense”
  • High sense of integrity and awareness of how product decisions can impact individual lives
  • Ability to design multiple innovative solutions to complex problems
  • Ability to understand quantitative issues and technical restraints in the design process
  • Excellent communication skills—ability to draw out critical information from users in conversation and deduce key lessons for the product
  • Excellent mockup skills—ability to quickly create visual UI mockups
  • Excellent writing skills—ability to take the essence of a message and communicate it in few words
  • Excellent teamwork skills—ability to work collaboratively with various functions (e.g. engineering, marketing, business development)
  • Entrepreneurial self-starter, problem-solver, and multi-tasker
  • Passion to help empower individuals with their healthcare

  Design Activity Submission

  We ask all applicants to submit a response to our user interface design activity which you can download here. We will review potential interview candidates based on the submissions we receive.

  Please send us your resume, cover letter, response to our UI activity, and examples of products where you worked on the user experience and/or design.

  Ventana is an equal opportunity employer. Please do not respond to this job posting in person.