--- title: 'Founder Associate at Fortuna Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founder-associate-fortuna-health-new-york-0zgr6628tm66' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-15' --- # Founder Associate at Fortuna Health - **Company:** Fortuna Health - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fortuna-health/74c926d2-b8b1-40cd-ba2f-44dbea658c22 ## Job description ## About Fortuna Health We believe accessing healthcare should be as simple as doing your taxes on TurboTax. But for the millions on Medicaid, it’s not. Fortuna Health is redefining the consumer experience for Medicaid. We’re helping millions navigate Medicaid end-to-end from eligibility and enrollment to renewing coverage. We're backed by a16z, BoxGroup, YC, and top healthcare angels. We believe this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to dramatically improve the human condition for 80M people, and we need the help of high-throughput, growth-minded builders to make it happen. ## About the role Fortuna Health is growing fast, and our team is stretched across high-priority growth, operations, and product/engineering work. We're looking for a Founder Associate to become the connective tissue that keeps the founders moving at full speed: owning the logistics, follow-through, and operational details that otherwise eat hours out of every week. Positioned as a force multiplier, this role bridges the gap between an Executive Assistant, Project Manager, and Chief of Staff. You'll work directly with the CEO and other founders, get exposure to how an early-stage company actually runs, and have real ownership from day one. We think of Founder Associate as a launchpad into startup roles. ## What you'll do - Executive Leverage & Priority Control: Proactively manage the CEO's calendar and attention. Defend focus time, resolve conflicts before they surface, and act as a ruthless filter between what requires a live meeting, an email, or direct delegation. - Follow-Through & Task Accountability: Keep the founder’s operational queues airtight. Turn meeting notes and ad-hoc asks into structured action items, tracking and driving them through to execution. - Customer Operations & Project Management: Project-manage select operational work streams that touch our team and enterprise customers - tracking deliverables, deadlines, and taking first passes on standardized, structured documentation. - Strategic Experiences & Cultural Ops: Architect and execute monthly All-Hands, flagship company retreats, and external partner events end-to-end. Own everything from high-level agendas to logistics to build a strong culture. - Special Projects & Business Operations: Serve as the CEO's utility player. Partner with the COO on core business operations, workplace experiences, and special projects that keep the company running smoothly. ## What we're looking for - High Agency & Autonomy - If you see something broken, you fix it without asking permission. - Clear Communication - Sharp written skills; you could draft investor updates and internal memos without requiring rewriting. - Exceptionally Organized - you naturally bring structure to chaos and don't wait to be told what's next - Comfortable holding many threads at once in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment - Discreet - you'll have visibility into sensitive company information and handle it accordingly ## Requirements - 0-1+ years of experience (recent graduates welcome to apply) - Ability to work 5 days per week in-person in NYC ## What we offer - Competitive salary and equity ownership in the company - Platinum health insurance plans - Free lunch every day - All commuter expenses covered - $100/month wellness benefit - Unlimited PTO - 401k plan with company match ## About Fortuna Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fortuna Health provides a consumer-first digital platform for navigating Medicaid end-to-end, from eligibility and enrollment to renewing coverage. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Benjamin Wesner (Co-Founder & CTO), Cydney Kim (Co-Founder & COO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Healthcare IT, Government Health Programs, Medicaid Technology - Target customers: B2B — health plans and providers who offer the platform to their Medicaid members; B2C — Medicaid consumers who use the platform for enrollment and renewal - Mission or purpose statement: To make the consumer experience for Medicaid more efficient, accurate, and accessible. The company believes the consumer experience for government health programs should be simpler and more dignified. ## Products & Services - **Fortuna Health Platform**: A SaaS platform that provides a digital, end-to-end experience for Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and renewal. Features include 24/7 multilingual support, a virtual mailbox, automated notifications, and guided workflows. The platform offers eligibility checks in as little as 30 seconds and claims a 95% application approval rate and a 15% increase in renewal rates. It is available only through partner providers and insurers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$22.5M** (as of August 2025). Annual revenue is estimated at **$1.2M** (LinkedIn estimate). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortuna-health) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)**, with participation from **BoxGroup**, **Y Combinator**, and angel investors including the founders of Zocdoc, Pillpack, and Cityblock. [fortunahealth.com](https://www.fortunahealth.com/about-us) - **Growth Signals**: The company has grown headcount by **72.7% YoY** (to 19 employees). It raised an **$18.3M Series A** in August 2025, led by a16z, signaling strong investor confidence. The company is expanding its services to multiple states and is positioned to benefit from federal Medicaid reforms. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/fortuna-health) ## Competitive Advantages - **Consumer-first approach**: Unlike traditional state-run systems or call centers, Fortuna offers a modern, digital, and guided experience tailored to individual consumer situations. - **High conversion and retention**: Reports a 95% application approval rate and a 15% increase in renewal rates, demonstrating strong product-market fit. - **Licensed navigators**: Every Fortuna navigator is certified and licensed to enroll, ensuring compliance and trust. - **Focus on a massive, underserved market**: With over 100 million consumers covered by Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace programs, and 72% of those who lose coverage remaining eligible, the addressable market is enormous and under-digitized. ## Strategic Focus - **Nationwide expansion**: Fortuna is actively expanding its services to more states, aiming to cover a larger portion of the Medicaid population. - **Deepening partnerships**: The company works exclusively through health plans and providers, so a key focus is building and scaling these B2B relationships. - **Product development**: Continued investment in the platform to make eligibility, enrollment, and renewal faster and more automated, reducing friction for both consumers and partner organizations. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Employees are directly improving access to healthcare for millions of low-income and vulnerable individuals. - **Engineering & team culture**: The company emphasizes ownership, respectful disagreement, a growth mindset, and advocacy. They describe their culture as one where "every Fortuna employee is empowered to drive product and service excellence." [fortunahealth.com](https://www.fortunahealth.com/about-us) - **Strong backing**: Working at a company backed by top-tier investors like a16z and Y Combinator provides stability and resources for growth. - **Small, growing team**: With only 19 employees and rapid growth, there is significant opportunity for impact, ownership, and career advancement. - **Location**: Based in New York, NY, with a hybrid/office policy likely given the small team size and collaborative nature (remote/hybrid policy not explicitly detailed but typical for early-stage NYC startups). ## Sources 1. [Fortuna Health Official Website](https://www.fortunahealth.com/) 2. [Fortuna Health About Us](https://www.fortunahealth.com/about-us) 3. [Fortuna Health LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortuna-health) 4. 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