About SIRUM
SIRUM is reimagining the future of US healthcare by connecting people with surplus medications at an affordable cost. Our goal is to leverage the ~$11B of surplus that goes to waste every year to improve health equity for the 10M adults in the US who can’t afford their prescriptions. Families’ health comes first and everyone deserves the medications they need to stay healthy. We deliver on this promise by ensuring medicine prices are low, stable, and transparent!
SIRUM is a fast-growing, non-profit, for-impact startup at the intersection of health tech + social enterprise. Founded at Stanford University and backed by Y Combinator, our platform moves $750,000 worth of medications every week, sourced from hundreds of medicine donors across dozens of states. Join us in building a national solution to the drug pricing epidemic that has been featured on The TED Mainstage, The New York Times, and Forbes.
About the Role
As a Fellow at SIRUM, you’ll work with SIRUM’s co-founders and be a key player in our fast-growing social enterprise. You’ll gain exposure to every functional part of the organization (including growth, operations, policy, marketing, and development) and the industries we intersect with as a health tech + social enterprise (including pharmacies, health facilities, community health centers, free clinics, government and tech). These roles are unique 1-2 year opportunities for ambitious recent graduates and professionals wanting to turn their strategy, analysis, and project management skills into a profound experience that positively impacts patients nationwide.
Please note, all employees at SIRUM must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
In this role, you will focus your impact on…
- Growing our medicine donor base.
- Medicine surplus exists all over the supply chain from retail to niche closed door pharmacies to thousands of health facilities like nursing homes. You will project manage exploration into new industries and enterprise-level groups to find new sources of surplus, conducting market research, owning scheduling, making calls, and managing follow-up to keep relationships on track.
- Supporting our existing medicine donor community.
- We support hundreds of organizations actively donating their surplus medicine every day. You will support the amazing community of nurses, technicians, pharmacists, administrators and directors that ship these donations, answering questions and troubleshooting issues via emails, texts and calls. In addition, you will conceptualize and lead new initiatives to highlight the impact they’re having on families’ lives and share that with the donor community.
- Leading special projects.
- You will be our go-to for high value research and operations projects. It might be managing a large donation of emergency contraceptives to help 30,000 women get access, setting up calls, leading the charge coordinating to our clinics and working out logistics like shipping and manifests. It might also be managing the launch of a pilot program to collect surplus chemotherapeutic and other oncology medications, coordinating with oncology centers across the country. ← Real projects from this past year.
We’re excited about you because…
- You’re mission-driven and look forward to using your development skills to help families get the medicine they need.
- You’re a self-starter with experience in leading and executing on projects - you excel in organizing yourself and others, while working to define project goals and outlining key milestones from beginning to end.
- You’re a detail-oriented problem solver - you enjoy digging into the complexity and nuances of problems to find a solution.
- You’re great on the phone (and love it). You’d be excited to spend 2-3 hours/day on calls, moving between a quick call to troubleshoot tech issues with a current donor, to a scheduled meeting pitching the program to a new facility, to a scheduled on-boarding call to provide virtual training to a nursing team.
- You’re resourceful - you innovate to make your job easier, but have no problem rolling up your sleeves to do what it takes to make things successful.
- You have some experience in start-ups and/or social enterprise and a bachelor’s degree.
What we offer…
- Competitive salary.
- Huge social impact. You will see and feel the tangible impact of your work on a daily basis.
- Inside understanding into a high growth startup nonprofit. As a pivotal teammate on a small team, you will work directly with the founders, see the various aspects of how we operate, and be connected to the wider social impact sector.
- Great health benefits. We cover 100% of monthly premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance for full-time team members. Team members also have access to on-demand primary care, virtual health visits, personal wellness coaches, personal health advocates for medical bills and scheduling, and mental health phone line and counseling.
- 401K matching. Full-time employees are also eligible for a 4% match for their 401K.
- Time off for rest. Get about 6 weeks of time off per year, including 2+ weeks of paid company holidays and 4 weeks of accrued PTO.
- Awesome team. We’re a collaborative, passionate and driven team with a growth mindset that is up for adventures from virtual escape rooms, to urban putt-putt, to rafting to trampoline bouncing to paddle-boarding.
