Health Coach (Remote, Part time)

About Fella Health

Fella Health is the telemedicine clinic for men with obesity, backed by Y Combinator. With Fella, patients meet an obesity specialist to prescribe FDA-approved medications, while they undertake personalized health coaching through our app.

Obesity is the largest chronic disease in the US (>$100bn spent each year) and the traditional solution ("move more, eat less") only works long-term for ~10% of people. But obesity treatment is radically changing due to a new wave of medication options which are 3x more effective than previous options. In addition, only 10% of those using weight management services are men: all programs market to women, not tackling the stigma men feel around this.

Fella's founder is Richie Cartwright. Richie personally struggled with binge eating for 6 years. After studying at Cambridge University, he built and sold an AI company working with the UK government. He built a 10k-follower Instagram community around men's binge eating.

You can read more about working at Fella here: https://fella.notion.site/Working-at-Fella-14a2ac8575d34d148d009bb410387af4

Fella Health is live in 7 US states and has raised a Seed round to scale up. We're backed by top healthcare & consumer investors:

• Y Combinator

• Global Founders Capital — backed Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn, Revolut, Rocket Internet

• AngelList Early Stage Fund (backed by Naval Ravikant)

• BrandProject (venture-builder behind 2 unicorns)

• The founders of Indeed, Curative (unicorn), Alan (unicorn), Kaia Health (>$300mil valuation), Vouch Insurance (>$500mil valuation), Not Boring (Packy McCormick)

The opportunity as Health Coach

Fella Health is building a world-class team. As a Health Coach at Fella Health, you're an important part of the early team. You'll work closely with our Program Lead to deliver high-quality coaching to your fellas (Fella customers), using our in-app program and supporting protocols. You'll also collect feedback to shape our program & processes, then help implement those improvements. Your primary role is as a brilliant health coach, and you'll have ample room to shape Fella's future as we scale.

This role is fully remote, and is part-time (>20hrs/wk). You choose your working hours.

You'll work closely with Fella’s Founder Richie, and report directly to our Program Lead Becky.

Key responsibilities

Individual Coaching

• You'll be in charge of the program outcomes of your 80-120 fellas. You'll triage fellas based on what type of problems they're facing, take them through the appropriate program material, and keep them engaged in the program. You'll be their point of call if they have questions about Fella. You'll be in regular contact with each of them: 1-1 calls every 2 weeks & text contact in-between.

Extra: Helping the Growth team

• You may be asked by to help onboard uncertain fellas by taking sales calls.

Need to have

Hours: you're able to work at least 20 hours/week.

Coaching skills

• Experience: You have 2+ years experience as a health coach, psychologist, therapist, dietitian - or something closely related.

• Empathy: You understand that obesity is a complex health condition with a wide range of interacting, biopsychosocial causes. You have a sound awareness of obesity stigma and the negative impact this has on people living with obesity.

• Methodology: You are happy working to a tight protocol to guide your fellas through a structured in-app program, supported by 20-minute biweekly calls and text support.

• Technology: You are tech-savvy enough to comfortably navigate your way around new software.

• Resilience: This will be some of the most rewarding work you’ve ever done, but it won’t be easy. The program and protocols will be constantly iterated to improve as we scale. You'll need to run with the fast pace and keep your fellas engaged along the way.

• Cognitive: We focus on psychological techniques (e.g. ACT & CBT), so you'll either need to be comfortable with these already, or happy upskilling quickly.

Cultural skills

• Do what is needed — Speed is critical, things change suddenly, and often the solutions we need are messy. You are comfortable moving quickly and taking on gritty work.

• Dedication to excellence — You are obsessed with your role, with a commitment to compounding self-improvement.

• Commitment to candor — We believe in open communication and transparency. You are a clear & caring communicator, welcoming feedback.

• End-to-end ownership — You are comfortable owning projects from noticing the problem to delivering the outcome.

• Belief in the mission — We will help 1 million fellas by 2026. We have a lot of work to do, and you are dedicated to the mission.

Nice to have

Coaching skills

• Education: You likely have a Bachelors degree in a related area e.g. Psychology, Health Sciences, Behavioral Health, Nutrition, Sports Medicine etc.

• Communication: You are a compelling and caring communicator over video & text.

• Friend: Many fellas have never opened up about this before, so you'll make your fellas feel comfortable by being personable. You'll know when and how to joke around with your fellas.

• Sales: You may have inbound sales experience to help out the growth team if needed.

Cultural skills

• Managing yourself — You own your schedule, your habits, your happiness, your life. Your team-members help you flourish, but the eventual responsibility lies with you.

• Seeing systems — You recognize the system which produces the outcome, and focus on improving the system to fix the true cause of an issue.

• Positive-sum thinking — You think in terms of collaboration, not competition.

Benefits

• Compensation: $65,000/yr ($31.25/hr) total comp equivalent split between cash & equity

• Professional development: $1200/yr (pro-rated) budget for books, courses etc

• Personal wellness: $1200/yr (pro-rated) budget for gym, health apps etc

• Vacation: flexible time off with a yearly minimum (>2 weeks/yr)

• Remote: our team is fully distributed across the world and functions fully remotely

• Flexible: you decide your schedule

• Equipment: Macbook & WFH equipment provided if needed

• What are we missing? We're still early so you get to shape our culture.

How to apply

Please apply via the system. Looking forward to speaking to you soon!