Medical News Journalist (Contract Position)

🚀 A little about Rupa - The future is personalized, root cause healthcare.

Rupa Health is on a mission to bring root cause medicine to every person on the planet. We’re starting by making lab testing simple through a platform to order, track, and get results from 35+ lab companies offering 3000 tests in one place. From beginning to end, we take care of the entire labwork experience. Lab testing is the key to a more personalized and holistic approach to medicine, and Rupa is paving the way with critical infrastructure for this next generation of healthcare.

➡️ Learn more about life at Rupa!

🙏 Our Supporters - We're grateful to be backed by world class investors and advisors.

We’re backed by and work closely with our world class investors: First Round, Bessemer, Union Square Ventures, Lachy Groom, Floodgate (Mike Maples), SV Angel (Ron Conway), Trae Vassallo (Defy), healthcare domain experts, former founders with successful exits, the product brains behind Gmail, Facebook newsfeed, Dropbox, and more.

We’re also fortunate to be advised by the best in the industry, including the Head of Health and co-founder of IDEO, the co-founder of Honor HomeCare, domain experts with backgrounds from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and more.

🤩 The Role - What it means to be a Medical News Journalist at Rupa!

We are looking for a contract medical news writer who is excited and capable of writing about the cutting edge of medicine!

We have a strong need to communicate with healthcare practitioners and patients alike to bring Root Cause Medicine to the world!

⚡️ Specifically, you will:

- Be responsible for providing 4-10 articles each month.

- Write articles that are approximately 1500+ words. 

- Work with our Magazine team to write about the cutting edge of medicine and healthcare.

​​- Monitor the latest trends in medicine, healthcare, and wellness.

- Create compelling stories that cater to Rupa Health’s audience.

⚡️Requirements:

- At least 1 year experience writing either news and/or healthcare content.

- Knowledge of Rupa Health’s Magazine.

- Strong ability to create engaging written content around functional medicine & lab testing that is easy to understand for healthcare practitioners and general readers alike.

- Able to commit to writing 4-8 articles each month that will be due on a recurring scheduled due date.

- Have excellent communication skills.

👋 Does this sound like you?  We would love for you to apply! 

💵 Compensation:

This role will be a 1099 contract position that pays per article each month.

💙 Our Rupa Team - The best part of this whole journey!

You’ll be joining our all-star core team who have won awards for their biotech research, worked directly with chronically ill patients, built multiple multi-billion dollar companies, and much more. The core team comes from Stanford, Wharton, Y Combinator, Parsley Health, Lululemon, Everlywell, Square, Forward, and more.

We each are driven by personal reasons for wanting to transform this space. We’ve experienced firsthand the impact personalized medicine can have and are committed to this cause.

Beyond our collective excitement for the space, we’re a super close team who values personal development, being active, growth mindsets, a great sense of humor, and a healthy balance of optimism and realism. We work hard, care about each other, and have a ton of fun. 🙌 If this sounds like you, we’re stoked to meet you!

P.S. you can see our CEO speak about the future of health tech here!

📢 Quick Note

We’re committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Rupa Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Rupa Health will never contact job candidates via text message or any other messaging platform including WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. All official correspondence will occur through email. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check from us, or purchase software or equipment as part of your interview or hiring process. If you have concerns, please reach out to careers@rupahealth.com and we’ll confirm if you’re engaging with one of our Rupa teammates!