Build the door
that opens.
We're a small Connecticut mission-locked LLC working to get voice impairment recognized as a civil rights category alongside vision, hearing, and mobility. We hire infrequently and we hire honestly. If the work fits your vocation, we want to hear from you — even when there's no posted role.
What this place actually is.
And isn't.
AgeWell Alliance is small. Connecticut-based. Mission-locked by charter — we can't be acquired by anyone who won't honor our commitments. We're not a Series-B SaaS with a 50-person team and a Manhattan office. Anybody telling you otherwise is reading old marketing.
What we are: the alliance behind TinkyTown (deployed across 151 Connecticut municipalities), TinkySpeak (the AAC engine), and AgeWell Compliance (the small-business kit). The products fund the advocacy. The advocacy is the point.
Five things
we hire on.
Skills are easy to test for. These five we look for harder, because the work is downstream of all of them.
Language matters here.
You match each community's stated preference — identity-first where chosen (autistic individuals), person-first where chosen (stroke survivors, people with aphasia). No pity language. No cure language. No puzzle pieces.
It's a credential, not a checkbox.
If you, or someone you love, lives with voice impairment — that's not a tiebreaker, it's an asset we want in the room. Stroke survivor, AAC user, aphasia, ALS, brain injury, CP, apraxia, dysarthria, selective mutism, autistic, family member of any of the above.
No data sale. No profiling.
Five charter commitments govern every product and partnership decision. If a feature, deal, or shortcut would break one — we don't ship it. You bring that discipline with you, or you struggle here.
No over-claim, ever.
We say "PILOT" when it's a pilot, "deployed" when it's deployed, "we are building" when we haven't finished. If marketing copy or a sales pitch needs you to fudge — refuse it. We'll back you.
You will not conflate them.
ESL needs are real and they belong with their own advocates. Lumping them into a voice-impairment story insults both communities. If a brief asks you to do it, you push back. This rule is permanent.
Move fast — but ship dignity.
Speed is good. Sloppy is not. Every artifact we ship lands in front of someone whose access depends on it being right. Move fast where speed compounds; slow down where dignity does.
Slow, honest,
and human.
We won't ghost you. We won't run a 7-round gauntlet. We will sometimes take longer than ideal because we're small and we read every application — and that's the trade.
Send a real note
Email careers@agewellalliance.com with what you'd want to do, and what community or work shaped why. Cover letter beats résumé.
A real reply
A human reads it. A human writes back — yes, no, or "not now but stay in touch." If we say no, we'll tell you why.
Conversation
A call about the work and the charter. We'll ask what you'd push back on, not just what you'd say yes to. We accept communication in whatever form you use — text, board, voice, AAC.
Honest offer
Compensation will be fair for a Connecticut mission-locked LLC, not a venture-funded SaaS — we'll tell you exactly what that means before you decide.