TL;DR

  • All six of Alan’s Belgian sales roles are fully remote. All fourteen of its French sales roles are anchored to an office. Same company, same function, opposite answer.
  • Alan advertises 45 fully remote roles out of 112 live vacancies, across France, Belgium and Spain.
  • Language is the real filter. Engineering adverts say “no need to speak French”. Almost every other remote role requires French or Dutch, frequently at C1 or native level.
  • Its most regulated work – insurance legal and compliance – is among its most remote. The constraint is a country lock and a language lock, not an office lock.

Alan is a French health insurer with around 700 staff, offices in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels and Ghent, and a careers page headed “Starting from people, not from offices”. It is a good example of an open-to-remote employer: genuinely flexible, genuinely not remote-first, and inconsistent in ways that are entirely logical once you can see the pattern.

Remote Work Europe read all 112 of Alan’s live adverts in full. Here is what separates the remote roles from the rest.

How does Alan describe its remote working policy?

The policy statement lives on Alan’s “Everyday life” careers page, published 28 June 2023 and updated 5 December 2025:

“We strive for flexibility and usually Alaners can work from anywhere within their employment country.”

“One size doesn’t fit all so different teams can have different requirements.”

Alan writes its location lines in two shapes, and the difference is the whole story. “Anywhere in [country]” means fully remote. A list of specific cities means office or hub-anchored. Forty-five of 112 adverts are “Anywhere in…”.

One caveat worth carrying into an interview. Twenty-one of the fully remote adverts also say:

“Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration.”

No cadence is attached. Alan publishes required office days for its office roles – “3+ days per week”, “at least 4 days per week”, “four days per week in our Paris office” – but publishes nothing equivalent for its remote roles. That is an unanswered question rather than a red flag, and the first interview is the place to answer it.

Which Alan departments are fully remote?

DepartmentFully remoteTotalLocation line on the remote ones
Engineering1318”Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain”
Sales 🇧🇪66”Anywhere in Belgium”
Sales 🇫🇷014Paris / Bordeaux / Lyon / Marseille / Nantes
Corporate (legal, compliance, audit)611”Anywhere in France”
Insurance (actuarial, pricing, risk)56France / Belgium / Spain
Care 🇫🇷55”Anywhere in France”
Care 🇧🇪33”Anywhere in Belgium”
Health practitioners34France / Québec
Product24”Anywhere in France”
Marketing14”Anywhere in Belgium, France”
Operations18”Anywhere in Belgium”
Design, Data, Talent, IT, Finance012Paris

Sales is not one policy at Alan. It is two. All six Belgian sales roles – Account Executive, Enterprise AE, BDR, Key Account Manager, Pre-Sales Specialist, Sales Engineer – are “Anywhere in Belgium”. All fourteen French sales roles are city-anchored, and four say so outright:

“Disclaimer: We’re open to hire Account Executives across our Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Annecy, Nantes and Biarritz offices.”

If you are a salesperson in Belgium, Alan is a fully remote employer. If you are a salesperson in France, it is not.

The regulated work is the remote work

This inverts the usual expectation. Insurance is heavily regulated, yet Alan’s legal and compliance roles are among its most remote: Insurance Compliance Counsel, Insurance Legal Counsel, Head of Insurance Legal Counsel, Internal Auditor and Corporate Paralegal are all “Anywhere in France”.

Meanwhile the unregulated Paris jobs – Internal Controller, Security Lead, IT Operations – are city-listed.

At Alan, regulation shows up as a country lock and a language lock rather than a desk lock. Compare this with Monzo, where Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity rules anchor risk roles to a jurisdiction and an office. Two regulated financial businesses, two different resolutions of the same constraint.

And seniority is not the rule. Head of Insurance Legal Counsel, Medical Lead and Product Lead – Growth are all “Anywhere in France”. Founding Engineer is Paris, on site. Security Lead is Paris. Do not screen yourself out at the top of the ladder.

Which countries can you work from?

Three patterns, and the difference matters:

  • Tri-country – “Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain”. Fourteen roles, thirteen of them Engineering. This is the only genuinely cross-border option Alan offers.
  • Single-country – “Anywhere in France” (17), “Anywhere in Belgium” (11), “Anywhere in Spain” (1), “Anywhere in Québec” (1).
  • Dual – “Anywhere in Belgium, France” (one Organic Social Media Manager role).

Totals: France-eligible 32, Belgium-eligible 26, Spain-eligible 15. Nothing says “anywhere in the EU”.

Spain deserves a caution. Its fifteen roles are almost entirely the tri-country engineering positions plus one Spanish-market insurance role, so a reader in Spain has a much narrower door than the headline number suggests.

Alan publishes separate salary grids per country – a combined France/Spain grid, a Belgian monthly grid and a Canadian one – so pay follows your country of employment, not the role.

The language requirement is the sharpest filter at Alan

If you read European job boards in English, this is the requirement most likely to end your application, and it rarely appears in the location line.

Engineering is the exception, and says so cheerfully. Repeated across the tri-country roles: “Fluent in English (no need to speak French!)”, “You are fluent in English (no French required)”, “You’re fluent in English (French is not required).”

Every other remote function wants the local language, usually high:

  • Insurance Compliance Counsel: “Bilingual French/English (both required, written and spoken)”
  • Security & Legal Specialist, Customer Care: “fluent in French (C1+ written and spoken, essential for CNIL notifications, ombudsman responses, and legal correspondence)”
  • Insurance Risk & Strategy: “fluent in English and in French for regulatory interactions”
  • Organic Social Media Manager: “French: native level, perfect written syntax”

Belgium is a Dutch story, not a French one. Senior Customer Support Specialist, Belgium asks you to “Master Dutch and English at a full working proficiency level”. Operations Coordinator, Belgian Market: “English and Dutch”. Belgian sales splits by advert, with “fluent in both Dutch AND French is a big plus”.

Spain is the softest. Insurance Expert, Spanish Market asks for “fluent in Spanish or willing to learn Spanish” – unusual, and the only Spain-only remote role on the board.

So: if you do not speak French or Dutch, Alan is an engineering employer and very little else.

What else to know before you apply to Alan

Visa sponsorship is essentially unstated. Across 112 adverts the only explicit mention is “we don’t sponsor Visas for the operations coordinator role”, on three adverts. Alan’s general position could not be determined from public sources – ask.

Some benefits are gated to permanent contracts. Equity, extended parental leave and full healthcare cover are listed as permanent-contract benefits. Alan advertises 105 full-time roles, five internships, one part-time and one contract.

Home working is funded: “a full-remote experience with home office equipment sponsorship, we want you to live where you’re the happiest” appears on seventeen adverts.

The clinical roles carry professional registration requirements. Medical Lead requires registration with the French Medical Council and familiarity with the French telemedicine regulatory framework.

Alan also hires outside the four countries it names. Live adverts exist in Yerevan, Dakar, Abidjan and Riyadh. All are city-listed and none is remote-eligible – but a jobseeker reading “operates in 4 countries” would not expect them.

Frequently asked questions

Can I work for Alan remotely from Spain? Yes, but the realistic route is engineering. Fifteen roles are Spain-eligible and thirteen of those are the tri-country engineering positions. There is one Spain-only insurance role.

Do I need to speak French to work at Alan? For engineering, no – the adverts say so explicitly. For almost everything else, yes, or Dutch for the Belgian roles, frequently at C1 or native level.

Is “Anywhere in France” really fully remote? It means you may live anywhere in France. The same adverts add that Alan “values in-person collaboration” without stating a frequency, so confirm the expected cadence before you accept.

Does Alan employ people across the EU generally? No. You must be employable in the specific country named on the advert, and pay follows that country’s published grid.

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