Culture & Careers

We offer a variety of comprehensive plans covering medical, dental, vision and emotional needs. We partner with Modern Health for mental wellness services, and Bundle for personalized, virtual tutorial, and social experiences for employees and their families. We know the importance of having an active lifestyle, so we offer a free onsite gym, basketball court, and outdoor running/cycling path along the Bay.

We understand that financial stability gives our team members peace of mind. That’s why we offer a 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, an employee stock purchase plan, company-paid life insurance, financial planning services, and company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance. Our team has access to free commuter shuttles to and from public mass transit locations.

Alectorians have an ownership mindset, and all are eligible for ongoing equity awards and our employee stock purchase plan. We have big plans.

Growth is important. That’s why it’s one of Alector’s core values to “embrace feedback—and a growth mindset.” It’s why we have a stellar weekly seminar program of visiting academics sharing their latest scientific breakthroughs. It’s why we provide a dedicated learning budget to support everyone’s growth and development. It’s why each team member has a quarterly check-in with their manager, on their progress towards their goals, on their aspirations, and on how they’re doing.

We work hard but we also all need time out of the office for ourselves. To that end, our time off program is designed to support your needs—from vacation time to leaves of absence. We provide 10 paid company holidays, 20 paid time off days per year and winter holiday shutdown in December.

We promote your health and wellness at work. Our headquarters is designed from the ground up with the team in mind with many collaborative break-out spaces, a quiet library for “deep work”, a mothering room, a meditation room, healthy snacks and more.

2020 taught us that great work can be accomplished in a variety of work environments. We are empowering our people to deliver great results by giving team members choice and flexibility about your work conditions where possible, so you can each be your most productive self. We are embracing the principle of flexibility, by moving to a hybrid work model. We are also living our value of never giving up and persevering to find a new path: we will be testing and learning how we’ll best work as we go.

We give back by organizing volunteer and charitable giving opportunities to bring people together and foster community. We participate annually in AFTD’s fundraising efforts by bicycling and running as part of the Charity Miles effort. Our Pedalon cycling club participates annually in Bike MS, a major fundraising event benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. We participate in a Family Giving Tree during the holiday season. We donated to Feeding America during the pandemic.

There are lots of team activities to get involved in such as happy hours, game nights, movie series, bake-a-thons, science challenges, sports-viewing parties, and company holiday and milestone parties. Our team is surprisingly eager to play Bingo. An enterprising Alectorian recently created an eldercare and family illness support group for employees. If you have a new community or fun activity in mind, there are probably other Alectorians who share it. And if it doesn’t exist, you can start it! Because that’s living our value “Own it – with the freedom to figure it out.”