About Zen

At Zen, we’re on a mission to free the world of physical and mental pain.

We envision a world where technology empowers people to be mentally and physically free.

We've started by building award-winning posture awareness software applications that gently nudges users when they slouch.

We have tens of thousands of users and have raised $3.5M from top-tier investors, including Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, and more.

To go to the next level, we are on a mission to hire a diverse community of people who share a commitment to achieving excellence in their respective lines of work and are excited about the rare opportunity to make an early impact at a high-growth startup.

Are you ready to free the world?

About the founders

Daniel went from being a very active NCAA Division-One college football player at Yale University (that could do a gymnastic-style split) to working at Adobe in San Francisco and living the typical sedentary corporate lifestyle of sitting in front of a computer for over eight hours a day, which eventually led to him developing serious low back pain and carpal tunnel.

Alex started coding when he was 11 years old, spending time in engineering roles at places like Adobe, Intuit, and eventually developed a severe case of "Forward Head Posture" (Nerd/Text Neck), a postural deformity that's often caused by unhealthy posture habits (like slouching while coding).

They met each other a few years ago while working in San Francisco and eventually came together to build Zen alongside top ergonomists and physical therapists so that they could help people live a pain-free life.

Core Values

• Caring

  • For us, caring means listening, showing empathy, and generously offering delightful solutions that empower freedom. We have to deeply care about people to free the world.

• 10X Goals + Action

  • You can achieve 10x more than what you think, but it will take 10x more action to achieve the goal. We have to set 10x goals and take 10x action to free the world.

• Growth Mindset

  • Having a growth mindset means that you believe that intelligence can be developed, which leads to a desire to learn and, therefore a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, see effort as the path to mastery, learn from criticism, and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

    A growth mindset enables higher levels of achievement and freedom than a fixed mindset and will empower us to free the world.

• Accountability

  • We must hold ourselves accountable to our mission with every decision that we make.

• Idea Meritocracy

  • We believe that the best idea can from anyone, and we should prioritize and execute the best ideas.