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Millions of people around the world struggle to live with corneal blindness, which is the loss of sight caused by damage to the surface of the eye.
It’s a treatable condition with a clear solution: a corneal transplant. Yet a shortage of transplant tissue and insufficient surgeon training keep over 12.7 million men, women, and children in the dark.
Our mission is to eliminate corneal blindness by 2040.
Our Culture
CorneaGen has a collaborative and family-like culture. While we work hard to advance our mission, we also take time to celebrate our successes. At CorneaGen, we try to encourage collaboration, creativity, and innovation in all aspects of our work.
Our Values
Our values mean more than ethics, compliance, or even a code of conduct. They express our mission and our aspirations, what differentiates us with customers, partners, communities, how we make decisions, and how we behave and act, collectively and individually.
These six values help guide our decisions, actions, and behaviors, and are at the core of our collective aspiration to be recognized as a great company. Click to expand each value to learn more.
We strive to consistently deliver an outstanding customer and partner experience built on the highest standards of service and care.
- Engages with honesty and respect
- Strives to understand their needs
- Collaborates to drive improvement and build relationships
- Embraces feedback as an opportunity and understands perceptions are reality
- Considers the impact to the customer/partner in every decision. We are driven by a genuine commitment to our mission and those we serve
- Demonstrates internal drive by putting their heart into their work
- Celebrates individual and collective successes
- Inspires others by passionately sharing the mission
- Takes initiative to pitch in where needed.
- Loves working for mission and with colleagues
We embrace and encourage creative and entrepreneurial solutions to sight challenges.
- Takes educated risks and learns from mistakes and successes as part of process improvement
- Wants the best idea to win and executes it with discipline
- Confronts the status quo to improve results
- Takes inspiration and learning from everywhere
- Seeks out new needs and challenges
We strive to provide a social and humanitarian benefit to donors, donor families, recipients, each other and those who partner with us.
- Honors the spirit and acts of donation and generosity
- Receives and provides honest, constructive feedback
- Nurtures and supports each other and our partners
- Does the right thing, the right way, at the right time
- Evaluates continuously, ensuring that good doesn’t become the enemy of great
We continuously pursue the highest standards of ethics, professionalism, and honesty.
- Delivers on commitments.
- Does the right thing, even when no one is watching
- Takes ownership of one’s actions (including mistakes) and the resulting outcome
- Demonstrates respect for others.
- Displays the courage to speak up and express their opinion
We continuously pursue the highest standards in our programs, people, and service.
- Fosters an environment for improvement of self, colleagues, and partners through continuing education
- Pursues continuous improvement with no tolerance for complacency
- Actively measures and communicates metrics and benchmarks to improve organization’s performance
- Adapts and works effectively in constantly changing environment without compromising quality
- Ensures highest outcomes are achieved without compromising our standards
We strive to consistently deliver an outstanding customer and partner experience built on the highest standards of service and care.
- Engages with honesty and respect
- Strives to understand their needs
- Collaborates to drive improvement and build relationships
- Embraces feedback as an opportunity and understands perceptions are reality
- Considers the impact to the customer/partner in every decision
We Support
Black Lives Matter
We bore witness to the horrifying images of brutality, systemic racism and the disturbing discrimination and oppression of the Black community. We bore witness to stirring and inspiring images of people across the globe raising their voices demanding that actions finally be taken to end injustice. We listened to words of condemnation and words of support. But words are not enough. We need to act and take meaningful steps toward change.
At CorneaGen we are dedicated to our mission of eliminating corneal blindness worldwide. Not just for economically or racially privileged communities, but for everyone around the globe, regardless of skin color or race. This mission drives all that we do.
We believe BLACK LIVES MATTER. To make a measurable impact within our own industry, we’re committing $100,000 annually to ensure that members of the Black community in the United States are not deprived of a sight restoring cornea transplant due to finances. We make this offer to every surgeon in the US regardless of geography or relationship with CorneaGen and invite other providers of transplant tissue to join us. Together we can impact this one area and ensure that race is not a limiting factor to receiving corneal care.
Additionally, to make sure that the next generation can break through, we are committing $20,000 per year to create paid internships at CorneaGen for trainees wishing to learn the skills and gain the experience needed to become lab technicians, quality control coordinators and operations professionals. Our goal is to recruit young professionals of color to these roles.
Our core values of responsibility and integrity demand that we act. We are searching for additional areas in-line with our mission of eliminating corneal blindness where we can be a meaningful part of bringing social justice to all communities of color. We will invite others to join us as we identify and understand where we as an organization best fit in this nationwide change.
We are an Equal
Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. CorneaGen does not discriminate based on race, color, sex/gender, political ideology, religion/creed, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, national origin, color, military or veterans status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws. CorneaGen is committed to a diverse workforce and is also committed to a barrier-free employment process. In order to ensure reasonable accommodations with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, individuals that require accommodations in the job application process for a posted position may contact us at (206) 701-5840 for assistance.
FAQs
In our best effort to offer our employees the support they need outside of work, we offer many benefits as summarized below:
- One hundred percent employer paid medical coverage for employee and eligible dependents (employees are responsible for only $100 of deductible per person capped at $300 for a family)
- Employer paid dental coverage for employees and dependents
- Employer paid vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance (1 x annual earnings).
- Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employer paid Short Term disability insurance
- Voluntary Long-Term disability insurance
- Retirement Plan- Employer contributions of 8% of the employee’s salary after one year of continuous employment. Immediately upon hire an employee may voluntarily designate a percentage or flat dollar amount of their salary.
- Generous Holiday & PTO
* Benefits listed are for full-time positions
Our mission is to serve as a global leader and partner to eliminate corneal blindness worldwide by 2040.
Our goal is to hire the right people for the right roles. We are continually looking for people who are inspired by our mission and reflect our organization’s values. The following information summarizes our hiring process:
Step 1: Apply online.
When you find a job that you would like to apply for, simply click the Apply Now button on any job description page. You may then upload your resume. Once your application has been processed, you will receive a confirmation email.
Step 2: Wait to hear from us.
We will review your online application. If your skills and experience match the requirements of the job, we will advance your application through the recruitment process. Please note that it does take time to go through applications and we appreciate your patience.
We regret that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we are unable to respond personally to inquiries. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the work of the organization.
If you are not selected to move forward, we will contact you, usually via email, and encourage you to review and apply for other open positions that match your skill and experience.
Next Steps:
If you are selected to move forward, we will contact you. We’ll also let you know whether the position requires you to provide additional application materials (writing sample, live presentations, etc.).
If you’re selected for an in-person interview, we may request work samples.
We regret that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we are unable to respond personally to inquiries. If you do not hear back from us, please feel free to apply for other positions.
We regularly post new positions and remove positions that are no longer open. If a position is no longer listed on our website, then we’re no longer accepting applications.
We are unable to accept hard copies of resumes or resumes via email. In order to be considered for a position, candidates must apply online.
It depends on the position. For most positions, the process begins with a phone interview. If there’s continued interest on both sides, we’ll invite the candidate in for an in-person interview. Each department is different and there may be some variation in the hiring process (some may involve an info session, observation, etc.).
While we are not able to provide informational interviews, we do host group informational sessions for certain roles at CorneaGen. In order to attend an information session, candidates must first apply for a position.
Once we’ve completed interviewing all the candidates, we generally get back to you in about a week.
CorneaGen does not have an internship program or volunteer program, although such opportunities are occasionally made possible in conjunction with a particular project.
To learn about open internships, please search our current open positions. We regret that we are unable to respond to general inquiries about internships or volunteer opportunities.
Yes, because of the nature and focus of our work, we require all CorneaGen employees support organ and tissue donation.
CorneaGen is headquartered in Seattle, WA. We also have offices throughout the United States, including Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, Orlando, FL, Winston-Salem, NC, South San Francisco and Irvine, CA.