Senior care advisory marketplace connecting families with personalized referral solutions
A Place for Mom operates a referral-driven marketplace for senior living placements, powered by a sales-heavy org (121 of 157 active roles in sales) and a modern web stack (Next.js, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka). Early AI adoption—OpenAI and Anthropic in use, an agentic platform SDK under development—sits alongside urgent compliance work (call-recording frameworks, AI bias transparency), signaling a business learning to scale algorithmic referrals while managing regulatory risk in healthcare.
Notable leadership hires: Consumer Product Director, Engineering Director, Sales Director, Product Director
A Place for Mom connects families searching for senior care with an internal advisory team that recommends placements across home care, assisted living, memory care, and other settings. Founded in 2000, the company operates as a referral service handling hundreds of thousands of families annually. The business runs on a sales-led model—referral intake, account scoring, and conversion optimization dominate active projects—paired with a modern engineering foundation (React frontend, Node/NestJS backend, PostgreSQL, Kafka) and emerging AI tooling. Hiring velocity is decelerating; the bulk of open positions cluster in sales and customer-facing operations.
Core: Next.js, React, Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka. Data: Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, R, Tableau. AI: OpenAI, Anthropic. CRM and marketing: Salesforce, Optimizely, Amplitude, Google Analytics 4.
New York, NY. The company is privately held, founded in 2000, and operates in the United States only.
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