First Dollar

👻 #Halloween was a blast! If you have ghosts and ghouls in your legacy benefits platform, give First Dollar's ghostbusters a call. ☎️

Each month, a First Dollar employee is recognized for exemplifying our core values (authenticity, inclusivity, ownership mentality, relentlessness, and simplicity). The award winner receives a mandatory closed laptop day and a gift card in recognition. Rudy Portillo and Eric Fennell are the recipients of the Good Cents Award for August and September. Congrats, y'all! 👏👏👏

Congrats to DJ Taylor on being promoted to Senior Software Engineer! Caryn Ligon, First Dollar Engineering Manager, shared the following about his impact: DJ’s contributions span major initiatives like Benefit Builder, Eligible Expenses, and configuring Merchant Category Codes—key tools our partners use to design and manage benefit programs. I’m grateful for DJ’s ownership mentality and willingness to help, whether onboarding new teammates or debugging an emergent issue. Please join us in giving DJ a big round of applause! 

📣 First Dollar Hiring Alert 📣 We're hiring an Enterprise Onboarding & Success Manager! Here's what our Head of Partner Implementations, Alex Pate, MBA, shared about the role: "As our Enterprise Onboarding & Success Manager, you will play a critical role in supporting First Dollar’s partner and employer onboarding processes. You’ll manage relationships with our current partners, facilitate bulk HSA and Notional migrations, and collaborate with the team to ensure successful partner implementations. This role is dynamic and adaptable, providing exposure to different areas of our business as we grow." Apply below 👇 https://lnkd.in/gA2Y8nh4

Exciting news! First Dollar has been named to Will Reed's Top 100! 🎊 🎉 We're honored to be included alongside fellow emerging tech companies that strive to build a strong and inclusive workplace culture. This acknowledgment celebrates our amazing team and the strong company values we uphold together: Ownership Mentality, Relentlessness, Inclusion, Simplicity, and Authenticity. Proud of our team, and a special thanks to Will Reed for the recognition. Learn more about this year's Top 100 👉 https://lnkd.in/gfycPAdF #WillReedsTop100

Implementing a consumer-friendly solution that verifies eligible expenses on the product level is very difficult. Here are some options we discuss with our partners when designing a stacked card solution that gives their members access to all of their health spending benefit funds.

This morning, Wintrust Financial Corporation announced its expansion of Wintrust Workplace Solutions products into HSAs, FSAs, and more, powered by First Dollar! To learn more about this partnership and hear from Tim Crane, Mark Siebold, and Jason Bornhorst, read the attached carousel and linked press release. https://lnkd.in/eHBdt4_f

With proper design, health spending benefits like health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) can provide plan participants with direct access to tax-free funds for mental health. For those considering a Health Wallet solution for mental health, we created this guide to offering FSAs, HRAs, HSAs, LSAs, rewards, and more.

With proper design, health spending benefits like health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) can provide plan participants with direct access to tax-free funds for fertility and family-building services. For those considering a Health Wallet solution for mental health, we created this guide to offering FSAs, HRAs, HSAs, LSAs, rewards, and more.

We’re excited to announce that Eric Fennell is joining First Dollar as our new Lead Software Engineer! Eric brings a wealth of experience from notable teams like Surgical Data Science Collective, Apollo GraphQL, H-E-B, Lifesize, Aceable, The Zebra, and uShip. We’re thrilled to have Eric’s leadership on our team as we continue to build our Health Wallet and Health Wallet Manager applications. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Eric!