Veterinary Technician Student Extern

“Grow” is one of our core values – Collectively as a company, as teams within departments, and as individuals, we are always growing our skills, capabilities, and knowledge, as fast, or faster, than we are growing our footprint across the country. We are also growing with a significant focus on scalability, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. However, none of that works without the amazing teammates at the heart of this company. We hire, engage, and retain the best in the industry (and have the best DVM retention rate in the industry) by empowering people to use their expertise to own their roles, their career, and their success.

We live our core WAG values (Work Together. Amaze. Grow.) every day. Working together, amazing each other, and growing together are critical to the success of every single person on this team, and our success as a company. We work hard, we play hard, and we always recognize that our purpose is to enable and empower those who work on the front lines of animal care and animal health to do their best work, providing personalized care with exceptional hospitality.

Dr. Jay Price is the only General Practice Veterinarian leading a company like ours in the nation. As a founder and CEO of Mission, having taken Mission Pet Health through rounds of investment, he chooses to stay and invest his time and energy both due to his love of, and dedication to, Veterinary Medicine and its practitioners, and his desire to create a broad and lasting positive impact for those who have invested their time and efforts as Mission teammates. He embodies WAG values, and emphasizes and rewards them across Mission Pet Health. He will give up his chair to make sure everyone has a seat at the table, and prefers to shine a light on others’ accomplishments rather than his own. He never backs down from a challenge, and always supports teammates going through challenges of their own.

While we all have leadership and work in functional teams, every person in this company is empowered to reach out to teammates at any level with thoughts, concerns, and ideas. Our C-suite (we call them the Senior Leadership Team) is accessible and available to virtually anyone in Mission Pet Health who needs to speak with them. We equally value how we get things done, as well as the results we deliver, and there is less focus on “who gets credit” than on what we accomplish together.

“Work Together” is our first core value at Mission. We work closely in cross-functional teams to accomplish common goals – whether it’s the care of a pet, the acquisition or launch of a new hospital, or the creation and roll out of a new capability that supports our field teams. We are goal- and delivery- oriented, with a high level of “get stuff done” valued among all of our teams. We respect each others’ expertise and skills, and highly value collaboration as we are focused on delivering results.