[Hiring] Senior Director of Health Economics & Actuarial Analytics @Foodsmart

Role Description

Foodsmart’s value proposition rests on a claim: we improve outcomes for the members who need it most, and we save payers real money doing it. We’re looking for a Senior Director of Health Economics & Actuarial Analytics who can make that claim airtight, rigorous enough to hold up when a payer’s own actuarial team pressure tests it.

This role owns the full chain from clinical improvement to economic value. It starts with measuring what actually changed for a client’s members: weight loss, A1c improvement, blood pressure control, HEDIS performance. It ends with quantifying what that improvement is worth and defending that number in front of the people writing the check.

You’ll also help shape our value-based care strategy, including which populations we should be targeting and what performance we can credibly commit to.

Health economists and actuaries approach these problems differently, and either can be excellent here. What matters is the standard you hold yourself to. Our numbers get validated by payers’ own actuarial teams, which means the work has to be built the way they would build it, with their assumptions about trend, credibility, and risk adjustment.

This is our most senior data science leadership role, reporting directly to the VP of Analytics & Data Science. You’ll lead a small team while staying deeply hands-on with the methodology yourself, and you’ll be expected to use AI as a genuine force multiplier, to move faster, go deeper, and extend your reach well beyond what the headcount alone would suggest. You’ll also be a partner on our peer-reviewed research work, which we pursue with academic collaborators and our founder and Chief Science Officer.

The strongest candidates will have done this inside a telehealth or digital health company, or will have built their foundation on the payer or consulting side and then moved into digital health. What matters most is that you have proven value to payers before, repeatedly, and know what it takes for those numbers to be believed.

• Own how we measure clinical outcomes across client member populations: weight loss, A1c, blood pressure, food insecurity, HEDIS measures, and the quality metrics our clients hold us to.
• Own Foodsmart’s ROI methodology: translating those clinical outcomes into economic value, and identifying which member populations we help the most.
• Represent that methodology directly to payers and external actuarial and consulting firms, defending our approach under real technical scrutiny rather than just presenting a final number.
• Own the analytical substance of the value story we tell individual clients, grounded in their own members’ outcomes rather than generic benchmarks.
• Help shape our value-based care strategy, including which member populations to target and what performance we can credibly stand behind.
• Build our outcomes and ROI methodology as a scalable system, one that extends to new populations and new client conversations without being rebuilt from scratch each time.
• Partner on peer-reviewed research with academic collaborators.
• Work with our clinical team to translate findings and best practices into how care is actually delivered.
• Lead and develop a small team while staying hands-on, and lean on AI and other tooling to extend how much ground you and your team can cover.

Qualifications

• Rigorous in the way a payer’s actuarial team is rigorous.
• Fluent in both clinical quality measurement and economic value.
• Comfortable being the technical counterpart to a payer’s own actuaries and consultants.
• Seasoned with proven value to payers repeatedly.
• A systems builder who thinks in terms of scale.
• Able to translate technical findings into how care actually gets delivered.
• Someone who treats AI as a genuine lever on your own impact.
• Comfortable leading a small team while staying personally hands-on with the hardest analytical work yourself.

Requirements

• A background in health economics, actuarial science, or a closely related quantitative field.
• Experience proving ROI and value inside a telehealth or digital health company.
• Hands-on experience measuring clinical outcomes and quality across populations.
• Deep, hands-on experience with healthcare claims data, both medical and pharmacy (Rx).
• Deep expertise in causal inference as applied to healthcare cost and outcomes.
• Direct experience presenting and defending ROI methodology with payers, actuaries, or similarly technical external audiences.
• Experience with value-based care arrangements and a point of view on what a provider or vendor can credibly commit to.
• Peer-reviewed publication experience is a plus.
• Experience partnering with clinical or care delivery teams to translate findings into practice.
• Comfort working directly with data (SQL, R, or Python) to conduct your own analysis.
• Familiarity with AI-native tooling (Claude Code, or equivalent) as a way to accelerate analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Remote-First Company
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible & remote location
• Healthcare Coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• 401k & bonus
• Registered Dietitian Sessions

Company Description

Foodsmart is the leading Foodcare platform in the U.S., built to deliver nutrition-driven healthcare at scale. Our mission is to make nutritious food accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of economic status.