Senior Director, Health Economics & Actuarial Analytics

About Foodsmart:

Foodsmart is the leading Foodcare platform in the U.S., built to deliver nutrition-driven healthcare at scale. Powered by a national network of Registered Dietitians, Foodsmart combines personalized clinical nutrition care, behavior change tools, and food benefits to improve member health outcomes while lowering healthcare costs.

Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver sustainable health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide more than 3 million members—including those in employer-sponsored health plans, regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, and commercial insurers—on a tailored journey to eating well while saving time and money.

Foodsmart seamlessly integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for the entire family, optimizing ingredients both at home and on the go. We partner with national and regional retailers across the U.S., many of whom accept SNAP/EBT, making healthier food more accessible. Additionally, we assist members with SNAP enrollment and management, providing tangible access to nutritious food. In 2024, Foodsmart secured a $200 million investment from TPG’s Rise Fund, which supports entrepreneurs dedicated to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This investment helps us expand our reach, particularly to low-income workers who are disproportionately affected by diet-related diseases. 

At Foodsmart, our mission is to make nutritious food accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of economic status. We are committed to a set of core values that shape our culture and work environment:

👥 Customer First - You start with the member and work backwards.
🚀 Make It Happen - You act with urgency, use data, and hold high standards.
🤝 One Team - You collaborate with respect and commit as a group.

Whether you're a dietitian, a commercial leader, or a technologist, working at Foodsmart means being part of a team that is passionate, supportive, and driven by a shared purpose. Join us in transforming the way people access and enjoy healthy food.

 

About the Role:

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.