Senior Director, Clinical Intelligence

Foodsmart; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First Company

Unlimited PTO

Flexible & remote location

Healthcare Coverage (Medical, Dental,

Job summary

Foodsmart is seeking a Senior Director, Clinical Intelligence to lead the ROI and outcomes research that underpins our value-based care narrative. You will own causal-inference methods and build scalable evidence, partnering with payers and analytics teams to demonstrate impact.

You will lead a small team, work hands-on with SQL, Python, and R, and use AI tools to accelerate discovery while maintaining publication-grade rigor and credibility.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required in health economics, biostatistics, epidemiology, economics, or a related quantitative field; PhD strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of deep health economics or actuarial experience with ROI/value-based care.
• 4+ years of team leadership experience.
• Published white papers or peer‑reviewed work in relevant fields.
• Hands‑on expertise in causal inference and cost/outcomes analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own ROI and clinical outcomes methodology for member populations and payers.
• Represent methodology to payers and external actuaries under real technical scrutiny.
• Build a scalable ROI evidence system for new populations and payer conversations.
• Lead clinical research agenda: white papers, publications, external outputs.
• Translate findings into care delivery with clinical teams; support evidence-based practice.
• Lead a small team while staying hands-on with core research and AI-enabled analysis.

Skills

Causal inference

Data analysis

AI tooling familiarity

Technical communication

Team leadership

Research & publication

Education

Master’s degree in health economics/biostatistics/epidemiology/economics or related

PhD strongly preferred

Tools

SQL

R

Python

Claude Code or AI tooling

Job description

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 Clinical Intelligence who can make that claim airtight: rigorous enough to hold up against a payer’s own actuarial team, and clear enough to become the evidence the rest of the company builds on.

This is the analytical center of gravity for Foodsmart’s ROI and clinical outcomes story: the research, the methodology, and the evidence base that everything else gets built on. It’s also 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 research and 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 team size alone would suggest.

You’ll be the voice Foodsmart puts in the room when the conversation turns to outcomes and value. This isn’t the role that carries our overall client narrative, that lives with our go-to-market and client teams, but on research and ROI specifically, you’re the credible technical authority, whether that’s in front of a payer’s actuarial team, an external research partner, or our own leadership.

We’re looking for someone who has done this exact work before, repeatedly: a health economist or actuary with deep, hands‑on research experience, not someone building this skill set for the first time. The technical bar here is causal inference and ROI methodology, not data engineering.

You will:

• Own Foodsmart’s ROI and clinical outcomes methodology: identifying which member populations we help the most, and quantifying the value we deliver for both members and payers.
• Represent that methodology directly to payers and external actuarial firms, defending our approach under real technical scrutiny, not just presenting a final number.
• Build our ROI and evidence methodology as a scalable system, one that extends to new populations and new payer conversations without being rebuilt from scratch each time.
• Own our clinical research agenda: turning our results into white papers, publications, and external research output that build Foodsmart’s credibility in the market.
• Partner with our clinical team to translate research findings and best practices into how care is actually delivered, closing the loop between evidence and practice.
• Serve as the internal expert on clinical outcomes, feeding that expertise into the broader external story Foodsmart tells clients and prospects, without owning that story yourself.
• Lead and develop a small team while staying hands‑on with the core research and methodology work yourself, and lean on AI and other tooling to extend how much ground you and your team can cover.

You are:

• A credentialed, seasoned expert who’s done this work repeatedly, not someone learning ROI methodology on the job.
• Comfortable being the technical counterpart to a payer’s own actuarial team: rigorous, unintimidated by scrutiny, and able to defend methodology choices in real time.
• A genuine researcher. You think in terms of evidence and publication-quality rigor, not just internal reporting.
• Able to translate deep technical findings into how care actually gets delivered, working hand in hand with clinical and care delivery teams.
• Someone who treats AI as a genuine lever on your own impact. You actively look for ways to use it to research faster, dig deeper, and produce more than your headcount would suggest, and you have a point of view on where it helps and where rigor still demands a human.
• A systems builder who thinks in terms of scale: a repeatable methodology, not a one-off analysis redone for every new client or payer.
• Comfortable leading a small team while staying personally hands‑on with the hardest analytical work yourself.

You have:

• Master’s degree required in health economics, biostatistics, epidemiology, economics, or a related quantitative field; PhD strongly preferred.
• Deep experience (12+ years) as a health economist or actuary, with a track record of building and defending ROI and value-based care methodology. 4+ years of team leadership experience.
• Genuine research experience, including published white papers or peer‑reviewed work, not just internal analysis.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in causal inference (e.g., matched cohort design, risk adjustment, quasi‑experimental methods) as applied to healthcare cost and outcomes.
• Deep, hands‑on experience with healthcare claims data, both medical and pharmacy (Rx), including the practical realities of working with it for cost and utilization analysis.
• Direct experience presenting ROI and outcomes methodology to payers, actuaries, or similarly technical external audiences, and defending it under real scrutiny.
• Experience partnering with clinical or care delivery teams to translate research findings into practice.
• Comfort working directly with data (SQL, R, or Python) to conduct your own analysis. Experience building automation to scale your work through data modeling, AI tooling and dashboarding.
• Familiarity with AI-native tooling ( Claude Code or equivalent) as a way to accelerate research and analysis, though deep automation engineering is not the focus of this role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write for external, technical, and non-technical audiences alike.

$210,000 - $245,000 a year

Role: Senior Director, Clinical Intelligence
Location: Remote, USA
Base Salary Range: $210,000 - $245,000 + bonus + benefits

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at our headquarters in San Francisco, California. Individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education.

About our benefits and perks:

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

Foodsmart is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our firm policy to extend equal employment and advancement opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth and/or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability (physical or mental) and/or a medical condition, genetic information, ancestry, veteran status or service in the uniformed services, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.