Director, Actuarial Services

Evolent

3d•$140,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Director, Actuarial Services is responsible for ensuring actuarial work across analytics and finance teams meets a high standard for quality, rigor, and business relevance. This is not a traditional model ownership role. Instead, you operate across teams, helping shape how work is done, improving the quality of models and analyses, and making sure outputs are sound and defensible. You will work closely with actuarial, risk analytics, opportunity analytics, and other analytics teams as work is being built. In some cases you will step in directly to help refine or structure a model. In others, you will guide the approach, challenge assumptions, and ensure the end result meets actuarial standards. Beyond the work itself, you will help teams improve how they operate by simplifying workflows, reducing unnecessary manual effort, and supporting adoption of better tools and processes. You are not responsible for building AI or automation solutions, but you are expected to influence how they are used and ensure they raise the overall quality of output. Success in this role means work across teams is more consistent, more defensible, and easier to scale without adding unnecessary complexity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or data science)
Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (ASA or FSA)
5+ years of experience in a health actuarial setting
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Proven ability to evaluate and improve complex actuarial models
Strong project management and organizational skills
Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience presenting to senior internal and client audiences

Nice To Haves

Experience in value-based care or Medicaid
Experience working with claims-based healthcare data
Familiarity with data and reporting tools (Power BI or similar)
Experience working with or alongside analytics or automation teams

Responsibilities

Participate in actuarial, risk analytics, opportunity analytics, and broader analytics team forums to guide work as it’s being built
Work alongside teams to shape models, analyses, and outputs so they meet actuarial standards for rigor and defensibility
Step into builds when needed, but focus on raising the quality of work across teams, not owning every model end-to-end
Bring an actuarial lens to ensure assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions are sound and aligned with business intent
Help teams translate business questions into structured, analytically sound approaches
Review and challenge model design, assumptions, and methodologies across teams
Ensure consistency and clarity in how work is structured, documented, and communicated
Identify risk areas in models and analyses, and guide teams to address them early
Establish practical guardrails and review patterns that raise the overall quality bar without slowing teams down
Act as a point of escalation for complex or high-risk analytical work, helping bring it to a level stakeholders can trust
Set the standard for what “actuarially sound” looks like and ensure work meets that bar before it reaches leadership or clients
Manage multiple efforts across teams and ensure work aligns to business priorities and timelines
Coach and develop actuarial and analytics team members
Set clear expectations for quality, timelines, and communication
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across actuarial, analytics, finance, and clinical teams
Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights
Present results to internal leadership and external client stakeholders
Support business development efforts through analytical insights
Identify high-friction areas in models, reporting, and data workflows
Drive improvements that reduce manual work and improve consistency
Partner with analytics and AI teams to implement automation and self-service solutions where appropriate
Support adoption of new tools and workflows within the actuarial and analytics teams
Track improvements in cycle time, accuracy, and team capacity