Registered Dietitian (Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Focus)

Akido•New York, NY

8h•$85,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re building something new for New York City’s independent drivers — the people who keep the city moving but are often left out of traditional healthcare systems. Together with the Independent Drivers Guild and the Workers Benefit Fund (WBF), we launched the Worker Healthy Living Program (WHLP) — a lifestyle medicine–informed program designed to help drivers live healthier, longer lives through food, movement, sleep, stress management, and community. We’re looking for a Registered Dietitian (RD) who believes nutrition is not about restriction or perfection — but about empowerment, cultural relevance, and sustainable change. This role is for a dietitian who wants to move beyond one-off counseling sessions and instead help design, deliver, and scale a relationship-based, group-oriented nutrition model for an underserved workforce. This isn’t a traditional outpatient dietitian role. You’ll be part of a small, interdisciplinary care team — including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, a health coach, social worker, and medical assistant — working across in-person, virtual, and community-based settings. You’ll lead nutrition-focused group visits, support six-month lifestyle medicine programs, and work closely with clinicians to integrate nutrition into chronic disease prevention and management. Beyond direct care, you’ll help shape how nutrition shows up in the model itself — from curriculum and educational materials to workflows, patient engagement strategies, and digital tools. You’ll partner with Akido’s AI-powered platform to make nutrition care more accessible and personalized, while keeping the human connection front and center. This is a zero-to-one opportunity. You’ll join early, with real ownership over how the nutrition component of the program is built, tested, and scaled. We’re looking for a dietitian who’s energized by ambiguity, excited to experiment, and motivated to help turn a promising pilot into a sustainable model for improving health in underserved communities. This program is grounded in evidence and designed to prevent and manage conditions such as obesity, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia — while also addressing the mental, social, and environmental realities that shape how people eat. If you’re passionate about food justice, behavior change, and building something from the ground up — this is your opportunity to help reimagine what nutrition care can look like.

Requirements

Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) credential
Active New York State licensure or eligibility
2+ years of experience in clinical nutrition, community nutrition, or chronic disease management
2+ years of experience in clinical nutrition, community nutrition, or chronic disease management
Strong communication, facilitation, and cross-cultural skills
Comfort working in group settings, virtual care, and community-based environments

Nice To Haves

Experience with lifestyle medicine, preventive care, or cardiometabolic health
Experience working in a startup or early-stage program environment
Background in community health, public health nutrition, or food systems
Experience leading group education or shared medical visits
Bilingual
Interest in digital health and openness to using AI-enabled tools to support care
Deep personal or professional connection to the communities we serve

Responsibilities

Provide individual and group-based nutrition care to program participants
Lead and co-facilitate shared medical visits focused on nutrition within a Lifestyle Medicine framework
Design and deliver practical, culturally relevant nutrition education for drivers with diverse backgrounds and schedules
Collaborate closely with physicians, advanced practice clinicians, health coaches, and social workers to support whole-person care
Support prevention and management of chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and hyperlipidemia
Help design, refine, and scale nutrition workflows that are accessible, engaging, and sustainable
Contribute to the development of patient-facing educational content, tools, and resources
Provide real-time feedback on digital and AI-enabled tools used to track progress and personalize nutrition support
Participate in community events, enrollment activations, and outreach efforts
Pilot new models of group nutrition care, mobile programming, and community-based engagement
Help ensure nutrition remains a central pillar of the program as it grows and scales