What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Population Health position at Wellth?
About Wellth:
Wellth is a fast-growing, growth-stage digital health company headquartered in Los Angeles. Our mission is to motivate people living with chronic conditions to make healthier choices, every single day.
We use behavioral economics, habit science and AI to motivate lasting behavior change in some of the highest need and most underserved populations in the US (Medicare and Medicaid), drastically changing their quality of life and health outcomes. We have demonstrated results with many large insurers and health systems (e.g. reducing hospitalizations by over 40%), and are now rapidly scaling. Early in 2025, we completed a Series C with experienced healthcare investors including Mercato and SignalFire. Our goal is to be the category leader in improving health outcomes for hard-to-engage populations. A key difference at Wellth compared to other digital health companies is that our users (Members) actually use Wellth every single day - think TikTok-tier daily engagement (and data generation!).
But most importantly, our work quite literally saves lives by stabilizing chronic disease patients and preventing disease progression, hospitalization, and other bad outcomes. We are a mission-driven company where you work with incredible talent and see tangible differences directly from your impact and influence.
Visit us at www.wellthapp.com for more information.
About the Role:
The Head of Population Health is a transformative role as we seek to become an Industry-Leading company that creates and communicates unique outcomes in some of the most challenging populations imaginable:
The benefits of working with us include:
Wellth is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
Wellth is a fast-growing, growth-stage digital health company headquartered in Los Angeles. Our mission is to motivate people living with chronic conditions to make healthier choices, every single day.
We use behavioral economics, habit science and AI to motivate lasting behavior change in some of the highest need and most underserved populations in the US (Medicare and Medicaid), drastically changing their quality of life and health outcomes. We have demonstrated results with many large insurers and health systems (e.g. reducing hospitalizations by over 40%), and are now rapidly scaling. Early in 2025, we completed a Series C with experienced healthcare investors including Mercato and SignalFire. Our goal is to be the category leader in improving health outcomes for hard-to-engage populations. A key difference at Wellth compared to other digital health companies is that our users (Members) actually use Wellth every single day - think TikTok-tier daily engagement (and data generation!).
But most importantly, our work quite literally saves lives by stabilizing chronic disease patients and preventing disease progression, hospitalization, and other bad outcomes. We are a mission-driven company where you work with incredible talent and see tangible differences directly from your impact and influence.
Visit us at www.wellthapp.com for more information.
About the Role:
The Head of Population Health is a transformative role as we seek to become an Industry-Leading company that creates and communicates unique outcomes in some of the most challenging populations imaginable:
- Whole-Person Value Communication: Translate our daily behavior change to comprehensive cost-of-care impact, and Quality Impact (measure our direct impact to Stars, HEDIS/Care Gap Closure, SDoH needs, RAF, and avoidable-utilization savings)
- Accelerating Payer Expectations: Meet health plans' demand for hard ROI within 6–18 months and seamless alignment with value-based-care contracts. An individual with medical-economics credibility will facilitate procurement conversations and shorten sales cycles.
- Unlocking Wellth's Data Asset: Convert over 100 million medication check-ins, SDOH inputs, surveys, and device data into predictive risk flags, savings opportunities, and new product modules.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as a senior executive who can work across sales (actuarial stories), product (clinically grounded use-cases), and client success (dashboards proving savings).
- Value Strategy & Storytelling: Build and iterate payer ROI models; innovate new pricing strategies with Commercial Leadership
- Population-Health Analytics: Lead the data-science roadmap for risk scoring, predictive savings, and Stars/HEDIS gap closure; publish quarterly outcomes dossiers.
- Product & Innovation Input: Work closely with product team to ensure that our value prop resonates with the market, integrates with existing payer workflows, and solves all client needs
- Go-to-Market & Renewal Support: Support Commercial team on key account sales and expansions - deliver actuarial justification, identify new populations/cohorts of impact, .
- Thought Leadership: Speak and publish on digital-health ROI, Stars optimization, and AI-driven population health.
- Strong data analysis skills and ability to make decisions based on quantitative and qualitative research
- Deep Government Markets (MA, Medicaid, DSNP) and regulatory knowledge
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and structured in approach to problem-solving
- Goal oriented - launching a feature isn't the goal, it's driving results
- High detail orientation - you love to capture ideas, action items, and make sure things get done whether you do them or you collaborate with others
- Proactive problem solver - actively seeks out opportunities, doesn't wait around for assignments
- 10 years of experience in a healthcare setting, with at least 5 years in a health plan or Risk-Bearing provider leading medical-economics or care-management functions.
- Proven record of reducing total cost of care at > 50M scale.
- Deep fluency in Stars, HEDIS, RAF, MA bids, and value-based contracting mechanics.
- Executive presence with payer leadership, provider systems, and investors.
The benefits of working with us include:
- Flexible working arrangements, supporting strong remote-first practices and tools with the option to work in our excellent gathering space in Marina Del Rey.
- Robust paid time off and generous parental leave program.
- Competitive salary & commission structure.
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and FSA/HSA plans.
- Ability to have a positive impact on people who need it most.
- Support of a highly dedicated team focused on building the future of healthcare.
Wellth is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
Salary : $200,000 - $255,000
