Principal - Medicaid Actuary

Location: Remote (with occasional travel to client sites and Athena hub cities)
Type: Full-Time, Salaried

What You’ll Do 🔍

As a Principal at Athena, you’ll be setting strategic direction, nurturing key client relationships, and guiding complex engagements from opportunity through delivery. You’ll collaborate directly with other Principals, Senior Managers, junior staff, clients, and our executive team to shape solutions that have meaningful impact. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in growing our practice, developing high-performing teams, and ensuring Athena remains a trusted advisor in the health space.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and manage client accounts—ranging from small analyses to large consulting engagements

• Serve as day-to-day client leadership contact and strategic advisor on client engagements, ensuring high-quality deliverables and alignment with client goals

• Guide actuarial modeling, analysis, and review processes to ensure accuracy and consistency

• Demonstrate listening, writing and speaking skills required to effectively and empathetically address diverse technical and nontechnical audiences in both formal and informal settings

• Mentor and manage junior staff, supporting their growth through training and feedback

• Partner with the leadership team to build and grow the health areas of practice and develop the team that supports the impactful work we do for our clients

• Assist with new business development and sales leads, including attending/speaking at relevant industry conferences, writing articles and insight pieces for Athena’s website and outside publications, and assisting with proposal evaluation, drafting and review

• Demonstrate exemplary levels of personal and professional integrity, and ability to support and promote Athena’s mission and values

• Participate in Athena strategy meetings and provide feedback on Athena’s strategic initiatives

What We’re Looking For ✅

Must-Haves:

• Ideal candidates have 15+ years of experience

• ASA or FSA certification

• Expertise in Actuarial Modeling, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word

• Experience with Medicaid

• Clear, confident communication tailored to a variety of audiences

• Curiosity, continuously seeking to understand not just “what,” but “why” and “what if”

• Courage to share insights, especially when they challenge the status quo

• In depth experience in Client and/or Project management

• Demonstrated experience in health actuarial projects

• Successful experience in a consulting environment, managing multiple clients and accounts

• Experience managing a developing, creative problem-solving skills to identify flexible solutions to business questions

• Experience and desire in developing junior resources through training and day-to-day collaboration

• Proven track record in identifying new sales opportunities and driving revenue growth by strengthening existing client relationships

• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel to client locations as required

• Passion for growing a business from the bottom up through business development and strategic efforts

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience in proposal writing or thought leadership

• Professional engagement in industry conferences, speaking engagements, or publishing

• Commercial and employer health experience

• Proficiency in data visualization design and tools

Why Athena?

At Athena, we believe actuarial consulting and specialty advisory services is more than just calculating risk: It’s a lens for reimagining what’s possible. That’s why we’ve built a team of passionate experts who infuse the power of data and predictive modeling with imagination, human insight, and a commitment to helping people thrive.

Every day at Athena, we seek to live and lead—to serve and solve problems—with courage as our fuel. That means challenging assumptions in search of untapped potential that benefits our clients. It looks like striving to ask better questions that might yield breakthrough answers for a community. And it means seeing people not as problems, but full of possibility—because we know the future isn’t prescribed, it’s built. Courage is a competitive advantage in actuarial consulting—not just because it emboldens people, but because it moves businesses forward.

Athena is a new kind of actuarial services company, founded by a former leader at a ”Big 4” firm who had a vision and drive to build something different. We tackle big challenges with small teams of experienced pros who look beyond traditional risk modeling to find innovative solutions.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible Time Off policy

• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

• Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Paid Parental Leave

• Life Insurance

• 401(k) with employer match

• Competitive actuarial exam support program

Additional Info

• Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.