Job description
OUR MISSION
We exist to create a more connected, compassionate, and confident experience for people with cancer and those who care for them. We make it easier to get answers, access high-quality care quickly, and feel supported throughout treatment and beyond.
Today, Thyme Care is a market-leading value-based oncology care enabler, partnering with national and regional health plans, providers, and employers to deliver better outcomes and lower costs for thousands of people across the country. Our model combines high-touch human support with powerful technology and AI to bring together everyone involved in a person’s cancer journey: caregivers, oncologists, health plans, and employers.
As a tech-native organization, we believe technology should strengthen the human connection at the center of care. Through data science, automation, and AI, we simplify complexity, improve collaboration, and help care teams focus on what matters most: supporting people through cancer.
Looking ahead, our vision is bold: to become a household name in cancer care, where every person diagnosed asks for Thyme Care by name. If you’re inspired to make cancer care more human and to help reimagine what’s possible, we’d love to meet you. Together, we can build a future where every person with cancer feels truly cared for, in every moment that matters.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As an Actuary or Senior Actuarial Analyst at Thyme Care, you will play a key role in supporting the development, maintenance, and execution of actuarial models and analytics that underpin our value-based care partnerships. This role sits at the intersection of actuarial science, data analytics, and operations, with a strong emphasis on working directly with large healthcare datasets to produce accurate, timely, and actionable insights.
This role will operate with a meaningful degree of autonomy, owning defined processes and analyses end-to-end, while collaborating closely with actuarial, finance, data science, and clinical partners. This role is well-suited for an actuarial professional who enjoys hands-on technical work, problem solving, and growing responsibility within a fast-paced start-up environment.
This role is open at multiple levels, depending on experience and scope.
The responsibilities of the Actuary or Senior Actuarial Analyst will include:
- Own and execute recurring actuarial and financial analysis for multiple value-based care contracts, including development and maintenance of forecasting models, evaluation of program efficacy using advanced statistical methods, and designing / deploying large-scale database solutions to drive innovation and efficiency in actuarial workflows.
- Support business development by building actuarial client relationships and own end-to-end actuarial analytic functions relating to a portfolio of national payer clients.
- Partner with actuarial and finance leadership to support financial reconciliations and performance reviews, including preparing analysis outputs and presenting results to executive audiences.
- Develop, run, and optimize SQL queries to extract, transform, and validate healthcare claims and operational data used in actuarial analyses and performance estimates.
- Perform ad hoc and exploratory data analyses to investigate performance trends, identify drivers of over- or under-performance, and surface actionable insights for internal stakeholders.
- Evaluate the reasonableness and sensitivity of model outputs, proactively identifying data quality issues, assumptions, or emerging risks.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, clinical, and operations teams to ensure alignment between data, models, and real-world workflows.
- Contribute to the improvement and automation of actuarial processes and analytical pipelines as the organization scales, helping to establish best practices in a start-up environment.
WHAT YOU’VE DONE
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Actuarial Sciences, Economics, Math or other quantitative discipline
- ASA, or near-ASA with demonstrated progress towards credentials (4+ exams)
- 2+ years of actuarial experience in a healthcare environment
- Experience using SQL or another structured coding language to pull and transform healthcare data from large databases
- Proficiency in writing clean, efficient code and ability to troubleshoot and review code written by yourself or others
- Experience working with claim-level datasets
Preferred:
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate results, solutions, and recommendations to internal stakeholders (i.e., the “So What”).
- Experience in value-based care arrangements and working knowledge of key value-based concepts like Medicare Advantage, risk scores, shared savings, or CMS payment models
- Exposure to multiple actuarial functions (pricing, reserving, forecasting, trend, pharmacy, etc.) via rotational program or consulting role
- Proficiency in at least one other coding language aside from SQL or SAS (e.g., Python, R, dbt, etc.)
- Expertise working with spreadsheet software utilizing functions, formulas, and graphs
WHAT LEADS TO SUCCESS
- Act with our members in mind: Thyme Care’s mission, and particularly our member experience, matters deeply to you.
- Curiosity: You’re devoted to discovering something new every day. You’re excited about seeking answers to questions, even if it means thinking outside the box sometimes.
- Critical eye for detail: Not only do you maintain high standards for data accuracy, presentation and documentation, you have a natural ability to detect data anomalies and identify when outputs look suspicious and warrant further investigation.
- Move with purpose: You’re biased to action. You know how to identify and prioritize your initiative’s needs; and you do what it takes to ensure that urgent and important needs are acted on immediately.
- Comfort with ambiguity: You understand that rapid changes to the business, strategy, organization, and priorities are par for the course. You’re comfortable with defining the boundaries of your work, and striking the right balance between seeking guidance and taking initiative.
OUR VALUES
At Thyme Care, our core values guide us in everything we do: Act with our members in mind, Move with purpose, and Seek diverse perspectives. They anchor our business decisions, including how we grow, the products we make, and the paths we choose—or don’t choose.
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Thyme Care. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Thyme Care employees. The base salary for this role is $108,000-$150,000 . The salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired at another level.
We recognize a history of inequality in healthcare. We’re here to challenge the status quo and create a culture of inclusion through the care we give and the company we build. We embrace and celebrate a diversity of perspectives in reflection of our members and the members we serve. We are an equal-opportunity employer.
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