Remote Sr. Director, Healthcare Analytics

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care, committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people, united in our mission to put the senior first.We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve. In this fast-growing company, you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community. Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters, not only changing lives but saving them. Together.
The Remote Senior Director, Healthcare Analytics is accountable for building and leading the organization’s program evaluation and causal analytics capability, designing and executing rigorous assessments of clinical, operational, and benefit interventions (e.g., care management, utilization management, pharmacy programs, network initiatives, supplemental benefits, and value-based arrangements). This leader translates healthcare data into credible causal impact estimates, quantifies savings/ROI and quality outcomes, and establishes evaluation standards, governance, and analytic best practices across the enterprise. This role partners closely with Clinical Operations, UM, Finance, Product, Network, and IT/Data teams to ensure interventions are designed with measurable outcomes and are evaluated using defensible methods appropriate for Medicare Advantage and value-based care contexts.
Position Summary:

The Senior Director, Healthcare Analytics is accountable for building and leading the organization’s program evaluation and causal analytics capability, designing and executing rigorous assessments of clinical, operational, and benefit interventions (e.g., care management, utilization management, pharmacy programs, network initiatives, supplemental benefits, and value-based arrangements). This leader translates healthcare data into credible causal impact estimates, quantifies savings/ROI and quality outcomes, and establishes evaluation standards, governance, and analytic best practices across the enterprise. This role partners closely with Clinical Operations, UM, Finance, Product, Network, and IT/Data teams to ensure interventions are designed with measurable outcomes and are evaluated using defensible methods appropriate for Medicare Advantage and value-based care contexts.

General Duties/Responsibilities (May include but are not limited to):
Program Evaluation Leadership (Core)

Own the end-to-end evaluation strategy for priority interventions, including study design selection, cohort definitions, outcome specifications, measurement windows, and analytic plans (pre/post, matched cohorts, quasi-experimental approaches). Design and execute causal inference evaluations using:

Propensity score methods (matching/weighting/stratification; overlap checks; sensitivity analyses). (Required)

Difference-in-differences (parallel trends diagnostics; event-study variants; staggered adoption when applicable). (Required)

Related approaches as appropriate (e.g., inverse probability weighting, regression adjustment).

Establish and maintain an evaluation “playbook”: standardized templates for research questions, inclusion/exclusion criteria, baseline checks, attribution rules, risk adjustment, and reporting conventions to ensure repeatable, auditable analyses. Quantify intervention impact across cost, utilization, and quality: PMPM savings, avoidable utilization, inpatient/ED, readmissions, medication adherence, care gaps, Stars-related measures, and operational KPIs.

Measurement, Governance, and Stakeholder Partnership

Partner with operational and clinical leaders to establish standards for each program for measurement (clear triggers, timing, enrollment criteria, exposure definitions) and to ensure feasibility of evaluation before implementation. Support cross-functional governance of metric definition