Director, Risk Management

What We Strive For

Strive Health is built for purpose — to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of people with kidney disease through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Why We’re Worth the Application

• We Strive for excellence and Strive has been recognized with six Best Place to Work awards, including Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 and 2022, Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work 2022 and 2024, Comparably’s Best Places to Work in Denver 2022 and The Tech Tribune’s Best Startups in Denver 2022. Additionally, Strive’s CEO, Chris Riopelle, has been recognized as one of Denver Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs.
• We derive innovation and ideas from through authentic diversity intentionally building a team that represents the populations we serve in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:
  • Strive Forward - LGBTQ
  • Underrepresented Minorities
  • Women and Allies
• We care and support our Strivers within and beyond work to feel fully charged and empowered through our generous wellbeing offerings including:
  • Flexible time off
  • Companywide wellbeing days
  • Volunteer time off
  • Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor
  • Professional development
  • A dedicated certified financial planner
  • Headspace, Carrot Fertility and Gympass for all Strivers
• We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, trivia, wellbeing raffles, pajama days, a companywide book club and more.
• We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.

Director, Risk Management

The Director, Risk Management has primary responsibility for ensuring adequate insurance coverage for Strive Health’s organizational exposures, as well as development and implementation of Strive Health’s risk management program. The Director, Risk Management supervises and coordinates risk management activities, including risk identification and assessment; risk prevention; and claims management.

Essential Functions

• Identifies and analyzes existing and emerging risks to Strive Health.
• Conducts risks assessments, collecting and analyzing documentation, statistics, reports and market trends.
• Develops goals and objectives for risk management in keeping with Strive Health policy and mission.
• Develops and maintains Strive Health’s risk management program.
• Evaluates insurance coverage and determines appropriate limits and retention, and oversees renewal of insurance policies and programs.
• Working with Strive Health’s legal team, directs and oversees management of claims against Strive Health for insured risks.
• Manages insurance claims filings on all insurance policies.
• Engages and manages key insurance industry relationships, including brokers, underwriters, consultants, etc.
• Drafts insurance requirements for various contractual engagements; maintains database of insurance requirements templates; oversees Certificate of Insurance program and requests certificates from vendors and independent contractors as needed.
• Communicates risk management objectives and results to all levels of Strive Health.
• Leads organization in Enterprise Risk Management assessments and analysis.
• Works with risk owners on deep dives including sub-risks, mitigation, and metrics.
• Works with clinical quality, compliance, legal, and others to coordinate efforts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree; Master's degree or Legal degree preferred.
• 8+ years experience in risk management, preferably in a healthcare setting.
• 5+ years experience as an insurance Manager, property/casualty analyst or underwriter, insurance broker or other related position in the property/casualty industry.
• Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), or related professional designations.