Part-Time Health Coach (Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Focus)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Akido builds AI-powered doctors<strong>.</strong> Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining cutting-edge technology with a nationwide medical network to address America’s physician shortage and make exceptional healthcare universal. Its AI empowers doctors to deliver faster, more accurate, and more compassionate care.</p> <p>Serving 500K+ patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York, Akido offers primary and specialty care in 26 specialties—from serving <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91231274/how-one-la-doctor-is-using-ai-to-help-homeless-communities-get-medical-care">unhoused communities</a> in Los Angeles to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ai-doctor-will-see-new-york-ride-share-drivers-now-5ba53e6c?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1">ride-share drivers</a> in New York.</p> <p>Founded in 2015 (YC W15), Akido is expanding its risk-bearing care models and scaling ScopeAI, its breakthrough clinical AI platform. <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250515102298/en/Akido-Raises-%2460-Million-Series-B-to-Expand-Reach-of-ScopeAI-its-Breakthrough-Health-Artificial-Intelligence">Read more about Akido’s $60M Series B</a>. More info at <a href="http://Akidolabs.com">Akidolabs.com</a>.</p></div><h2>The Opportunity</h2> <p>We’re building something new for New York City’s independent drivers — the people who keep the city moving but are often left out of traditional healthcare systems. Together with the <a href="https://driversguild.org/">Independent Drivers Guild</a> and the <a href="https://workersbenefitfund.com/">Workers Benefit Fund (WBF)</a>, we launched the <a href="https://workerhealthyliving.org/">Worker Healthy Living Program</a> (WHLP) — a lifestyle medicine–informed program designed to help drivers live healthier, longer lives through food, movement, sleep, stress management, and community.</p> <p>We’re looking for a <strong>Health Coach</strong> who believes that lasting health change comes from trust, consistency, and support — not just information. This role is for someone who loves working directly with people, helping them make realistic changes in the context of busy, high-stress lives, and building strong relationships with participants over time.</p> <p><strong>This isn’t a traditional coaching role.</strong> You’ll join a small, collaborative care team — including primary care clinicians, advanced practice clinicians, a dietitian, behavioral health support, a medical assistant, and other care team partners — working across in-person and virtual settings, with potential expansion to mobile clinics. You’ll support participants through individual and group-based coaching and help embed lifestyle change and patient empowerment into a structured six-month program focused on whole-person health.</p> <p>Beyond participant support, you’ll help shape how the program runs — refining workflows, supporting program operations, and helping design systems that make it easier for drivers to stay engaged. You’ll also work alongside Akido’s AI-powered platform to improve care delivery — using technology to reduce administrative burden and strengthen, not replace, human connection.</p> <p>This is a <strong>zero-to-one opportunity</strong>. You’ll be joining early, with real ownership over how the program is built and grown — from how coaching is delivered to how the model scales across New York City. We’re looking for someone who’s energized by ambiguity, comfortable experimenting, and motivated to help turn a promising pilot into a sustainable, community-centered model.</p> <p>WHLP is grounded in evidence and designed to prevent and manage chronic conditions such as obesity, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, while also addressing the real-life barriers that shape health — including stress, isolation, financial strain, and work-related challenges.</p> <p>If you’re passionate about behavior change, community health, and building trust with populations that have been historically underserved — this is your opportunity to help reimagine what health coaching looks like in primary care from the ground up.</p> <p> </p> <p data-start="125" data-end="191"><strong data-start="125" data-end="189">This position is part-time and is not eligible for benefits.</strong></p> <p> </p> <hr> <h2>You’ll Be a Great Fit If You</h2> <ul> <li>Thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary care environment</li> <li>Are comfortable working in an early-stage, evolving program — able to move forward with limited direction and help create structure where it doesn’t yet exist</li> <li>Enjoy building long-term relationships with participants, not one-off coaching sessions</li> <li>Believe prevention, lifestyle change, and patient empowerment should be central to healthcare</li> <li>Communicate with empathy, cultural humility, and a non-judgmental coaching approach</li> <li>Are excited by working across settings, from a community clinic in Williamsburg to virtual and mobile care across NYC</li> <li>Can meet people where they are and help them take the next best step (not the “perfect” step)</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Provide <strong>1:1 health coaching</strong> to WHLP participants focused on sustainable lifestyle change</li> <li>Support participants…