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Medical Director - Nourish Medical

Nourish · New York, NY or Remote · Remote

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About Nourish

Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments. Backed by Index, Y Combinator and Menlo.

About the role

As Medical Director, you will lead the clinical team of physicians and advanced practice providers who deliver care within our practice, owning the systems and processes that enable them to deliver excellent care as we scale. This is a new role that will be critical to growing our provider base while maintaining high clinical quality.

What they're looking for

  • Scale and lead the Nourish Medical clinical team while maintaining high-quality care, owning supervision of the physician and APP team
  • Build the engine for clinical quality management, using metrics and analytical rigor to drive top-tier performance through technology, process, and coaching
  • Champion the interdisciplinary care model, partnering closely with dietitians, therapists, and eventually other provider types to define how disciplines work together
  • Provide direct clinical care to patients on the Nourish platform, managing a part-time clinical load
  • Shape where Nourish Medical goes next, including new visit types, new provider types, entire new service lines, and build the clinical foundation that makes that expansion possible
More about this role

Health is the most important thing in life, and the American healthcare system is completely broken - poor outcomes, high cost, bad patient experience. We're building a new system from the ground up.

Our mission is to improve people’s health by making it easy to live a healthy lifestyle.

Nourish is the country's largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic. We’re an AI-native digital health system matching patients with 10,000+ Registered Dietitians, physicians, medications, lab testing, and AI agents to deliver insurance-covered care across all 50 states. Founded four years ago, we've completed millions of appointments, tripled year-over-year, and partnered with health plans covering 200M+ Americans across 250+ health systems.

In 2026 we raised a $100M Series C , bringing total funding to $215M. The round was led by Menlo Ventures , with participation from Thrive Capital , Index Ventures , J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners , Maverick Ventures , Y Combinator , BoxGroup , Atomico , Daybreak , and Operator Partners .

Learn more about our Series C here: Nourish Blog , Bloomberg , Fierce Healthcare , Digital Native , The Pulse Podcast .

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