Actuary Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Job Description

Job Description

Location : Remote (with occasional travel to client sites and Athena hub cities)

Type : Full-Time, Salaried

What You’ll Do 🔍

As a Principal at Athena, you’ll be setting strategic direction, nurturing key client relationships, and guiding complex engagements from opportunity through delivery. You’ll collaborate directly with other Principals, Senior Managers, junior staff, clients, and our executive team to shape solutions that have meaningful impact. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in growing our practice, developing high-performing teams, and ensuring Athena remains a trusted advisor in the health space.

Key responsibilities include :

Lead and manage client accounts—ranging from small analyses to large consulting engagements

Serve as day-to-day client leadership contact and strategic advisor on client engagements, ensuring high-quality deliverables and alignment with client goals

Guide actuarial modeling, analysis, and review processes to ensure accuracy and consistency

Demonstrate listening, writing and speaking skills required to effectively and empathetically address diverse technical and nontechnical audiences in both formal and informal settings

Mentor and manage junior staff, supporting their growth through training and feedback

Partner with the leadership team to build and grow the health areas of practice and develop the team that supports the impactful work we do for our clients

Assist with new business development and sales leads, including attending / speaking at relevant industry conferences, writing articles and insight pieces for Athena’s website and outside publications, and assisting with proposal evaluation, drafting and review

Demonstrate exemplary levels of personal and professional integrity, and ability to support and promote Athena’s mission and values

Participate in Athena strategy meetings and provide feedback on Athena’s strategic initiatives

What We’re Looking For ✅

Must-Haves :

Ideal candidates have 15+ years of experience

ASA or FSA certification

Expertise in Actuarial Modeling, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word

Experience with Medicaid

Clear, confident communication tailored to a variety of audiences

Curiosity, continuously seeking to understand not just “what,” but “why” and “what if”

Courage to share insights, especially when they challenge the status quo

In depth experience in Client and / or Project management

Demonstrated experience in health actuarial projects

Successful experience in a consulting environment, managing multiple clients and accounts

Experience managing a developing, creative problem-solving skills to identify flexible solutions to business questions

Experience and desire in developing junior resources through training and day-to-day collaboration

Proven track record in identifying new sales opportunities and driving revenue growth by strengthening existing client relationships

Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel to client locations as required

Passion for growing a business from the bottom up through business development and strategic efforts

Nice-to-Haves :

Experience in proposal writing or thought leadership

Professional engagement in industry conferences, speaking engagements, or publishing

Commercial and employer health experience

Proficiency in data visualization design and tools

Why Athena?

At Athena, we believe actuarial consulting and specialty advisory services is more than just calculating risk : It’s a lens for reimagining what’s possible. That’s why we’ve built a team of passionate experts who infuse the power of data and predictive modeling with imagination, human insight, and a commitment to helping people thrive.

Every day at Athena, we seek to live and lead—to serve and solve problems—with courage as our fuel. That means challenging assumptions in search of untapped potential that benefits our clients. It looks like striving to ask better questions that might yield breakthrough answers for a community. And it means seeing people not as problems, but full of possibility—because we know the future isn’t prescribed, it’s built. Courage is a competitive advantage in actuarial consulting—not just because it emboldens people, but because it moves businesses forward.

Athena is a new kind of actuarial services company, founded by a former leader at a ”Big 4” firm who had a vision and drive to build something different. We tackle big challenges with small teams of experienced pros who look beyond traditional risk modeling to find innovative solutions.

Perks & Benefits

Flexible Time Off policy

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Competitive actuarial exam support program

Additional Info

Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Compensation Range : $154K - $232K