Registered Dietitian; Preventive and Focus

Overview

Registered Dietitian (Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Focus)
New York

Akido builds AI-powered doctors. Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining 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.

Serving 500K+ patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York, Akido offers primary and specialty care in 26 specialties. More information at Akido Labs and related coverage.

Founded in 2015 (YC W15), Akido is expanding its risk-bearing care models and scaling Scope

AI, its breakthrough clinical AI platform.

The Opportunity

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. We launched WHLP (Worker Healthier Living Program) — a lifestyle medicine–informed program designed to help drivers live healthier, longer lives through food, movement, sleep, stress management, and community. We’re looking for a Registered Dietitian (RD) who believes nutrition is about empowerment, cultural relevance, and sustainable change.

This role aims to design, deliver, and scale a relationship-based, group-oriented nutrition model for an underserved workforce. This isn’t a traditional outpatient dietitian role.

You’ll be part of a small, interdisciplinary care team — including physicians, advanced practice clinicians, a health coach, social worker, and medical assistant — working across in-person, virtual, and community-based settings. You’ll lead nutrition-focused group visits, support six-month lifestyle medicine programs, and work closely with clinicians to integrate nutrition into chronic disease prevention and management. You’ll help shape how nutrition shows up in the model itself — from curriculum and educational materials to workflows, patient engagement strategies, and digital tools.

You’ll partner with Akido’s AI-powered platform to make nutrition care more accessible and personalized, while keeping the human connection front and center.

This is a zero-to-one opportunity
. You’ll be joining early, with ownership over how the program is built and grown — from how nutrition care is delivered to how the model scales across New York City. We’re looking for someone energized by ambiguity, comfortable experimenting, and motivated to help turn a promising pilot into a sustainable, community-centered model.

WHLP is grounded in evidence and designed to prevent and manage chronic conditions such as obesity, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, while addressing barriers that shape health — including stress, isolation, financial strain, and work-related challenges.

If you’re passionate about behavior change, community health, and building trust with historically underserved populations, this is your opportunity to help reimagine what registered dietitian–led care looks like in primary care from the ground up.