Job Overview
Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
July 15, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Health Coach at Virta, you’ll work directly with Virta members to support weight loss and reverse metabolic disease.
- • Provide evidence-based nutrition and behavior change coaching, with an emphasis on stages of change, to help members implement dietary changes and connect the dots between food choices and outcomes (biomarkers).
- • Ensure high-quality interactions to support members with personalized nutritional guidance primarily through chat-based coaching (nutritional ketosis via personalized carbohydrate intake with lifestyle changes that focus on sustainability) to achieve improved metabolic health, including weight loss, through member engagement.
- • Empathize, connect, and partner with members to ensure personal success and sustainability.
- • Keep members engaged, successful, and contribute to member retention by using various counseling techniques including, but not limited to, motivational interviewing and member-centered goal setting.
- • Follow key clinical workflows, processes, and effectively document member interactions, outreach, and progress.
- • Collaborate with Virta Providers and other members of the care team to deliver a seamless and personalized experience to ensure member safety and success.
- • Uphold company values and maintain a strong team dynamic including sharing your specific expertise and skills with your teammates.
- • Comfortable with a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and ability to adapt to changes and new information quickly.
🎯 Requirements
- • 2 years of experience working with patients directly to create plans and set goals; including but not limited to outpatient nutrition counseling, motivational interviewing, community health, weight loss and/or bariatric centers, using and/or implementing various behavior change techniques, chronic condition/metabolic health coaching, health counseling, mental health counseling, etc.
- • Chronic condition/metabolic health coaching experience OR recent completion of a coaching program, ideally NBHWC or ICF.
- • Associate’s, Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a health, behavioral health or other related field.
- • Strong technological literacy: ability to safely, responsibly, and effectively use various digital platforms to provide remote care for patients and communicate with teammates (includes texting, phone calls, video chats, instant messaging, Google Suite applications, Slack, Zoom, and strong typing skills).
🏖️ Benefits
- • Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.
- • For this role, the hourly rate is $30 per hour.
- • Information about Virta’s benefits is on our careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.
- • As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
- • Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI.
- • Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.
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About Virta Health Corporation
Virta Health provides physician-supervised telehealth treatment for type 2 diabetes and metabolic disorders. Its evidence-based protocol combines continuous remote monitoring, personalized nutrition, and virtual medical care to reduce or eliminate medications and achieve sustained blood-sugar control. Founded in 2014, the company partners with employers and insurers to deliver outcomes-based programs that lower healthcare costs and improve patient health.
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