Headway’s mission is a big one – to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance.
1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the majority of providers don’t accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice.
Headway was founded in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 34,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.
We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.
About The Role
As Headway’s Medical Director, you will support Headway’s health plan relationships and product strategy to continue expanding Headway’s provider network impact. You’ll work cross-functionally with our Product and Payer teams.
As the only tech-enabled behavioral health Managed Services Organization (MSO) built with entirely in-house software, Headway has an unprecedented opportunity in the clinical space. Today, we support more than 30k Clinicians and hundreds of thousands of patients. Building a best in class digital product will impact clinicians and patients nationwide.
You’ll be great for this role if:
- You are a physician (MD) or a clinician (PhD)– have 8+ years of experience as a psychiatrist or psychologist with experience operating in a fast-paced, high growth business.
- You bring 5+ years of experience working in Clinical or Medical Leadership roles in technology environments
- You are a thought leader – with demonstrated passion for reimagining how behavioral health is delivered and measured. This likely means you’ve worked in health plans, health systems, and / or value-based healthcare startups. You have experience in merging technology and healthcare. You speak at industry conferences.
- You are a collaborator – eager and adept at working in concert with product, operations, and sales teams to infuse clinical strategy across the org.
- You have cross-functional experience - working with interdisciplinary teams
- You’re effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff
- You have previously developed or managed clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare
- You have past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup
- If MD, you are or are willing to be licensed in multiple states
You Will:
- Lead the Clinical Product team
- Support Headway health plan partnerships and strategy
- Partner with Headway product teams on next generation product design
- Contribute to strategic planning, direction, and goal setting for the Clinical Team
- Promote external relations with Payers through relationship building, presentations, sales meetings, and conference participation
- Assist in the training, continuing education, and development of medical providers at Headway
- Develop a critical understanding of how mental health clinicians utilize digital tools to deliver high quality care and document in a compliant manner
- Work collaboratively with cross functional teams including product, design, growth, marketing, payer relations, data analysis, and operations
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary information is based on a single salary target per role and is differentiated based on geographic location (Group A, B, or C)
- Group A: $320,000 (for MD), 270,000 (for PHD)
- Group B: $288,000 (for MD), $243,000 (for PHD)
- Group C: $256,000 (for MD), $216,000 (for PHD)
- Examples of cities located in each Compensation Grouping:
- Group A = NYC, SF/Bay Area, LA Area, Seattle, Boston, Austin, and San Diego
- Group B = Chicago, Miami, Denver, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Nashville, Sacramento, Phoenix, and Portland
- Group C = All remaining cities
- Benefits offered include:
- Equity Compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development
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We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience.
Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected]
Headway employees work remotely across the US, with the option to work from offices in New York City and San Francisco. Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.
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Headway is building a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
We all know someone that has struggled with mental health - 1 in 4 people have a treatable mental health condition - but the overwhelming majority don’t get the care they need. The primary reason is cost - seventy percent of therapists don’t accept insurance, meaning paying for therapy is usually very, very expensive.
Headway is building the first national, virtual network of therapists who accept insurance, helping providers to expand their practices, and individuals to finally find a therapist they can afford. And we’re doing it all through software.
We launched in April of 2019 and are already powering thousands of therapy appointments every single day. To scale our mission, we’ve raised funding from the world’s preeminent VCs (backers of Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Uber, Oscar) as well as the nation’s most innovative healthcare entrepreneurs (founders of One Medical, Flatiron Health, and Clover Health).
We believe a team's strength is in its people. Headway is solving a national problem of affordability, and we know this cannot be achieved without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem - across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and experience.
Join us, and make an impact.
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