[Hiring] Associate Medical Director/Principal, Payer Partnerships @Headway

Role Description

As Associate Medical Director/Principal, Payer Partnerships, you will support Headway’s health plan relationships, external thought leadership strategy, and continue expanding Headway’s provider network impact. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams across Headway, including:

• Payer
• Product
• Growth
• Marketing
• Data & Analytics

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 70k Clinicians and hundreds of thousands of patients. Building a best-in-class digital product will impact clinicians and patients nationwide.

Qualifications

• Psychiatrist (MD/DO) or Clinical Psychologist (PhD) with 3+ years of experience as a clinician in a fast-paced, high-growth business.
• 2+ years of experience working in payer or partnership roles, ideally in technology environments.
• Industry influencer with a passion for reimagining how behavioral health is delivered and measured.
• Proven thought leader with peer-reviewed publications, mainstream media articles, and/or other expert content.
• Effective communicator of clinical information to non-clinical staff.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in interpreting and synthesizing data & research insights.
• Creative thinker who loves exploring data in new ways.
• Familiarity with clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare.
• Collaborator eager to work with product, operations, and sales teams.
• General familiarity with healthcare regulations and laws surrounding corporate practice of medicine.
• Past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup.
• Based on or near the East Coast and willing to travel.

Requirements

• Support Headway health plan partnerships and strategy.
• Promote external relations with Payers through relationship building, presentations/reporting, sales meetings, and conference participation.
• Drive creative, innovative, exploratory data analyses to prove patient outcomes and generate novel insights.
• Develop a critical understanding of how mental health clinicians utilize digital tools to deliver high-quality care.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product, design, growth, marketing, payer relations, data & analytics, and operations.
• Be willing to travel.

Benefits

• 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 and a Holiday Break between December 25th and December 31st
• Flexible PTO
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and professional development