[Hiring] Principal, Clinical Product @Headway

Role Description

As Principal, Clinical Product at Headway, you’ll embed behavioral health expertise into the design, governance, and evolution of our digital platform. You will ensure our products are clinically sound, ethically designed, compliant with evolving standards, and aligned with best practices in patient safety and quality.

You will operate at the intersection of clinical care, AI innovation, and product strategy translating complex behavioral health workflows into scalable digital solutions that empower over 80,000 clinicians and millions of patients.

This role requires strong collaboration, leadership skills, clear communication, and the ability to execute both independently and within cross-functional teams. Your work will directly support growing our provider network, connecting more patients to care, and improving patient outcomes.

This role is for a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist who has partnered closely with product and engineering teams to build AI-enabled healthcare tools, and who wants to shape how clinical quality shows up in products at a national scale.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product teams on our highest-priority initiatives so clinical input shapes the work from problem definition through launch.
• Translate complex clinical workflows into requirements engineers and designers can build against.
• Bring clinical judgment to AI-enabled features, helping teams define what safe, useful, clinically appropriate behavior looks like, and how to evaluate it.
• Help define what clinical quality, patient safety, and good outcomes look like on our platform, and make them measurable.
• Monitor how our products perform across provider adoption, patient experience, and clinical quality, using both data and direct input from clinicians and patients.
• Partner with Data and Analytics to turn ambiguous questions into insight that changes product decisions.
• Align product, design, data, and engineering on clinical tradeoffs and keep decisions moving.

Qualifications

• An active, unrestricted license as a psychologist (PhD/PsyD) or psychiatrist (MD/DO) with 6+ years of post-graduate clinical experience.
• Direct experience partnering with product and engineering teams to build AI-enabled healthcare tools.
• Experience with AI governance, risk frameworks, or clinical safety standards for AI.
• Experience at a high-growth startup or tech company.
• Strong analytical instincts: you can define a metric, defend it, and use data to change a decision.
• Clear communication: you can explain clinical concepts simply to teams without healthcare backgrounds, and influence decisions without formal authority.

Nice to Have

• Background in behavioral health quality or patient safety programs.
• Hands-on work with claims data, outcomes measurement, or measurement-informed care.
• Experience presenting to health plan or health system leadership, or at industry conferences.

Compensation and Benefits

The expected base pay range for this position is $170,000 - $265,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

• 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