Director, Talent Intelligence and Early Careers

Headway is a mental healthcare company building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. Over 90,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on its software, serving over 2.6 million patients. Headway is looking for a Director of Talent Intelligence and Early Careers Recruiting to build and lead a first-of-its-kind function focused on Headway's long-term talent pipeline, owning two pillars: Campus Recruiting and Talent Intelligence. The leader will build the team, strategy, and infrastructure from the ground up, working with the Head of Recruiting, Recruiting Manager peers, and the HR and Recruiting Programs teams.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a recruiting and market intelligence team responsible for proactive talent mapping, competitive landscape analysis, and sourcing strategy across tech and business functions; Define the frameworks for market mapping; Serve as the organization's sourcing subject matter expert and raise capability across the recruiting team; Partner with recruiting manager peers and hiring managers to translate market intelligence into sourcing and targeting strategies; Build the infrastructure and operating rhythm for long-term nurture of high-potential candidates; Partner with Talent Brand on an events strategy; Own the data infrastructure and reporting on hiring trends, pipeline health, and market benchmarks; Define and own the campus recruiting strategy end-to-end; Build and manage relationships with universities, career centers, and student organizations; Own the full campus event strategy and assess ROI; Own the summer internship program end-to-end; Partner with HR and Recruiting Programs teams on return offer processes, post-offer engagement, and start-date conversion; Own a defined number of business-wide hires through your team's channels; Capacity plan alongside the Head of Recruiting and Recruiting Manager peers; Serve as the connective tissue between campus, sourcing, and programs

Requirements

10+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful time spent leading campus, sourcing, or talent pipeline functions at a high-growth company; Demonstrated experience hiring across both technical (engineering, data, product) and business (sales, operations, G&A) functions; Track record of building teams and programs from scratch, not just inheriting them; Strong analytical orientation, using data to set strategy, measure outcomes, and make the case for where to invest and where to pull back; Experience partnering with HR, People Programs, or Recruiting Operations teams to bring structure and scalability to programmatic work; Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to influence without authority and hold a credible point of view with senior leaders; Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision; HSA/FSA; 401(k) including match for 2027; Carrot Fertility reimbursement; paid parental, medical and caregiver leave