Associate Medical Director/Principal, Payer Partnerships

Headway is building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. 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, and others.

Responsibilities

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, generate novel insights, shape strategic direction, and demonstrate scientific and strategic value to customers; 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 & analytics, and operations; Be willing to travel.

Requirements

You are a Psychiatrist (MD/DO) or Clinical Psychologist (PhD) – you have 3+ years of experience as a clinician with experience operating in a fast-paced, high growth business; You bring 2+ years of experience working in payer or partnership roles, ideally in technology environments; You are an industry influencer – 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 healthcare startups. You speak at industry conferences; You are a proven thought leader with peer-reviewed publications, mainstream media articles, and/or other expert content; You’re effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff and can distill complex clinical processes and language in order to move product implementation forward. You have worked in a position that required communication with large populations, including leading presentations. Storytelling is one of your superpowers; You have strong analytical skills and are experienced in interpreting and synthesizing data & research insights to inform strategy, drive innovation, and clearly demonstrate scientific and organizational value to customers; You are a creative thinker who loves white space and can explore data in new and different ways, expanding the way the field thinks about common problems; You are excited to explore patient outcomes in a large data set, extracting key insights and informing what to build next; You are familiar with clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare; 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 general familiarity with healthcare regulations and laws surrounding corporate practice of medicine; You have past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup; You are based on or near the East Coast and are 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 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