Associate Medical Director/Principal, Payer Partnerships

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.

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.

- 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.

- 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

The expected base pay range for this position is $179,200 - $300,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.