Associate Principal, Payer Partnerships

Headway’s mission is a big one - to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance. 

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the majority of providers don’t accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to take insurance and scale their practice. 

Headway was founded in 2019 – since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 30,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software. We’re a Series C company with over $225m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, and Health Care Service Corporation.

We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.

About The Role

Headway is scaling our health plan partnerships across the US and we’re hiring an Associate Principal, Payer Partnerships, to both support our continued growth and lead innovation with strategic partners in 2024 and beyond. Reporting to our Principal, Payer partnerships, you’ll work cross functionally with internal teams (Strategy, Product, Operations) to drive new business growth and ensure ongoing success in our strategic health plan partnerships, while also deepening external payer relationships to identify new product opportunities and drive further alignment. This is an exceptional opportunity to own high-impact objectives at a rapidly scaling, mission driven company. 

You will: 

• Be responsible for new business pursuits and long term management of health plan partnerships with some of the largest health plans in the US
• Navigate contract strategy and renegotiations to optimize partnership structure and success
• Build and grow relationships with health plan operations teams and leadership 
• Leverage data to generate insights and identify new opportunities for partnership growth 
• Manage executive steering committees and serve as the face of Headway 
• Collaborate with cross functional, internal stakeholders to deliver insights to inform product and operations strategy

You will love this role if:

• You have a minimum of 8+ years of experience in the healthcare space, preferably in roles within Customer …