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. 

• 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.