Principal, Business Development - Payer

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people.

Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access.

We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that.

But we're going further. Over 90,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 2.6 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale, and building much of it with AI. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens.

We're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.

Join us and make an impact

As a Principal, Business Development on our Payer team, , you will own the strategy and execution of new partnerships with leading health plans across the United States. In this role, you will unlock Headway’s expansion, reimagine how mental healthcare networks are built, measured, and curated at scale, and bring affordable mental healthcare to hundreds of thousands of Americans.

You Will

• Own the strategy and execution of new payer partnerships at Headway. In this role, you will unlock additional payer coverage to bring affordable mental healthcare to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
• Lead contract expansion (value-based, line of business) and reimagine how mental healthcare networks are built, measured, and curated at scale.
• You’d be a great fit if…

You have

• 10+ years of experience in roles where you have owned business development efforts from end-to-end, ideally selling directly to health plans.
• You have a deep understanding of payer business models and economics.
• You are a relationship builder, and delight in forging meaningful bonds across all levels of an organization.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and seek out opportunities to dive into unfamiliar challenges, drive towards outcomes, and shape strategy.
• You are operationally excellent, able to manage a robust sales funnel and large volume of moving pieces without breaking a sweat.
• You seek an environment that fosters individual growth through open-feedback and high-autonomy.
• You are motivated by the opportunity to face off against one of our generation’s defining problems: access to mental healthcare.