
Principal, Payer Partnerships
Job Description
As a Principal, Payer Partnerships, you will own the strategy and execution of C-level partnerships with leading health plans across the United States. In this role, you will unlock Headway’s expansion into new geographies, 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 love this role 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 ...
The Real Dill ☘️
One of 2023's newly crowned HealthTech unicorns (a company with a valuation exceeding $1Bn), Headway's growth has been massive (as has the larger societal acceptance of digital mental health solutions). They've seemed to thread the needle between matching patients with mental health providers that through in-network insurance benefits despite overall reductions in investment across the behavioral health sector. According to Rock Health, investors poured $2.1 billion into behavioral health companies in 2022, a 56% decrease from the $4.8 billion raised in 2021...time will tell if Headway is the exception to this trend. (October 2023)
Jon Lee, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MBA
Pickle co-founder
About Headway
Mental health platform connecting users with licensed therapists who accept insurance for virtual counseling sessions.
MissionBuilding a new mental healthcare system
Wow FactorNow includes over 26,000 providers participating in-network with 19 different insurance plans
Company benefits
- 📈 Stock/equity
- 🔐 Health insurance
- 🦷 Dental
- 👀 Vision
- 🛟 HSA (Health Savings Account)
- 🏡 WFH stipend
- 🐣 Maternity/paternity leave
- 📕 Learning and development allowance
- 🏦 401K/retirement
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