Associate Principal, Payer Partnerships

Summary

Join Headway, a company revolutionizing mental healthcare access, as an Associate Principal, Payer Partnerships. You will manage key health plan partnerships, negotiate contracts, build relationships with health plan teams, leverage data for growth, and represent Headway to executive stakeholders. This role requires extensive healthcare experience, strong relationship-building skills, and operational excellence. You'll contribute to a mission-driven company tackling a critical societal challenge. Headway offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, variable compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 8+ years of experience in the healthcare space, preferably in roles within Customer Success, Business Development, or in Strategic Customer-facing roles
• Bring deep exposure to payer business models and economics

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Be a relationship builder, and delight in forging meaningful bonds across all levels of an organization
• Thrive in ambiguity, and seek out opportunities to dive into unfamiliar challenges, drive towards outcomes, and shape strategy
• Be operationally excellent, able to manage multiple high impact customers and large volume of moving pieces without breaking a sweat
• Seek an environment that fosters individual growth through open-feedback and high-autonomy
• Be motivated by the opportunity to face off against one of our generation’s defining problems: access to mental healthcare

Benefits

• Equity Compensation
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• HSA / FSA
• 401K
• Work-from-Home Stipend
• Therapy Reimbursement
• 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
• Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
• 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
• Flexible PTO
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and professional development