Medical Director

Summary

Join Headway as their Medical Director and play a pivotal role in developing and implementing their quality and compliance program. Lead the Clinical Quality Monitoring team, expanding the provider network and driving clinician performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Operations, Product, CX) to shape product development aligned with quality initiatives. This leadership position requires a physician (MD) with extensive experience in psychiatry, clinical leadership in technology environments, and a passion for reimagining behavioral health quality. You will oversee credentialing, quality, and appeals teams, develop training programs, and contribute to strategic planning. Headway offers a competitive compensation package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and equity.

Requirements

• You are a physician (MD) – have 5+ years of experience as a psychiatrist with experience both as a practicing provider as well as operating in a fast-paced, high growth business
• You bring 3+ years of experience working in Clinical or Medical Leadership roles in technology environments
• You demonstrate passion for reimagining how behavioral health quality is defined, measured, and operationalized. This likely means you’ve worked in health plans, health systems, and / or value-based healthcare startups. You have experience in merging technology and healthcare
• You have 2+ years of experience demonstrating sound independent judgment and competence in managing a quality monitoring program in a healthcare workforce
• You have experience supervising clinicians or large teams of providers, with an emphasis on performance management
• You have cross-functional experience - working with interdisciplinary teams
• You’re effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff
• You have experience working with or managing Medicare Advantage plans
• You have previously developed or managed clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare
• You have past experience with a Telehealth Organization and/or startup
• You are or are willing to be licensed in multiple states

Responsibilities

• Lead the Credentialing, Quality, and Appeals teams at Headway
• Develop Headway’s provider onboarding training and provider engagement program
• Develop Headway’s clinical quality monitoring and training program
• Develop Headway’s Medicare Advantage program
• Contribute to strategic planning, direction, and goal setting for the Clinical Team
• Review and approve new group members into Headway’s Practice Group
• Collaborate with the credentialing team to ensure effective credentialing criteria and processes to attract and retain providers
• Own the medical Professional Corporations (PCs) associated with Headway
• Support the establishment, maintenance and communication of appropriate policies, procedures, and clinical practice guidelines to support top quality behavioral health services
• Partner with CX, Compliance, Ops and Product, and Engineering teams to ensure the delivery of our behavioral health services are reliable, measurable and of high quality
• Promote external relations with Payers through relationship building, presentations, sales meetings, and conference participation
• Determine if removal of a provider is appropriate based on the code of conduct
• Assist in the training, continuing education, and development of medical providers at Headway
• 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 analysis, and operations
• Serve as the liaison between the psychiatric provider community and our cross functional teams
• Work a minimal number of clinical hours to maintain first-hand knowledge of the product and provider experience

Preferred Qualifications

You are eager and adept at working in concert with product, operations, and sales teams to infuse clinical strategy across the org

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