This role is designed for a seasoned leader with a deep background in **healthcare data** and a passion for mental health accessibility. You should have at leas
Work type: onsite
Location: New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States
Salary: $212,000 – $265,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is designed for a seasoned leader with a deep background in **healthcare data** and a passion for mental health accessibility. You should have at least 6 years in Data Science and 3+ years managing teams. The ideal candidate isn’t just a technical expert in SQL/Python; they are a strategic partner who understands how to navigate the complexities of the health insurance (Payer) landscape and translate clinical outcomes into actionable business data. The compensation is highly competitive ($212k–$265k plus equity) and comes with a premium benefits package, including fertility reimbursement and therapy coverage. You’ll be leading a high-impact pillar at a Series D company, bridging the gap between Business Intelligence, product analytics, and causal inference. While the role is listed as on-site in NYC, SF, or Seattle, the company offers a robust "Holiday Break" and flexible PTO. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have a proven track record of using healthcare data (claims, patient outcomes, or provider data) to drive strategy. * Are comfortable being "hands-on" with a modern data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Looker) while leading a team of data scientists. * Enjoy high-visibility roles where you influence senior leadership and shape the end-to-end data roadmap for an entire business group. * Thrive in a mission-driven environment that balances rigorous experimentation with rapid growth.
Headway’s mission is a big one – to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance.
1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the majority of providers don’t accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice.
Headway was founded in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 60,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.
We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.
## About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Data Science Manager to lead insights and data science across Headway’s Payer Group which is a key pillar that works with our health insurance partners.
In this role, you will lead the data science strategy for our Payer Group to unlock insights that improve outcomes for our patients and build and maintain trust with our Payer partners.
You will own end-to-end roadmap planning with Payer leadership at Headway to set the vision and create targets for different teams. Your work will help execute this vision through data modeling, product analytics, strategic analysis, causal inference and experimentation
As the data leader for Payer, you’ll build relationships with many stakeholders from Product, Network Quality, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, and Clinical.
This is a unique opportunity to bring analytical strategy, scientific depth, and human-centered insight to a mission that truly matters — expanding access to effective, personalized mental healthcare.
### What You’ll Do
The expected base pay range for this position is $212,000 - $265,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level.
We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.
We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.