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Role Description

As the Head of State Expansion, you will lead the end-to-end strategy and execution for our interstate growth. You’ll be responsible for building local teams, navigating complex healthcare regulations, and embedding our services into the fabric of local communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Launch & Clinical Hiring: Build a repeatable "Launch Playbook." You will lead the charge in recruiting and onboarding high-caliber clinical leadership and staff in each new territory.
• Regulatory & Compliance Sovereignty: Ensure 100% alignment with local state boards, licensing requirements, and healthcare mandates. You’ll be the primary point of contact for regulatory readiness.
• Payer Strategy: Drive early-stage KPIs focused on % of the population covered by insurance. You will work to ensure our services are accessible and that we are credentialed with the major payers in each new market.
• Community Ecosystem Building: Establish deep-rooted partnerships with local hospitals, emergency services, and 988 crisis centers, and build teams to manage ongoing relationship management.
• Operational Scaling: Monitor performance against early-stage KPIs (access, quality, and unit economics) to ensure a successful launch before transitioning the market to long-term operations.
• Future Roadmap: Develop the data-driven criteria for our next phase of expansion, identifying the states where we can have the greatest impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience, specifically within high-growth startups.
• Understanding of the nuances of clinical operations and what is unique about being a new Medicaid healthcare provider.
• Comfortable being a "department of one" on day one, with the leadership gravitas to manage a large, decentralized team by day 100.
• Proven track record of hitting aggressive deadlines across multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to bring together multiple moving parts to ensure timely delivery against goals.

Requirements

• Experience in value-based care or behavioral health.
• Previous "boots on the ground" experience launching physical or hybrid clinical sites.
• Strong analytical background; you use data to decide which market to enter and how to measure success once there.

Benefits

• Salary range: $170,000 - $200,000 a year.

Company Description

Willow Health is on a mission to significantly improve the experience of those seeking behavioral health care by expanding affordable access to high-quality, evidence-based intensive behavioral health care.

We deliver a virtual, urgent crisis care program that provides personalized, recovery-oriented care for people experiencing behavioral health crises.

Willow Health offers patients immediate access to evidence-based virtual crisis psychotherapy, medication management, certified peer coaching, care management, and around-the-clock crisis coverage.

We’re backed by leading venture firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Seae Ventures.