Medical Director, Scientific Affairs
Location
United States
Posted
48 days ago
Salary
$211.2K - $330K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
As Medical Director, Scientific Affairs, you will support Headway’s health plan relationships and payer strategy to continue expanding Headway’s provider network impact. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams across Headway, including:
- Payer
- Product
- Growth
- Marketing
- Data & Analytics
As the only tech-enabled behavioral health Managed Services Organization (MSO) built with entirely in-house software, Headway has an unprecedented opportunity in the clinical space. Today, we support more than 60k Clinicians and hundreds of thousands of patients. Building a best-in-class digital product will impact clinicians and patients nationwide.
Qualifications
- You are a psychiatrist with 5+ years of experience as a clinician in a fast-paced, high-growth business.
- You bring 2+ years of experience working in payer or partnership roles, ideally in technology environments.
- You are an industry influencer with a passion for reimagining how behavioral health is delivered and measured.
- You are a proven thought leader with peer-reviewed publications, mainstream media articles, and/or other expert content.
- You’re effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff and can distill complex clinical processes and language.
- You have strong analytical skills and experience in analyzing and synthesizing data & research insights.
- You are a creative thinker who loves exploring data in new ways.
- You are familiar with clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare.
- You are a collaborator eager to work with product, operations, and sales teams.
- You have general familiarity with healthcare regulations and laws surrounding corporate practice of medicine.
- You have past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup.
- You are based on or near the East Coast and are willing to travel.
Requirements
- Support Headway health plan partnerships and strategy.
- Promote external relations with Payers through relationship building, presentations/reporting, sales meetings, and conference participation.
- Drive creative, innovative, exploratory data analyses to prove patient outcomes and generate novel insights.
- Develop a critical understanding of how mental health clinicians utilize digital tools.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product, design, growth, marketing, payer relations, data & analytics, and operations.
- Be willing to travel.
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
Job Requirements
- You are a psychiatrist with 5+ years of experience as a clinician in a fast-paced, high-growth business.
- You bring 2+ years of experience working in payer or partnership roles, ideally in technology environments.
- You are an industry influencer with a passion for reimagining how behavioral health is delivered and measured.
- You are a proven thought leader with peer-reviewed publications, mainstream media articles, and/or other expert content.
- You’re effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff and can distill complex clinical processes and language.
- You have strong analytical skills and experience in analyzing and synthesizing data & research insights.
- You are a creative thinker who loves exploring data in new ways.
- You are familiar with clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare.
- You are a collaborator eager to work with product, operations, and sales teams.
- You have general familiarity with healthcare regulations and laws surrounding corporate practice of medicine.
- You have past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup.
- You are based on or near the East Coast and are willing to travel.
- Support Headway health plan partnerships and strategy.
- Promote external relations with Payers through relationship building, presentations/reporting, sales meetings, and conference participation.
- Drive creative, innovative, exploratory data analyses to prove patient outcomes and generate novel insights.
- Develop a critical understanding of how mental health clinicians utilize digital tools.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product, design, growth, marketing, payer relations, data & analytics, and operations.
- Be willing to travel.
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
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