# Associate Medical Director, Payer Partnerships

**Company:** [Headway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/headway)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $211k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Payer Relations, Healthcare Partnerships, Data Analysis, Patient Outcomes Research, Clinical Quality Measurement, Healthcare Regulations, Thought Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Psychiatrist or Clinical Psychologist supporting payer partnerships, driving data analyses on patient outcomes, and expanding provider network impact at a behavioral health tech platform.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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, generate novel insights, shape strategic direction, and demonstrate scientific and strategic value to customers
- 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 & analytics, and operations

## Requirements
- Psychiatrist (MD/DO) or Clinical Psychologist (PhD)
- 3+ years of experience as a clinician with experience operating in a fast-paced, high growth business
- 2+ years of experience working in payer or partnership roles, ideally in technology environments
- Industry influencer with demonstrated passion for reimagining how behavioral health is delivered and measured
- Experience in health plans, health systems, and/or healthcare startups
- Proven thought leader with peer-reviewed publications, mainstream media articles, and/or other expert content
- Effective at communicating clinical information to non-clinical staff
- Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting and synthesizing data & research insights
- Creative thinker who loves white space and can explore data in new and different ways
- Excited to explore patient outcomes in a large data set
- Familiar with clinical quality measurement and peer review systems in healthcare
- Collaborator eager to work with product, operations, and sales teams
- General familiarity with healthcare regulations and laws surrounding corporate practice of medicine
- Past experience with a healthcare tech company and/or startup
- Based on or near the East Coast and willing to travel

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience speaking at industry conferences
- Experience leading presentations to large populations

## Compensation & Benefits
- Equity Compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays + Holiday Break
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development

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