Senior Data Science Manager, Payer

New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

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

Lead and grow a team of data scientists supporting multiple pods for Payer including operational and product groups

Develop quarterly roadmaps for the Payer Group, align Data Science resources, and oversee execution of Data Science work

Drive deep analytical insight through strategic analysis, dashboarding, causal inference, and experimentation

Provide domain leadership and perspectives to strengthen our Payer Group

Tackle projects yourself on strategic analysis to strengthen our vision and resolve for key initiatives

Develop and drive the vision for Payer Data including our data modeling, standards for analysis and experimentation, and weighing trade-offs for roadmaps

Translate complex insights into clear, data-driven recommendations

Influence senior leadership strategy by representing the data perspective for the entire Payer team

What We're Looking For

6+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or growth analytics roles

4+ years of experience working with healthcare data

3+ years in people management

Experience partnering with stakeholders across product, marketing, engineering, operations

Experience working on patient health outcomes, enhancing care delivery for providers, and / or working within a health insurance landscape

Proven track record leading teams that span BI, product analytics, and applied data science.

Strong background in experimentation; able to both set strategy and coach others.

Hands-on technical fluency in SQL and Python / R, with experience working with modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Looker).

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills — able to "translate" technical insights into business impact.

Why This Role is Exciting

You'll shape analytics for the entire Payer Group at Headway

You'll build the bridge between BI, experimentation, and applied DS , ensuring the org moves with both rigor and speed

You'll have high visibility with senior leadership and a chance to directly influence strategy and growth.

The expected base pay range for this position is $215,900 - $254,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based variable compensation and 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.

Benefits offered include

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

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.

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