About This Role

We're looking for Staff PMs who are curious about what AI makes possible and eager to build in an environment where it's a core part of the toolkit — not a side project.

We are hiring across Patient, Provider, Payer, and Platform. The right candidates will bring strong product fundamentals and a willingness to build with AI in a regulated, high-stakes industry.  Staff PMs at Headway own product areas end-to-end: setting strategy, partnering deeply with engineering, data science, and design, and driving outcomes that move the company.

AI is changing how we build at Headway, and the size of opportunity for Headway to leverage AI is massive. We sit at the intersection of healthcare delivery, complex insurance systems, and a multi-sided marketplace serving tens of thousands of providers and millions of patients. AI is increasingly part of how we solve these problems — and we want PMs who are energized by that, whether they're deep in AI already or strong product thinkers ready to learn.

The Problems We're Solving

For Patients

Finding the right therapist, understanding your insurance benefits, and staying in care shouldn't be hard. Today it is. We're building AI-powered matching and personalized care navigation that help patients get into — and stay in — mental health care at scale. One million patients a month ask for a referral to a mental health provider. We're building the systems that ensure they actually get there.

For Providers

Therapists spend a staggering amount of time on administrative tasks — credentialing, documentation, scheduling, billing — instead of with their patients. We're using AI to automate clinical workflows, simplify complex insurance requirements, and give providers more time to do what they came here to do. The goal: a thriving practice on Headway that practically runs itself.

For Payers

Health insurers are asking harder questions: Is care on Headway actually working? Is it worth what we're paying? We're using AI to answer them at scale — measuring clinical outcomes, building dashboards that demonstrate responsible care, and moving toward a model where patients are matched to the right care pathways and providers are aligned around better outcomes. This work protects Headway's standing with insurers and opens doors to deeper, more strategic partnerships.

For Platform

The infrastructure underneath Headway — billing, claims, payments, and trust and safety — needs to scale reliably at the speed of our growth. We’re using AI to automate complex, high-volume workflows, detect fraud and errors faster, and build systems that get smarter over time. This is foundational infrastructure with direct impact on Headway's economics and compliance posture.

What You'll Do at Headway

• Define and own the product strategy for your area in partnership with engineering, design, data, clinical, and operations teams
• Apply AI where it matters: identify where intelligence creates step-change improvements in your product area and drive those bets from insight through production
• Set and own clear success metrics; communicate results and course-correct with urgency
• Represent the voice of your customer — patient, provider, or health plan — with conviction in every decision, grounded in data and direct research

You'd Be a Great Fit If…

• You have 8+ years of product management experience with a track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas
• You have experience with LLM systems — prompting, retrieval, evaluation, fine-tuning — and a track record of shipping AI-powered products that hold up at scale, not demos.
• You've built at scale in a marketplace, platform, or data-intensive environment — and can show the outcomes you drove
• You're energized by working in regulated, complex industries and see constraints as a product design challenge rather than a blocker
• You can influence across engineering, clinical, legal, finance, and operations — and you're equally comfortable in the data and in the room
• You have strong quantitative fluency and can partner with data scientists on experiment design and causal analysis
• You communicate with precision — in writing, in product reviews, and with senior leadership

Compensation and Benefits:

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.

• 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

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The Work

Fullstack at Headway means end-to-end ownership. You're building reliable abstraction layers over a fragmented healthcare system and translating them into seamless, empathetic user experiences. What you could work on:

• Therapist Practice Management: Build a best-in-class platform for Headway therapists to run their businesses. You'll own features from the database schema to the UI, creating intuitive web experiences for scheduling, AI-assisted clinical documentation, and payment management.
• Patient & Provider Engagement: Deepen the relationship between patients and their care. Build the interfaces and APIs that power seamless communication, personalized experiences, and tools that keep patients connected to their providers — and providers focused on what matters most.
• The Modern AI-Enabled Clinical System: Help design and build the systems that manage clinical data. Create high-integrity experiences for treatment plans and progress notes, integrating AI-powered clinical intelligence to give providers their time back.
• Frictionless Onboarding: Turn the historically painful process of insurance credentialing into a sleek, consumer-grade experience. Build products and tooling to get providers in-network and scaling their practice in record time.
• Growing the Network: Own the tools and experiences that expand Headway's reach — from acquiring new providers to empowering existing ones to bring their patients onto the platform. Build the infrastructure that fuels sustainable, high-quality growth.
• Technical foundations: Help the teams see around corners and lay the technical foundations for the future of our product. Build systems, tools, and processes that enable the team to ship innovative products quickly, safely, and reliably.
• Strategic leadership: As a Staff Engineer, you will work with a cross functional leadership team to shape the roadmap and technical strategy for the space.

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