| Location | Seattle, WA |
1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers dont accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway's mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. Weve automated that.
But were going further. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale. We arent just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens.
Were a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. 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 This Role
Were looking for Principal PMs to lead some of our highest-stakes, most complex product areas. Principal Product Managers who have a builder-mindset, and are curious about what AI makes possible and eager to build in an environment where its a core part of the toolkit - not a side project.
Were actively hiring across our Patient, Payer, Provider, and Platform Product teams, and we open this pipeline to find exceptional Principal PM talent as the right roles take shape.
As a Principal PM at Headway, youll own a significant product domain end-to-end - defining the strategy, aligning stakeholders up to and including executive leadership, and setting a high bar for what great product looks like. Youll work with a high degree of autonomy on problems that dont have obvious answers. Youll shape the roadmap from first principles, not execute against one thats handed to you.
This is not a role for someone who needs a well-defined problem. The best candidates have a track record of finding the right problem and convincing the organization to solve it.
The Problems Were Solving
For Patients
Finding the right therapist, understanding your insurance benefits, and staying in care shouldnt be hard. Today it is. Were 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. Were 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. Were 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 were paying? Were 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 Headways 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 Headways economics and compliance posture.
You will..
Define the strategy for a major product domain. Identify the highest-leverage bets Headway should make, make the case with data and customer insight, and drive alignment across engineering, design, clinical, legal, operations, and executive leadership.
Ship meaningful product. Not strategy decks - real product with measurable outcomes. Youll own the roadmap end-to-end, navigate tradeoffs under uncertainty, and hold a high bar for quality and velocity.
Lay foundations that last. Build capabilities, frameworks, or systems that unlock the next 2-3 years of product work across your domain - not just whats needed this quarter.
Elevate PM craft on your team. As one of the most senior ICs on the PM team, youll set the standard for what great product thinking looks like - mentoring PMs, raising our hiring bar, and influencing how the broader product org works.
Drive alignment across complexity. Work across engineering, design, data, clinical, legal, operations, and finance without formal authority - and get the right work resourced, sequenced, and shipped.
Youd Be a Great Fit If
10+ years of product management experience with a track record of owning large, complex product domains end-to-end
Youve shaped strategy at the org level - not just your teams roadmap, but how multiple teams think about what to build and why
Youve built 01 and scaled - youve launched something new and also meaningfully improved something that already existed at scale
Youre deeply technical - you can have architectural conversations with engineers, challenge assumptions, and make informed build-vs-buy calls
Youve influenced at the executive level - presenting strategy, fielding hard questions, and getting buy-in without formal authority
Youve leveled up PMs around you through mentorship, collaboration, or just the quality of your own work
You thrive in ambiguity - you define the problem as readily as you solve it
Youre AI-fluent - you understand how to evaluate and deploy AI-powered features responsibly and have a point of view on where AI creates real product leverage
Youre motivated by Headways mission of making mental healthcare accessible and affordable
We believe a teams 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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