Headway
Head of Data
Job Summary
The Head of Data at Headway is responsible for building and leading a data analytics team to drive insights, reporting, and KPI tracking that support the company's mission of making mental healthcare more accessible and affordable. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams, managing data projects, and simplifying complex data stories for varied stakeholders. Candidates should have extensive experience in data leadership, data engineering, and analytics within fast-paced environments. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package and remote work options across the US.
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Job Description
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 45,000 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:
Building a new mental healthcare system at Headway is only possible because of the insights and leverage that data can provide. Over the past year, we've made big strides in developing a data infrastructure that is the basis of all our insights. Now it is time to leverage this environment and build a world-class Analytics team that can drive insights, analyses, reporting, tracking, and operate as the initiator and coach for everyone in using analytical tools.
The Head of Data will ensure that Headway is a true data-first company as we execute our mission of making mental healthcare more accessible and affordable across the United States. Reporting to Headway’s CTO, you will be the builder and leader of a world-class Data Analytics Team and the main driver of insights as we rapidly scale. You will be responsible for partnering with business leads and ensuring teams are making data-driven decisions and tracking KPIs. You'll lead the central coordinating hub for analytics, whether done by your team or decentralized, working closely with the Data Engineering teams who are building the data infrastructure, the Strategic Finance team who are your collaborators from a finance perspective, and functional leaders at Headway whose success you will enable as you strengthen the analytics posture at Headway.
Headway is growing at an unprecedented speed, which provides a unique opportunity for an action, growth, and impact-oriented leader to build a world-class team and culture of data excellence.
You will:
- Hire, inspire, and manage a growing team of data analysts
- Partner with the Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Operations, Finance and Business functions closely to define the direction of the data team and to drive results
- Be responsible for the tracking and communicating of KPIs, both through central reporting and liberalization of the data
- Be a key decision maker on projects involving data within the company
- Be a key player in insuring the successful execution of the various projects involving data
- Be a critical thinker, able to quickly grasp metrics, numbers, financial information, and converse with the various stakeholders in a thoughtful manner
You will love this role if you have:
- 12+ years of experience in data leadership with proven experience building high functioning data engineering, data platform, data science, data and product analytics teams in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of various technology stacks, and be native in different tools and languages
- Strong at simplifying data, be able to explain complex data stories to different stakeholders
- You are empathetic: you are eager to see the world from your users’ perspective
- You're energized by ambiguity & a self-starter: you love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects
- You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in mental health care today: access and affordability.
Compensation and Benefits:
The expected base pay range for this position is $297,500 - $350,000, 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.
Headway employees work remotely across the US, with the option to work from offices in New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.
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.
Headway employees work remotely across the US, with the option to work from offices in New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.
Headway
A platform connecting patients with mental health providers, simplifying access to therapy and psychiatric care.
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