Business Development Associate

Headway; New York (NY); Remote; USD 84,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming mental healthcare. As a Business Development Associate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping partnerships with health plans nationwide. This position offers a unique opportunity to tackle one of today's most pressing issues: access to mental health services. You'll thrive in a dynamic environment that promotes individual growth and encourages innovative thinking. Your contributions will help create a healthcare system that is accessible to all, making a meaningful impact on countless lives.

Benefits

Equity Compensation

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

HSA / FSA

401K

Work-from-Home Stipend

Therapy Reimbursement

16-week parental leave

Carrot Fertility reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in consulting, banking, or similar roles.
• Ability to manage complex analytical and operational problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead market analysis to prioritize health plan partnerships.
• Build sales infrastructure for coordinated efforts.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Operational Management

Consulting Experience

Healthcare Knowledge

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.

Join us and make an impact

As aBusiness Development Associate, you will be the operational and analytical horsepower that accelerates our company’s health plan partnerships efforts with health plans across the nation ensuring we build a mental healthcare system everyone can access. This role will ultimately be on the front-line of rewiring mental healthcare in America.

Reporting to one of Headway’s Managing Principals, you will lead market analysis that shapes our prioritization of markets and payer partners, own healthcare research that will inform our health plan partnerships tact, and build out sales infrastructure that allows us to coordinate dozens of parallel efforts without breaking a sweat.

You will thrive in this role if…

• You have 1+ years of experience in consulting, banking, or a similar role where you owned complex analytical and/or operational problems from end-to-end. Bonus points for direct healthcare experience.
• You are resourceful, scrappy, and leave no stone unturned. Where others see challenges, you see opportunities.
• You are operationally excellent, able to manage a large volume of moving pieces.

You will love this role if…

• You thrive in ambiguity, and seek out opportunities to dive into unfamiliar challenges, drive towards outcomes, and shape strategy.
• You seek an environment that fosters individual growth through open-feedback and high-autonomy.
• You are motivated by the opportunity to face off against one of our generation’s defining problems: access to mental healthcare.

Compensation and Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $84,915 - $111,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

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, clickhere.

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