Clinical Strategy Manager, Provider Product

Headway; United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in behavioral health is seeking a Clinical Strategy Manager to enhance provider-facing technology. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure product safety and quality, leveraging clinical expertise to inform product decisions, and supporting quality improvement efforts. Ideal candidates are licensed clinicians with extensive experience in healthcare operations and a passion for enhancing clinical quality.

Benefits

Equity Compensation

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

HSA / FSA

401K

Work-from-Home Stipend

Therapy Reimbursement

13 paid holidays each year

Unlimited PTO

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Training and professional development

Qualifications

• 8+ years of post-graduate experience in clinical quality or strategy.
• Experience in developing digital health products or electronic health records.
• Demonstrated passion for improving behavioral health quality.

Responsibilities

• Support the expansion of the provider-facing digital product.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate clinical input into product development.
• Analyze product performance in key clinical areas.

Skills

Clinical quality

Healthcare operations

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Licensed clinician (LCSW, LMHC, PsyD, PhD)

Job description

As the Clinical Strategy Manager for Provider Product at Headway, you will play a critical role in shaping our provider-facing technology by embedding clinical expertise into the product development lifecycle. You will partner cross-functionally with Product, Clinical, and Customer Experience teams to ensure our tools are safe, compliant, and designed to promote patient safety, clinical quality, and provider engagement.

You’ll bring clinical insight, research, and provider feedback to inform product decisions, helping to drive roadmap execution, documentation, and training. You’ll also support quality efforts, including incident and complaint investigations, and contribute to Headway’s quality improvement work.

This role requires strong collaboration, clear communication, and the ability to execute both independently and within cross-functional teams. Your work will directly support our mission to build a best-in-class digital experience that empowers clinicians to deliver high quality, effective, patient-centered care—at scale.

As the only tech-enabled behavioral health Managed Services Organization (MSO) built entirely on in-house software, Headway is uniquely positioned to transform the clinical experience. Today, we support over 40,000 clinicians and hundreds of thousands of patients nationwide—your impact will be felt across the country.

You’ll be great for this role if:

• A licensed clinician with 8+ years of post-graduate experience (LCSW, LMHC, PsyD, PhD, or equivalent) with strong experience in clinical quality, strategy, healthcare operations, or developing EHRs.
• You are a quality guru – with demonstrated passion for reimagining how behavioral health quality is defined, measured, and operationalized. This likely means you’ve worked in health plans, health systems, and / or value-based healthcare startups. You have experience developing digital health products and/or electronic health records.
• You are a collaborator and communicator – eager and adept at working in concert with product, operations, and sales teams to infuse clinical strategy across the organization.

You Will:

• Under the supervision of the Medical Director, support the expansion of the Headway provider-facing digital product and platform.
• Collaborate with Headway's specialized product teams across provider, patient, payer, and billing domains to identify critical product initiatives, ensuring comprehensive clinical input is integrated throughout all stages of product development.
• Leverage clinical expertise to guide the Product team in developing and enhancing comprehensive processes that optimize patient care / patient safety, clinical quality, and experience on Headway's platform and technologies.
• Distill complex clinical processes and language in order to move product implementation forward.
• Define, track, and analyze performance of the product in key areas including but not limited to provider use/feedback, patient satisfaction, and overall clinical quality. Obtaining both quantitative and qualitative data to pinpoint areas of opportunity and delve deeper into complex, ambiguous problems.
• Work with Education and Engagement Clinical Leads to improve clinician engagement and satisfaction with Headway products, support development of the onboarding training program, specifically around training providers to integrate with and utilize the Headway platform.
• Orchestrate and secure cross-functional consensus among key stakeholders, including data analysts, designers, and engineers, to drive collaborative project execution.

Compensation and Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $121,720 - $179,000,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
• 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and professional development