Head of Interventional Psychiatry & Specialty Therapies

LifeStance Health; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive bonus plan

Equity potential

Job summary

LifeStance Health is seeking a psychiatry leader to advance interventional and neuromodulation therapeutics across a national footprint. The role centers on developing safe, evidence-based protocols and scaling specialty programs within an enterprise framework.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of psychiatric practice, board certification, and a proven ability to collaborate with Medical Leadership, Compliance, and Operations to ensure clinically sound, regulated program execution.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry.
• Active, unrestricted medical license and ability to maintain licensure requirements.
• 10+ years of psychiatric clinical experience, including specialty/interventional treatment modalities.
• Ability to develop clinical protocols, care pathways, safety standards, training models, or program governance structures.
• Strong understanding of clinical evidence review, patient safety, risk management, regulatory considerations, and standards of care for specialty therapeutics.
• Ability to influence clinical and operational leaders across a complex, matrixed organization.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement an enterprise interventional psychiatry strategy encompassing TMS, emerging pharmacotherapies, and neuromodulation modalities.
• Lead clinical program development for psychedelic-assisted therapies in alignment with FDA guidance and DEA requirements.
• Evaluate emerging specialty treatments considering evidence, safety, feasibility, and patient need.
• Monitor and synthesize emerging literature in interventional psychiatry to inform strategy and positioning.
• Develop clinical protocols, eligibility criteria, care pathways, and safety monitoring for specialty programs.
• Oversee training and credentialing standards for clinicians delivering interventional therapies.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Influencing stakeholders

Team collaboration

Education

MD or DO with board certification in Psychiatry

Job description

LifeStance Health is seeking a psychiatry leader to advance interventional and neuromodulation therapeutics across a national footprint. The role centers on developing safe, evidence-based protocols and scaling specialty programs within an enterprise framework.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of psychiatric practice, board certification, and a proven ability to collaborate with Medical Leadership, Compliance, and Operations to ensure clinically sound, regulated program execution.