Head of Product, Insurance Platform

September 2

🏄 California – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $297.5k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Healthcare Insurance • Wellness

Headway is a platform that connects individuals with mental health providers, helping them find the right fit according to their needs and insurance coverage. By partnering with numerous insurance providers, Headway ensures that users can access mental health care affordably. It offers both in-person and virtual care options, and manages the payment and billing processes for a hassle-free experience. The platform's aim is to simplify the search and access to therapy and psychiatric support for users, allowing them to focus on their mental health without the administrative burdens.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2019

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

📋 Description

• Lead and scale Headway’s Platform, the core engine and infrastructure powering the business. • Execute against a 12-month strategy while setting a bold long-term vision for insurance technology. • Lead, grow, and inspire a team of 10+ product managers with expected future headcount expansion. • Build core infrastructure for claims processing, eligibility, payments, and risk that power customer experience and financial outcomes. • Tackle complex integrations with legacy insurance systems and design future-facing solutions. • Provide scalable infrastructure that enables other product and engineering teams to build quickly and with confidence. • Partner with engineering, design, data, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable business impact. • Oversee other core platform areas including payments, billing infrastructure, customer support, and trust.

🎯 Requirements

• Platform Product Leader: You have 10+ years of experience in platform or infrastructure product roles (e.g., risk, credit, underwriting, payments), with 6+ years of people management experience. • Systems Thinker: You love solving complex, interconnected problems and building systems that scale across a business. • Growth-Stage Operator: You have experience operating at growth-stage startups, balancing execution with long-term strategy. • Ambiguity Ready: You thrive in environments where the problems are messy, the systems are archaic, and the opportunity is wide open. • Motivated by Impact: You care deeply about building products that meaningfully impact patients, providers, and the healthcare system at large. • Empathetic Leader: You can inspire, coach, and grow teams while serving as a strong cross-functional partner. • Healthcare Curious (bonus): Direct healthcare or insurtech experience is a plus, but not required.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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