Associate General Counsel, Commercial and Corporate - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team on commercial contracting and corporate governance
• Build and lead high-performing commercial legal team while developing scalable contracting operations
• Develop and implement efficient processes for negotiating, reviewing, and managing agreements with insurance payers and healthcare providers
• Create standardized contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and approval workflows to support rapid scaling
• Establish and oversee contract lifecycle management systems and reporting metrics
• Structure and oversee healthcare-compliant commercial relationships that accommodate multi-state regulatory requirements
• Partner cross-functionally with our Payer, Finance, and Operations teams to enable growth while managing risk

Requirements

• 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house leadership experience in commercial contracting
• Deep expertise in healthcare payer contracts, provider agreements, and regulatory frameworks
• Experience establishing efficient commercial contracting processes in high-growth healthcare or healthcare technology companies
• Strong understanding of healthcare corporate structures (MSO, provider networks) and their impact on commercial relationships
• Proven track record scaling legal functions and building high-performing teams
• History of successful cross-functional partnership and executive stakeholder management
• JD from accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing (ability to register as NY in-house counsel 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