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1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that.
But we're going further. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens.
We're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.
Headway is hiring Contract Technical Recruiters to help build the engineering teams that will power our next stage of growth. You’ll partner closely with the larger Headway Engineering Recruiting team to run high-impact searches alongside Engineering leaders, focusing on selling, pitching, and closing high quality candidates who will make immediate impact on our mission.
As a member of the recruiting team, you’ll operate as a talent partner and collaborator with hiring managers and the larger TA team, driving predictable hiring outcomes in a high-growth environment with a high talent bar. Your work will directly shape Headway’s ability to deliver for providers and patients nationwide.
You will:
- Support full-cycle searches across the engineering org, spanning both aggressive sourcing at top of funnel and strategic close motions in late stages
- Partner closely with Senior Recruiters on the Eng Recruiting team as well as coordinators, interviewers, and hiring managers
- Act as a strategic and adaptable partner to hiring managers, quickly refining the approach and/or process as needed to accelerate progress
- Build Olympic-level pipelines through targeted sourcing strategies
- Ensure every candidate follows a consistent, structured, inclusive process that raises the hiring bar and improves consistency across teams
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience through every step of the process
You’d be a great fit if you…
- Bring 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in high-growth, tech-enabled environments (in-house, agency, or relevant experience even if you didn't carry the TA title)
- Have a proven ability to learn new domains quickly and efficiently and can immediately begin delivering value when provided with a new focus
- Operate as a strategic and positive partner to your stakeholders, maintaining progress and acting as a true collaborator even in moments of ambiguity
- Can break down complex searches into clear plans, diagnosing challenges and proposing solutions proactively
- Manage multiple workstreams with structure, balancing high volume with attention to detail and predictable execution
- Think creatively about sourcing and outreach to find and engage top technical talent
- Care about operational excellence with a focus on constantly improving your workflow and reducing friction for candidates and stakeholders
- Communicate clearly and with presence, whether aligning with hiring managers or guiding candidates through the process
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.
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View Company ProfileHeadway is a massive, highly disruptive HealthTech platform fundamentally rewiring the broken mental healthcare system in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, the company tackles the critical access problem where over 70% of therapists do not accept insurance due to overwhelming administrative burdens. Under the hood, Headway operates as a powerful, software-driven national network that seamlessly connects patients, mental health providers, and top-tier insurance companies (like Aetna, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare). They handle all the heavy lifting for providers—including credentialing, billing, and revenue cycle management—allowing therapists to easily build private practices while accepting insurance. Their primary target audience spans millions of Americans seeking affordable, in-network mental health care, as well as thousands of licensed psychiatrists and therapists looking to eliminate administrative friction. What sets Headway apart in the rapidly scaling digital health landscape is its asset-free network model; by removing the billing nightmare, they empower patients to find highly personalized, covered therapy sessions (often for $0) while scaling to over 65,000 providers and 30 million completed sessions nationwide.
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