Associate Medical Director, Clinical Quality
HeadwayRemotePosted 24 March 2026
Job Description
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 60,000 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.
About The Role
At Headway, we're building the future of behavioral health quality and safety. We're hiring an Associate Medical Director for Clinical Quality to spearhead our clinical quality monitoring initiatives and lead our Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation Program for our network of NPs and MDs/DOs. You'll work cross-functionally with Operations, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and other teams to build robust clinical quality frameworks and optimize chart review workflows and ensure patient safety. This is an exceptional opportunity to reimagine how behavioral health quality is defined and measured at a rapidly scaling, mission-driven company.
You will:
Lead Headway's clinical quality strategy, developing protocols and processes that uphold safety, efficiency, and effectiveness standards for the practice.
Build and scale our Professional Practice Evaluation programs, directly improving clinical outcomes across our provider network of NPs and MDs/DOs
Conduct routine chart reviews and monitoring, providing feedback to clinicians and creating remediation plans for documentation concerns
Collaborate with Operations team to develop automated quality monitoring systems
Lead response to acute patient safety issues
Supervise clinical teams and peer reviewers, building clinical oversight capabilities as we scale
Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize workflows and create scalable feedback systems for providers
You will love this role if:
You are a licensed psychiatrist (MD/DO) with 3+ years of post-graduate experience in both clinical practice and fast-paced business environments
You have extensive experience completing quality chart reviews and audits for healthcare organizations, with a track record of training others on clinical documentation standards
You are a thought leader passionate about reimagining behavioral health quality, ideally with experience across traditional healthcare organizations, public health systems, and/or healthcare startups
You thrive as a collaborator, building bridges between clinical strategy and product, operations, and business teams
You are a strategic first-principles thinker who can decompose complex problems into clear strategies and actionable plans
You have experience supervising clinicians or large provider teams, with strong performance management skills
You are motivated by the opportunity to improve access to high-quality behavioral healthcare at scale
Compensation and Benefits:
The expected base pay range for this position is $ 179,200
- $280,000 , 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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