Staff Data Scientist, Headway
Product Analytics
$212-265k
Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
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Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$212-265k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years using data to drive product or business decisions in product, growth, engineering, or operations environments (or equivalent depth of experience and scope)
- Expert fluency in SQL and strong proficiency in Python or R, including building reliable, reusable analysis workflows
- Deep expertise in Bayesian experimentation, causal inference, and measurement design, including common failure modes and how to prevent them
- Strong applied modeling judgment: you know when a model is the right tool, and you can build, validate, and launch responsibly
- A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team work and delivering measurable outcomes (not just insights)
- Excellent executive communication and influence: you earn trust, align stakeholders, and move decisions forward
- Strong product sense and an instinct for decision leverage: you focus on what changes outcomes, not what is merely interesting
- Motivation for our mission: improving access and affordability in mental healthcare
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics, you will be a senior technical and strategic leader for how Headway measures, learns, and improves. You will own the hardest and most ambiguous product questions, shape how we define success, and drive decisions that cut across multiple teams and product surfaces
- You will not only run the analyses, you will influence what we build, how we evaluate it, and how we scale what works
- This role is for someone who can zoom in to debug a metric definition and zoom out to design a measurement strategy for a major product area, then bring the organization along with them
- Own a product measurement strategy. Define north star and input metrics for a major product area (or multiple surfaces), align stakeholders on definitions, and build conviction in what “good” looks like
- Lead multi-team initiatives. Drive cross-functional work where the right answer is not obvious and the path is not linear, and ensure we land measurable outcomes
- Set the experimentation standard. Establish frameworks for test design, guardrails, decision rules, and interpretation that improve both speed and rigor across teams
- Develop evaluation systems for complex products. For areas like matching, ranking, or applied AI experiences, build measurement approaches that combine offline evaluation, online experiments, and human-quality signals when needed
- Build scalable analytical assets. Invest in durable measurement systems: semantic definitions, self-serve dashboards, monitoring and alerts, and repeatable templates that reduce ad hoc work
- Mentor and uplevel. Coach other data scientists and analytics partners, provide strong technical review, and model what great looks like
- Be a thought leader. Proactively identify opportunities, shape roadmaps with an evidence-based POV, and create clarity where teams feel stuck
Our take
1 in 4 US citizens are currently living with treatable mental health conditions, however, a vast majority of people are unable to access the care they need, the primary reason being cost. Headway connects clients with therapists who accept insurance as payment and provides independent practitioners with the tools and resources needed to serve their patients and manage administrative workloads.
Headway’s concept is timely, with national mental health under particular strain following events from the past few years. The company facilitates over 600,000 appointments per month and has attracted backing from the likes of Accel and Google Ventures.
Covering 16 states and the District of Columbia, the company intends to broaden its presence across the US with over $325M in funding behind it. This is a crucial avenue for further growth, as medical care deserts across the US mean the potential market is vast.
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Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$125m
SERIES C
Total funding: $327m
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Adams
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Headway in 2017, Andrew was a Product Analyst at Spring Inc.
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