Principal, Clinical Product

The role

You will embed behavioral health expertise into the design, governance, and evolution of a digital platform. You will translate complex clinical workflows into requirements and bring clinical judgment to AI-enabled features.

What you will do

• Embed with product teams on highest-priority initiatives
• Translate complex clinical workflows into requirements for engineers and designers
• Bring clinical judgment to AI-enabled features
• Define clinical quality, patient safety, and good outcomes on the platform
• Monitor product performance across provider adoption, patient experience, and clinical quality
• Partner with Data and Analytics to turn questions into insight
• Align product, design, data, and engineering on clinical tradeoffs

Required qualifications

• Active, unrestricted license as a psychologist (PhD/PsyD) or psychiatrist (MD/DO)
• 6+ years of post-graduate clinical experience
• Direct experience partnering with product and engineering teams to build AI-enabled healthcare tools
• Experience with AI governance, risk frameworks, or clinical safety standards for AI
• Experience at a high-growth startup or tech company
• Strong analytical instincts
• Clear communication

Nice to have

• Background in behavioral health quality or patient safety programs
• Hands-on work with claims data, outcomes measurement, or measurement-informed care
• Experience presenting to health plan or health system leadership, or at industry conferences

Benefits

• Medical
• dental
• vision
• HSA/FSA
• 401(k) including match for 2027!
• Carrot Fertility reimbursement
• paid parental, medical and caregiver leave

About the company

Headway is a Series D company building a new mental healthcare system. They provide software for over 90,000 providers to manage their practices and serve over 2.6 million patients.