Director, Talent Intelligence and Early Careers

The role

This leader will build and lead a new function focused on Headway's long-term talent pipeline. You will own the Campus Recruiting and Talent Intelligence pillars to deliver a defined number of hires across the business.

What you will do

• Build and lead a recruiting and market intelligence team.
• Define frameworks for market mapping and sourcing strategy.
• Serve as the organization's sourcing subject matter expert.
• Partner with recruiting managers and hiring managers on sourcing strategies.
• Build infrastructure for long-term nurture of high-potential candidates.
• Partner with Talent Brand on an events strategy.
• Own data infrastructure and reporting for hiring trends and pipeline health.
• Define and own the end-to-end campus recruiting strategy.
• Build and manage relationships with universities and student organizations.
• Own the summer internship program end-to-end.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of recruiting experience.
• Meaningful time spent leading campus, sourcing, or talent pipeline functions at a high-growth company.
• Demonstrated experience hiring across both technical (engineering, data, product) and business (sales, operations, G&A) functions.
• Track record of building teams and programs from scratch.
• Strong analytical orientation.
• Experience partnering with HR, People Programs, or Recruiting Operations teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action.

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 to over 90,000 providers to automate admin work and improve access to care.