Senior Counsel, Corporate & Risk

The role

You will serve as a strategic partner to Procurement, Finance, Customer Experience, and Communications teams. You will manage third-party contracting, disputes, corporate insurance, and other risk matters.

What you will do

• Third-party and vendor contracting
• Leading agentic first-pass contract review
• Serving as DRI on escalations and exceptions
• Resolving patient cost disputes, escalated provider matters, administrative/regulatory inquiries, and escalated document and records requests
• Managing Headway's annual corporate insurance cycle and ongoing insurance administration
• Handling other corporate and risk matters

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of legal experience
• At least 2 years in-house
• Hands-on ownership of complex processes like commercial contracting at scale
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Ability to translate complex topics into clear and actionable advice for non-legal stakeholders
• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Active bar membership in good standing
• Ability to register as NY in-house counsel

Nice to have

• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth start-up environment (healthcare preferred)
• Genuine interest in working with AI tooling

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 by automating insurance, credentialing, claims, and payment reconciliation. Over 90,000 providers use their software to serve over 2.6 million patients.