Associate General Counsel, Commercial and Corporate

Position Overview

• Location Type: New York, Bay Area, Seattle (Hybrid)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Headway’s mission is 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 45,000 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.

Position: Associate General Counsel, Commercial and Corporate

This role offers a unique opportunity to join a mission-driven healthcare technology company and be a key strategic leader responsible for building and scaling our corporate and transactional legal functions during a pivotal growth phase. Legal is viewed as a strategic partner in enabling compliant growth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team on commercial contracting and corporate governance.
• Build and lead high-performing commercial legal team while developing scalable contracting operations.
• Develop and implement efficient processes for negotiating, reviewing, and managing agreements with insurance payers and healthcare providers.
• Create standardized contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and approval workflows to support rapid scaling.
• Establish and oversee contract lifecycle management systems and reporting metrics.
• Structure and oversee healthcare-compliant commercial relationships that accommodate multi-state regulatory requirements.
• Partner cross-functionally with our Payer, Finance, and Operations teams to enable growth while managing risk.

Requirements

• 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house leadership experience in commercial contracting.
• Deep expertise in healthcare payer contracts, provider agreements, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience establishing efficient commercial contracting processes in high-growth healthcare or healthcare technology companies.
• Strong understanding of healthcare compliance.

Application Instructions

• Not specified

Company Information

• Founded: 2019
• Funding: Series D ($325m+)
• Investors: a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation
• Mission: To build a new mental health care system everyone can access.
• Current Status: National network of over 45,000 providers serving over 1 million patients.