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Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that.\nBut we're going further. Over 90,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 2.6 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale, and building much of it with AI. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens.\nWe're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.\nAbout the Team & Role\nAt Headway, our Total Rewards team helps shape how we attract, retain, and reward the olympic-level building the future of healthcare. We own the pay ranges, equity programs, and compensation cycles behind thousands of pay decisions each year.\nWe're hiring a Compensation Lead to help build the next stage of our compensation function. This is a high-impact individual contributor role reporting to the Compensation Manager. You'll own the analysis, programs, and the systems and processes behind how Headway pays people, from market pricing and pay positioning, to offers, annual compensation cycles, and equity. You’ll excel in the “gray area”: when questions arrive without a clear method or owner, you will be able work out what's actually being decided, build the analysis that answers it, and explain it clearly to the people who have to act on it.\nWe're building a more modern, tech-enabled way of doing compensation work, and while you'll use AI and automation every day, your strategic thinking and judgment will make the final call. You don't need to have spent your whole career in compensation, or have compensation experience at all, but you do need to be analytical, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to build partnership across People, Talent, and Finance. You’ll be strategic and business-facing, and should enjoy the hands-on, detail-heavy side of compensation work.\nYou Will:\nLead the analysis behind our annual compensation cycles: pricing roles against the market, updating our ranges, modeling budget scenarios, and preparing the materials leaders need to make informed decisions\n\nBuild the recommendations behind new hire offers, promotions, and equity actions, and dig into the cases that fall outside our guidelines with recruiters and HRBPs.\n\nBuild the models, frameworks, and tools that keep compensation decisions consistent as we scale.\n\nHelp run and improve our company-wide compensation processes and tighten the steps that create rework every time they come around.\n\nSimplify and scale how the team works, improving processes, documentation, reporting, and workflows to reduce manual effort for employees and partners.\n\nUse AI and automation in your day-to-day work to pull context, flag exceptions, draft decision materials, prototype solutions, and automate recurring analysis.\n\nServe as a trusted compensation partner to HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, managers, and other stakeholders, bringing analytical rigor and sound judgment to their questions.\n\nBring rigor to compensation data and systems, partnering across Workday, Pave, Carta, and other tools to improve data quality and catch issues before they reach a decision.\n\nYou’d Be a Great Fit If:\nYou have 4+ years of experience in compensation or total rewards, consulting, finance, or a similar analytical role.\n\nYou have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills and a track record of turning complex questions into clear recommendations.\n\nYou have hands-on experience using AI tools to build, test, automate, and improve your own workflows, with good judgment about where AI helps and where human analysis matters most.\n\nYou're a clear, confident communicator who can explain complex or sensitive compensation topics to non-experts, handle pushback, and build trust across functions.\n\nYou have a high bar for accuracy and quality, particularly with sensitive compensation, equity, and performance data, and you handle it with discretion.\n\nYou’re a self-directed problem solver with a builder mindset who is comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys creating structure, and looks for ways to improve how we work.\n\nComprehensive benefits:\nMedical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k) including match for 2027!, Carrot Fertility reimbursement, and paid parental, medical and caregiver leave.\nWe believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem - across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.\nHeadway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.\nA notice to Headway applicants: To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that Headway only accepts applications through our official careers page at https://headway.co/careers. Headway will never refer you to external websites, ask for payment or personal information, or conduct interviews via messaging apps. All official communication will come from a @ findheadway.com email address. 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