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Senior Data Scientist

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The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to solve real-world problems, partner with product teams, and influence strategy through data-driven insights.
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Headway’s mission is a big one – 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 60,000 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.

About the role

Join us to build the decision engine for better mental health outcomes. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will partner with product teams to capture the right data, design and analyze experiments that reveal why outcomes move and what will happen if we do X, and turn those insights into predictive models that improve provider and patient outcomes. You will earn trust across teams and deliver clear, actionable findings that speed decisions. If you thrive in ambiguity, love hard problems, and want to shape a data-driven culture, this is your next move.

You will: 
  • Become a trusted strategic partner to our cross-functional product teams, and work within them to define analytics requirements, identify important questions, design and implement experiments or causal analyses, and help answer critical questions to drive strategy with data.
  • Design, run, and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experiments with clear hypotheses, power, guardrails, and pre-defined decision rules.
  • Use data to understand trends in user behavior and product usage to influence strategy, product ideation, and drive experimentation.
  • Build and validate predictive models when appropriate to operationalize vetted insights, including feature development, backtesting, and clear success criteria for launch.
  • Collaborate with data team members and stakeholders across the company to shape minimal, decision-critical data requirements and present work in an impactful and digestible way that leads to better business decisions.
  • Tell compelling stories through data, articulating technical information to a non-technical audience.
What will make you successful:
  • 6+ years of experience using data to solve real-world problems and drive decision-making within engineering, ops, product or growth teams.
  • Opinions about product analytics, a track record of building or driving product analytics rigor, and an understanding how your product recommendations drive business outcomes.
  • High proficiency with SQL, and tools for data analysis like Python or R.
  • Depth in experimentation and causal inference under real-world constraints, including test design, diff-in-diff or matching when randomized tests are not feasible, and principled uncertainty quantification.
  • Practical modeling skill across feature engineering, model comparison, cross-validation or backtesting, and calibration that generalizes beyond the training period.
  • Experience developing tests and predictive analytics, synthesizing results, and building frameworks and data models to make data-informed launch decisions.
  • Inherent curiosity and analytical follow-through. You can’t help but ask why and love using data and logic to explore potential solutions.
  • A self-starter mentality with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and identify opportunities with limited oversight.
  • Exceptional data storytelling abilities, as well as the ability to articulate technical information to a non-technical audience.
  • Operating in a team-first environment with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • You are motivated by our mission. We are working to solve the biggest problems in mental health care today (access and affordability).
Compensation & Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $183,600 - $216,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based variable compensation and an equity grant, depending on the position and level.

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

  • Benefits offered include:
    • Equity compensation
    • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
    • HSA / FSA
    • 401K
    • Work-from-Home Stipend
    • Therapy Reimbursement
    • 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
    • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
    • 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
    • Flexible PTO
    • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
    • Training and professional development

We 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.

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Top Skills

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Headway Seattle, Washington, USA Office

600 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, 98104

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