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Data Scientist II

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128K-150K Annually
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3 Locations
128K-150K Annually
Mid level
The Data Scientist II will analyze data to aid product decisions, design experiments, assess user behavior, and communicate insights effectively. Responsibilities include defining metrics, running experiments, and building decision-ready assets.
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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.

As a Data Scientist II, you will work in the heart of a cross-functional product team and help turn real-world signals into clear, decision-ready insights. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Ops, and Clinical stakeholders to define questions, measure outcomes, run experiments, and surface what is working (and what is not). Over time, you will take on larger scopes and more ambiguity, and help operationalize stable insights through lightweight models or scoring approaches when appropriate.

This role is a strong fit for someone who wants to grow from strong executor to end-to-end owner, and who gets energy from using data to make things better for patients and providers.

What you will do
  • Be the analytics partner inside the pod. Support product decisions by clarifying goals, defining metrics, and translating business questions into analytical work.
  • Run experiments with good hygiene. Help design and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experiments with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and guardrails.
  • Understand user behavior and product performance. Use funnel, cohort, and lifecycle analysis to identify drop-offs, opportunities, and tradeoffs across the patient and provider journeys.
  • Use causal methods when needed. Apply approaches like diff-in-diff, matching, and regression-based designs with support from more senior peers as appropriate.
  • Build and maintain decision-ready assets. Create analysis, dashboards, and monitoring views that make performance visible and help teams move faster.
  • Communicate clearly. Share findings in a way that is crisp, actionable, and honest about uncertainty.
  • Contribute to team standards. Follow best practices for metric definitions, analysis quality, and experiment documentation, and help improve them over time.
What will make you successful
  • 3+ years using data to drive product or business decisions in product, growth, engineering, or operations environments (or equivalent experience).
  • Strong SQL and proficiency in Python or R for analysis.
  • Working knowledge of experimentation (test design, analysis, pitfalls) and curiosity to deepen that skill set. Bayesian experience is a plus, not a requirement.
  • Comfort with common analytical techniques (cohorting, segmentation, regression, forecasting basics), plus an instinct for checking assumptions and data quality.
  • Ability to translate messy questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations.
  • Strong communication skills, especially with non-technical partners.
  • High ownership and follow-through: you take responsibility for outcomes in addition to tasks.
  • Motivation for our mission: improving access and affordability in mental healthcare.

Compensation and Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $127,500 - $150,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for 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

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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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A 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. If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from Headway via an unofficial channel, please do not share any information and report it as spam.

Top Skills

Python
R
SQL

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