Staff Technical Recruiter, Product

Headway

8d•$144,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

Headway's mission is to fix the mental healthcare system by building a new system that everyone can access, starting by solving the barrier of insurance. The company has automated the administrative work involved in credentialing, claims, and payment reconciliation. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states use Headway's software, serving over 1 million patients. Headway is building tools for therapists to run their practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in platform foundations to enable scale. The company is a Series D company with over $325M in funding from investors like a16z, Accel, and Spark Capital, and is looking for exceptional people to help achieve its mission and provide the most meaningful career experience.

Requirements

6+ years of full-cycle recruiting in high-growth, tech-enabled environments
Meaningful experience hiring senior, director, and VP-level product talent
Deep experience recruiting product talent — Product Management and/or Product Design
Comfortable running senior and executive-level searches
Operate as a trusted advisor to executives, influencing decisions through data, market insight, and structured thinking
Ability to untangle ambiguous or complex searches, build clarity, and drive a repeatable plan that produces predictable outcomes
High agency and operational excellence—run clean, structured searches that remove friction for both candidates and stakeholders
Creative thinking about multi-channel sourcing, building senior product pipelines through research, relationship-building, and market mapping
Ability to assess product talent with credibility — understand product craft well enough to calibrate a PM’s or designer’s scope, judgment, and impact
Communicate with clarity, presence, and executive polish, regardless of audience
Care deeply about raising the bar, running inclusive and consistent processes, and strengthening the hiring muscle across the organization

Responsibilities

Run end-to-end product searches, from senior ICs to Director+ leaders, driving everything from role scoping to close and owning the narrative around candidate quality, funnel health, and search strategy
Partner closely with the CPO, VPs of Product and Design, and their leadership teams, advising on role definition, leveling, search design, talent bar, market dynamics, and how to run a predictable, inclusive hiring process
Architect structured search plans that diagnose bottlenecks early, set expectations, and give stakeholders clear visibility throughout the process
Design and execute targeted sourcing strategies that consistently deliver high-quality product talent
Use data to drive alignment and decisions, from setting funnel expectations to refining search approach based on real-time signal
Uplevel product hiring quality and consistency, helping teams clarify what “great” looks like, sharpening product competencies and case exercises, and reinforcing structured decision-making
Build market intelligence on the product talent landscape — compensation, org design, talent pools, and how peer companies structure and hire their product teams
Ensure best-in-class candidate experience, with executive-grade care for senior product leaders, where thoughtful communication, coaching, and white-glove touchpoints are essential
Collaborate with sourcers and coordination partners to ensure a seamless, high-quality search experience end-to-end

Benefits

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