Senior Manager, Data Engineering

About the Position

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Headway is on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by building a new system that everyone can access. We've automated the administrative burden of mental health practices, and now we're expanding our platform to serve over 1 million patients with the best tools for therapists. We're looking for a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to define and lead the technical strategy for our data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of Data Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and craftsmanship.
• Develop quarterly roadmaps with cross-functional partners on Data Science, Operations, and Engineering, align Data Engineering resources, and oversee execution of timely, high-quality work.
• Own the architecture and reliability of Headway's data platform - including our data warehouse, ingestion pipelines, transformation layer (dbt), and orchestration systems.
• Define and champion engineering standards: data modeling conventions, pipeline observability, SLA frameworks, and data quality monitoring.
• Partner cross-functionally to design and build the data infrastructure that powers analytics, experimentation, ML models, and operational tooling at scale.
• Stay close to the work by engaging directly with strategic technical challenges, surfacing gaps in our platform capabilities before they become bottlenecks.
• Translate complex data decisions into clear, actionable recommendations for executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles
• 3+ years of experience managing and developing teams
• Experience building and scaling data platforms in a high-growth, cloud-native environment (highly preferred)
• Proven success partnering cross-functionally with Data Science, Analytics, and Product Engineering
• Deep expertise in data warehouse design, pipeline architecture, and transformation frameworks - with the ability to coach others through complex technical trade-offs

We Offer

• Compensation: $212K – $265K • Offers Equity
• 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

About the Company

Headway is a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. 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.

Location: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA

Employment Type: Full time

Location Type: Hybrid

Department: All Cost CentersResearch & DevelopmentEngineering & TechnologyData