# Principal, Safety and Risk Management at Headway

- Company: Headway
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, a16z and GV.
- Company website: https://headway.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $144K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/headway/aeedf23c-1524-42c0-8ccd-874b22e661e9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/headway-principal-safety-and-risk-management/

## About the role

We're seeking a Principal, Safety and Risk Management to join Headway's Clinical Strategy team and own safety and clinical risk management for our nationwide behavioral health provider network. Behavioral health carries a specific risk profile, including suicide and self-harm risk, violence in the community, medication and controlled substance safety, telehealth crisis management, and handoffs to emergency or higher levels of care. Headway is building the infrastructure to capture and learn from these events.

## What they're looking for

- Built or substantially scaled a safety event or clinical risk program. Developing and managing from project plan through launch and scale. You work from established methods and clinical industry standards, and you have set that method for others
- You triage and escalate soundly, and you know a clinical question from an operational or legal one, routing rather than deciding when it is not yours
- You are fluent with data. You can define metrics, read a dashboard critically, interpret trends, and build a plan for deeper analysis
- You drive corrective actions to verified closure across teams you do not manage, including teams that do not yet know how to mitigate the risk in front of them
- You communicate exceptionally well. You document clearly, you can present findings to senior clinical and business leaders who will question them
- You have a deep commitment to ethical, patient-centered care, and continuous quality improvement

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