🔥Jobs in Women's Health August 11, 2025

Tips from a women's health payer industry veteran - IWH Mini-MBA begins tomorrow! Plus, jobs from Aspivix, Maven, Teal Health, FamilyWell, and more!

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Jodi Neuhauser
August 11, 2025

Hi there,

Welcome to Issue #106!

Here’s what’s inside this week:

🔹 Last Chance! In Women’s Health Mini-MBA — Ready to accelerate your career in women’s health? Join the only course that has empowered 200+ graduates to master the business behind the industry. Begins August 12!

🔹 Featured Roles — Standout openings at FamilyWell, Maven, Teal Health, and Aspivix — spanning business development, finance, social media, and sales.

🔹 100+ Curated Jobs — All functions, all women’s health, all in one place.

🔹 Upcoming Events — Don’t miss out on this month’s Women’s Health Careers Networking event and Office Hours with Jodi! Note: Office Hours limited to IWH Pro Members.

We’re on Instagram @inwomenshealth ! Drop a like, leave a comment, and tag us in your posts — we’re so excited to connect with you!

Thanks for being here. 🩷 Let’s keep building the future of health — together.

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8 Insider Lessons from a Payer Industry Veteran

By Jodi Neuhauser

To understand the flow of money in women’s health, you have to understand payers. But, most founders, execs, and even seasoned healthcare leaders pitch payers the wrong way. They talk features. They talk vision. They skip the one thing payers actually care about: how it affects their bottom line right now.

In a recent Women’s Health Mini-MBA session, Melissa Reilly — former senior leader at UnitedHealth Group, Evernorth, and Aetna — pulled back the curtain on how payers think, what they buy, and why women’s health is still often overlooked. Here are the takeaways that could change how you approach every payer conversation from here on out:

1. Payers Manage Buckets of Money — Not Just Care

Every payer receives a fixed “bucket” of money from employers, the government, or individuals to cover care for their members. If they can deliver that care for less than the bucket, they keep the difference as profit. This means every decision is filtered through a spend-versus-savings lens. It’s not enough to have an important mission — you must show precisely how your solution reduces claims expense or risk this year. If you can’t tie your work directly to that bucket math, you’ll be dismissed before you’ve even finished your pitch.

2. Win Relevance Before You Sell Prevention

In many payer orgs, women’s health is still narrowly defined as reproductive or maternal care. Prevention arguments (“do this at 40 to save money at 60”) rarely land unless you first prove that women’s health is even worth prioritizing as a category. And remember: payers rarely hold onto a member for life — typical retention is 1–3 years. You must frame your value in terms of measurable impact inside that short window, then layer in your long-term prevention case once you have their attention.

3. Find the Champion Inside

Inside every payer is someone who either owns the P&L for your category or has built a personal brand around your issue. This is your “internal champion.” They can shepherd your idea through a maze of committees, budget reviews, and policy teams. Without them, your proposal becomes just another PDF buried in an innovation inbox. With them, you have a direct line to decision-makers who can say yes.

4. Lead with Their Highest-Cost Problems

Payers care about certain “cars on the road” more than others — the big-ticket categories that drive a disproportionate share of costs, such as cardiovascular disease, MSK (musculoskeletal disorders), and NICU stays. Even if your focus is menopause, endometriosis, or postpartum care, connect it to these high-cost categories. For example: menopause increases osteoporosis risk, which drives MSK costs; untreated postpartum depression can trigger high-cost ER visits. This reframing moves you into budget lines that leadership is already under pressure to protect.

5. Bring Evidence in Their Language

Most startups lead with features: the app’s design, the user experience, the breadth of content. What worked for Melissa as a payer exec? Cold, hard numbers in payer terms: claims cost avoided, readmission rates reduced, length of stay shortened. And not just your own numbers — their numbers. Reference their published data or use their own benchmarks. Show you understand their cost structure, and you immediately rise above 90% of the pitches they hear.

6. Use Price Transparency to Your Advantage

A quiet but massive shift in the industry: payers are now required to publish “machine readable files” showing what they pay every provider in a market. These files are messy by design, but with a good data analyst, you can pull reimbursement rates for OB-GYNs, MFMs, PTs, and more in your target geography. This is contract negotiation gold — and it used to cost $500K–$800K to get similar data from a third party. With it, you can position yourself competitively and shorten contract cycles.

7. Avoid the Point Solution Trap

Employers and payers are exhausted by single-issue vendors. They don’t want to manage 15 different contracts for related conditions. Menopause is a classic example — symptoms touch MSK, heart health, mental health, urology, and more. Vendors who connect the dots across cost categories position themselves as a multi-impact investment instead of “one more point solution.” In women’s health, this often means expanding your data story and claims impact beyond your initial narrow use case.

8. Prepare for an 18-Month Marathon

Even with the perfect pitch, deals take time — often 18 months or more. Champions leave. Priorities change. Budgets get frozen. Melissa’s advice: maintain a payer relationship map with multiple contacts at multiple levels. Don’t hinge everything on one person. Momentum comes from persistent follow-up, ongoing value delivery, and showing up in the right rooms over and over again. This is a slow-burn relationship game, not a quick sale.

Looking for more insider guidance like this? Melissa helps multiple healthcare companies on their journey to working with payers. She’s one of the best in the business who does this — reach out to her on LinkedIn to learn more.

Why this matters:
This wasn’t a conference-panel soundbite. It was an unfiltered breakdown from someone who has been inside the biggest payer decision rooms in the country — the kind of insider access you can’t get by Googling “how to sell to a health plan.”

And this is just one week in the Women’s Health Mini-MBA. Every session brings in leaders who don’t just “talk about” the system — they’ve run it, changed it, and know where the levers are.

Today is the last day to join this cohort.
If you want to be in the (virtual) room for the conversations that give you both the map and the playbook for women’s health innovation, here’s where you sign up.

Here’s what the Women’s Health Mini-MBA is all about — and why it might be the most valuable career move you make this year.

It’s a 6-week experience, co-taught by me, Jodi Neuhauser, and Rachel Braun Scherl — an absolute powerhouse who has built, invested in, advised, and sold multiple companies in women’s health.

Together, we'll cover:

  • The American Healthcare System & The Women’s Health Ecosystem

  • Providers: Care Delivery

  • Payers: Reimbursement & Payment Models

  • Product & Marketing Strategy

  • Finance & Business Models

  • Regulation, Legal, Policy & Data

Each week, we feature insights from some of the brightest leaders shaping the future of women’s health. Past and upcoming speakers include:

& other seasoned clinicians + rising founders on the front lines of change.

The faster we all understand the economics and system failures within women’s health, the faster we can move — individually and collectively. Rachel and I have made plenty of mistakes, learned a lot of shortcuts, and have over 60 years of combined experience in this space. We love sharing it so that you can go further, faster — and build the future this field deserves.

Because the system won’t fix itself. But we will.
—Jodi

🚨 New Bill Signals Support for Women’s Health

The Senate just signaled strong bipartisan support for women’s health research in its recent draft of the FY26 appropriations bill. The bill includes a funding increase for the Office of Research on Women’s Health, as well as targeted funding for women’s health issues like infertility, menopause, dementia, and brain, heart, and bone health research.

📆 Upcoming In Women’s Health Events

Thursday, August 14th at 3:30pm ET

IWH: August Monthly Women's Health Careers Networking

Get to know others in our industry, gain critical industry insights, and uncover what we are seeing and hearing from the ground-level.

https://lu.ma/hbqsmxoq

Friday, August 22nd at 1:00pm ET

Office Hours: IWH Members Only

Join our founder, Jodi Neuhauser, for an exclusive Office Hours session. Discuss recent interviews, get resume feedback, and ask those burning questions — we’re here to help you accelerate your career in women’s health.

https://lu.ma/eg56phse

Wednesday, August 27th at 4:00pm ET

Mapping the Broken System in Women’s Health: What We’ve Heard — and What We’re Building

​Join us for a live conversation unpacking the systemic failures in women’s health — from research gaps to reimbursement breakdowns, postpartum care neglect, and more. We’ll share early insights from 50+ experts and invite you to help shape the first-ever roadmap to fix what’s broken.

https://lu.ma/4helh4t7

✨ Now … let’s make your career magic happen:

Featured Roles

📌 Strategic Operator (Telehealth) — Opportunity at a company building something new in women’s health — a brand and service that brings together medical credibility, soulful care, and consumer-level clarity. It’s currently in stealth, and they are looking for a Launch & Marketing Lead to help bring it to life.

Work side-by-side with a seasoned founder to:

  • Build from scratch across brand, ops, and partnerships

  • Launch our website and go-to-market strategy

  • Drive execution, timelines, and internal coordination

  • Support influencer, pilot, and PR efforts

You’re a fit if you:

  • Have startup or healthtech experience

  • Excel at project management and moving fast

  • Think like a marketer, act like a founder

  • Want to build something meaningful in women’s healtJ

Sound like you? Send your resume to [email protected]

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Aspivix is a pioneering Swiss MedTech company revolutionizing women’s health with Carevix®, an innovative device that makes gynecological procedures safer and virtually painless. The company combines cutting-edge technology with a mission to improve patient care worldwide, supported by a leadership team experienced in healthcare innovation and global marketing. Joining Aspivix means contributing to meaningful advances in women’s health at a fast-growing, impactful organization.

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Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. A former journalist turned healthcare innovator, she launched Maven to close critical gaps in care after her own experience with miscarriage. Today, Maven supports millions of people globally, partnering with major employers and redefining what compassionate, accessible healthcare looks like for women and families.

Maven Clinic is the world’s largest virtual health platform for women and families. It offers expert support across fertility, pregnancy, parenting, and menopause. With care available 24/7 in 35+ languages, Maven helps people navigate every step of their health journey. It’s redefining what modern, accessible healthcare looks like.

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Amanda Weaver, SVP of Business Operations at FamilyWell, is hiring across multiple roles to help expand their team. She is a Jane-of-all-trades when it comes to the healthcare start up world. She is a master of all things clinical, revenue and go-to-market operations. As a healthcare executive with 15+ years of leadership experience in the provider and payor spaces, she has contributed to established, growth stage, and startup organizations..

FamilyWell Health is a digital‑health pioneer in perinatal mental health, equipping OB/GYN practices with insurance‑covered, tech‑enabled collaborative‑care services that deliver virtual coaching, therapy, and psychiatric support during pregnancy and postpartum. Their evidence‑based model reduces depressive symptoms by at least 50%, expands equitable access, and helps clinics capture new revenue without implementation fees.

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Teal Health is redefining cervical cancer screenings with the first FDA-approved at-home test. By replacing the traditional in-office Pap smear with a more comfortable, convenient option, Teal is giving women greater control over their health. Their solution combines the patented Teal Wand collection device with a modern telehealth platform, making it easy to screen at home, consult with a doctor, and access clear results. It’s a smarter, more empowering approach to preventive care.

📌 VP of Business Development— this is a strategic, relationship-driven leadership role for someone who knows how to navigate complex healthcare systems and isn’t afraid to think outside the box. The ideal candidate brings over 10 years of experience in business development, market access, or payer relations—paired with a deep understanding of health systems and care delivery models. A proven track record of securing partnerships with payors, employers, and health systems is key. This role is perfect for a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, communicates with clarity, and is passionate about putting patients first.

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Aavia is a female-founded, Mayo-clinic backed, daily ovarian hormone health app that helps hundreds of thousands of members track, learn, and understand how their cycle impacts their mood, skin, sleep and more. Our mission is to become the leading hormone health hub for Gen Z and beyond, providing personalized insights to improve quality of life and connecting members to get the right care they need through our brand partners and medical advisors.


📌 Lead Data Scientist, play a critical role in unlocking the power of our 67M+ longitudinal hormone health data to drive meaningful impact for our members and women’s health at large. You’ll own our data insights function end-to-end: analyzing aggregate hormone cycle trends, building predictive models, and surfacing actionable insights that help members better understand their mental and physical health.

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Senior and C-Level Roles

  • VP, Finance, Parsley Health (Clinical Care, Series C), New York, NY · Philadelphia, PA, $170K-$200K.

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