Director Product Management

Athenahealth India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Athenahealth India is seeking a Director of Product Management for athenaOne Foundations. This role involves defining product strategy and managing a multi-year roadmap to enhance services and environments within a modernized healthcare platform.

The candidate should have over 10 years of product management experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead high-performing teams. The position emphasizes leveraging AI to improve product outcomes and support internal users effectively.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management or technical product leadership.
• Strong product judgment in technical environments.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product vision and roadmap for athenaOne Foundations.
• Represent internal users and translate technical capabilities into product narratives.
• Lead and coach product managers supporting Foundations capabilities.

Skills

Product management

Technical leadership

Strong business acumen

Excellent communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software, engineering, or related field

Job description

Role Summary

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high‑quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. The Director of Product Management, athenaOne Foundations, is responsible for defining product strategy, roadmap, and measurable business outcomes for the core services, platforms, and engineering environments that power athenaOne. This leader translates athenaOne Foundations strategy into clear product direction, aligning investment to the needs of internal users, dependent product teams, and the long‑term modernization goals of athenahealth. athenaOne Foundations is focused on modernizing, stabilizing, and scaling the core services and environments that enable innovation across athenaOne. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, product engineering, R&D, Security, Finance, and Infrastructure, and is accountable for shaping a coherent portfolio of capabilities that improve resiliency, scalability, developer experience, and productivity in an AI‑first world.

Team Summary

athenaOne Foundations modernizes, stabilizes, and scales the core services and environments that enable innovation across athenaOne. The team works across platform engineering, product engineering, R&D, Security, Finance, and Infrastructure to improve resiliency, scalability, developer experience, and productivity. The team places emphasis on leveraging AI and automation to simplify internal workflows, improve R&D productivity, and support an AI‑first operating model.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap for athenaOne Foundations.
• Translate modernization, resiliency, scalability, security, and platform investment needs into clear priorities, sequencing, and measurable outcomes.
• Own success metrics for Foundations products and services, including reliability, adoption, satisfaction, productivity, scalability, and value realization.
• Represent internal users, including engineers, product teams, platform consumers, and operational stakeholders.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into clear product narratives, priorities, decision frameworks, and change management plans.
• Partner with R&D, Internal Developer Platform, Security, Infrastructure, Finance, and other leaders to align roadmaps, dependencies, funding priorities, and delivery plans.
• Support build‑versus‑buy decisions, service boundary decisions, lifecycle management, and platform investment planning.
• Lead, coach, and develop product managers and/or product owners supporting Foundations capabilities and internal platform experiences.
• Build team operating mechanisms that reinforce accountability, fast learning, execution discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Use AI and automation intentionally to improve product outcomes, reduce friction, simplify workflows, and increase productivity.

Expected Education & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in product management, platform product management, or technical product leadership in complex software environments. Demonstrated success owning product roadmaps and measurable outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong product judgment in technical environments, including the ability to assess tradeoffs and influence priorities. Experience defining outcomes such as resiliency, scalability, quality, productivity, service performance, adoption, or customer satisfaction.
• Strong business acumen, including investment planning, cost management, and value‑based prioritization.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills across executive, technical, and operational audiences.
• Experience leading and developing high‑performing product teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in software, engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field. Experience in healthcare, regulated enterprise platforms, or SaaS/PaaS environments is a plus.