Manager, Product Management - athenaEDI

athenahealth; Burlington (VT); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking a Manager of Product Management for athenaEDI, a hybrid role based in Boston, MA or Burlington, VT. You will shape product direction for healthcare revenue cycle and EDI workflows, partnering with the Director of Product Management to turn insights into priorities, roadmaps, requirements, and delivery plans.

You will work with engineering and operations to understand system behavior, integrations, and failure scenarios, translating complex problems into scalable product

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in product management or related field.
• Experience with Agile software delivery and backlog refinement.
• Ability to translate complex systems and workflows into product requirements.
• Experience in healthcare revenue cycle, EDI, APIs, or high-volume workflows.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and AI-enabled tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute product strategy for athenaEDI with the PM Director.
• Gather customer, market, and technical insights to inform direction.
• Translate strategy into roadmap, requirements, and delivery plans.
• Understand healthcare transaction workflows and integration points.
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture on solutions and scope.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize work by impact, feasibility, risk, and value.
• Analyze transaction and workflow data to identify improvements.
• Coordinate dependencies and monitor delivery risks and releases.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research while validating outputs.

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business, healthcare administration, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AI-enabled productivity tools

Job description

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary

Shape the product direction for healthcare revenue cycle and electronic data interchange workflows as a Manager of Product Management for athenaEDI. In this role, you will partner with the Director of Product Management to turn customer, market, operational, and technical insights into product priorities, roadmap recommendations, requirements, and delivery plans. You will work closely with engineering and operations teams to understand system behavior, integration points, dependencies, and failure scenarios, and translate complex problems into scalable product solutions. This is a hybrid role based in Boston, MA or Burlington, VT, and it reports to the Director of Product Management for athenaEDI.

About The Team

The athenaEDI Product Management team focuses on improving the systems and workflows that support healthcare transaction processing and revenue cycle operations. The team partners closely with engineering, operations, architecture, implementation, support, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable product capabilities and operational improvements. It uses tools such as Jira and Confluence to manage product requirements, decisions, delivery context, and release readiness. The team also works across customer feedback, support trends, transaction data, and regulatory needs to guide product planning.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Define and execute product strategy for athenaEDI in partnership with the Director of Product Management.
• Gather customer, market, operational, and technical insights to inform product direction and investment decisions.
• Translate product strategy into roadmap recommendations, prioritized initiatives, product requirements, success measures, and delivery plans.
• Develop a strong understanding of healthcare transaction workflows, system interactions, integration points, and operational dependencies.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to define problems, evaluate solution options, identify constraints, and guide scope and sequencing decisions.
• Translate customer, operational, regulatory, and business needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Prioritize work based on customer impact, product performance, technical feasibility, implementation effort, risk, and business value.
• Analyze transaction behavior, workflow performance, support trends, customer feedback, and product usage to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and maintain visibility into delivery risks, technical decisions, and release readiness.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and workflow planning while applying judgment to validate outputs and support product decisions.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support iterative delivery through discovery, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and ongoing clarification.
• Communicate product recommendations, tradeoffs, sequencing rationale, and release status to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Partner with go-to-market, implementation, support, and customer-facing teams on feature readiness and adoption.
• Lead customer discussions, user groups, and industry events to strengthen market and workflow understanding.
• Maintain system compliance by monitoring applicable government, regulatory, and standards requirements and translating them into roadmap and feature deliverables.
• Maintain product artifacts, decision records, requirements, and delivery context in Jira and Confluence.

Expected Education & Experience

• 5–10 years of experience in product management, technical product management, business analysis, software delivery, product operations, or a related field.
• Experience working closely with software engineers, technical leads, architects, or platform teams.
• Ability to understand and communicate complex system workflows, integration dependencies, data movement, and application behavior.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems into prioritized, executable product plans.
• Experience with Agile software delivery, backlog refinement, requirements definition, acceptance criteria definition, and release planning.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills, with comfort investigating issues across multiple systems or teams.
• Experience with healthcare revenue cycle management, healthcare EDI, transaction processing, integration platforms, APIs, payments, or other high-volume workflow systems.
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and AI-enabled productivity or development tools.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to facilitate productive conversations across engineering, operations, customers, and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business, healthcare administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred: familiarity with x12/API-based healthcare EDI transactions and associated revenue cycle workflows.
• Preferred: experience with products that require high reliability, complex integrations, exception handling, or operational monitoring.
• Preferred: experience using product metrics, transaction data, support trends, or operational data to guide prioritization, including AI-assisted analysis or workflow optimization tools.
• Preferred: comfort reviewing technical documentation, workflow diagrams, API specifications, or data mappings in partnership with engineering teams.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model from Boston, MA or Burlington, VT and travel up to 10% annually.

Expected Compensation

$121,000 - $207,000

The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

About Athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What We Can Do For You: Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs. We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation. In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers

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