Senior Product Manager - Payer Connectivity & Core Configuration

Athenahealth India; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead key product areas within athenaCollector's revenue cycle management platform, focusing on payer electronic connectivity and core practice configuration. This role supports customer onboarding and payer connectivity, based in Boston with an in-office presence one day per week.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, UX, analytics and operations to improve payer connectivity, workflow automation, and practice configuration across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience (as described in the posting).
• Experience on products enabling electronic transactions with payers/clearinghouses.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize data into strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute automation-first product vision and roadmap for payer connectivity and core practice configuration.
• Develop work management solutions for prioritizing payer connectivity work.
• Build visibility tooling and dashboards to monitor transaction health and connectivity status.
• Drive execution across engineering pods with clear ownership and priorities.
• Use data to define success metrics and track outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Payer connectivity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in product management

Job description

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

Position Summary

athenahealth is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead key product areas within athenaCollector's revenue cycle management platform, with a focus on payer electronic connectivity and core practice configuration. This role is responsible for supporting customer onboarding, including payer connectivity and maintaining connecting health at scale. This position is based in Boston, MA, with an expectation to be in the office one day per week. This role reports to the Product Management Director.

About the Team

The Practice Management Zone supports core revenue cycle workflows that help customers manage their practices to financial and operational excellence. The team brings together product, engineering, UX, analytics, and operations professionals who partner closely to improve payer connectivity, workflow automation, and practice configuration across athenahealth's customer base.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Define and execute on automation-first product vision, strategy and roadmap for electronic transactions with payers and clearinghouses, as well as core practice configuration.
• Develop work management solutions that enable customers and operations teams to prioritize, assign, track, and complete payer connectivity work.
• Build and maintain visibility tooling - including dashboards, health monitoring, and alerting - so customers and internal teams can track connectivity status, maintain transaction health, and detect degradation before it impacts revenue.
• Drive execution across multiple engineering pods using spec-driven development, ensuring clear ownership and focused on the highest priorities.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to identify problem themes, define success metrics and hypotheses, and track outcomes to ensure impact.
• Partner with Product Management and Operations leaders to drive portfolio strategy, gain organizational alignment, and deliver KPI impact.
• Support product launches through alpha, beta, and general availability in collaboration with customer-facing and internal teams.
• Use AI tools and automation to improve personal productivity and effectiveness.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Present product direction, recommendations, and updates to stakeholders and leadership with clarity and precision.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the organization.
• Balance competing stakeholder asks across issue handling, cross-org coordination, rollouts, and ongoing roadmap work.
• Mentor other product managers and contribute to team practices and product craft.

Expected Education & Experience

8+ years of product management experience, with 4+ years in US healthcare revenue cycle management. Demonstrated experience working on products that enable the setup and maintenance of electronic transactions with payers, clearinghouses, and trading partners. Relevant work types include ERA, EFT, EDI, Eligibility, and payment processing. Experience with automating workflows through agentic AI, API integration, or third-party partner connectivity to replace manual effort. Understanding of the data collection, partner-specific requirements, and multi-step enrollment lifecycle needed to stand up and sustain electronic transactions. Experience building strategies, building organizational alignment, and executing to deliver measurable business impact. Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize large sets of quantitative and qualitative data into product strategy and roadmaps. Experience working across multiple teams or product pods in a cross-functional environment. Strong communication skills with the ability to present clearly, build alignment, and make thoughtful tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule. Experience with core practice configuration and onboarding software preferred. Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in product management.

Expected Compensation

$141,000 - $239,000 Expected Compensation 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 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

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United by our mission

United by our mission and driven by our entrepreneurial spirit, our work at athenahealth is collaborative, transformative, and above all, it’s meaningful. Our employees take pride in using technology and data-driven insights to inspire changes that will make the U.S. healthcare system better for everyone, including your friends, family and maybe even you.