Sr. Product Manager - Long-Term Healthcare

ALIGN Executive Search; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent bonus program

Cutting-edge technology

Be a part of a growing start-up

Job summary

ALIGN Executive Search is seeking a Senior Product Manager with post-acute healthcare experience to shape our EHR roadmap and guide implementations in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.

You will work with the CEO and Director of Product Management to translate clinical and operational needs into technical requirements, lead a small implementation team, and ensure deployments deliver ROI across facilities.

Qualifications

• Expert in developing product roadmaps, writing feature stories, and driving engineering execution.
• Healthcare or EHR product experience is a strong plus.
• Deep operational experience inside Skilled Nursing or Assisted Living facilities.
• Experience operating the billing apparatus, administering facilities, managing census, or driving facility growth.
• Knowledge of MDS, care plans, census flows, and billing through discharge.
• CMS reporting, MDS coding, and RAI process understanding.
• Experience leading software rollouts into facilities, ideally EMR systems.
• Ability to translate product requirements into engineering-ready user stories.

Responsibilities

• Strategize and define the EHR roadmap with the Director of Product Management and CEO.
• Write feature stories, acceptance criteria, and specs that engineering builds from, driving backlog to shipped.
• Run the Jira board, clear blockers, and ensure releases land on schedule.
• Translate clinical and operational needs into technical requirements for engineers.
• Lead a small implementation team and deliver facility staff training.

Skills

Product roadmaps

Backlog management

Feature stories

Jira

Confluence

EMR rollout

Healthcare domain

Translate requirements

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager with post-acute healthcare experience. Someone who has been immersed in it from the operations side: overseeing billing, administering facilities, managing census, and growing the business. A clinical understanding or a clinical degree is a plus, not a requirement.

What you will be doing

• Work with the Director of Product Management and the CEO to strategize and define what gets built on the EHR roadmap
• Write feature stories, acceptance criteria, and specs that engineering builds from, driving work from backlog to shipped
• Run the Jira board, keep stories moving through the pipeline, clear blockers, and hold the line on scope so that releases land when we said they would
• Work with engineers daily, translating clinical and operational needs into technical requirements they can act on
• Refine the backlog, sit in sprint conversations, and stay close to the build that nothing gets lost between the story and the software
• Drive market penetration across the SNF and ALF segments.
• Shape how our product lands in each new facility, from the rollout plan and initial EMR configuration through the first quarter of live use
• Hire and lead a small team of hands-on implementation specialists; own the training program they deliver to facility staff
• Identify the right partners, structure the commercial and technical terms, and participate in the negotiations alongside the CEO and counsel
• After shipment, stay close to the operators, clinicians, and product end users. Confirm the experience is genuinely good and that the ROI we promised is showing up
• Follow up across rollout, usage, and training, time to go live, training completion, adoption depth in the first 90 days, support volume by facility, and operator satisfaction

What you need to qualify

• Expert knowledge and experience developing product roadmaps, writing feature stories, and driving project execution with engineering teams
• Healthcare or EHR product work is a strong plus
• Deep operational experience inside Skilled Nursing or Assisted Living facilities
• Experience operating the billing apparatus, administering facilities, managing census, or driving facility growth
• Hands-on knowledge of what MDS means, what a care plan looks like, how the census flows, and how billing moves from admission to discharge
• Working knowledge of the full lifecycle from referral and admission through care delivery, reimbursement, and discharge planning
• Expert working knowledge of CMS reporting requirements and hands-on MDS coding expertise, grounded in the full RAI process from assessment through care plan
• Knowledge of the MDS item sets, how Section GG functions inside the MDS and why accurate GG coding matters, how coding drives reimbursement under PDPM, and what the Medicare required assessment schedule demands of a facility
• Expert knowledge of the SNF quality measures and how they connect to revenue, survey posture, and referral standing
• Understanding of how Medicare and Medicaid claims move from MDS assessment to payment
• Direct experience leading software rollouts into facilities, ideally EMR or other clinical systems.
• Experience running an implementation plan from kickoff through go-live
• Experience building and delivering training programs for facility or clinical staff
• Experience hiring, onboarding, and leading a small team
• Demonstrated ability to translate product requirements into engineering work. Ability to write a story that an engineer can build from.

• Hands-on experience running a backlog in Jira and maintaining documentation in Confluence
• AI fluency, Claude specifically

What's in it for you

• Excellent bonus program
• Cutting-edge technology
• Be a part of a growing start-up!

DISCLAIMER: The compensation range represents a good faith estimate of what our client may pay for the position at the time of posting. Our client may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s gender or any other protected status.