Cedar
Product Success Specialist (New Verticals)
Job Description
Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.
Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.
In order to ensure our clients are able to provide the best patient experience possible, Cedar is seeking a Product Success Specialist to support our New Verticals clients in their day-to-day use of the product, work cross-functionally to ensure the smoothest client journey both with case management and the product itself, and provide a valuable voice for our clients throughout the product development lifecycle. You’ll also have the opportunity to be hands-on in scaling the team, shaping client experiences in newly expanding verticals, and contributing to along with the development of team processes and best practices.
The Product Success Team is scaling and evolving quickly, allowing you to play an integral role in the team's growth, as well as your professional growth and development.
In this position you will:
- Work independently to manage and triage incoming client requests and concerns for our most complex and high-priority clients.
- Ensure timely follow-up of client requests and concerns and effectively prioritize, triage, and escalate issues that require additional resources.
- Manage product issues to completion by working cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Client Management, and other key stakeholders.
- Partner with team leaders and Product Managers to surface valuable insights and feedback, prioritize product issues effectively, and support efforts to monitor the health of our products.
- Become a true Cedar product expert.
- You may also:
- Ideate and support impactful team improvement and development projects.
- Developing or enhancing team processes to scale.
- Support and mentor new team members as they onboard.
- 2-4 years experience in a customer/client-facing role
- Demonstrated experience in the dental/orthodontic or small business specialty care verticals.
- Comfort and willingness to proactively engage with clients/users via phone calls as needed.
- Ability to conduct ad hoc training sessions for clients/users as required.
- Ability to communicate thoughtfully and tactfully with a variety of client stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solutions oriented problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
- Basic understanding of product development in the technology space
- Self-starter and excited to work in a fast-paced environment
- Highly motivated with a strong work ethic and good judgment
- Strong emphasis on building and maintaining positive client relationships, demonstrating empathy and a commitment to client satisfaction.
- Strong interpersonal skills – you care about people and are passionate about helping others!
Desired But Not Required
- Knowledge of or experience in the healthcare space and/or medical billing
- Familiarity with case management systems and metrics
- Working experience with analytics tools like Snowflake and Looker; ability to write and execute SQL queries
- Previous role at an early-stage start-up
- Ability to commute to our Manhattan office for occasional in-person meetings or collaboration, as needed.
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary Range*: $85,000 – $100,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. “Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 30 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.
