We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Medication Management team within our Clinicals division. In this role you will be responsible for responsible for one product area within the overarching products portfolio; understanding the market and customer, contributing to a product vision, developing business cases, ensuring a product or set of product features meets business requirements and driving the creation and delivery of the product.
In this role, you will serve as the Product Owner working daily with scrum teams defining and writing user stories, prioritizing product backlogs and making trade off decisions between scope and schedule. Your work will be divided between product improvements that strengthen our current solution and new features/functionality that improve the experiences for our users. But enough about us; lets talk about you.
You have a passion for improving healthcare. Your drive allows you to achieve meaningful results; with empathy for the user of our products and services. You are able to influence both horizontally and vertically inside and outside of an organization. You appreciate the software development process and the varying personalities in the cross-functional groups that we work with. You possess the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a face paced environment, manage several projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and demonstrate sound judgement when determining whether to act independently or escalate.
The Team: Our Medication Management team is a passionate group of Product Management, Engineering, UX, and Patient Safety professionals working together to enable health care providers to manage medication ordering, administration, and reporting.
Job Responsibilities
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50% ~ Product Owner: You will work directly with a dedicated scrum teams in the Product Owner role to prioritize the teams work and ensure the products that are built are the products you envision. In addition, you will own the care and maintenance of our existing core products, including triaging/prioritizing any production defects or other external demands for incorporation into the roadmap as necessary.
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30% ~ Product Evangelist: You will be the internal, and sometimes external face of the product to gain buy in across the organization for your roadmap, promote launches, sell pilot programs, and celebrate team wins.
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20% ~ Product Vision: You will bring our existing product priorities to market by owning all product functions related to new products or features including: early phase user research and concept validation (working with our talented UX team); design and functional requirements; testing and monitoring strategy (working with our talented Analytics team); and delivery.
Typical Qualifications
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3+ years of product management experience
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Experience in healthcare/health IT environment is a bonus, not a requirement
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Understanding of product management best practices, including agile development environments
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Experience working with stakeholders in a business environment, working across cross-functional groups
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Demonstrated success at driving innovation in a dynamic environment using analytic and quantitative capabilities
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Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, with energy & enthusiasm for solving unknowns
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Additional Information:
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Some light travel will be required (post COVID-19) for things like client site visits, sales and marketing events, internal cross-functional meetings, etc. (5-15% travel)
About athenahealth
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Our Vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
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Our Location: This role is based in Watertown, MA, just a few miles outside of Boston. Watertown is our Global Headquarters and our campus, the Arsenal on the Charles, is home to several restaurants, a local gym and large outdoor space. This office also has a cafeteria, coffee caf and food trucks that rotate every day.
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Our Culture: At athenahealth, our employees (or athenistas) are committed to making healthcare smarter. Our success is dependent on the diversity, collective spirit, and contributions of our people, clients and partners. We value teamwork and believe that the strength of our team comes from supporting each other and leveraging our specialized skills. If you are looking for a company that will enable you to work outside of your comfort zone to transform the healthcare ecosystem, athenahealth is the place for you.
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Our Perks: Along with health & financial benefits, our athenistas are offered a variety of perks that promote employee wellbeing such as commuter support, collaborative workspaces and dog-friendly offices - just to name a few.