Director of Product Management (Cedar Pay)

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.

The Role

We are seeking an outstanding Product Management leader for our Cedar Pay team. Product Management at Cedar is responsible for building products that align with our mission by solving the most dysfunctional parts of patient billing in a way that’s sustainable for our business and partners. 

The ideal candidate has a track record of building, launching, and improving successful enterprise software products in healthcare or other regulated industries both as an individual contributor as well as a leader of product managers. Their direct teams consider them among the best managers they’ve ever had. They thrive on facilitating exceptional internal collaboration across a wide variety of teams internally, and they enjoy working directly with customers to understand and solve their problems. 

Responsibilities

• Partner with VP Product and leaders from product management, engineering, product design, and data science to develop and iterate our product strategy


• Collaborate effectively with Makers and a broad range of internal stakeholders to execute our product strategy, achieve ambitious outcomes, and tell the story along the way


• Grow and develop our amazing team of product managers by hiring the best, positioning them for big impact, and supporting their career growth


• Collaborate closely with our enterprise provider clients throughout their entire Cedar journey from pre-contract to implementation to ongoing innovation, interfacing effectively with both senior executives and operational staff


• Continuously improve our product culture to empower Makers to find and scale the best ideas more quickly, efficiently, delightfully over time

Skills & Experience

• 10 years of relevant product management experience 


• 7 years of people management experience, including teams of 8


• Mastery of the product management discipline including strategy development, discovery, requirements gathering, development and launch operations, and product analytics 


• Strong leadership skills including storytelling, relationship building, organizational design, and a track record of leading cross functional teams to achieve positive outcomes


• Strong people management skills including high quality hiring, relationship building, giving and receiving feedback, equitable performance management, and mentorship


• Excellent cross-functional communication skills. Must be comfortable speaking with clients and internal audiences. 


• Espouse Cedar’s values: focus on the vision, use good judgment, reject mediocrity, apply a growth mindset

Compensation Range and Benefits

• Salary Range*: $221,000 - $260,000


• This role is equity eligible


• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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.