Sr. Product Manager (Commercial Analytics)

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 Team 

The Commercial Analytics team builds critical, trusted data analytics and insights to enable healthcare leaders to make data-driven decisions that impact millions of patients across the United States. Through analytics, descriptive analyses, and statistical models, we consistently aim to better understand the needs of patients, find improvement opportunities, and impact patient’s lives. 

To do this, we have an open, supportive, and collaborative team culture. “Love thy teammate” is one of our team values. We live into this value by operating from a mindset of curiosity, possibility, and the best intentions of each of our team members. As a team, we are dedicated to continually growing our technical excellence and collaborative excellence, equally.

The Commercial Analytics team’s goal is to enable our clients to understand, appreciate, and extract the most value out of their Cedar relationship and products. The team’s ambition is to deliver data products to healthcare providers that

1. build trust in Cedar’s products and demonstrates the value they deliver, 
2. empower providers to take advantage of Cedar’s varying features to maximize value, and
3. solve pain points with data-driven solutions (i.e. financial forecasting)

The Role

Cedar is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the team and own a new, differentiated product delivering scalable and accurate insights. 

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for identifying and executing on goals and objectives that align to Cedar’s company strategy. You will synthesize short-term needs and signals into long-term strategies and projects, collaborate cross-functionally to drive the team’s goals forward, and partner closely with client-facing teams to iterate on the best possible solutions for our clients. 

You will develop data products that underscore value that our products deliver for our clients. These data products will  communicate the value of our product suite or provide standalone value for our clients.

You are responsible for ensuring that the team can scalably impact our cliens’ success through data insights. You should be an expert in working with complex data, using visualization tools such as Looker, and have a keen understanding of how to apply data to address ambiguous problems.

At a high level, the role will involve:

• Product Strategy: Work with clients, prospects and other healthcare entities to ensure we have an understanding of important problems to solve as well as opportunities for Cedar to differentiate ourselves as the market leader in insights regarding patients' financial experience.  Develop strategies that will help us achieve these goals."
• Execution: working with Commercial teams, Design, Data Science to execute on the strategy, deliver high quality data products

Commercialization: Collaborate with our commercial + business teams to understand evolving customer needs, iterate, and drive adoption to fully realize customer value

• Infrastructure: Collaborate with data science and data engineering on data infrastructure, data governance, data quality, and visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery through direct client engagement and market research in order to gain market insights and drive product strategy
• Investigate and scope which key problems your product area should solve
• Develop and lead execution on a clear and strategic roadmap aligned with company objectives
• Collaborate closely with commercial and technical partners to unblock team goals and drive shared objectives forward
• Ensure Cedar clients have access to the data and insights that they need to understand how Cedar helps them meet their goals
• Collaborate with data teams on required infrastructure needs.
• Scale the team’s existing analytics tools and dashboards and develop future iterations based on needs
• Present and clearly communicate data findings and underlying methodology to par