Group Lead Product Manager (Patient Data Platform)

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

Cedar is improving the healthcare financial experience. Our technology improves the overall patient billing and engagement experience, enabling healthcare providers to thrive in a constantly evolving environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care.

Cedar is looking for a Group Lead Product Manager to lead our Patient Data Platform team. Cedar's next generation of products, including agentic workflows, operator tools, and standalone billing experiences, all depend on a unified, reliable, and extensible data foundation. As the product lead, you will co-own that foundation: the normalized data model, transformation pipelines, integration standards, and data exchange patterns that turn raw data feeds into clean, trustworthy patient accounting records that power Cedar's product portfolio.

This is one of the most impactful and technically challenging roles at Cedar. You bring deep expertise in how health systems generate and exchange clinical and financial data: data feeds, real-time integrations, HL7 messages from EHR systems like Epic, athena, and Cerner, and will apply that knowledge to shape how downstream products and AI-powered agents consume that data to drive patient and operator experiences. Your end-to-end perspective across people, process, and technology will set the course for how Cedar integrates complex and sensitive health system data at scale. You and your team will ensure that Cedar's products and agents have reliable, cross-system access to accurate, up-to-date, and secure information, enabling the next generation of intelligent healthcare financial workflows.

Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this role, like many of our other roles, is remote-friendly.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership: Own the Patient Data Platform from strategy through execution. Help identify gaps in Cedar's data capabilities, define solutions, and drive delivery alongside engineering and integrations. Engage directly with clients and EHR partners to understand upstream data workflows and translate them into platform requirements.
• Internal + external influence: Work internally across Cedar's product engineering, integrations, payments, and communications teams and externally with Cedar's clients and EHR partners to drive integration standards that support multi-product, multi-provider scale.
• Product definition: Define and evolve Cedar's normalized data across providers in terms of how clinical and financial entities are represented, linked, and made available to product consumers and agentic workflows. Drive data governance standards including data quality tracking, lineage, and contract definitions that give downstream teams confidence in the data they consume.
• Roadmapping & Prioritization: Own the multi-quarter roadmap for the Patient Data Platform, sequencing foundational investments (integration patterns, cross-system identity, data infrastructure) against provider onboarding timelines and product launch dependencies. Make the tradeoff calls between long-term platform bets and near-term delivery commitments.
• Partnership with technical leadership: Co-own data and architecture decisions with Cedar's senior technical leaders, including data architects, engineering leads, and delivery-side integration experts. Translate product requirements into technical constraints and vice versa, ensuring alignment between product vision and technical feasibility.
• Data governance and quality: Establish data quality frameworks that ensure reliable, accurate data SLAs for go-lives.
• Metrics and impact measurement: Define and track platform health and adoption metrics, including SLAs for data accuracy and freshness, integration onboarding velocity, and incident reduction tied to data quality improvements. Use data to inform prioritization and demonstrate platform ROI.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in product management, co-founder, or related technical role
• At least 3 years of experience building and shipping technical products that manage data pipelines, data models, or integration platforms
• Experience working with senior stakeholders at large enterprises
• Track record of shipping products that deliver measurable results — ideally platform products that unblock multiple downstream product teams
• Strong knowledge of data exchanges and integration patterns for major EHR players (e.g., Epic, athena, Cerner)

Bonus Qualifications

• Technical background (CS degree, former engineer, or deep comfort reading system design docs and data model ERDs)
• Healthcare RCM knowledge - understanding of guarantors, patient responsibility, insurance adjudication, EOBs, and the billing lifecycle
• Experience establishing data governance frameworks and driving alignment across engineering, operations, and client stakeholders
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, gRPC) and how data flows through ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience leading platform migrations — moving product functionality from legacy systems to modern service-oriented architectures while maintaining production reliability
• Familiarity with HIPAA data isolation requirements in multi-tenant healthcare platforms

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Compensation Range and Benefits

• Salary Range: $204,000-$240,000
• This role is also 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: View email address on aiapply.co (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, including fertility & adoption assistance, 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 26 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.