Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Role Summary

Join athenahealth as a Product Manager based in Boston, MA, working in a hybrid environment. This role offers the opportunity to lead product initiatives in access control frameworks for users, applications, and agents using innovative AI methodologies. This position provides exposure and collaboration with a wide range of R&D stakeholders and will report directly to leadership of the Identity and Access Management product zone.

Team Summary

The team is responsible for a centralized authorization framework that governs access decisions across athena One’s entire healthcare IT ecosystem. This framework ensures that only authorized providers, patients, applications, and agents can access specific workflows, actions, and data. The team plays a critical role in maintaining security and compliance while enabling seamless user experiences across multiple healthcare applications. With a focus on fine-grained access and agentic security, the team innovates in both AI-driven product development and defense against AI-enabled threats to support athenahealth’s mission of simplifying healthcare complexity.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Lead product planning and execution for access control features, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.

• Communicate product vision, progress, and outcomes effectively to stakeholders through presentations and reports.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, UX/UI, security, and compliance stakeholders to define and deliver new features.

• Evolve product management practices empowered by AI, encompassing research, prototyping, implementation, communications, stakeholder coordination, monitoring, and maintenance.

• Analyze system workflows and usability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing product performance metrics and user feedback.

• Participate in industry research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy.

• Assist in defining product roadmaps and long-term strategic planning.

• Engage with vendors as needed to support product integrations.

• Contribute to documentation and training materials for internal audiences.

• Stay current with emerging trends in AI security, product management methodologies, and identity and access management technologies.

Expected Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 5 to 7 years of product management experience, preferably in identity and access management or related technology domains.

• Proven leadership skills without direct authority, with experience influencing cross-functional teams.

• Strong communication and presentation skills tailored to diverse stakeholder groups.

• Demonstrated track record of reliable feature delivery in Agile (or similar) environments.

• Prior ownership of products involving APIs (REST or GraphQL), API gateways and management, and/or developer experience.

• Familiarity with policy decision/enforcement patterns (PDP/PEP), fine-grained authorization, multi-tenant authorization.

• Some experience with AI product management, including prototyping and testing features with the help of, or incorporating, AI.

• Proficiency in requirements gathering, workflow analysis, usability analysis, and system analysis.

Expected Compensation

$121,000 - $207,000
The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented  employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What we can do for you:

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative  workspaces  — some offices even welcome dogs.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers

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