Group Lead Product Manager (Patient Data Platform)
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this role, like many of our other roles, is remote-friendly.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>End-to-end ownership: </strong>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.</li> <li><strong>Internal + external influence:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Product definition: </strong>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.</li> <li><strong>Roadmapping & Prioritization: </strong>Own the multi-quarter roadmap for the Patient Data Platform, sequencing foundational investm