Senior Manager, Credentialing and Payer Enrollment

athenahealth • Boston, MA

22h • $105,000 - $179,000

About The Position

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. We’re launching a new Credentialing & Payer Enrollment service and seeking a Senior Manager to design and build the capability end‑to-end. This role combines hands‑on operational leadership in the early stages with strategic ownership of processes, metrics, and organizational design as the service scales. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product to embed automation and drive margin efficiency. About the Role / Team You will found and lead the credentialing and payer enrollment service — designing workflows, building the frontline team, establishing operational infrastructure, and partnering across operations, product, and engineering to scale via automation. In early stages you’ll be deeply operational; as the service matures you’ll shift to strategic leadership and organizational design.

Requirements

• Deep operational knowledge of payer enrollment and credentialing, including EDI enrollment processes and payer variability.
• Proven experience designing and launching processes from scratch (not only optimization).
• Strong cross‑functional influence — ability to align stakeholders and deliver without direct authority.
• Data‑driven decision making with experience defining and using metrics to drive improvements.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and a fast-evolving, startup-phase environment.
• Experience managing and developing frontline teams through growth phases.
• Familiarity with process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) and workflow mapping tools (Visio, Confluence, JIRA).
• Proficiency with reporting and analysis tools (Excel, Smartsheet).

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare technology experience preferred; direct knowledge of athenahealth ecosystem a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end‑to-end credentialing and payer enrollment processes that support current operations and future automation.
• Build, lead, and develop the frontline onboarding/support team responsible for scoping, data collection, and customer project delivery.
• Conduct workflow and process analyses to identify inefficiencies and root causes; translate findings into prioritized improvement initiatives.
• Define and implement metrics and measurement frameworks to track service performance, customer outcomes, and operational efficiency.
• Act as the strategic liaison between operations, product, and engineering to ensure alignment as automation capabilities are developed and deployed.
• Influence payer partners and internal development teams to deliver technical solutions when process changes are insufficient.
• Maintain deep, up‑to-date knowledge of the payer landscape and triage unscoped payers as new customers onboard.
• Lead change communications across business units as processes, systems, and roles evolve.
• Drive toward margin efficiency with a target of achieving positive margin by year two.
• Evolve organizational design as scale requires—hire and structure teams to be lean, efficient, and sustainable.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees