Product Manager of Prior Authorizations, Tennr
$175-190k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Office located in Chelsea, NY
Automation platform for healthcare operations
Open for applications
Automation platform for healthcare operations
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-190k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Office located in Chelsea, NY
201-500 employees
Company mission
To ease the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Role
Who you are
- This is a highly operational role - perfect for someone with experience tech-enabling a supply chain
- You should love digging into new technologies, be comfortable working with engineers on technical tradeoffs, and thrive in serving as the go-to person across teams
- 3-5 years of product management experience, preferably in technical platforms, developer tools, or B2B SaaS
- Proven ability to take ambiguous product ideas from concept to launch and from prototype to revenue
- Operational depth: experience designing or tech-enabling multi-step supply chains - especially in document processing, RPA, or integration-heavy systems
- Strong systems thinking: able to break down complex processes, identify bottlenecks, and define requirements for design simple, scalable solutions
- Integration fluency with APIs, schema mapping, and data standards (e.g., X12, FHIR, NCPDP, HL7); comfort navigating external vendors and SLAs
- Excited by our mission, and genuine interest in unpacking and solving nuanced complexities in reimbursement, prior auth, and utilization management
- Bias to action: Excited to move fast, test ideas, and refine through feedback
- Ownership mindset: accountable for outcomes, thrives in low-structure environments, and comfortable owning strategy and execution
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Manager to help build a prior auth manager for providers across the country - handling the supply chain of submission, status tracking, and appeal flows across the medical and pharmacy benefit routes
- High-cost care typically requires a provider to get a prior auth from a patient’s insurance - without it, they struggle to get paid and patients struggle to get the care they need
- This product’s success is foundational to reducing patient delays and denials
- As a Prior Auth PM, you will be accountable for defining the vision, strategy, and end-to-end execution of Tennr’s prior authorization product
- This isn’t a “manage the roadmap” role—this is a “make it successful” role
- You are expected to build a deep understanding of the problem space, identify the right problems, carve the path forward, and push the product from zero to one; then scale with clarity, urgency, and a deep sense of ownership over the outcomes
- You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, external operations, and internal product teams
- You’ll build the largest database of payer submission routes across different mediums - forms, portals, and transactions
- You’ll be the subject matter expert for all things prior auth - the person everyone turns to when it comes to for facilitating a successful submission and appeals process
- Define and drive the success of Tennr’s prior authorization product - owning outcomes and impact, not just tasks and timelines
- Own the prior authorization roadmap by leading development of Tennr’s submission, tracking, and appeals capabilities across medical and pharmacy benefits
- Operationalize the submission pathways by standing up and maintaining integrations with UM vendors, clearinghouses, fax, and portal/RPA routes; manage the “supply chain” of forms and schemas’l
- Tech-enable the prior auth supply chain by automating how forms, portals, and transactions are sourced, parsed, and maintained - turning fragmented payer requirements into reliable, programmable rails
- Implement robust tracking and automation by ensuring accurate status polling, time-stamping, and automated next steps for approvals, partials, and denials
- Drive design-partner success by guiding pilot customers through build-out, UAT, and go-live; measure and improve submission volume, turnaround time, and approval rates
- Set the bar for execution - maintaining a clear view of what “excellent” is while pushing the product toward commercial viability and scale - ensure that we are building something that will drive substantial value for our customers
Our take
In the healthcare system, there are inefficiencies associated with the referral process to specialists. Often coming in various forms, from email to fax, without any standardized structure, this leads to administrative burdens and significant delays in patient care.
Tennr has developed a machine learning and document scanning platform that automates the extraction of relevant information from referrals and facilitates faster appointment scheduling. With its focus solely on the healthcare industry, it addresses the complexities of medical terminology and ensures doctors, clinics and insurers stay informed throughout the process.
It's had a successful start, customers reporting significant improvements in their workflows, signalling strong market demand for the solution. This success is accompanied by strong funding, enabling the company to focus on accelerating its growth. It has also announced the launch of Tennr Network, which provides real-time updates to referring and receiving providers, as well as patients, on the status of any referral.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$101m
SERIES C
Oct 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.3m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity
- In-person culture
- Promoting from within
- 401k matching
- Unlimited PTO
- Free lunch (and a pantry stocked with a strangely wide array of puffed corn snacks)
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Trey Holterman
(Co-Founder & CEO)They studied Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning at Stanford. Prior to starting Tennr, they focused on applying their research in the health technology world at HealthIQ and Strava.
Diego Baugh
(Co-Founder & CPO)They studied Computer Science at Stanford with a focus on Human Computer Interaction and Design. Prior to Tennr, they built automation systems at Goldman Sachs as an Automation Engineer.
Tyler Johnson
(Co-Founder & CTO)They studied Computer Science with a focus on Systems and Networking at Stanford. Prior to Tennr, they worked as a Lead Engineer at Tanduo, where they built bespoke data workflows for large industrial companies.
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