Senior Technical Program Manager, AKASA
$160-220k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
Open for applications
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-220k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable human health by building the future of healthcare with AI.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical background - You are comfortable using software tools like Github and can understand the technical details of Generative AI products without a steep learning curve
- Clear communicator - Can effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all roles and levels of management; Able to use clear, simple language to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Detail-oriented - You are an expert at tracking details at the lowest level and use these intricacies to inform high-level conversations
- Jira expert - You live and breathe JIRA; Be comfortable with JIRA project management from initializing sprints, building dashboards to visualize work, automating workflows, and querying to find specific artifacts
- Analytical - Ability to leverage intelligence dashboards in solutions such as Superset, Tableau, or Looker
- Effective change agent - You exhibit strong communication skills. You can build rapport and good working relationships with senior leaders and peers. You can separate facts from opinions, and take the perspectives of others and reach a workable solution. You are flexible in how you influence leaders to achieve the right outcomes
- Excellent executor - You effectively manage complex projects and demonstrate consistent attention to detail. In ambiguous situations, you are able to account for unknowns and recover from setbacks well
- Startup experience is strongly preferred
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you'll report to the Sr. TPM Manager and will work with AKASA's product managers, internal engineering and customer success teams to design, build, launch, and scale new products and features
- Specifically, you'll build initiative plans and establish timelines, serve as a player/coach in translating product requirements into technical specifications, iterate with our engineering team to turn those specifications into working products, and roll out those products in our customers' systems
- Manage the SDLC for our products from start to finish, including creating timelines and milestones for key product initiatives, breaking down product specifications into manageable development deliverables, and serving as a key point of contact for final testing, deployment, and hypercare support
- Understand technical tradeoffs and/or blockers and seamlessly communicate them to non-technical audiences, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Utilize data to drive decision-making, conflict resolution, and creative problem-solving
- Define and execute comprehensive UAT plans, coordinating test cases, issue tracking, and stakeholder sign-off to ensure successful product readiness
- Own the scrum process and make improvements when necessary to accelerate team velocity
- Be accountable for schedules, track and report progress regularly to all stakeholders while mitigating risks along the way
- Work with engineering leadership to clearly define monthly, and quarterly objectives for engineering teams
- Act as the swiss army knife for your project team and step in to fill in any gaps not covered by team members
- Ensure the quality and completeness of product and project requirement documents
- Keep the focus on top priorities while shielding the team from distractions and interferences
- Be an advocate for agile development best practices across the organization
Our take
The US healthcare system is both financially and operationally complex. It is estimated to cost patients and providers $500 billion annually in medical billing and insurance administrative expenses. AKASA, formerly Alpha Health, addresses this issue with its Unified Automation technology
The technology is designed to streamline revenue cycle operations by combining human expertise with AI-driven automation. It deploys machine-learning tools supported by revenue cycle specialists who can handle more complex cases and refine the algorithms.
This blend of human and machine intelligence is a stand-out approach, which could well serve as a blueprint for other sectors. Meanwhile, AKASA will continue to help reshape the healthcare industry by solving its complex operational challenges.
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Insights
-17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$120m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $205m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parent leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Malinka Walaliyadde
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Counsyl and Corning Life Sciences. They have an Engineering degree from Cornell University.
Varun Ganapathi
(Co-Founder & CTO)They have successfully started two AI companies prior to AKASA. One was acquired by Google and the other by Udacity.
Andy Atwal
(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)Prior to AKASA, they were the founding Software Engineer at Counsyl, a health technology company offering DNA screenings for various diseases.
Ben Beadle-Ryby
(Co-Founder)Previously, they were a Partner at the Advisory Board Company, where they oversaw revenue cycle consulting and technology.
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