Product Strategy & Ops Strategist, Cedar
$136-160k
Plus this role is also equity eligible
1-3 days a week in office
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
Be an early applicant
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$136-160k
Plus this role is also equity eligible
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower us all to easily and affordably pursue the care we need.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives on clarity, enjoys organizing complex work, and helps teams operate at their best
- 5-7 years of experience in product operations, delivery management, or program management within SaaS, fintech, or healthcare technology environments
- The ability to come into Cedar's NYC HQ office 1-3 times a week
- Strong cross-functional collaborator experienced partnering with Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams to coordinate feature launches and complex initiatives
- Operational and execution oriented mindset with experience managing roadmaps, delivery timelines, and planning tools (e.g., Jira or Smartsheet)
- Analytical and detail focused, able to interpret data, track adoption metrics, and connect product outcomes to business impact
- Clear communicator with excellent organizational skills and comfort preparing updates, materials, and communications that keep stakeholders aligned through delivery
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Strategy & Ops, Strategist III to strengthen how our Product team plans, delivers, and scales new products and features
- In this role, you’ll bring structure to how we plan and deliver our roadmap - managing the systems and processes that support planning while helping execute launches that deliver measurable business impact
- You’ll bridge strategy and execution: running planning cycles, tracking progress against goals, and coordinating the teams that turn product ideas into results
- Support strategic planning and prioritization: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps to company goals and client needs, contributing to quarterly and annual planning cycles
- Maintain roadmap and capacity visibility: Keep a clear, accurate view of Cedar’s product investments, dependencies, and available capacity through dashboards and trackers that make priorities and progress transparent
- Strengthen tools and workflows: Help evolve the systems (Jira, roadmap tracker, dashboards) that streamline intake, prioritization, and reporting across teams
- Support operating rhythms: Prepare materials and insights for Monthly Operating Reviews (MORs) and other leadership forums, summarizing progress, risks, and opportunities for improvement
- Advance product metrics and insights: Partner with PS&O and Product Analytics to analyze product performance data, uncover gaps or inefficiencies, and highlight opportunities to improve adoption, experience, and business outcomes
- Support product and feature launches: Partner with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Marketing, and Client teams to coordinate and execute feature rollouts - helping determine when features are ready to scale to general availability (GA) and ensuring smooth, well coordinated launches
- Ensure cross functional readiness: Equip internal and client-facing teams with clear, up to date resources such as demos, decks, and release materials that communicate value and drive adoption
- Maintain clear communication: Support the creation and delivery of product release communications, including roadmaps, release notes, and client updates that provide transparency into what’s coming and why
- Monitor adoption and performance: Track rollout progress and feature utilization, contributing to monthly readouts and surfacing insights on adoption trends and client impact
Our take
Over $1 billion is said to be lost annually by physicians as a result of inefficient and disjointed healthcare billing practices. The subsequently low patient satisfaction rates lead to poorer care, and real losses for providers who see patients switching away from their plans.
Cedar looks to remedy these issues with a selection of consumer-facing services which streamline billing, insurance and healthcare processes. Healthcare billing concerns a huge percentage of US adults, so optimizing patient satisfaction is of increasing concern - a great opportunity for the company.
After acquiring competing patient finance streamlining service OODA Health in 2021, Cedar netted substantial funds and launched its Payer Intelligence Layer. This allows it to integrate data from insurers and providers to create a single source of information. The company was also endorsed by the Montana Hospital Association's shared services division, to be listed as its only preferred patient financial engagement technology.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2022
$68.4m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Multiple health / dental / vision insurance options
- Office in Manhattan
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
- 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
- Up to $10,000 in reimbursement through Carrot Fertility to support comprehensive, inclusive care for family-forming and reproductive health journeys
- Constant learning and development opportunities
- Resources for mental and physical wellbeing
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Arel Lidow
(Co-Founder)Previously VP of product at AppNexus where they supervised the development and launch of the company’s flagship products. Began their career as a technology associate at Bridgewater Associates, working on trading systems for the world’s largest hedge fund.
Dr. Florian Otto
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an executive at Zocdoc where they drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. Began their business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 9 more jobs at Cedar