Sr. Technical Program Manager

Job description

About AKASA At AKASA, our mission is to build the future of healthcare with AI. As the leading provider of generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle, we help health systems comprehensively capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey. By empowering health systems to streamline their operations, they can focus on what matters most - delivering quality patient care. We have raised over $205M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, and Costanoa Ventures. This is the most exciting time to join AKASA. Revenue bookings for our new AI-native product suite have grown over 20x since launching in 2024. In this time, we have broken our record for the largest deal in company history three times consecutively. This growth is driven by the massive improvement we are generating for our customers across clinical quality and documentation accuracy, both top priority areas for health system leaders. Our deployments have been recognized nationally as "one of the most comprehensive real-world uses of GenAI in healthcare finance to date" (link https://hitconsultant.net/2025/10/13/cleveland-clinic-deploys-genai-for-coding-and-cdi-across-enterprise-powered-by-akasa/). Our customer base represents more than $120B+ in net patient revenue and includes the most innovative health systems in the country, like Cleveland Clinic, Duke, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Some of our recent recognitions include being named one of America's Top Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, #1 most promising healthcare RCM startup of 2025 by Black Book Market Research, and one of the fastest-growing GenAI startups to watch by AIM Research. Our CEO was ranked among the “Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs” by the Healthcare Technology Report, and we have been certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the past 6 years in a row. We’re building on this momentum to redefine what’s possible in healthcare. We’re looking for exceptional people to help us accelerate that reality. About the Role 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. The AKASA office is located in South San Francisco. While we support remote work on a variety of teams, we have a strong Bay Area presence across the company. For this role, we're looking for someone to join either our Bay Area team two days per week in the office or our NYC team for co-working days. What You'll Do - 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 Skills & Qualifications - 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 We Offer - Flexible paid time off (PTO) - Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision - Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA) - Generous parental leave policy - Full employee coverage for life insurance - Home office stipend - Cell phone/internet reimbursement - Company-paid holidays - 401(K) plan Compensation - Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $160,000 - $220,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description. The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors. We’re committed to doing the best work of our lives, together. Come see if we're the right team for you. We’re committed to doing the best work of our lives, together. Come see if we're the right team for you. AKASA is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and perspectives, just to name a few. We do not discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. AKASA considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. http://sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=11600 AKASA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at recruiting@akasa.com.