What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customer Experience Manager position at athenahealth?
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Position Summary
The ICM will strategically manage and own projects and programs on the Service Platform Enablement Team (SPIES) team, with a focus on process improvement, Care transformation, and the operationalization of AI-enabled capabilities. They will partner with stakeholders across business areas, athenaIT, and SPIES peers to define use cases, data requirements, and success criteria for both manual and AI-driven solutions. The ICM will ensure changes to the Customer experience align with business requirements, oversee model validation and testing, and approve new functionality—balancing performance, explainability, and risk controls as features move to production.
About The Team
The Service Platform Enablement Team designs athenahealth’s issue resolution processes and drives continuous improvement of support methodologies, tools, and emerging technologies. The team defines a customer-centric issue resolution path and optimizes Salesforce Service Cloud, engagement platforms, and AI/ML tooling to enable best-practice processes that manage issues efficiently and increase customer satisfaction. In collaboration with SPIES members and cross-functional partners, this role ensures teams have optimal Salesforce configuration, documentation, support, reporting, and responsible AI governance—helping translate model outputs into operational improvements, monitor model performance, and sustain adoption within organizational standards.
Essential Job Responsibilities
$78,000 - $132,000
The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About Athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What We Can Do For You
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.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Position Summary
The ICM will strategically manage and own projects and programs on the Service Platform Enablement Team (SPIES) team, with a focus on process improvement, Care transformation, and the operationalization of AI-enabled capabilities. They will partner with stakeholders across business areas, athenaIT, and SPIES peers to define use cases, data requirements, and success criteria for both manual and AI-driven solutions. The ICM will ensure changes to the Customer experience align with business requirements, oversee model validation and testing, and approve new functionality—balancing performance, explainability, and risk controls as features move to production.
About The Team
The Service Platform Enablement Team designs athenahealth’s issue resolution processes and drives continuous improvement of support methodologies, tools, and emerging technologies. The team defines a customer-centric issue resolution path and optimizes Salesforce Service Cloud, engagement platforms, and AI/ML tooling to enable best-practice processes that manage issues efficiently and increase customer satisfaction. In collaboration with SPIES members and cross-functional partners, this role ensures teams have optimal Salesforce configuration, documentation, support, reporting, and responsible AI governance—helping translate model outputs into operational improvements, monitor model performance, and sustain adoption within organizational standards.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Lead program and stakeholder management across Customer Care to identify, prioritize, and implement process, policy, and procedure improvements that increase operational efficiency and effectiveness, including the evaluation and operationalization of AI-enabled solutions.
- Partner with Care Leadership, athenaIT, and cross-functional stakeholders to define problems, capture user personas/stories and requirements, map business processes, and support solution delivery — from scoping AI/ML use cases and data requirements through model validation, UAT, and release.
- Serve as the primary coordinator supporting the Director across the Issue Management continuum—balancing competing stakeholder needs, influencing cross-division decisions, and ensuring AI-driven and manual solutions are scalable, equitable, and aligned to business priorities.
- Monitor current-state performance and AI model outputs, conduct ROI and impact analyses (including model efficacy, bias, and drift assessments), and translate data into actionable recommendations to improve outcomes and reduce operational work.
- Lead change management, governance, and adoption for both traditional and AI-enabled process changes: present key results and risk/benefit assessments to stakeholders from project teams to executive leadership, and drive training and controls to ensure responsible, explainable use of AI.
- Drive calibration amongst teammates and geographies to drive accuracy and consistency within team processes that are daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly, ensuring tasks are executed upon in a timely and complete manner including but not limited to:
- Work cross-organizationally to ensure SPIES is considering global impacts of process changes and factoring in the needs of other business areas
- Leverage dashboards to perform data analysis for inflow inspection and trending when needed
- Mentor and support junior level teammates as needed
- Complete professional development self-led trainings
- Administrative tasks & meetings
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Deep knowledge of athenahealth products and platform capabilities.
- Proven customer obsession — consistently delights both external and internal customers.
- Track record of owning and independently delivering complex projects end-to-end.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills to drive outcomes across teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to SLT and broad stakeholder groups.
- Skilled with CRM, WFM, telephony tools and Microsoft Office/Teams (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Exceptional organizational skills — manages multiple, detail intensive, time sensitive‑ priorities with accuracy.
- Adaptability and eagerness for change — thrives in fast-paced, transformation-focused environments.
$78,000 - $132,000
The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About Athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What We Can Do For You
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.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Salary : $78,000 - $132,000