[Hiring] Customer Success Manager, Senior Associate @athenahealth

Role Description

Help healthcare organizations achieve better outcomes by maximizing the value of athenahealth solutions. The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is responsible for post-sale success, including driving customer satisfaction, product adoption, retention, and growth across a portfolio of accounts. This role partners closely with customer stakeholders and internal teams to deliver measurable business impact. This position is based in the United States (remote or hybrid, depending on location) and reports to a Customer Success leadership role.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of Small Group and Group customers, supporting their success and growth on the athenahealth platform.
• Build and manage relationships with assigned customers to understand business goals and drive successful outcomes.
• Develop and maintain success plans aligned with customer priorities and performance objectives.
• Partner with internal teams (e.g., product, training, support) to ensure customers achieve value from athenahealth solutions.
• Conduct regular performance reviews with customer stakeholders to track progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor customer performance using benchmarks and data insights, recommending workflow or configuration improvements.
• Maintain consistent communication with customers to address questions, updates, and ongoing initiatives.
• Identify risks to customer satisfaction or retention and implement mitigation strategies in collaboration with internal teams.
• Support product adoption and readiness for new features and enhancements.
• Partner with account teams to identify opportunities for growth and expansion.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools, automation platforms, or data-driven customer engagement models.
• Travel up to 20% annually as needed to support customer engagements.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Facilitate connections between customers and athenahealth resources, including support, advisory services, and product teams.
• Provide visibility into product updates and roadmap enhancements.
• Support customer participation in feedback programs and community initiatives.
• Demonstrate understanding of healthcare industry trends and their impact on customer operations.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts to resolve customer challenges and improve outcomes.
• Document customer interactions, plans, and progress in internal systems.
• Contribute to process improvements to enhance the customer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in customer success, client services, healthcare operations, or a related field.
• Experience working with healthcare systems, revenue cycle management (RCM), or electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customer relationships simultaneously.
• Experience communicating with and influencing stakeholders at multiple levels, including leadership.
• Ability to analyze data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Experience working cross-functionally in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with healthcare specialties (e.g., primary care, behavioral health, orthopedics) preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage competing demands.
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.

Expected Compensation

$71,000 - $121,000. 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.

Company Description

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 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.