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Principal RCM Specialist & Sales Engineer

Thoughtful Automation

Thoughtful Automation

Sales & Business Development
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2024

About Thoughtful AI

We're seeking an elite and passionate Subject Matter Expert in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) to become part of our dynamic team, working alongside forward-thinking C-suite executives and spearheading impactful, transformative solutions.

Thoughtful AI is a trailblazing Series A startup at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare operations through our unparalleled AI solutions for Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). Our transformative technology offers healthcare companies unprecedented relief, stacking on top of existing platforms to enable substantial change without the hassle of large data transfers or extensive retraining.

Our solutions are blowing customers away, and as we continue to push the boundaries of innovation in RCM, we are seeking an exceptional Revenue Cycle Management Subject Matter Expert to help us us refine, implement, and optimize our offerings. Our technology arsenal includes Fully Human Capable AI Agents driven by Robotic Process Automation, Optical Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Large Language Models, harmoniously working together to deliver unparalleled results for RCM departments.

Join us at the forefront of revolutionizing the healthcare industry!

What Sets Us Apart

We're making significant strides in RCM, delivering unprecedented returns on investment and setting new standards for operational excellence. Our achievements speak volumes: an astonishing 80% reduction in charge capture time, a remarkable 20% decrease in denials attributed to eligibility verification (EV), and an impressive 75% decrease in claims denials.

Unlike traditional RCM solutions that aim to replace existing tools, our innovative approach integrates seamlessly with leading Electronic Health Records (EHRs) like Athena, Availity, Waystar, PayorLogic, Phreesia, UHC, BCBS, Cigna, Aetna, Medicaid, Medicare, and more, across diverse subspecialties, turbo-charging their existing systems. Our solutions are a beacon for those at the forefront of healthcare, promising enhancements and a complete evolution of existing systems for superior efficiency and outcomes.

As part of our visionary team, you're not just solving today's challenges but shaping the future of healthcare RCM. Your expertise will be pivotal in anticipating and bridging the next gaps in the healthcare RCM landscape, ensuring our solutions remain at the cutting edge of innovation. Come be a part of our exciting journey towards transforming healthcare!

The Challenge

This is not just a role—it's a call to revolutionize the world of RCM with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. We are seeking an individual with extensive expertise in navigating diverse RCM tools inside and out. Someone who can easily navigate and anticipate customer pain points throughout the RCM space and elegantly present our innovative solutions.

The ideal candidate should be proficient in asking high-level questions to extract the essence of customer experiences with various leading EHRs across various subspecialties, understand how to coordinate services across primary and secondary platforms, and have a deep understanding of claims structures and payment processes.

Beyond technical prowess, this role demands a visionary mindset. The right candidate will be comfortable speaking about AI technologies (RPA, NLP, LLM, OCR) and capable of articulating our sophisticated solutions from a macro perspective to potential clients and articulating customer needs to the tech team to deliver quality solutions.

This dynamic and fast-paced role requires agility to manage shifting schedules and large volumes of critical meetings. A key candidate shines in presentations and possesses analytical and financial acumen for costing and calculating ROI. They also serve as the go-to resource for all SME-related needs across departments, underscoring their indispensable position within the organization. You are a true customer advocate, orchestrating, coordinating, and collaborating across multiple departments to deliver an unparalleled white-glove customer experience.

Mission Overview

As Thoughtful AI's Revenue Cycle Management Subject Matter Expert, your expertise will help customers bridge our innovative solutions with the unique challenges they face. We seek a professional who possesses a comprehensive understanding of our customers’ pain points and seamlessly delivers strategic solutions with a polished execution and world-class customer experience.

We're seeking a candidate who mirrors our pursuit of top-tier standards and relentless drive and delivers exceptional results—a standard reminiscent of the business world's most elite teams. This role is tailor-made for an individual who thrives under pressure, embraces challenges, and consistently achieves impeccable results through relentless commitment, disciplined execution, and a level of finesse that sets a new industry standard.

Core Objectives

  • Strategic Engagement: Target and strategically engage with high-value healthcare accounts, leading complex RCM solutions to successful implementation.
  • Execution Expertise: Utilize in-depth RCM knowledge to navigate and oversee intricate automation sales and implementation cycles proficiently. Ensure the delivery of solutions that surpass client expectations through strategic deployment, meticulous project management, and engaging closely with clients throughout the process.
  • Process Development: Anticipate and translate customer pain points gathered during deep dives, guiding customer engineers through processes and empowering them to create master automation plans.
  • Customer Vision: Walk customers through use cases, and understand and present master automation plans (SOPs), and contracts with sales teams.
  • Leadership in Best Practices: Provide expertise on how best-in-industry providers run their practices, including best practices in payer and insurance integration and the banking and financial aspects critical to RCM.
  • C-suite to Frontline Partnership: Build and nurture robust relationships across the healthcare spectrum, from C-suite executives to frontline staff, delivering insightful, consultative advice and demonstrating the comprehensive value of Thoughtful's solutions for operational success at every level.
  • Cross-functional Synergy: Drive training across sales, delivery, and engineering teams, enriching our teams with comprehensive insights and ensuring a holistic approach to addressing client challenges.
  • Expansion Strategy Development: Work with Client Success Managers and Sales Teams to identify, formulate, and execute strategies to expand Thoughtful AI's impact within client organizations, starting with RCM and expanding to other operational areas.

Candidate Profile

  • Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field. A background in Technology is helpful.
  • Proven Experience: At least seven years in RCM or healthcare finance, demonstrating leadership in successful initiatives and surpassing performance targets.
  • Industry Best Practices: Possess a deep understanding of industry-leading practices, encompassing payer and insurance integrations, as well as the banking and financial aspects of RCM. Anticipate customer pain points by leveraging platform knowledge and fostering collaborative conversations about solutions that naturally build client trust.
  • Organizational Skills: Proficient in handling a high volume of meetings, organizing schedules, anticipating upcoming needs, and managing last-minute changes while balancing support to customer engineers, sales teams, and C-suite executives.
  • Strategic Sales Proficiency: Ability to work closely with sales teams as a sales engineer with analytical ability to consider costing, revenue, and potential impact on customer revenue to understand the transactional costs per human and reflect the savings and ROI to the customer, navigating complex sales scenarios to deliver high-value solutions to our customers.
  • Technology Fluency: Proficient in EHR/EMR platforms across multiple subspecialties, with a thorough understanding of the technological requirements for RCM efficiency. Confident in tackling challenges and anticipating needs in unfamiliar applications.
  • Immediate Impact: Capability to quickly integrate into teams, contributing significantly and driving substantial results from the outset.
  • Communication Skills: Effective communicator who assists in developing materials for conferences and presentations, speaks to executives as an industry expert, and is able to travel to customer sites.

Preferred Experience

  • RCM Consulting: The ideal candidate has proven experience in revenue cycle management consulting. He or she has worked with customers across subspecialties and EHR systems facing a gamut of RCM problems and process re-engineered them to have concise questions and SOPs.
  • Healthcare Financial Strategy Expertise: Experience in healthcare financial planning or closely related areas, providing a specialized strategic advantage in RCM dynamics and solutions.
  • Deal Achievement: History of managing and closing significant deals, demonstrating an ability to enhance revenue growth and customer satisfaction.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive Package: $200-220k salary and benefits package designed to attract the top professionals in the field, with performance incentives for exceptional achievements.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Our comprehensive package includes stock options, comprehensive health benefits, and an extensive paid time-off policy.

The Call

We're seeking individuals driven to profoundly impact a competitive, time-honored industry. If you are ambitious to work among the very best, push boundaries, and redefine industry standards, Thoughtful invites you to join our elite team at the forefront of technological innovation within the healthcare landscape.

Are you the warrior we're looking for? Apply now and take the first step towards a role that offers not just rewards, excitement, and a quick-paced work environment but also an opportunity to transform healthcare operations through cutting-edge technologies.

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