Senior Engineering Manager, Healthcare Vertical

Nextiva is reimagining customer experiences through an AI-powered, conversation-centric platform that combines customer experience and team collaboration. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a distributed healthcare engineering team, provide people leadership, and drive execution of customer- and business-critical healthcare initiatives. The role applies deep healthcare expertise to areas including data privacy, interoperability, and U.S.-centric healthcare technology.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a healthcare engineering team of approximately 9–10 engineers
• Provide people leadership, direction, accountability, and execution support across the engineering team
• Manage a distributed team spanning engineering resources in India and the United States
• Front-end the healthcare engineering team and drive project execution
• Structure, organize, and manage healthcare technology projects
• Apply healthcare industry knowledge to engineering planning, decision-making, and execution
• Help engineering teams navigate the nuances and complexities of U.S. healthcare technology
• Bring practical understanding of healthcare data privacy into how projects and systems are structured
• Guide engineering execution involving healthcare interoperability requirements
• Work effectively with technical teams while maintaining primary accountability for people leadership and delivery
• Drive execution for healthcare initiatives connected to external opportunities

Requirements:

• 7–10+ years of relevant engineering experience , including engineering people-management experience and significant experience working within the healthcare domain
• Significant professional experience working in the healthcare domain
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing engineering teams
• Experience managing teams of approximately 10 engineers or comparable scope
• Strong people-management and team leadership capabilities
• Demonstrated experience structuring and managing healthcare technology projects
• Strong healthcare project execution experience
• Experience with FHIR and healthcare-system interoperability
• Understanding of healthcare data privacy considerations and how they influence technology projects
• Technical knowledge sufficient to effectively lead engineering teams and participate in technical discussions
• Experience operating within U.S.-centric healthcare environments
• Ability to lead distributed engineering teams
• Strong people leadership and team-management skills
• Deep understanding of the healthcare domain
• Strong ownership and accountability for execution
• Ability to provide structure and clarity across complex projects
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Comfortable leading geographically distributed teams
• Ability to connect healthcare-domain requirements with engineering execution
• Strong focus on moving projects forward while anticipating healthcare-specific complexities
• Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or closely related healthcare technology environments
• Experience managing engineering organizations distributed across multiple locations
• Experience leading teams responsible for customer- or opportunity-driven healthcare projects
• Experience helping engineering teams translate healthcare-domain requirements into effective project execution