About the role
About Plenful
Plenful is on a mission to transform healthcare operations from the inside out. Fresh off our $50M Series B and backed by Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, TQ Ventures, Susa/Kivu Ventures, and other leading investors, we’re building the category-defining AI automation platform that healthcare teams rely on to operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Our technology empowers healthcare operators across hospital and health systems, pharmacies and payors to eliminate manual work, reduce administrative burden, and improve compliance, all while unlocking critical revenue to fund programs for their in-need patient populations.
Built by healthcare operators for healthcare operators, Plenful is driven by a deep understanding of the challenges facing today’s care teams. We’re passionate about equipping healthcare workers with world-class tools that deliver real, measurable impact, and we’re proud to serve 100+ leading health systems, pharmacies, and healthcare organizations across the country. If you’re excited to help shape the future of healthcare, we’d love to meet you. Apply now to join our growing team.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Manager of Technical Customer Success to lead our six-person Intake Authorization team as it grows.
This is a player-coach role: you’ll manage and develop the team while carrying your own customer portfolio. You’ll help customers solve complex data, integration, and configuration challenges while ensuring the team delivers consistent, scalable, and high-quality technical solutions.
You’ll work closely with Account Management, Product, and Engineering to improve the customer experience and shape how Technical Customer Success supports the Intake Authorization product.
What You’ll Do
- Manage, coach, and develop the Intake Authorization Technical Customer Success team.
- Carry a customer portfolio and provide hands-on technical guidance.
- Establish standards for technical quality, customer communication, ownership, and responsiveness.
- Guide investigations involving SQL, customer data, APIs, healthcare integrations, configurations, and product behavior.
- Lead the technical response to complex or high-impact customer escalations.
- Manage team capacity, prioritization, and customer coverage as the team grows.
- Improve how the team triages, investigates, documents, and escalates technical issues.
- Turn recurring customer challenges into documentation, tooling, automation, training, or product improvements.
- Partner with Account Management, Product, Engineering, Support, and Implementation to resolve issues and improve the customer experience.
- Define and track metrics related to resolution speed, escalation trends, technical quality, capacity, and team effectiveness.
- Build a team culture centered on learning, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
You May Be a Fit If
- You have 6+ years of experience in technical customer success, solutions engineering, technical support, integrations, or a related customer-facing technical role.
- You have 2+ years of direct people-management or formal team-lead experience.
- You have successfully coached technical professionals while remaining hands-on with customers.
- You’re highly proficient in writing and troubleshooting complex SQL queries.
- You’ve built, configured, and troubleshot API-based integrations using formats such as JSON, XML, or YAML.
- You have hands-on experience with healthcare integration standards such as FHIR or HL7.
- You’re comfortable reading and troubleshooting code, even if software development is not your primary background.
- You approach technical problems with structured root-cause analysis and sound judgment.
- You’ve led complex customer escalations involving multiple internal teams.
- You can explain technical issues clearly to customers, executives, and nontechnical partners.
- You can balance customer work, people leadership, and operational responsibilities in a fast-growing environment.
- Experience with prior authorization, medication access, pharmacy operations, or healthcare SaaS is strongly preferred.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- 🚀 Mission-Driven, World-Class Team — Join an exceptional group of professionals aligned around a meaningful mission and committed to making an impact
- 📈 Opportunities for Growth — Strengthen your expertise through collaboration with experienced, high-performing leaders across the organization
- 🏢 Flexible Hybrid Work Environment — We're remote-first, with meaningful office presence in San Francisco and New York. R&D roles follow a hybrid model, with two days per week in our San Francisco office
Benefits & Perks
- 🏥 Healthcare Coverage — Full medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and participation for your family
- 💰 401(k) with Company Match — Plenful matches 50% of your first 3% contributed
- 📊 Equity — Every full-time employee shares in our success
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need, when you need it
- 🍽️ Daily Lunch Stipend — $100/week to cover your midday meals
- 💪 Wellness Stipend — $100/month to support your health and well-being
- 🚇 Commuter Benefits — $100/month for SF and NYC-based employees
- 👶 Parental Leave — Paid leave to support growing families
Compensation
The compensation range for this position reflects the average span for this role. Where an offer lands depends on your experience, qualifications, and interview performance, measured against Plenful’s internal leveling guidelines and market benchmarks. We set offers individually.
This role is also eligible to participate in Plenful’s equity plan, subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.