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What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
- Epic Team Lead
- Epic Applications Manager
- Director of EHR Applications
What does an open seat cost you every week?
An open role costs you more than the recruiting fee. Someone covers the work, waits for care, or stops a service. We ask what is falling behind and who is carrying it. Use your own figures to compare the cost of waiting with the cost of hiring.
The seat is costing you every week.
Overtime, diverted patients, a stretched team and a schedule held together by favors.
The posting brought the wrong people.
Applicants arrive, but the person who has done this exact work is employed and not looking.
You are the one chasing.
Screening calls, no-shows and follow-ups land on the desk of someone with a facility to run.
What does this hire really come down to?
An Epic Application Manager or Epic Team Lead turns defects, enhancement requests, release tasks, and analyst assignments into workable decisions. You need someone who can challenge a late build request, assign testing owners, explain the risk, and keep clinical partners informed before a change reaches production.
This role is not automatically the next step for your strongest Epic analyst. The leader must weigh requests from nursing, physicians, operations, security, and revenue teams. Ask how they record a disputed decision, identify the approving group, and respond when a senior stakeholder rejects the answer.
The work ahead should shape the search. A version upgrade calls for release-note review, build freezes, integrated testing, clinical sign-off, downtime communication, and follow-up after go-live. A stable system with mounting requests may instead need a manager who resets intake, coaches analysts, and declines changes that create future maintenance work.
What do we check before you see anyone?
Confirm Epic certification and people-management experience. Ask which applications they led, what build work they still performed, and how they addressed weak testing or poor build quality from an analyst. Certification shows application knowledge. It does not prove that someone can set expectations and give direct feedback.
- Review upgrade ownership from planning through follow-up. Ask about impact review, test planning, defect triage, clinical validation, communications, and lessons after go-live. If you operate more than five hundred beds, ask how they coordinated departments, sites, and local testing teams.
- Test governance judgment with a late-change scenario. If a physician group requests a preference-list update after nursing completes test scripts, ask what happens first. Look for a named approval route, documented risk, and a willingness to move work into a later release.
- Discuss optimization without demanding one standard metric. Ask for a workflow they reviewed, the users they observed, and the clicks or handoffs they questioned. A useful answer separates a local preference from a change that removes repeated work across roles.
- Examine security and access decisions. Ask how they respond when a department leader requests access that conflicts with role design or separation of duties. The candidate should describe work with security staff, escalation, testing, documentation, and a direct explanation to the requesting leader.
- Check how they lead between releases. Ask how they assign on-call ownership, review peer testing, cover absences, and develop analysts seeking broader application work. Ask what they do when a defect has no owner or an analyst repeatedly misses agreed dates.
Where do we find them, and why would they move?
We recruit from senior Epic analyst and Epic team-lead backgrounds. Relevant source pools include multi-site provider organizations, academic settings, regional hospital networks, and health systems supporting shared configuration with local clinical variation. Candidates may consider a move when management scope has stopped growing, governance authority is unclear, or they want a broader application portfolio.
Others may seek a team-building assignment, closer work with clinical leaders, or different onsite expectations after years as an individual analyst.
Which mistakes stall the search?
A common mistake is promoting the strongest technical analyst without testing how they resolve disagreement, assign accountability, and address weak performance. Another is leaving customization authority undefined, so the manager inherits competing demands without a named approval route or defensible release boundary.
Treating every Epic upgrade as comparable instead of asking about application scope, sites, testing structure, and the candidate’s decision authority.
How would we run the search for this opening?
We discuss the application portfolio, reporting line, onsite or hybrid schedule, upcoming releases, and authority over intake, build standards, and clinical approval. We screen credentials, work history, and fit through questions about upgrades, governance disputes, analyst coaching, access decisions, and testing ownership.
Define the leadership seat
This separates a people leader from a senior analyst who also leads projects.
Screen the working record
Your team completes its own credentialing and clinical assessment before making a hiring decision.
Interview for local judgment
We present candidates whose background fits the work ahead. Your interview team can test decision style, relationships with clinical leaders, and the candidate’s approach to your approval structure before selecting a permanent hire.
Where this search connects
Healthcare IT, Epic & Clinical Informatics
SpecialtyHospitals & Health Systems
SettingAcademic Medical Centers
SettingRevenue Cycle & Healthcare Services Companies
SettingChief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)
Related roleDirector of Clinical Informatics
Related roleEpic Clinical Analyst (Ambulatory, ClinDoc, OpTime, ASAP, Willow, Beaker, Radiant)
Related roleEpic Revenue Cycle Analyst (Resolute HB/PB, Prelude, Cadence, Claims)
Related roleNational median annual wage. SOC 11-3021, Computer and Information Systems Managers.
BLS reports Computer and Information Systems Managers as one occupation. It does not publish a separate estimate for Epic Application Manager / Epic Team Lead, its setting or its engagement terms.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025-05, released 2026-05-15. View source. See the full guide.
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What are the terms for permanent placement?
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement. We arrange locum tenens, travel and contract coverage on request. Credentialing, licensing and malpractice coverage are confirmed per engagement before anyone starts.
Do we need an Epic-certified manager?
Epic certification and people-management experience are key checks for this search. Decide which application certifications matter for your portfolio and whether the leader must retain hands-on build work or manage specialists who do.
Should we hire an Epic Team Lead or an Epic Applications Manager?
A Team Lead often stays close to assignments, build review, defects, and daily testing decisions. An Applications Manager may own broader staffing, budgets, governance meetings, and several application areas.
Can a remote leader manage clinical governance?
Remote or hybrid work may fit your organization, but onsite presence can matter during governance meetings, upgrade testing, and go-live periods. State which meetings and phases need attendance before interviews so candidates can assess the role accurately.
How should we assess a candidate from a smaller hospital?
A smaller setting does not rule out a strong leader. Ask about applications, sites, analysts, approval groups, and personal decision authority.
What should you send us about this role?
Send us the role, where the person will work and what needs to change with this hire. We will ask about the work, not just the title. Share any license or schedule limits that could rule someone out before we begin the search.
Tell Healthcare Headhunters whether the immediate issue is an upgrade, unclear governance, analyst turnover, or a leadership gap. We will help you define the seat and recruit for the decisions this leader must make.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
Which other positions in this family should you consider?
Epic Revenue Cycle Analyst (Resolute HB/PB, Prelude, Cadence, Claims) · Director of EHR Applications
What do you get at each step of the search?
Our process for every search: calibrate the seat with you, map the market, research the real people, reach out to each one personally, qualify them in live conversation, then hand you a short list with a written brief on each person and support through the offer.
Search Calibration
You get an agreed brief: the work, reporting line, credentials, schedule, and offer you can make.
Market Mapping
You get a search aimed at relevant backgrounds, including people working now who have not applied.
Professional Contact Intelligence
We check appropriate ways to reach the people identified for your search. You do not have to chase them yourself.
Persistent Personalized Outreach
We explain your actual job and follow up with people who may consider a conversation.
Live Candidate Qualification
You see people we have spoken with about the work, interest, and practical fit, not an unread resume pile.
Candidate Intelligence and Process Support
You get a written brief and support through interviews and offer discussions. You make the hiring decision.
How long will it take to see a short list?
That depends on the job, schedule, available people, and what your employer can offer. We discuss those constraints before outreach and update you as candidates respond. We do not promise a fixed shortlist date. We check the job brief before arranging interviews. Tell us which parts of the role you can change.
What if a candidate receives a counteroffer?
We ask why the person wants to move and discuss competing decisions before an offer. A counteroffer can still change their choice. Keep the duties and offer clear rather than assuming more money settles every concern. Tell us early if parts of your offer cannot change, so the candidate hears it from us first.
What are the replacement terms?
We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement. Ask us to walk through those terms before you sign, so you know how a replacement would work for your opening and who would start it.
What do we not do in a standard permanent search?
We do not bill standard contingency search by the hour or simply repost your job. Temporary coverage is a separate arrangement. Any retainer or different engagement must be agreed, not assumed. Tell us early if you need coverage while the permanent search runs.