Platform Product Lead: Vision, Delivery & Scale

Blue Shield of California; California (MO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Technical Product Lead to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for internal platform products and shared technology capabilities. You will partner with engineering, architecture, security, and operations to deliver scalable, secure, and cost‑effective services that enable product teams to build and run solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes leadership development, mentorship, and measurable outcomes, with a focus on driving adoption and aligning

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills; ability to frame ambiguous platform problems and drive decisions.
• Deep knowledge of product management and platform/service delivery; may be viewed as a specialist within discipline

Responsibilities

• Leads delivery of advanced, complex platform product outcomes, aligning stakeholders on value, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Partners with engineering and architecture to drive technical decisions that improve scalability, security, resiliency, and total cost of ownership.
• Champions measurable adoption and product performance; defines KPIs/OKRs and uses insights to prioritize improvements.
• Advocates for the product/team with senior leaders and influences cross‑portfolio roadmap integration and dependency management.
• Guides and mentors other product managers in product practices and platform thinking.
• The Technical Product Lead is accountable for end‑to‑end solution design readiness, ensuring the proposed solution solves the business problem, aligns with platform strategy, integrates across impacted systems, is operationally supportable, and is ready for engineering delivery.
• Defines solution architecture that supports the short, medium and long‑term business objectives across more than one product line.

Skills

Analytical skills

Product management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree / High School Diploma or GED + 4 years of relevant experience

Job description

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Technical Product Lead to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for internal platform products and shared technology capabilities. You will partner with engineering, architecture, security, and operations to deliver scalable, secure, and cost‑effective services that enable product teams to build and run solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes leadership development, mentorship, and measurable outcomes, with a focus on driving adoption and aligning