Principal Product Strategist, ASO & Platform Growth

Blue Shield of California; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Senior Product Strategist, Principal to lead ASO modernization and scalable product capabilities. You will translate client and market needs into prioritized capabilities, measurable outcomes, and executable roadmaps that enable profitable self-funded growth.

The role emphasizes leadership across product strategy, design, and analytics, partnering with internal and external teams to drive portfolio growth.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Requires at least 5 years of product management, product strategy, product implementation, management consulting, health plan operations, or related experience
• Requires experience translating ambiguous business problems into product capabilities, requirements, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
• Requires experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives that require coordination across internal and external partners
• Requires experience with healthcare payer operations, self-funded/ASO products, funding and payment models, benefit configuration, health and care navigation vendor integrations, claims, eligibility, billing, or related health plan capabilities
• Experience with health plan platforms or configuration systems preferred
• Experience with network customization and benefit design preferred
• Experience working with external vendor data sharing and integration preferred
• Graduate degree, PMP, SAFe, CSPO, Lean, product management, health care administration, informatics, or related certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Evolve business line portfolios to deliver membership/OI targets and design a competitive portfolio
• Architect product strategy/plan designs based on benefit intent and function as a central resource through implementation
• Guide creation and interpretation of business product performance analytics for portfolio management
• Ensure delivery of innovation pipeline submissions and translate strategy to business requirements
• Track benefit design, implementation, and filing updates in collaboration with Product Lifecycle Management
• Collaborate with market-facing and Product Strategy teams to translate feedback into prioritized capabilities
• Coordinate with internal and external partners to resolve dependencies and move capabilities to execution readiness

Skills

Product strategy

Product management

Roadmaps

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare payer operations

Management consulting

Health plan capabilities

Ambiguity translation

Vendor data integration

Certification preferred

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Senior Product Strategist, Principal to lead ASO modernization and scalable product capabilities. You will translate client and market needs into prioritized capabilities, measurable outcomes, and executable roadmaps that enable profitable self-funded growth.

The role emphasizes leadership across product strategy, design, and analytics, partnering with internal and external teams to drive portfolio growth.