Product Strategist, Principal - ASO

Blue Shield of CA; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Principal Product Strategist in the New Product Development team to advance scalable ASO growth, modernization, data integration, and network design. Translate employer, broker, member, operational, and market needs into prioritized capabilities and roadmaps for profitable self-funded growth.

The role requires leading complex cross-functional initiatives across internal and external partners, with a hybrid workplace model balancing in-office collaboration two days

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Requires experience translating ambiguous business problems into product capabilities and roadmaps.
• Requires experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with internal and external partners.
• Experience with healthcare payer operations and self-funded/ASO products is preferred.
• Graduate degree or related certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate employer, broker, member, and market needs into prioritized capabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead ASO modernization efforts across current and future roadmap priorities.
• Drive data integration, network customization, and plan design improvements.
• Oversee billing modernization and reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

10+ years experience

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare payer operations

ASO/self-funded products

Data integration

Roadmap development

Vendor/data sharing integrations

Billing modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Your Role

The New Product Development team advances scalable product capabilities that support Blue Shield's self-funded ASO growth, operational efficiency, and market competitiveness. The Product Strategist, Principal will report to the Senior Manager, Product Strategy. In this role you will lead ASO modernization efforts across current and future roadmap priorities, including data integration, client-specific network needs and plan design, billing modernization, and reusable platform capabilities. In this role, you will translate employer, broker, member, operational, and market needs into prioritized capabilities, measurable business outcomes, and executable roadmaps that improve ease of doing business and enable profitable self-funded growth.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• 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

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.