Technical Product Lead, Consultant

Stellarus; California (MO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus 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 define outcomes, prioritize work, and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective services that enable product teams to scale.

You will establish success metrics, drive adoption, and align stakeholders across multiple product lines.

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 thinking

Problem solving

Leadership

Product management

Platform thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

4+ years relevant experience in lieu of degree

Job description

Your Role

The Technical Product Lead owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for internal platform products and shared technology capabilities. Partners with engineering, architecture, security, and operations to define outcomes, prioritize work, and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective services that enable product teams to build and run solutions at scale. Establishes success metrics and drives adoption through clear service definitions, lifecycle management, and stakeholder alignment.

Job Description

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.

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.

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

About Us

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.

Locations

• El Dorado Hills, CA, United States
• Long Beach, CA, United States
• Lodi, CA, United States
• Oakland, CA, United States
• Rancho Cordova, CA, United States
• San Diego, CA, United States
• Woodland Hills, CA, United States

Pay Range

• Pay Range for California : $123090.00 to $184800.00
• Pay Range for Bay Area : $138756.00 to $208320.00

Contract & Sponsorship

• Job Schedule : Full time
• Role can be filled by a candidate requiring sponsorship : No

Note : Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate experience, location (California, Bay Area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.