Your Role

The Product Strategy team is responsible for product strategy, planning, development, and sales enablement of products across all lines of business including the development of the vision, end-to-end product value propositions, profitability, NPS, provider network, care management, and experience strategies that meet product goals. The Principal, Product Strategist, will report to the Sr. Manager, Product Strategy. In this role you will develop product strategy, manage product performance, and drive product development and go-to-market initiatives primarily for Large Group & Premier market products.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Develop a 3-5 year strategic product vision by bringing forward relevant market, competitive, and product performance analysis and insights. Identify opportunities for growth and innovation
• Define a product roadmap that outlines the strategic direction and prioritization of product features and enhancements, articulate and quantify the value of product features
• Facilitate the implementation of product roadmaps using Agile methodology in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Operations, Sales, Regulatory Compliance, IT, Product Marketing, Medical Solutions, etc
• Build product presentations, write user stories, and create artifacts. Map out and re-design customer journeys and partner with Customer Experience designers
• Conduct intermediate to advanced data analysis including use of pivot tables, charts, data tables, sensitivity analysis, financial modeling, and charting
• Have the ability to effectively socialize strategic vision while gaining alignment and building consensus with senior leaders and key stakeholders
• Have the ability to pull together and lead cross-functionals team (sales, operations, network, digital, customer experience) to deliver on overarching strategy
• Develop key metrics and measurables to assess overall impact and success of the strategic vision
• Keep General Managers, Product leadership and key stakeholders updated on milestones/issues/risks
• Evangelize and acts as a key resource to sales and marketing teams communicating the value proposition of the strategy

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, public health, or information technology, or related industry
• Master's degree in business (MBA), public health (MPH), or other health care field and/or equivalent experience highly desirable
• Requires at least 10 years of combined experience in product management and/or management consulting
• Requires experience developing multi-year product strategies and roadmaps
• Experience managing health insurance products through regulatory and legal processes strongly preferred but not required
• Experience developing, implementing, and managing products from concept to launch using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and CX designers
• Ability to execute on product delivery timelines, within scope and budget
• Ability to assess potential opportunities, risks, and issues for their product area and make recommendations
• Intellectual curiosity to follow industry trends and innovations as well as developing thought leadership. Cultivate continuous improvement and agility
• Effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to create and deliver clear, powerful, and concise presentations/ proposals and translating strategic and business goals into visual deliverables
• Advanced knowledge and mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Advanced quantitative and analytical skills and proven ability to make data-driven decisions
• Agile certification, e.g. Scrum Master, Agile Product Owner, strongly preferred

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 145970.00 to $ 218900.00 for California.

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's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.