Product Manager - Principal, Stellarus

Your Role  The Product Management team drives the strategy and delivery of digital solutions that empower members to make informed healthcare decisions. Your work will shape how millions of members access and understand their healthcare benefits. The Product Manager, Principal will report to the Sr. Director, Product Management.  In this role, you will help advance Stellarus’ mission by delivering solutions that meet the needs of our health plan customers. You will ensure digital experience components such as Benefit Coverage, Cost Transparency, Provider navigation and Claims are clear, transparent, and easy to use for members. This position focuses on building scalable, member-centric solutions that reinforce Stellarus’ value to payer customers and drive innovation in healthcare. You will lead initiatives to integrate AI and machine learning into digital products, creating intuitive, predictive and personalized member experience for all Stellarus customers 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 Your Work  In this role, you will:  * Define product strategy and direction across a domain, shaping long-term vision and roadmap to deliver user-centric, measurable solutions aligned with business and customer outcomes. * Lead discovery across product areas, synthesizing insights from users, stakeholders, workflows, data, market signals, and operational needs to define complex problem spaces and drive product-market fit. * Drive product direction by aligning requirements, prioritization, expected system behavior, and user experience across teams to ensure cohesive execution and scalable outcomes. * Influences cross-functional delivery across product areas, aligning engineering, design, data, QA, operations, and stakeholders to ensure cohesive, scalable product and platform solutions. * Partner with engineering and domain leaders to guide decisions involving architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, permissions, reliability, dependencies, security, and technical trade-offs. * Define and evolve product KPIs across a domain, using data and insights to guide strategic decisions, measure adoption, and evaluate product/platform success.  * Lead go-to-market and adoption strategy across product areas, ensuring alignment between product capabilities, user needs, quality expectations, and business outcomes.  * Define approaches to compliance and risk across product areas, ensuring consistent handling of regulatory requirements and guiding vendor and build vs. buy decisions. QUALIFICATIONS Your Knowledge and Experience  * Requires a bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree * Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience * Requires experience contributing to product vision, strategy, and roadmap execution aligned with business, customer, and user needs * Requires proficiency translating customer, business, regulatory, and workflow needs into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, expected system behavior, and backlog priorities  * Requires proficiency working with engineering and QA on technical product delivery, including APIs, integrations, data flows, permissions, system behavior, dependencies, reliability considerations, and delivery trade-offs  * Requires portfolio-level thinking - investment prioritization across multiple product areas/domains  * Requires experience defining operating models/governance (intake, prioritization, decision rights, KPIs)  About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies 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:  We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility: * 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. Please click here for further physical requirement detail. [https://www.blueshieldca.com/physical-job-requirements]  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.