Product Manager, Principal - Stellarus

Job Description

Your Role

The Stellarus team is responsible for providing product offerings to blue shield of California and other health plans. The product manager will report to the Vice President of Product Management. In this role you will advance product operations and collaborate with product directors to advance commercialization of product offerings, including defining the market, market competition, roadmap and business impact of the product offerings. In your role, you will serve as a resource to support multiple product offerings across the portfolio, including but not limited to pharmacy care reimagined, member experience, pay for value and the platform.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Mentor, create, and manage ongoing key personas development for product areas.
• Exhibits natural and intuitive user empathy.
• Mentor, determine, and analyze KPIs at a product level to establish experience success, failures, and next steps through iteration.
• Conduct secondary market research and competitive analysis and apply toward product strategy.
• Effectively organize and lead brainstorming sessions.
• Analyze and implement operational frameworks to support the commercial product lifecycle
• Communicate commercial product frameworks to internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate and develop, in partnership with the Sr. Directors, commercial product marketing assets to support improved understanding of the value of the product offerings.
  
  

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a BA/BS in Business, Finance, Economics, Public Health, or Information Technology. Graduate degree (e.g. MBA) is highly preferred.
• Requires 8 years of experience in Product Management, Management Consulting, or Entrepreneurship.
• Requires mastery level knowledge of job area and deep product knowledge.
• Requires commercial product and technology experience, defining new operations across the product development lifecycle.
• Requires commercial product and technology experience, communicating value of products and services to external and internal stakeholders.
• Requires experience successfully communicating across multiple stakeholders and cross functions.
• Requires experience successfully communicating and defining milestones and managing towards those milestones in an organized product plan.
• Certification in area of expertise preferred (e.g. PMP, Lean, SAFE, CSPO).
  
  

About The Team

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:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose – whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach – by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:
• Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
• 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.
• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.
  
  

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.

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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.