Product Strategist

Your Role

The Individual and Family Plan (IFP) Sales Growth Enablement team supports growth strategy and commercial performance for the individual and Family Plan line of business. The Product Strategist, Principal will report to the Leader of IFP Growth Enablement. In this role you will lead growth and performance insights to identify where IFP is growing, what is selling, and the cost of acquiring and retaining membership across on and off exchange channels. You will translate data and market intelligence into actionable recommendations that inform sales strategy, go-to-market priorities and business decisions.

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:

• Guide evolution of business line portfolios to support growth, retention, and performance improvement objectives 
• Design product strategy and plan frameworks aligned to benefit intent across complex implementations 
• Lead translation of product strategy into comprehensive business requirements and delivery artifacts 
• Direct synthesis and interpretation of product performance analytics to inform portfolio decisions 
• Coordinate tracking of benefit design, implementation, and regulatory filing impacts across initiatives 
• Develop executive ready materials that articulate strategy, tradeoffs, and implications clearly 
• Provide expert guidance across the product development lifecycle to support issue resolution and decision making 
• Lead analysis of membership, sales, channel and market performance to identify growth opportunities, emerging trends and business rivers
• Develop growth performance insights across on and off exchange channels including acquisition, retention, and cost of acquisition
• Translate complex data into actionable recommendations that inform Sales go to Market priorities

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 demonstrated experience designing product strategy frameworks; guiding synthesis of market, performance, and benefit data across complex initiatives or product portfolios; and bringing products to market
• Requires experience analyzing sales, membership, market and financial performance to identify growth opportunities
• Requires experience developing KPIs, performance metrics and executive level reporting to support business decision making
• Requires experience translating business requirements into requirements for Data Analytics team, Finance and other cross functional partners
• Requires experience in Commercial health care markets, Individual, Group and/or Medicare

About Blue Shield of California

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies. 

At Blue Shield of California, our mission is to create a healthcare system worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience. 

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.

Blue Shield is a U.S. News Best Company to work for, a Deloitte U.S. Best Managed Company and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace. We were recognized by Fair360 as a Top Regional Company, and one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States by Points of Light. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!  

Our Values: 

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short. 
• Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, showing empathy by understanding others' perspectives.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals. 

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.

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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.