Product Designer, Consultant

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.

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.

Your Role

The Stellarus Product and UX team defines and designs technology products, creating solutions for users across the spectrum of healthcare. The Product Designer, Consultant will report to the Director of UX Research & Product Design. In this role you will work with internal stakeholders and team members to design digital product solutions that solve and support our user’s needs, expectations, and pain points. 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.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Lead the evolution, governance, and adoption of the design system, including components, patterns, and usage standards across digital products
• Partner closely with Engineering to ensure design system components are scalable, accessible, and consistently implemented
• Establish and maintain contribution models, documentation, and quality standards for the design system
• Drive alignment across product teams to increase consistency, efficiency, and reuse through the design system
• Support targeted product design work across the product lifecycle (discovery through delivery), with a focus on high-impact or complex initiatives
• Apply a broad UX skillset (research, wireframing, prototyping) to inform and validate design decisions where needed
• Collaborate with product, business, and engineering partners to scope work, prioritize design efforts, and deliver user-centered solutions
• Tackle complex, ambiguous problems and help define scalable design approaches that can be incorporated back into the system

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 7 years prior relevant experience

• Requires at least 2 years of experience in digital product development lifecycle

• Requires a portfolio to be submitted in application
• Competency in any of the other design disciplines - User Research/User Testing, Visual Design, Motion Design, Human Factors Engineering; a big plus
• Experience in the health or wellness industry, a plus
• Experience on teams shipping digital product, a plus