Product Manager, Consultant

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. 

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 Product Manager, Consultant role reports to the Manager, Product Management and is responsible for designing and building seamless critical applications that enable BSC to better serve clinicians and patients. From polished user experiences to high-performance back-end systems, you’ll deliver technology that improves care delivery and supports better health outcomes.

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: 

• Own the end-to-end design and delivery of complex application features across UI, API, and data layers, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with architectural standards
• Develop secure, testable, and maintainable code aligned with modern architectural patterns.
• Lead implementation of system integrations and data models for distributed systems, addressing complexity, edge cases, and performance considerations
• Ensure applications are cloud-ready and compatible with established CI/CD workflows
• Contribute to application logging, monitoring, and diagnostics to support operational visibility.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, code quality, and documentation, while critically applying outputs
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions, providing technical guidance and design input to peers
• Provide technical guidance and informal mentorship to less experienced resources through design and code reviews
• Embed security throughout the SDLC by applying secure coding practices, secrets management, least-privilege access, and remediating vulnerabilities identified by scanning tools
• Define and evolve API contracts (REST/GraphQL), including versioning, backward compatibility, documentation, and consumer-driven integration patterns
• Plan and execute safe database changes (migrations, indexing, query optimization) while maintaining data integrity, lineage, and observability for critical data flows

Your Knowledge and Experience 

• Minimum 6 years of experience in Product Management, Management Consulting, or Entrepreneurship required
• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Economics, Public Health, or Information Technology, or equivalent experience required
• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular or similar) and JavaScript/TypeScript required
• Experience building backend services and APIs using .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies required
• Strong knowledge of Relational and Non-relational databases (e.g., MS SQL Server, Oracle, Cosmos) required
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) required
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools in professional software development (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) required
• Experience developing cloud-native applications (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable) preferred
• Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) preferred
• Familiarity using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Bicep, ARM, Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources preferred
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare) preferred

 

Hybrid

 

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

 

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.