Capability Product Manager III

Premera Blue Cross Premera Blue Cross · Insurance · Mountlake Terrace, WA

Product Manager III at Premera Blue Cross, a healthcare company, responsible for managing products throughout their lifecycle, defining roadmaps, business requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver product features aligned with enterprise strategy. The role emphasizes a customer-focused mindset, change management, and mentoring Product Owners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and drive the direction of assigned products or capabilities, including defining and maintaining roadmaps for one or more low‑complexity products or capabilities aligned with enterprise strategy
  2. Balance and prioritize feature needs and roadmap commitments, partnering closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to align on scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs
  3. Lead the definition and management of business requirements, process design, and related deliverables, leveraging enterprise tools and industry best practices
  4. Collaborate with peers, managers, and directors across the enterprise to gather input, align priorities, and ensure outcomes support broader organizational goals
  5. Define success criteria and business metrics, track results, and provide insights and recommendations to inform future decisions

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or three (3) years of relevant work experience
  • Three (3) years of experience in product management, system development, or Scrum/Agile delivery, supporting enterprise‑level objectives

Nice to have

  • Product management experience in healthcare, financial services, or another highly regulated industry
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically and translate strategy into actionable plans and roadmaps
  • Proven ability to build alignment and consensus among diverse stakeholder groups
  • Demonstrated potential to manage, mentor, and develop others
  • General understanding of health insurance functions, including actuarial, underwriting, contracting, marketing, sales, eligibility, billing, and claims
  • Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to prioritize work and communicate outcomes clearly
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams and disciplines
  • Experience facilitating meetings, driving decisions, and delivering results on time
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create and present materials to varied audiences
  • Ability to articulate ideas clearly, evaluate alternatives, and support informed decision‑making
  • Working knowledge of common business and productivity tools, including document creation, data management, project tracking, spreadsheets, and presentations

What the JD emphasized

  • product management
  • business requirements
  • customer-focused mindset
  • change management
  • mentor and coach