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Your Role
The Experience Insights & Enablement team is accountable for leading the development of an integrated Member Experience (MX) strategy connecting digital, call center, marketing, and operations with the focus of being best in class within the healthcare industry. The End-to-End Journey Management, Principal will develop and own the management of several interrelated journey maps to reflect the end-to-end experience (from acquisition to retention) of members and customers and will work closely with product strategy, digital, marketing and operational teams to drive optimized member, provider and customer experiences. This position will report to the Senior Manager, End-to-End Journey Management.
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:

• Take disparate information, collected through stakeholder interviews, market research, member feedback, and operational data, to develop easy to digest maps
• Identify critical moments and areas for improvement within the end-to-end member journey and determine KPIs for ongoing measurement
• Contribute to the development of a sustainable journey management program, including end-to-end journey atlas, journey health measurement and governance structure
• Present actionable insights and recommendations to key stakeholders, including at the executive level, that drive business requirements
• Identify critical business opportunities (both short and long term) that enable transformational change across the enterprise
• Navigate ambiguity through strategic thinking, identify and drive improvements to various processes, programs, and tools
• Partner with cross-functional teams to shape and advance business cases that translate member experience insights into prioritized, measurable enterprise action
• Engage strong CX capabilities, including VOC analytics, end-state visioning, design, and roadmap development
• Champion an outside-in perspective and journey-centric operating models

Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree, or a high school diploma/GED plus four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Requires at least 3 years of experience in Customer Journey Mapping and Management, including familiarity with software and techniques used for mapping and measuring customer journeys
• Requires experience facilitating workshops in both virtual and in-person settings
• Ability to translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated experience communicating insights and recommendations to executive-level stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes without direct authority
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment and leading initiatives in a matrixed environment
• Experience in the health payor space strongly preferred
• Experience leading complex improvement initiatives from discovery and analysis through business case development, implementation, and outcome measurement, strongly 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.
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About the Team
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.