Job Description

Your Role

The Customer Experience organization is responsible for ensuring Stellarus' most critical customers achieve measurable, sustained value from the platform and maintain long-term trust and partnership with the company. The Senior Principal, Strategic Account Manager is a senior individual contributor role accountable for the strategic, commercial, and executive level management of Stellarus' most valuable and complex customer relationships with flagship health plans.

In this role, you will serve as the primary executive level account owner for designated strategic customers whose success materially impacts Stellarus' revenue trajectory, platform adoption, and market credibility. You will operate with broad autonomy to shape multi-year account strategies, negotiate complex commercial agreements, guide value realization and solution adoption, and represent Stellarus directly with C suite leaders, including CEOs, within large, regulated, and highly matrixed customer organizations.

This role is calibrated at the Senior Principal level due to its enterprise-wide impact, executive decision-making authority, and responsibility for high risk, high visibility customer outcomes. The role does not have direct people management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Strategic Account Ownership (Enterprise Scope)

• Own the overall strategic direction, health, and long-term success of Stellarus' highest value customer accounts.
• Develop and maintain multiyear account strategies aligned to customer business priorities, Stellarus' platform roadmap, and enterprise growth objectives.
• Cultivate long-term, high-value partnerships that extend beyond individual initiatives to sustain enterprise collaboration.

Executive & C Suite Engagement

• Act as Stellarus' senior executive representative to strategic customers.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior executives and C suite leaders, including CEOs.
• Lead executive business reviews, strategic planning sessions, and executive level negotiations.
• Communicate progress, insights, risks, and future direction clearly to executive audiences on both sides.

Commercial Value Realization and Solution Adoption

• Ensure strategic customers achieve measurable, sustained outcomes from Stellarus solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows, challenges, and strategic priorities.
• Guide solution adoption and value realization in partnership with Customer Experience, Product, Technology, Clinical, and Operations teams.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance customer value through optimization, expansion, or new use cases.

Commercial Strategy, Retention & Growth Partnership (Non-Sales)

• Lead complex commercial negotiations for strategic accounts, including renewals, expansions, and new strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with Sales, Legal, Finance, and executive leadership to structure pricing, scope, and contractual terms.
• Support renewal preparation by providing executive level account insights, value realization outcomes, and relationship context.
• Surface and shape growth opportunities aligned to customer needs while remaining accountable for customer trust and long-term partnership health.

Cross Functional Leadership & Customer Advocacy

• Serve as the enterprise voice of the customer, translating insights into actionable guidance for Product, Technology, and Market Strategy teams.
• Influence prioritization of features, enhancements, and roadmap decisions for strategic accounts.
• Lead cross functional account teams accountable for delivering exceptional, consistent customer experience.
• Identify, manage, and escalate risks that could materially impact customer outcomes or enterprise performance.

Governance, Planning & Change Leadership

• Guide integration planning, roadmap discussions, and change management efforts with internal teams and customer stakeholders.
• Establish and operate appropriate governance models for complex, multi-stakeholder accounts.
• Communicate value and impact clearly to technical, clinical, operational, and executive audiences.

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 12 years of experience in strategic account management, customer success, healthcare consulting, or related roles within:
  • A health plan or payer organization
  • A healthcare or enterprise technology company, or
  • Another large, complex, regulated enterprise
• Proven success building and sustaining trusted relationships with C suite and senior executive stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of health plan business operations; experience with clinical, technical, or product workflows preferred.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Product and Technology teams to support solution delivery, integration, and enhancement.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate compelling narratives to diverse audiences.

Preferred

• Experience operating in fast paced, innovative environments.
• Comfort with ambiguity and proactive problem solving.
• Familiarity with healthcare data, analytics, or AI enabled platforms.

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.

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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