Blue Shield of California Hiring for Manager, People and Engagement Technology Management at Oakland, California Full Time

Your Role

The People & Engagement Technology team is a critical member of the People & Engagement – P&E (Human Resources) organization and is responsible for providing technical and functional leadership for multiple products in the HR Technology portfolio. It provides product and system solutions to support digital transformation, automation, application security, regulatory compliance, and end-user support. The Manager, People & Engagement Technology will report to the Senior Manager, People& Engagement Technology. In this role you will be a leader that is results-oriented, and will work collaboratively across the enterprise (e.g., P&E COEs and leadership, enterprise IT, Analytics & Reporting, Planning, Finance, Agile Team) to design, build, and implement Human Resources (HR) technology solutions, and manage and enhance deployed applications.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Plan and establish goals and objectives for the department or in partnership with the department lead.
• Develop and evaluate new product concepts, designs, and/or enhancements to existing product design that reflect business and user needs.
• Provide Oracle HCM Cloud Fusion functional/technical expertise by acting as subject matter expert and leading the company through the entire cloud application services implementation lifecycle of Global Human Resources and Oracle Recruiting Cloud.
• Partner with business stakeholders and lead through influence to conduct strategic planning and create product roadmap. Define and drive product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and plan functionality.
• Communicate with and influence senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance like solution design and prioritization of backlog.
• Manage and execute product roadmap to keep it on-track and under budget. Review backlog, risk, and issue areas, and proactively plan mitigation.
• Lead business stakeholder discussions for planning – provide feasibility, effort and capacity needs and proactively raise risks for any potential impacts.
• Manage product lifecycle, from strategic planning to tactical activities, specifying requirements for current and future products.
• Manage product backlog and coordinate to plan product release schedule ensuring successful delivery by P&E Teach and IT teams.
• Conduct research and develop a strong understanding of the business’ needs, new technologies, technology trends and competitors.
• Invest in product process improvements, utilizing data and organizational strategies to foster and influence change.
• Develops product documents and mockups to clearly illustrate product ideas and concepts.
• Lead, direct and review the work of a small to mid-size technology team who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments ensuring successful service delivery to COEs at the appropriate support levels.
• Responsible for building and growing a high performing team; supporting team through encouragement and by example.
• Build credibility as a thoughtful, creative, and effective communicator, having integrity and empathy, and passion.
• Participate in the development of solution architectures, roadmaps, and system transition plans, applications, data, integration, and/or infrastructure architecture.
• Manage activities such as systems design and analysis, applications and systems management and operations.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a college degree or equivalent and minimum 7-year prior relevant experience, including 3 years of management experience.
• Significant experience leading large, enterprise-wide products and system implementations.
• Deep knowledge of Product Management.
• Ability to apply Agile methodology.
• Understanding of Human Resources functions and business processes strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Oracle HCM Cloud, ServiceNow, UltiPro, JIRA and other technologies strongly preferred with 3+ years of experience in implementing or supporting SASS projects and upgrades.
• Critical thinker with the ability to develop multi-year product and technology roadmap and innovative solutions.
• Ability to lead through influence, manage stakeholders, and serve as a leader across People & Engagement projects.
• Advanced knowledge and skills including technical or functional expertise, business acumen, risk management, delegation skills, and decision-making skills.
• Strong results-oriented leader aligned with Blue Shield’s leadership model with 3+ years of team and project leadership experience.
• Experience with building high performing teams by providing guidance, coaching, and training to team members.
• Excellent verbal / written communication, collaboration, analytical and presentation skills.

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 109120.00 to $ 163680.00 for California.

Notes:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.