The Senior Technical Product Owner manages and communicates the vision and roadmap for products to an Agile delivery team and are aligned with Technology standards and strategy. The Senior Product Owner - Technical work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
** This position will require an in-office presence a minimum of 2-3 days per week as determined by the hiring leader, in one of the following market locations: Nashville, TN, Dallas/Frisco, TX, or Louisville, KY.**
The Senior Technical Product Owner represents the voice of the customer to the team. Owns the articulation and prioritization of backlog in small increments of value that can be delivered in short iterations. Drives value to the business by building and maintaining a product backlog in collaboration with stakeholder and delivery teams. Contributes to shaping the product direction, creating the feature(s), writing user stories, and innovation. Begins to influence department’s strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
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Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of degree requirement.
7+ years of Product Management/Technical Product Owner experience, including progressive growth through Technical/QA lead roles into product ownership.
5+ years in healthcare industry or similar patient-facing operational systems.
Agile product ownership experience with ability to succeed in sustaining high-velocity release cadences across cross-functional engineering teams.
Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to accelerate product workflows — story writing, backlog grooming, sprint reporting, and documentation.
Ability to translate complex operational requirements into detailed specifications, user stories, and prototypes for engineering teams.
Strong technical fluency to partner directly with engineering teams.
Stakeholder and executive communication skills, including experience presenting roadmaps and influencing cross-functional and vendor partners.
Preferred Qualifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner strongly preferred.
Experience with QA/testing methodologies (UAT, regression, automation frameworks) sufficient to guide quality standards and acceptance criteria.
Experience working with onshore/offshore team structure
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.About Us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of Product Management/Technical Product Owner experience, including growth through Technical/QA lead roles
- 5+ years in healthcare industry or similar patient-facing operational systems
- Agile product ownership experience sustaining high-velocity release cadences across cross-functional engineering teams
- Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to accelerate product workflows (story writing, backlog grooming, sprint reporting, documentation)
- Ability to translate complex operational requirements into detailed specifications, user stories, and prototypes for engineering teams
- Strong technical fluency to partner directly with engineering teams
- Stakeholder and executive communication skills, including presenting roadmaps and influencing cross-functional and vendor partners
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Experience with QA/testing methodologies (UAT, regression, automation frameworks) to guide quality standards and acceptance criteria
- Experience working with onshore/offshore team structure
Humana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Humana and has not been reviewed or approved by Humana.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance are offered alongside on-site/virtual wellness resources and weekly paid well-being time, indicating a whole-person focus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid PTO and holidays, volunteer time, and formal leave options such as parental and caregiver time provide broad time-away support. Adoption assistance and lactation rooms extend coverage for key life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match anchors long-term savings. Employer-matched emergency savings programs complement retirement planning.
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What We Do
At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.
