Lead Product Owner

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 The Lead Product Owner is responsible for conveying product vision and roadmap to an Agile delivery team by defining user stories and prioritizing product backlog. The Lead Product Owner works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

Lead Product Manager - Brokerage Technology Team

The Lead Product Owner conceives of, develops, delivers, and manages products for customer use. The Lead Product Owner works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

Our Brokerage Technology team is looking for a Lead Product Owner to join us in transforming the insurance brokerage industry and delivering innovative experiences to our customers. The Lead Product Owner will help drive the digital roadmap, representing the needs of the overall agent, member, or customer experience. The Product Owner must be a self-starter who understands digital, customer, and business requirements, and can lead and manage change, remove roadblocks, and communicate clearly to multiple functional teams across digital portfolio and operations, technical, and business stakeholders. They will need to understand and work with stakeholders across the brokerage business lines, including Agent Contracting, Commissions, and Call Center support.

In this role, you will be accountable for creating and executing epics that meet desired customer and business outcomes. You will need to anticipate technical bottlenecks and dependencies, provide escalation management, and build consensus by understanding the requirements of stakeholders combined with constraints on the feasibility of technology and data. You will be expected to help identify, prioritize, and advocate for the largest opportunities, as well as create and manage new efficiency opportunities from ideation to launch to support our product roadmap and make ongoing trade-off decisions by applying strong judgment that balances delivering products with longer-term, strategic planning.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, support, and execute on epics that align to a digital product roadmap.

• Lead product discovery to clearly define and refine ideas through epic development to prepare for PI planning.

• Partner with IT teams to create and estimate consistent product value, level of effort, and dependencies. Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit.

• Partner with internal testing teams, service experience team, and operational teams to identify impacted systems, data sources, and operational process impacts needed to enable digital solutions.

• Create and track progress of epics using product management and operation tools (Azure DevOps, Product Lifecycle Processes, etc.) while also working with teams to adjust or find alternative solutions as needed.

• Lead and mentor a team of product owners, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities to help them grow in their roles.

• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing among team members.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• A minimum of five years of experience in digital customer experience product management, in large and/or regulated corporations

• Agile product development experience and agile/product management software

• Experience and comfortability with bringing new digital products to market, managing in a department that is scaling up.

• Experience working and contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.

• Goal-driven, comfortable with establishing objectives and key results, and thinking about the impact we can deliver. Someone who’s always trying to understand how we can better measure our progress.

• Strong analytical mentality. You love complex problems and enjoy breaking them down while using data to inform the path forward. Can quickly synthesize and analyze data to present a compelling reason to proceed (or change) a course of action. Someone who can use data to drive decisions.

• Strong communication skills. Comfortable working and communicating with all levels of the organization, from engineers to executive leadership. Someone who can demonstrate what we call ‘customer centricity.’

• Collaborative personality. You thrive in environments where you work with a diverse set of partners to achieve your objectives and can get desired outcomes completed regardless of the obstacles that may be present.

• Attention to detail combined with drive. You will take ownership of epics and take pride in seeing them through to full completion.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines.

Preferred:

• Experience in Agent Contracting, Commissions, and Call Center support

• Medicare domain experience, strongly preferred

• SAFe certification preferred

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Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay 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.

$115,200 - $158,400 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.Application Deadline: 03-21-2025
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