Sr Technical Product Owner

About the role

The Senior Technical Product Owner manages and communicates the vision and roadmap for products to an Agile delivery team, ensuring alignment with Technology standards and strategy. This role involves addressing moderately complex to complex issues through in-depth analysis of situations or data. The position requires an in-office presence a minimum of 2-3 days per week, as determined by the hiring leader, in one of the following locations: Nashville, TN, Dallas/Frisco, TX, or Louisville, KY.

The Senior Technical Product Owner represents the voice of the customer to the team, owning the articulation and prioritization of the backlog in small increments of value delivered in short iterations. This role drives business value by building and maintaining a product backlog in collaboration with stakeholders and delivery teams, contributing to product direction, feature creation, user story writing, and innovation. It influences department strategy and makes decisions on moderately complex to complex technical approaches with considerable latitude in determining objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog to deliver value in short iterations.
• Drive value to the business by collaborating with stakeholders and delivery teams to build and maintain the product backlog.
• Shape product direction, create features, write user stories, and foster innovation.
• Translate complex operational requirements into detailed specifications, user stories, and prototypes for engineering teams.
• Partner directly with engineering teams using strong technical fluency.
• Communicate with stakeholders and executives, present roadmaps, and influence cross-functional and vendor partners.
• Apply AI/LLM tools to accelerate product workflows, including story writing, backlog grooming, sprint reporting, and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of Product Management/Technical Product Owner experience, including progressive growth through Technical/QA lead roles into product ownership.
• 5+ years in the healthcare industry or similar patient-facing operational systems.
• Agile product ownership experience with the ability to sustain high-velocity release cadences across cross-functional engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to accelerate product workflows.
• Strong technical fluency to partner directly with engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (strongly preferred).
• Experience with QA/testing methodologies (UAT, regression, automation frameworks) to guide quality standards and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working with onshore/offshore team structures.

Pay

The starting base pay range for this full-time (40 hours per week) position is $104,000 - $143,000 per year. The pay range may vary based on geographic location, and individual pay will depend on demonstrated job-related skills, knowledge, experience, education, and certifications. This role is also eligible for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

Benefits

Humana offers competitive benefits designed to support whole-person well-being, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, including company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Additional opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Schedule

40 hours per week.

About Us

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for millions of people to achieve their best health by delivering care and services when they need them. Learn more at Humana.com and CenterWell.com.