Description
The Senior Product Owner is responsible for prioritizing and overseeing the development team's work, ensuring Humana derives maximum value from product outcomes. The role focuses on product feature quality, defining user stories, prioritizing work in the backlog, clarifying requirements, and maximising team-delivered value.
Key Accountabilities:
- Conduct day-to-day interactions with the development team and Scrum Master
- Partner with the Product Manager to define and prioritise product backlog based on the strategic product vision/roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand end-user needs and pain-points
- Effectively translate business priorities to technical team members
- Proactive risk management to identify, assess, and mitigate risks impacting product delivery success
- Confirm product quality and validate it meets customer needs
- Demonstrate and communicate value of product functionality/sprint outcomes
- Ability to support multiple Agile Delivery Teams
- Cultivate relationships between business and IT partners
Role Essentials:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience representing business or technology in technology implementations and/or product/project management
- Strong verbal and written communication, organisational, meeting facilitation, negotiation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with excellent organisational and project management skills
- Critical thinker who can anticipate team needs and take initiative
- Problem solver who can find viable solutions meeting business needs
- Ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks with concurrent deadlines
- Self-starter who can work independently
Preferred Qualifications:
- Preferred knowledge in quoting, rating, and underwriting
- Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager or equivalent
- Agile/Scrum certification
- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Prior experience with Agile development process in story writing
- Ability to work with project stakeholders and remote teams
- Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, and/or Agile Development Methodologies
Work Arrangements:
- Remote position with occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings
- Must have a dedicated workspace with reliable internet (minimum 25 Mbps download, 10 Mbps upload)
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
- 40 hours per week
Pay Range:
- $94,900 - $130,500 per year
Benefits:
- Competitive benefits supporting whole-person well-being, including medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, and more