Lead AI Technical Product Manager

Humana; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Job summary

Humana seeks a hands-on Lead Product Manager to shape AI-driven solutions across our enterprise. You will work with engineers, designers, data scientists and business stakeholders to move from problem discovery to prototyping, validating value, and delivering within Humana's governance framework.

You will own strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes, building working demos with agentic coding using Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex, guiding cross-functional teams to production in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product experience, including 4+ years in AI/GenAI products
• Hands-on AI tooling and prototyping experience
• Ability to translate business problems into AI use cases with ROI
• Experience with evals, golden sets, and ground truth metrics
• Strong systems thinking and enterprise problem-solving
• Excellent cross-functional communication across domains

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy, and roadmap for a complex AI product area
• Partner with business units to map operations and create AI use cases
• Build working prototypes and demos using AI tools
• Turn validated use cases into clear requirements and acceptance criteria
• Drive prototype-to-production delivery and manage backlogs
• Define quality metrics and evaluation workflows for AI solutions
• Support architecture discussions and AI harness components
• Lead and mentor product teams across engineering, data science, and design
• Navigate Humana's AI governance processes and ensure compliant delivery
• Communicate ROI, requirements, and results to executives and technical stakeholders
• Stay current with AI model trends and enterprise AI methodologies

Skills

AI/ML knowledge

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Hands-on prototyping

Metrics and evals

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

OpenAI Codex

Job description

As Humana continues its transformation into an AI-first enterprise, we are looking for a hands-on, technically proficient Lead Product Manager to lead the design, prototyping, and scaling of AI solutions across our business. You will work with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to build AI-powered solutions that solve real enterprise problems. You will lead and drive a complex product area within our AI portfolio, define what success looks like, build and develop with the team, and drive results across the organization, moving from deeply understanding a business challenge to prototyping an AI solution, to proving its value, to delivering it through Humana's enterprise AI governance process.

What You Will Own

• Strategy and roadmap: Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a complex AI product area. Decide what to build and why, prioritize across competing opportunities, and adapt as the model landscape and the business change.
• Business discovery: Partner directly with business units to map their operations end to end (service design), then translate ambiguous business problems into clearly scoped AI use cases with a clear value proposition, business case, and ROI justification.
• Hands-on prototyping: Build working prototypes and demos yourself using agentic coding and AI tools (for example, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex) to test feasibility and value before committing a full team.
• Requirements and scoping: Turn validated use cases into clear, buildable requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and success metrics, so engineers, data scientists, and designers know exactly what "done" and "good" mean. Shape the end-to-end user experience with design, since enterprise adoption lives or dies on usability.
• Delivery and execution: Drive the build from prototype to production and own the backlog, sequence the work, make scope and tradeoff calls as models and constraints shift, unblock the team, and keep momentum from first demo through launch and iteration.
• Evaluation and quality: Own how quality is defined and measured. Build golden sets and ground truth, run offline and live (production) evals, choose appropriate metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1, task success, hallucination rate), apply LLM-as-judge where it has been validated, and turn results into launch decisions and readouts for leadership.
• Support Solution architecture: Support high-level architecture and feasibility discussions with engineering, while owning the required prompt engineering and/or skill creation components of the AI harness.
• Cross-functional leadership: Lead engineers, data scientists, designers, and business partners without direct authority. Author reusable playbooks, skills, and solution patterns that make AI delivery faster and more consistent across the organization.
• Governed delivery: Move solutions through Humana's enterprise AI governance (AIRB, LRC, Responsible AI Council), owning the product documentation, scorecards, and stage-gate reviews.
• Communication and mentorship: Communicate strategy, requirements, roadmap, ROI, and eval results clearly to executive and technical audiences. Mentor product managers and raise the team's standard for building with AI.
• Staying current: Track advances in models, agents, evals, and emerging techniques (agent harness, loop, and graph / GraphRAG approaches) and apply them in your portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of product or related experience, including 4+ years in product management, with AI/ML or GenAI products shipped to production.
• Hands-on building: You use AI tools regularly and can articulate specifically what you would change about a model's behavior and why. You prototype your own ideas.
• Evaluation experience: You have built evals, including golden sets, ground truth, and offline and live evals, and used precision- and recall-based metrics to make product decisions.
• Systems thinking: When you find a problem, you build the infrastructure that prevents the whole class of problem.
• Communication across domains: You move between business and technical concepts, with a track record of business cases, ROI models, and roadmaps that inform investment decisions.
• AI knowledge: A working understanding of modern AI/ML and GenAI (LLMs, agents, RAG, prompt engineering, and Evaluation methodology) and how it applies to enterprise problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry.
• A well-supported point of view on where agentic AI, evals, and AI-native product development are headed.
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks, GraphRAG / knowledge graphs, and reusable skills / plugins.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace, working from first principles.

Additional Information

All AI solutions must comply with Humana’s Enterprise AI Governance Framework and undergo full review at designated stage gates.

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

Work Style:

This position follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring employees to work three days per week in the office and the remaining days remotely. Qualified candidates must currently reside within, or be willing to relocate to, a commutable distance from one of the talent markets listed below.

Office Location Options:

• Louisville, KY
• Chicago, IL
• New York, NY
• Dallas, TX
• Boston, MA
• Washington, DC

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

$151,600 - $208,400 per year

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 atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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