Medicaid Product Owner - Backlog & Roadmap (Remote)

Humana; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 95,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Product Owner to translate the Medicaid product vision into a clear backlog for an Agile delivery team. You will define user stories, prioritize the backlog, and collaborate with Medicaid stakeholders to ensure the right product is built in the right order by the deadline.

This remote role requires 3–5 years in SDLC/Agile, 5+ years in technology implementations or product management, and strong facilitation, communication, and problem‑solving skills.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience of Systems Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, and/or Agile Development Methodologies
• 5+ years of experience in technology implementations and/or product/project management
• Problem solver who can find viable solutions that meets business needs, absent from all ideal tools and resources
• Experience facilitating presentations to stakeholders, presenting completed ideas and solutions
• Detail oriented with excellent organizational and project management skills
• Critical thinker who can anticipate team needs and take initiative to present ideas, ask the right questions and deliver the highest quality work
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with concurrent deadlines
• Experience gathering market requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, meeting facilitation, negotiation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Maximizes value of product created by Agile team
• Liaises with Medicaid market stakeholders and the development team ensuring the right product is being built, in the right order, and by the deadline
• Serves as the Agile team's primary contact for information, work prioritization, and decision-making
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding business approach for project components, and work is performed without direction.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments
• Accountable for managing and prioritizing the team's backlog (New State Implementation, Market Migration, Run the Business)
• Facilitates weekly product backlog review session and review new change request, enhancements and development items
• Accountable for documenting business requirements. Understating and building functional stories and process flows, ensuring that design satisfies each business need
• Showcases demonstrations to receive feedback from stakeholder(s) on either a proposed design of a requested solution and/or allowing stakeholders to review a production ready solution end to end
• Supports SIT Testing through clarifications on requirements and coordinates UAT Testing with aligned partners
• Business planning for upgrades and patches
• Schedule will be Monday-Friday, business hours, primarily in Eastern Standard Time Zone

Skills

Product Ownership

Agile/Scrum

Backlog Management

Stakeholder Communication

Requirements Gathering

SDLC Experience

Problem Solving

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Product Owner to translate the Medicaid product vision into a clear backlog for an Agile delivery team. You will define user stories, prioritize the backlog, and collaborate with Medicaid stakeholders to ensure the right product is built in the right order by the deadline.

This remote role requires 3–5 years in SDLC/Agile, 5+ years in technology implementations or product management, and strong facilitation, communication, and problem‑solving skills.