VP, Product Strategy & Health Innovation

Humana; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana seeks a visionary Vice President of Product Management to lead a strategic portfolio spanning member outcomes, clinical experiences, and business performance.

You will create and govern end-to-end product leadership, guiding discovery through delivery with measurable value, while aligning across risk adjustment, clinical operations, and technology in a matrixed environment. This executive role emphasizes governance, talent development, and scalable product disciplines.

Qualifications

• Fifteen or more years of progressive leadership experience across healthcare, insurance, technology, product management, consulting, or a related industry.
• Eight or more years leading product portfolios, digital products, strategic business capabilities, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience building or leading product-centered teams and operating models.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and financial judgment, with the ability to make disciplined tradeoffs across customer value, clinical impact, business economics, technology constraints, operational readiness, and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience leading highly matrixed, cross-functional initiatives that require enterprise influence without direct authority.
• Experience establishing product management disciplines, governance processes, operating models, and talent development practices while driving measurable results.
• Proven ability to influence executive leaders, align cross-functional teams, and lead through ambiguity and organizational change.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex issues into actionable decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a multi-year product strategy and roadmap aligned with Humana’s Insurance objectives and the needs of members, clinicians, and business stakeholders.
• Own portfolio investment decisions, including what to build, what not to build, when to invest, and when to stop or retire a product.
• Set measurable customer, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes and hold teams accountable for sustained results.
• Lead customer and market discovery through research, interviews, journey mapping, data analysis, testing, and feedback; translate insights into clear product priorities and testable hypotheses.
• Guide products across the full lifecycle—from discovery and launch through scaling, optimization, and retirement with clear measures for adoption, performance, value creation, and continuous improvement.
• Use MVPs, pilots, rapid prototyping, and iterative development to validate ideas before scaling investment.
• Apply AI, automation, analytics, data products, and digital platforms to improve healthcare experiences, outcomes, affordability, and operational performance.
• Build alignment across risk adjustment, clinical operations, clinical innovation, analytics and technology; clarify decision rights; and accelerate execution in a highly matrixed environment.
• Establish portfolio governance, decision forums, operating rhythms, and product management standards that emphasize outcomes over activity.
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing teams while providing product leadership across QCS. Establish common product management disciplines, standards, governance, and talent development while strengthening product capabilities across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Stakeholder management

Healthcare domain knowledge

Financial judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Portfolio management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

MBA

Job description

Humana seeks a visionary Vice President of Product Management to lead a strategic portfolio spanning member outcomes, clinical experiences, and business performance.

You will create and govern end-to-end product leadership, guiding discovery through delivery with measurable value, while aligning across risk adjustment, clinical operations, and technology in a matrixed environment. This executive role emphasizes governance, talent development, and scalable product disciplines.