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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
What you will own
Portfolio strategy and vision: Define the multi-year vision and strategy for a portfolio of AI products and capabilities. Prioritize across competing product areas and adapt the portfolio as the model landscape and the business change. Set the north-star and the long-term roadmap, and reason from first principles when the problem, opportunity, and strategy are not yet defined.
Business discovery at scale: Partner with business-unit and enterprise leaders to map their operations end to end. Turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into a slate of AI use cases, each with a clear business case, and sequence them into a portfolio.
Hands-on prototyping: Build working prototypes and demos with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex) to prove feasibility and value before a full team is committed. Stay close enough to the technology to make credible technical calls.
Requirements and scoping: Turn validated use cases into buildable requirements: user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and success metrics. Shape the end-to-end user experience with design, because adoption depends on usability.
Delivery and execution: Drive the build from prototype to production across your portfolio. Sequence the work, make scope and tradeoff calls as models and constraints shift, unblock teams, and keep momentum from first demo through launch and iteration.
Evaluation and quality standards: Define how quality is measured. Build golden sets, error budgets, and eval frameworks; run offline and production evals; choose the right metrics (precision, recall, task success, hallucination rate); apply LLM-as-judge where it has been validated. Turn results into launch decisions and leadership readouts.
Solution architecture: Partner with engineering on high-level architecture and feasibility across the portfolio, while owning the context engineering and skill-creation components of the AI harness and setting the reusable patterns others build on.
Cross-organizational leadership: Lead engineers, data scientists, designers, product managers, and business partners without direct authority. Influence VP-level organizations through written narratives, business cases, and executive forums. Author the playbooks, skills, and solution patterns for building AI at Humana.
Governed delivery: Move solutions through Humana's enterprise AI governance (AIRB, LRC, Responsible AI Council), owning the product documentation, scorecards, and stage-gate reviews, and help shape the governance standards themselves as the portfolio grows.
Talent and standards: Raise the bar for the whole team. Mentor senior and lead product managers, contribute to hiring and promotion assessments, and set the craft standard for building with AI across the organization.
Communication and influence: Communicate strategy, roadmap, requirements, ROI, and eval results clearly to executive, business, and technical audiences, and represent Humana's AI product work externally with partners, vendors, and the broader community.
Staying current: Track advances in models, agents, evals, and emerging techniques (agent harness, loop, and graph / GraphRAG approaches), form a defensible point of view on where they are headed, and apply them across your portfolio.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Information
Responsible AI
Everything you ship will meet Humana's Responsible AI standards and clear our AI governance stage gates, with safety, fairness, privacy, and compliance built in from the start. As a Principal, you will help set those standards.
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.
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Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
