Director, Onboarding Marketing

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 Humana’s Marketing organization is seeking an experience marketing leader to join the team as the Director of Engagement Marketing (Onboarding Marketing). This role is pivotal in accelerating member time-to-value and increasing retention, satisfaction, and outcomes. You’ll lead a skilled team of marketers and specialists, manage a performance-focused marketing budget, and influence senior stakeholders to align onboarding with enterprise goals.

As the Director of Engagement Marketing, you will develop and influence the application of member-centric strategies to accelerate business goal achievement as well as plan and recommend engagement strategies to members based on detailed quantitative analyses of consumer databases and external data sources to develop data driven insights into members, their behaviors, buying preferences, and patterns. You will provide thought and change partners to lead line of business and cohort transformations, and engagement improvement that puts the needs of the member at the center of all business functions, coordinated and pervasive throughout the enterprise. Additionally, you will find the intersection points between the members and the plans, in order to optimize and maximize efforts that generate value for both the member and Humana. Decisions are typically related to the implementation of new/updated programs or large-scale projects for the function and supporting technical/operational procedures and processes, and implements strategic plans, drives goals and objectives, and improves performance.

Key Role Functions

• Architect a best-in-class, multi-channel onboarding experience (email, mail, SMS, app, web, call center, IVR) tailored to member needs and Next Best Action (NBA) strategy

• Lead and mentor a direct team of marketing professionals; oversee onboarding-related marketing budget and resourcing

• Collaborate with product, data science, and channel owners to embed journey logic and personalization rules that drive measurable action

• Define NBA logic for content, timing, and channel orchestration to deliver personalized journeys at scale

• Track and optimize journey performance, using data to run experiments, improve KPIs, and guide roadmap iteration

• Champion the voice of the customer — integrating qualitative feedback and behavioral signals into continuous onboarding improvements

• Influence executive stakeholders to secure alignment, share results, and shape the future-state experience vision

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 8+ years of B2C omni-channel marketing experience, with deep expertise in lifecycle and journey-based marketing

• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading and developing high-performing teams

• Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms (e.g., Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Journey Optimizer)

• Familiarity working in an agile operating model/environment

• Proven success managing matrixed teams and driving measurable engagement and retention outcomes

• Experience using analytics and data science to translate insights into performance marketing tactics

• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, insurance, financial services)

• Familiarity with NBA engines, CDPs, and real-time decisioning platforms (e.g., Pega, Adobe)

• Exposure to product marketing, agent enablement, or channel mix optimization

• Experience launching or scaling agile pods or cross-functional squads

Additional Information

It is preferred that candidates be located near a Humana Marketing office (e.g. Washington, DC, Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL) however, it is not required and can be 100% remote anywhere in the U.S.

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

• Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:

• Health benefits effective day 1

• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay

• Recognition pay

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match

• Tuition assistance

• Scholarships for eligible dependents

• Parental and caregiver leave

• Employee charity matching program

• Network Resource Groups (NRGs)

• Career development opportunities

Our Hiring Process

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we may contact you via text message and email to gather more information using a software platform called HireVue. HireVue Text, Scheduling and Video technologies allow you to interact with us at the time and location most convenient for you. 

If you are selected to move forward from your application prescreen, you may receive correspondence inviting you to participate in a pre-recorded Voice, Text Messaging and/or Video interview.  Your recorded interview will be reviewed and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to next round of interviews.

If you have additional questions regarding this role posting and are an Internal Candidate, please send them to the Ask A Recruiter persona by visiting go/Buzz and searching Ask A Recruiter! Please be sure to provide the requisition number so we may be able to research your request quicker.

Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from [email protected] with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana’s secure website.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay 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.

 

$168,000 - $231,000 per year

 

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

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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 07-21-2025
About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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