Senior Behavioral Economics Professional (SBEP)

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. The Senior Behavioral Economics Professional (SBEP) is a core member of Humana’s industry-leading Behavioral Economics team. The SBEP brings expertise in applied study design to help Humana’s leaders make informed business decisions, designing and executing field experiments to answer questions such as:

• How can Humana use technological solutions to better support members’ behavioral health needs?
• What’s the best way for Humana to respond when a member has a fall?
• What specific benefits matter most to our members?

This role requires an ability to think creatively and pragmatically about experimental design, developing studies that balance risk, rigor, and feasibility to support real-world decision-making.

Humana’s industry-leading Behavioral Economics team applies rigorous experimental methods to answer questions that matter. Team members work in cross-functional environments to design and implement field experiments assessing clinical outcomes, financial impacts, and other key factors. The team’s work directly informs business decisions and influences broader strategies.

Responsibilities

The Senior Behavioral Economics Professional (SBEP) is a core member of the BE team, owning a portfolio of test design projects from start to finish. They act as an internal consultant within cross-functional teams, leading evaluation of program impacts by:

• Initial project scoping
• Developing a theory of change
• Selecting the appropriate experimental design, including use of quasi-experimental methods as appropriate
• Overseeing implementation
• Analyzing data
• Interpreting results for senior executives and other key decision-makers

The SBEP must work autonomously at times, and with a high degree of technical skill. They must also work collaboratively with teams whose expertise is outside of quantitative research, e.g., product managers and market leaders. Success for the SBEP means:

1. Developing and executing test designs that appropriately balance rigor, risk, and feasibility.
2. Clearly interpreting and communicating the learnings from those tests.

The SBEP must also:

• Use strong project management skills to prioritize and manage capacity effectively.
• Communicate technical content clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Support BE team colleagues and other enterprise partners by, e.g., providing internal peer review, contributing subject matter knowledge in their particular areas of expertise, and brainstorming potential approaches to overcome common test design challenges.
• Demonstrate BE team values, including:
  • Curiosity
  • Enthusiasm for learning from others, recognizing that different types of expertise can and should contribute to solutions
  • Flexibility and pragmatism
  • Strategic thinking
  • Dedication to high-quality work

Use your skills to make an impact.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD Degree in Economics, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Applied Statistics or related field.
• Experience leading the design of lab or field experiments.
• Experience leading analysis of various types of data using SAS, R, Python, or similar software.
• Understanding of quasi-experimental methods, including appropriate uses and trade-offs for different approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading (or making meaningful contributions to) quasi-experimental analyses of real-world data.
• At least two years of work experience in consulting, applied research, healthcare, insurance, or related industry (outside of academia).
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience supporting measurement at different stages of project scale, e.g., feasibility pilots, outcomes studies, and full scaling.

Company Information

Humana

Additional Information

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