Product Owner - Virtual

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity, and embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com. 

Our Product Owner is responsible for establishing the vision for an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) team. The Product Owner prioritizes and manages the health of the team backlog and contributes significantly to team quality. As a part of the Alight organization, this role will drive measurable, consistent, predictable portfolio delivery to accelerate and optimize value-add solutions for Alight’s customers. To drive these outcomes, Alight is seeking a multidimensional Agile leader experienced with the following: Requirement elicitation and analysis, Agile story writing, team-level backlog management, decomposition, Journey and Story Mapping.

You Will

• Identify, communicate, and decompose business requirements into small, estimated, functional, and vertical user stories that fit within a single iteration.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements in the form of acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize and sequence stories to maximize the business value delivered while maintaining a sustainable pace for the team.
• Accept user stories as done throughout the iteration with multiple define-build-test cycles.
• Works with the Product Management Team to ensure vision, goals, and objectives are established and achieved.
• Participate in team and Agile Release Train (ART) Agile Ceremonies
• Apply an Agile mindset and behavior to effectively collaborate with the Agile Release Train (ART), team, and stakeholder(s).
• Leverage Agile estimation, forecasting, and economic prioritization (WSJF) tools.
• Make critical decisions regarding functionality and priority for the team with a focus on delivering value.
• Use various tools including personas to guide design choices, empathy maps to help teams understand user needs, journey maps to describe customer experiences across the operational value stream & story maps to design workflows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Extensive knowledge of Agile Values, Principles, and mindset with at least 5 years’ experience acting in a Product Owner or Product Manager role.
• Certified in Scaled Agile - SAFe® Product Owner (PO/PM)
• Strong technical acumen and system thinking
• Proficiency using Confluence, JIRA, Clarity, and Jira Align.
• Consumer-centric focus with experience managing user experience components.
• An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions simply and logically.
• Demonstrated track record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis.
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
• Experience serving in an analytical role such as business or system analysis.
• Self-driven with strong project management and organizational skills.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible.  Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for