Product Manager, Payroll Controls

**Our story**

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology, allows companies and employees around the world to transform and thrive.

With a competitive 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.

As a Product Manager at Alight, you will work cross-functionally to guide-products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You will break down complex problems into steps that drive product development and work closely with creative and prolific engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve our consumer experience.

The Product Manager for Payroll Controls will be responsible for the continued evolution, and future innovation of, Alight's proprietary payroll platform. As a strategic thinking, tactical decision maker, you will be responsible for identifying opportunities and delivering outcomes that power confident client decisions. You will reimagine internal controls and solution feature functionality that further drives efficiency and productivity, enforces compliance, increases payroll accuracy and timeliness, and elevates client confidence in the end-to-end payroll process through intuitive and actionable user experience.

**Key Responsibilities**

The individual will be involved in the following critical activities:

- Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth.
- Launch new products and features, test their performance, and iterate quickly.
- Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on cutting edge technologies.
- Develop AI-based solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions.

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience**

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of product management experience such as creating strategic product roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams.
- Experience driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
- Experience developing Internet products and technologies.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
- Experience managing day-to-day technical and design direction.
- Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, Customer Support, Finance or Marketing.
- Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.

Experience
- Previous work experience in the payroll industry with strong payroll background in one or more countries
- Thorough knowledge and proficiency in working with best-in-class HR and/or payroll and/or benefits solutions
- Prior experience in Jira Align, Microsoft DevOps, Microsoft project (or equivalent), Excel, and Powerpoint.
- Demonstrated learning agility.
- Ability to interact in technical discussions with IT stakeholders.

**Work Environment**

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

Alight believes **diversity** **should be visible, valued, and sustained **throughout the organization. And we’re committed to enabling an **inclusive culture of belonging **that engages all colleagues and grows the diversity of our talent to proudly represent the clients and communities we serve**.**

As an affirmative action employer, we adhere to the principles of equal employment opportunity in the workplace as defined in our diversity policy statement.

**Diversity Policy Statement**

Alight does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, gender, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.

**Authorization to work in the Employing Country**
- Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alig