Senior Product Manager Absence

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.”

• 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. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

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 if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

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We provide absence management solutions designed to improve health and productivity outcomes while helping organizations manage costs. Our services and technology support employees in returning to work and help businesses operate effectively.

The Senior Product Manager is the strategic lead for Absence products. This role is accountable for product scope, direction, and outcomes—ensuring development teams build the right capabilities in the right sequence to maximize business value and customer satisfaction. Absence Management experience is required. Must be a SME in this area.

• Lead the product roadmap for Alight’s leave and absence experience.
• Expand and improve the experience for both employee and employer users.
• Oversee maintenance of existing solutions to ensure a consistent, compliant, end‑to‑end experience.
• Own and advance the product strategy across outsourcing, in sourcing, and co‑sourcing models.
• Partner with Product Directors and Product Managers to ensure alignment and shared prioritization.
• Drive a multi‑year roadmap for experience capabilities, including partnership and program expansion opportunities.
• Manage and refine existing products to minimize client risk.
• Maintain roadmap visibility for leadership, engineering, delivery, and client‑facing teams.
• Represent the organization at conferences, advisory groups, audits, and client feedback forums.
• Develop content, frameworks, and documentation that support thought leadership.
• Collaborate with engineering, legal, delivery, and client success to ensure high‑quality execution.
• Validate solutions through discovery, prototyping, and user feedback.
• Support launch readiness across commercial, implementation, and enablement teams.

• 5+ years in absence management, ideally with experience in human‑centered design across digital and assisted channels.
• 5+ years of product management experience with increasing responsibility, preferably in SaaS, HCM, claims, or digital platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional product initiatives in an Agile environment.
• Proven skills in product strategy, user‑centered design, requirements analysis, and competitive assessment.
• Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

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.

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background…