ALIS is looking for a Product Specialist who combines analytical thinking curiosity and strong ownership. Youll manage product backlogs prioritize features and drive initiatives forward from idea to release. Youll collaborate with developers designers and stakeholders - bringing clarity structure and creativity to the product process.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives with autonomy communicates proactively and loves transforming user insights into scalable high-impact solutions.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
Continuously build and maintain a backlog of work for engineering by collecting bugs and feature requests identifying patterns and prioritizing.
Collaborate with CS / AM on escalations to determine priority.
Manage sprint scope changes.
Gather requirements with clients and stakeholders and document findings.
Deploy discovery techniques depending on the size and type of project to de-risk and scope the value usability feasibility and business viability.
Understand user workflows and get a sense of direction for the user experience.
Work closely and collaboratively with UX designers to brainstorm learn about users and personas and map workflows.
Lead solution design discussions working closely with designers developers and technology teams. Iterate quickly identify opportunities and further de-risk and scope. Be prepared and knowledgeable of all problems facts and workflows.
Plan sprints and build project milestones and continuously liaise among stakeholders and engineering.
Build and maintain quarterly annual roadmaps
Develop a product vision evangelize relentlessly while knowing when to change or grow the vision
Lead daily scrums and work closely with developers to ensure timeliness of deliverables
Keep stakeholders looped into the status and progress. Demo frequently. Continuously prompt gather sort and implement feedback
Conduct UAT and bring in other testers stakeholders or early adopters to measure how closely a new feature will hit the target. Iterate fast. Put the final stamp of approval and backing behind features.
Enable sales and client services teams. Develop and share documentation on how new features work and share information with the Helpdesk admin. Train internal teams. Help setup demos.
Develop rollout plans alongside stakeholders communications and marketing teams. Flag and plan beta tests to further de-risk gather feedback to quickly iterate
Define and measure adoption and usage for existing modules and new features. Report quarterly on base metrics and changes over time.
Qualifications : JOB QUALIFICATIONS
2 consecutive years of experience in a product role at a SaaS company
Customer Knowledge- expert on the customers issues pains desires how they think how they work what makes them buy a product.
Data Knowledge- Need to do continuous qualitative and quantitative analysis to deeply understand why customers behave the way they do and what they are doing.
Business Knowledge- Have deep knowledge of the ALIS product and how the product matters to the business. Know your stakeholders and the constraints they operate under and commit to delivering solutions that are consistent with those constraints.
Market & Industry Knowledge- Have deep knowledge of competitors tech trends customer behaviors and expectations and follow relevant industry news and analysis.
Additional Information :
BENEFITS :
8 Company Holidays (office will be closed)
1 Floating Holiday
10 days of PTO (Year 1)
Subsidized medical dental and vision insurance
401k Plan Up to 5% Matching
Pre-tax Commuter Benefits
Casual Dress
Referral Bonuses
Employee Assistance Fund
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Jury duty & Bereavement Leave
Length of stay rewards
Company bonus pool
HSA and FSA
Life Insurance policy subsidized by Company
ALIS values and promotes diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin ancestry age genetic information sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status veteran status medical condition or disability. All candidates are subject to a background check.
Remote Work : No
Employment Type : Full-time
Key Skills
Sales Experience,Marketing,Customer Service,Communication skills,Military Experience,Retail Sales,Product Demos,Customer Support,Product Management,Product Development,Unity,Microscopy
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Product Specialist • Chicago, Illinois, USA