ALIS is looking for a Product Specialist who combines analytical thinking, curiosity, and strong ownership. You’ll manage product backlogs, prioritize features, and drive initiatives forward from idea to release. You’ll 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 feedbackConduct 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 iterateDefine and measure adoption and usage for existing modules and new features. Report quarterly on base metrics and changes over time.
