[Hiring] Senior Program Manager @Alight

Role Description

Alight is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead complex, technology-enabled programs and enterprise transformation initiatives. This role connects strategy to execution across Business, Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, client delivery, and external partners. You will bring structure to complex initiatives, align stakeholders around priorities and dependencies, manage program financials and risks, and drive execution from planning through launch and stabilization. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who is comfortable leading across organizational boundaries and influencing decisions without direct authority.

What You’ll Do

• Lead integrated program execution: Translate business objectives into clear, actionable roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, owners, resource needs, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive cross-functional delivery: Coordinate work across Business, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, client teams, and external partners to keep interconnected initiatives moving forward.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and decisions: Identify issues early, evaluate impacts, and work with stakeholders to develop practical solutions and recovery plans.
• Own program financials: Partner with Finance and business leaders to manage resource assumptions, vendor spend, forecasts, actuals, and estimates to complete.
• Guide executive decision-making: Provide leaders with concise, fact-based program updates, options, recommendations, and potential impacts.
• Support launch and readiness: Connect requirements, delivery, testing, business and client readiness, deployment, operational handoffs, and post-launch stabilization.
• Strengthen program practices: Bring consistency to planning, governance, risk management, and execution while sharing effective practices across teams.
• Maintain continuity: Keep program plans, decisions, risks, and key documentation current so programs can transition effectively as priorities evolve.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive program delivery experience, including leadership of complex enterprise, technology-enabled, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading large, interconnected programs involving multiple teams, functions, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to create structure from incomplete or evolving information and turn strategy into executable plans.
• Experience managing cross-program dependencies, critical paths, risks, decisions, scope changes, and delivery milestones.
• Experience with program financial management, including resource planning, vendor spend, forecasting, and variance management.
• Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders, navigate competing priorities, and build alignment without direct authority.
• Experience communicating complex program information and recommendations clearly to executive audiences.
• Working knowledge of Product/PdLC, Engineering/SDLC, Agile and hybrid delivery models, along with business, client, and operational readiness.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with technology modernization, digital products, enterprise transformation, operating model change, regulatory initiatives, or complex business process transformation.
• Experience working with external vendors or strategic partners on large-scale initiatives.
• Experience improving program management practices, governance, or execution standards.
• Familiarity with PPM, AI, or automation tools used to support program planning, reporting, and risk identification.
• PgMP, PMP, Agile, or similar credentials are helpful but not required when supported by relevant experience.

Application and Interview

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 checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful. At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected].

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, 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 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 reasonable accommodations/modifications by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to Work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.