Job Description
Product Analyst / Business Analyst
Summary:
The Product and Business Analyst is responsible for facilitating and coordinating the introduction of new features
and services for the Application platform, including gathering and prioritizing product, customer, and end-user.
requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, design, sales, marketing and
support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product and Business Analyst will
translate business strategies into product strategies, pitch documents, roadmaps, and user stories, and assist in the
operational rollout of products and features.
Responsibilities and Duties include, but not limited, to the following:
· Write functional specifications, user stories, participate in scrum calls, and assist in prioritizing backlog.
· Manage relationships with clients and partners to create optimal business outcomes; gather analyze,
document, and validate the product needs of the internal and external stakeholders.
· Build relationships and identify the needs and resources for both internal and external stakeholders to
support program development.
· Serve as the conduit for managing requirements between the business and the software development.
team throughout product and feature development.
· Define and document requirements; Analyze and prioritize requirements.
· Regularly communicate timeline of roadmap features and solicit feature request from internal and
external stakeholders.
· Assist in operational rollout and support of products, services, and features; Establish reviews and
walkthroughs to validate requirements are meet and assuring that the end-product meets appropriate.
quality and industry standards.
Business Processes:
Application operates in an Agile environment, and therefore a Product and Business Analyst needs to provide value.
beyond simply writing requirements documents and user stories. The Product and Business Analyst must have an
understanding of:
· Business domain knowledge - What the major business processes are, the metrics that are important to
the business, and how to improve the processes from a business perspective.
· Process Improvement Tools and Techniques - Understand how to Identify and define opportunities for
improvement and use process improvement tools and techniques to analyze existing business process.
· IT Solutions Perspective - Know how to translate understanding of the business process improvement.
needs into IT solution requirements to create effective and innovative business solutions.
· Project Process Understanding - Need to understand how an overall project development process works,
and how their role fits into that process so that they can work most effectively as a member of a
development team.
Qualifications and Skills
· Strong technical background focused on the more technical aspects of the product.
· A bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or a related field; MBA preferred.
· A minimum of 1-3 years’ experience in product management or a related field.
· Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
· Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
· High level of comfort with technology and its development.
· Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, time management, and communication skills.
· Excellent documentation skills along with in-depth knowledge of product strategy.
· Experience creating detailed reports and presentations to senior executives and key stakeholders.
· A track record of successfully making and keeping commitment.
Company Description
AList is a Professional Staffing Firm. Our focus is in Information Technology, Engineering, Finance and Accounting, Healthcare and Government Solutions. Headquartered in Olathe, KS, AList continues to provide thought leadership all while employing a “partner process” to deliver quality results for our clients.
AList is a small minority owned business that has a national reach when it comes to resources. We specialize in finding diverse professionals and military veteran candidates to fill technical roles for our clients. We take extreme pride in knowing we are moving the needle on Diversity and Inclusion as well as hiring of our military veterans as they transition back into our civilian population.
AList is a Professional Staffing Firm. Our focus is in Information Technology, Engineering, Finance and Accounting, Healthcare and Government Solutions. Headquartered in Olathe, KS, AList continues to provide thought leadership all while employing a “partner process” to deliver quality results for our clients.\r\n\r\nAList is a small minority owned business that has a national reach when it comes to resources. We specialize in finding diverse professionals and military veteran candidates to fill technical roles for our clients. We take extreme pride in knowing we are moving the needle on Diversity and Inclusion as well as hiring of our military veterans as they transition back into our civilian population.