Business Analyst

As a Business Analyst or Product Owner with a passion for product platform strategy and development? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to work on our flagship product, gfknewron Consumer – the leading consumer insights product in Tech and Durables. In this role, you'll play a key part in providing our Tech & Durables customers with instant access to industry-leading consumer intelligence, empowering them to make better decisions and drive profitable actions.

You will help contribute to a global product roadmap for gfknewron. Consumer and will work with the Product Manager to prioritize, define, and then build capabilities to meet customers needs. You’ll collaborate with a team of product, technology (developers, QA and architecture), operations, and commercial leaders to define product features and generate / maintain detailed requirements to ensure the product meets evolving business needs and enable our users to work effectively and drive our business forward.

In your role, you would:

• Support the delivery of your product to meet the goals, stakeholder requirements and use cases defined
• Work with your scrum team(s) under the scaled agile methodology to plan, execute and deploy features and functions
• Work closely with your scrum team(s) to troubleshoot feature bugs and test to ensure appropriate fixes are implemented
• Be responsible for user acceptance testing as a proxy for users, as they match your user journey
• Work with your Product Manager (s) to prioritize backlog items into sprints
• Participate in roadmap planning and feature prioritization
• Collaborate with Product Manager and scrum team(s) to plan, execute and deploy features and functions (using SAFe)
• Break down epics into user stories and requirements based on user needs/challenges and evolving business needs
• Ensure end-to-end product definition and delivery of solutions
• Form hypotheses and potential solutions quickly that can be vetted out in prototypes or wireframes
• Build supporting materials as necessary, such as training of FAQ documents
• Work with internal users and usage data to validate the effectiveness and success of your changes
• Collaborate with user experience team, providing feedback on the designs

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  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience in a Product role, with previous experience in a Technology, Operations, or Data Science role
• Solid ability to present information in the simplest and most compelling way
• Solid communication skills, including the ability to influence key stakeholders
• Experience in an Agile Product Owner role (breaking down requirements into user stories, sprint planning etc.) is preferred
• Experience using JIRA for requirements and development work tracking is preferred
• Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is a plus
• Good understanding of technical concepts, services and implementations
• Excited to ideate on new challenges while simultaneously diving into the details
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and flexible environment where no two days are the same
• Enjoys working in the gray or unknown - defining the undefined, challenging the status quo, and solving uncharted business challenges
• Passion for using data and feedback to inform decisions and to advocate for our users