Business Analyst/Product Owner

Company: Horizontal
Location: Madison
Posted on: September 14, 2020

Job Description:

What you’ll do:

•    Partner with technical leads/product managers to groom the backlog

•    Provide guidance and insight for projects impacting the platforms

•    Work with product managers to define the vision and product roadmap

•    Be a part of a scrum software development team

•    Provide oversight and training to system power users

What you need to succeed:

•    B.S./B.A. with 5 years of experience in building a product backlog for a software development team

•    Well versed in using Jira to manage a backlog and Confluence to document product and project information

•    Demonstrates agile and lean mindset to drive feature development incrementally

•    Strong technical background, either from academic, engineering, or hands-on product development experience

•    Proven experience in eliciting requirements, performing gap analyses, creating user stories, test cases, and wireframes

•    Experienced in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools

•    Ability to document system design, create specifications, flow charts, and other related diagrams based on needs

•    Ability to lead by influencing others, without the need to project formal authority, especially in cross-functional and executive settings

•    Well versed in defining roadmaps and collaborating with teams that employ agile/scrum software development methodologies

•    Strong consensus and relationship-building skills

•    Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support for recommendations

•    Experience in working with multiple vendors and offshore teams

•    Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle

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