
Product Analyst
interactive investor
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Manchester • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ReactReact Native
About the role
- As a Product Analyst in our Product Team, you’ll take a leading role in ensuring our Products are delivering meaningful value for our customers and business stakeholders.
- You’ll be owning and leading the delivery of roadmap items across either a product area or enterprise change project; ensuring that we are building the right things in the right way. Working closely with the Head of Product and Product Managers to ensure strategic alignment with the Product Roadmap.
- You’ll commonly undertake the role of either Lead Analyst on project size change items, or the role of Product Owner within delivery squads, owning and managing a product backlog.
- Day-to-day, you will be working in close partnership with other Product Analysts, and Product Managers to help elicit requirements from business stakeholders in the form of epics and user stories, and working with Technical Leads, UX Designers using their domain knowledge, to design and deliver on the requirements at hand.
- When working as a Lead Analyst on a project, you’ll be embedded within the project team, capturing business requirements, performing business and systems analysis, supporting Systems Architects to design solutions, helping build test strategies and analysing issues. When working as a Product Owner you’ll be embedded within a squad, owning, managing and prioritising the delivery of product features, services and enhancements, documenting requirements, and rallying the team around the product backlog.
- You’ll be responsible for improving customer journeys and experience across the products, to create the leading platform in the self-directed investing market, working as the link between the business and IT delivery.
- The role will have flexibility and you will be required to work across various channels and systems depending on business requirements, working with SME’s and stakeholders to build a strong knowledge of our business and technical ecosystems, along with taking a data lead approach to owning the outcome.
- Whilst you’ll be a specialist in the Product Analysis space, you’ll have the opportunity to act in other roles and support the teams in other ways, taking on the likes of testing and light project management, working closely with the Head of Product and other Product Managers to ensure that the vision, KPI’s and direction are correct.
Requirements
- Experience working as part of a multi discipline team working with members from UX, analysis and engineering, demonstrating high impact performance of initiatives
- A technical understanding of React, React Native and API integration
- Competent knowledge of change methodologies and frameworks and works autonomously
- Experience working in both Offline and Online customer journeys
- Has worked across a vast range of products that get used by in-house users and customers.
- A competent communicator across all channels and finds the best form of communication for the task
- Has a bias to action – does not hide behind their desk and gets out and about across the business. You take it on yourself to ensure that the right things get done.
- Pro-active, personable and social – can forge relationships with colleagues both within the office and those across other offices
- Strong stakeholder management skills and applicable experience
- Can demonstrate a user centred approach and can demonstrate that the right balance is made between building the right thing, building it right and building it fast enough
- Proven ability to analyse systems from a business and technical perspective and document any processes.
- Demonstratable ability to seek out and find the information needed to support the goals of the team, irrespective of whether they have any applicable background of prior knowledge of the problem space or platform.
- Ability to write concise and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria
- Previous experience of collaborating with or within an agile/scrum team
- Ability to prioritise work effectively
- Facilitates quick decision making and is decisive in making decisions
- Proven ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Highly organised with a great attention to detail
- Ability to discuss and explain complex issues to all levels
- A strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures, including BDD, TDD principles and continuous integration and web/mobile technologies.
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Hard skills
ReactReact NativeAPI integrationbusiness analysissystems analysisuser storiesBDDTDDcontinuous integrationagile
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationproactiverelationship buildingdecision makingorganizational skillsattention to detailuser-centered approachability to work under pressureprioritization