Business Analyst

Do you want to work on cutting-edge projects with the world’s best IT engineers? Do you wish you could control which projects to work on and choose your own pay rate? Are you interested in the future of work and how the cloud will form teams? If so - the Gigster Talent Network is for you.

Our clients rely on our Network for two main areas, Software Development and Cloud Services. In some cases, they need help building great new products, in others they want our expertise in migrating, maintaining, and optimizing their cloud solutions.

At Gigster, whether working with entrepreneurs to realize ‘the next great vision’ or with Fortune 500 companies to deliver a big product launch, we build really cool enterprise software on cutting-edge technology.

 

The Role

Our client operates where education and technology meet, dedicated to crafting personalized and innovative learning experiences that drive transformative score improvements for students. Their team, composed of passionate educators and technologists, is committed to enhancing lives through education.

As a Business Analyst to work with our engineering teams. This role will also work with product, design, and operations teams to deliver innovative ways to serve our learners.  

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering component teams to deliver scalable and extensible software solutions to support business needs. 

• Translates business needs, user needs and technological capabilities into developer-oriented user stories and product specifications that will lead to successful implementations.
• Document detailed acceptance criteria that developers and QA can rely upon to complete their tasks.
• Drive Agile principles and methodologies, including owning the team backlogs, defining and prioritizing epics, features, user stories and other artifacts to support development goals.
• Attend and, as required, lead Agile meetings/ceremonies.
• Perform acceptance testing of defined scopes, and document detailed steps to reproduce and expected behavior for any found bugs.

 

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a business analyst or product owner, preferably in a technical role for a SaaS product. 

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Figma, with some advanced expertise in Jira functionality.
• Technical fluency - Ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, trade offs, and new opportunities with technical team members. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication of ideas, narratives and complex technical information to a broad audience including, but not limited to: executives, stakeholders and engineers. 

 

Our Recruitment Process

• Recruiter Screen (30 minutes)
• Client Interview I (45 minutes)
• Client Interview II (1 hour)
• Client interview III

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

 

What we offer

• Remote, full-time (40h/week). PST/EST/CST hours.
• No-end-date, independent contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice