Technical Business Analyst/Product Owner

Title: Technical Business Analyst / Senior Product Owner

Location: Fully Remote (Time Zone Hours PST)

Duration: 6+ Months contract to start (could go for over 1-2 years)

Must be able to work on iSpace W2 and work PST Hours.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive product strategy and prioritization by analyzing customer needs.
• Lead meetings with cross-functional stakeholders to gather business requirements; communicate possible solution options and drive teams to consensus.
• Prioritize and maintain product backlog.
• Manage product roadmap.
• Translate product roadmap features into detailed documentation covering functional specifications, process flow diagrams, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Engage in all stages of product creation including design and development.
• Participate in scrum meetings and product development sprints.
• Ensure all requests are accurately captured, prioritized, and correctly built to user requirements.
• Maintain and communicate weekly status updates to cross functional teams.
• Demo new product features to stakeholders, provide documentation, and conduct User Acceptance Testing sessions.
• Deeply understand the technology stack and overall system architecture and leverage that information to make the correct product decisions and tradeoffs between feasibility, scope of work, and user needs.
• Define important metrics and analyze performance that inform success and opportunities.
• Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.

 Education:

• BA/BS degree preferred.

 Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in product management developing, launching, and supporting consumer-facing software products and SaaS commercial business applications.
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Experience building partnerships across multiple cross-functional groups (Executive management, Legal, Marketing, Engineering)
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Jira, Confluence, and related tools for building detailed.
• documentation.
• Experience with market and user research.
• Strong understanding of APIs and integrations.
• Experience working independently, without significant manager involvement.
• Should manage own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to multi-task and work well in a fast-paced environment and excited to relentlessly solve many technical challenges.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Big Plus:

• Background in computer science or related technology development.
• Experience as a developer, business systems analyst, and/or QA.