Job Description
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
Qualifications
•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
Additional Information
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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