Product Analyst

Role Purpose

The Product Analyst is a delivery-enablement role, responsible for translating the Product Managers strategy, roadmap, and priorities into clear, executable requirements for the engineering team. This role exists to remove ambiguity, reduce rework, and improve delivery predictability. It does not own product strategy, commercial prioritisation, or long-term roadmap decisions.

What This Role Owns (Very Explicit)

• Sprint-ready backlog aligned to the Product Managers roadmap
• User stories, acceptance criteria, and dependency mapping
• Day-to-day clarification for developers
• Scope discipline against the agreed customer journey
• Change impact assessment (time, complexity, dependencies)
• Delivery readiness for MVPs

Key Responsibilities

Backlog & Requirements Management

• Convert roadmap items into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Maintain backlog hygiene (ready / not-ready, dependencies, sequencing)
• Ensure requirements meet definition of ready before development starts

Delivery Enablement

• Support sprint planning with the Engineering Lead
• Provide rapid clarification to developers during execution
• Ensure requirements are testable and aligned to agreed outcomes

Customer Journey Enforcement

• Use the approved customer journey as the single control mechanism
• Identify scope creep or misalignment early and escalate
• Ensure integrations, data capture, and sequencing remain consistent

Stakeholder Coordination

• Work with business stakeholders within agreed scope
• Support client discovery and MVP1 readiness under direction
• Ensure traceability from business intent build release

Experience & Skills

• 3–6 years experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Product Analyst
• Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams
• Structured, detail-oriented, and disciplined
• Able to operate with clear guardrails and decision hierarchies
• Platform, mobility, or data-driven product exposure
• B2B or enterprise environment experience

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

• Developers receive clear, unambiguous requirements
• Reduced delivery rework and scope churn
• Faster sprint throughput and improved predictability
• Clear separation between strategy and execution