Product Analyst

Aatom Recruitment; West End; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A local authority recruitment agency is seeking a Product Analyst for a hybrid role focused on defining functional and non-functional requirements within a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will provide evidence of product analysis experience, work collaboratively with Product Managers, and contribute to an extensive delivery plan. Key responsibilities include drafting user stories, scoping technical specifications, and ensuring deliverables meet user and business needs. This role offers a chance to impact innovative solutions across Digital & Innovation services.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in product analysis or architecture within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to define functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience in drafting technical specifications and managing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Identify and define functional and non-functional requirements for product development.
• Draft user stories and acceptance criteria for product teams.
• Collaborate across product teams to influence design and development decisions.

Skills

Product analysis experience

Architectural experience

User story drafting

Agile principles

Multi-disciplinary team collaboration

Job description

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Product Analyst on a 3 months contract initially with a possibility of further extension.

Most Important Bit: Must have previous product analysis or architecture experience within a multi-disciplinary team evidenced on the CV

You may know this role as a business analyst role.

Really important along with evidence / examples of: defining functional requirements^

The Report It team have committed to an extensive delivery plan that includes research, design and development. We require a Product Analyst to define both non-functional and functional requirements across three Report It teams.

This role is hybrid, with most colleagues across the programme working from City Hall once or twice a week depending on the team’s needs and schedules.

The role will have other Product Analysts and Product Managers to collaborate with across a growing Community of Practice, and report into the Lead Product Manager.

The council is committed to developing products and services to meet our Residents’ needs. Within Digital & Innovation, we use user research and insight to design, test, and build solutions across Housing, Smart Cities, and Report It. Our multi-disciplinary teams include colleagues across Digital, Data and Technology that use agile principles to deliver value fast.

We need a Product Analyst to identify and understand these needs and translate them into technical and non-technical requirements for our products across Digital & Innovation.

This Product Analyst role will work between research, design and development to ensure our products meet users and business needs while balancing regulatory and technical constraints. They will play an active role to ensure the team(s) are ready to deliver, including:

Requirements:

• Identifying, analysing, and defining functional and non-functional requirements to drive the design and development of products (Required)
• Scoping, drafting, and managing technical specifications and documentation (Required)
• As-is and to-be process mapping, working with users and stakeholders across the business to define what these journeys are (Required)
• Drafting and defining user stories, acceptance criteria, and definition of done for our product teams (Required)
• Collaborating across product teams and wider programmes to feed into decision-making for design, development, and procurement (Required)

Screening criteria

• Talk through your previous experience that is related to this role.
• Tell us about a time you have worked within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Talk through what tools and processes have you users to manage information and documentation within a team.
• Tell us about a time when have you defined functional requirements from user research.
• Talk through an example of when you have worked with others to understand the as-is process.

If this sounds good to you, please apply for further information or call us directly.