Product Analyst & Owner - Agile Backlog Lead (Contract)

MassGenics, Inc.; Piscataway Township (NJ); Presencial; USD 76.000 - 83.000; Tempo parcial

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Medical & pharmacy coverage

Dental/vision insurance

401(k)

HSAs and FSAs

Life Insurance

Pet Insurance

Disability coverage

Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection

Paid time off & sick leave

Employee Assistance Program

Resumo da vaga

Innova Solutions is hiring a Product Analyst / Associate Product Owner to support product strategy, requirements, backlog, and release planning. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, QA, and leadership to translate needs into actionable requirements and ensure timely delivery.

The role emphasizes strong analytical and communication skills, Agile practices, and coordination across multiple teams to drive successful product initiatives.

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related IT field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Product Analyst, BA, Product Owner, or similar role supporting software delivery.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong Jira experience for backlog management, planning, and reporting.
• Experience creating PRDs, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience coordinating across business, product, engineering, QA, and leadership teams.
• Knowledge of SDLC and release planning, UAT coordination, and defect management.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Responsabilidades

• Understand business challenges, user journeys, and outcomes with stakeholders.
• Help define product roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Facilitate discovery sessions to gather requirements.
• Create artifacts such as problem statements, personas, journey maps, and epics.
• Prepare PRDs, user stories, use cases, and test criteria.
• Translate business needs into functional/non-functional requirements.
• Break initiatives into stories and tasks for delivery.
• Maintain Jira epics, stories, tasks, and workflows.
• Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions.
• Track sprint progress, risks, and blockers for stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and Business teams.
• Generate executive dashboards and KPI reports.
• Support release planning and deployment activities.
• Coordinate QA testing, defects, and UAT.
• Monitor production readiness and risk assessments.

Conhecimentos

Agile/Scrum

Jira

Backlog management

PRDs / User stories

Stakeholder management

Release planning

SDLC

UAT coordination

Excel / Analytics

Confluence

Formação

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/IS

Ferramentas

Azure DevOps

Descrição da vaga

Innova Solutions is hiring a Product Analyst / Associate Product Owner to support product strategy, requirements, backlog, and release planning. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, QA, and leadership to translate needs into actionable requirements and ensure timely delivery.

The role emphasizes strong analytical and communication skills, Agile practices, and coordination across multiple teams to drive successful product initiatives.