Strategic Business Systems Analyst (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking a highly proactive Business Systems Analyst (BSA) for a contract role, remote in the United States. The role focuses on strategic planning, portfolio operations, and executive communications, acting as a strategic generalist to connect initiatives and transform ideas into actionable plans, dashboards, and deliverables.

The ideal candidate will work with senior leadership, support day-to-day execution, identify gaps, and keep priorities aligned.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in business analysis, strategy and operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Executive storytelling and presentation skills.
• Ability to create structure and actionable next steps from ambiguous ideas.
• Experience developing executive presentations, dashboards, planning materials, and communications.
• Comfort working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with AI and collaboration tools such as Claude, Figma, and Dragonboat.

Responsibilities

• Support planning activities across the organization including leadership meetings, staff meetings, offsites, and strategic planning sessions.
• Maintain visibility across the portfolio and help leadership understand priorities, progress, dependencies, and areas requiring attention.
• Partner closely with the TPM to fill operational and coordination gaps without duplicating traditional project management responsibilities.
• Translate leadership ideas and priorities into actionable plans, artifacts, communications, and follow-up activities.
• Support ad hoc strategic initiatives and special projects from senior leadership.
• Maintain and manage portfolio priorities, dashboards, trackers, and planning artifacts.
• Drive updates within Dragonboat, ensuring teams update priorities, milestones, and status.
• Proactively follow up with stakeholders to keep information accurate and initiatives moving forward.
• Create an operating rhythm around staff meetings, portfolio reviews, planning sessions, and leadership updates.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or missing information and take initiative to resolve them.
• Develop clear, concise executive communications explaining priorities, initiatives, progress, and outcomes.
• Turn complex information into executive-ready presentations, dashboards, summaries, and artifacts.
• Partner with teams to articulate launches, the problems they solve, benefits, rationale, and go-to-market or communication plans.
• Use AI tools such as Claude to accelerate research, planning, communications, synthesis, and artifact development.
• Collaborate in Figma on concepts, designs, and presentation materials.
• Convert rough ideas into polished, usable artifacts and seek opportunities to apply AI to improve speed and quality.

Skills

Strategic analysis

Executive comms

Portfolio operations

Cross-functional

Executive storytelling

Communication skills

AI tools

Tools

Claude AI

Figma

Dragonboat

Job description

We are seeking a highly proactive Business Systems Analyst (BSA) for a contract role, remote in the United States. The role focuses on strategic planning, portfolio operations, and executive communications, acting as a strategic generalist to connect initiatives and transform ideas into actionable plans, dashboards, and deliverables.

The ideal candidate will work with senior leadership, support day-to-day execution, identify gaps, and keep priorities aligned.