Product Analyst

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The Product Analyst owns the product / solution on behalf of Avanade, representing customer interests throughout the product / solution lifecycle. Incumbents in this job take a leadership role in defining the product / solution vision and driving scenario execution. The Product Analyst is a tactical business leader, leading key operational activities from definition to development of the production / solution. Incumbents in this job ensure the product/solution meets customer and market needs, and they develop and execute plans to drive those results. They work across functional teams to ensure success. **Together we do what matters.**

Skills and experiences
- Strong experience with web and mobile products and knowledge of software development and implementation lifecycles
- Strong internal/external stakeholder interaction; includes presenting to and influencing executive decision-makers
- Experience in conducting primary and secondary research on markets including market segments, geographies, products, and industry
- Experience gathering requirements (from customers, other stakeholders) to build and guide project/product roadmaps, including use of requirements-gathering tools/technologies
- Demonstrated ability to understand different business models and strategies
- Clear and concise oral and written communication and experience working with, managing and influencing virtual teams, including off-shore
- Knowledgeable about project/program financials (e.g., budgeting, assessing financial impact, working with financial analysts)

About you
- Autonomous, enterprising, and positive thinker
- Intellectually curious and passionate about tech
- Storyteller and engaging content creator
- Strong appreciation for design and user experience
- Likely has previous experience as a Product Analyst and/or Product Owner
- Demonstrated experience interfacing with and selling to executive level clients.
- Experienced in working in a digital agency or consulting firm
- Strong networking and relationship-building skills
- Customer oriented attitude and excellent presentation skills

Skilled in interpersonal communication and negotiation

What you'll do

**Product Discovery**
- Reads between the lines of opportunity definition to tease out core business problem.
- Researches market forces impacting client.
- Blueprints ideas to spark client's business development journey/identifies customers' unmet needs.
- Owns a customer problem and stewardship of product feature (sets)
- Contribute to the product vision articulation and proves viability/product market fit.
- Produces quality research output to inform direction of engagement execution, including competitive analysis.

Skillfully designs complex roadmaps with a feature (set) prioritization validated with market data

**Product Development**
- Uses rapid experimentation and prototyping methods to learn & iterate to prove value quickly
- Designs product loops to activate new features.
- Partners with delivery on value-driven planning.
- Prioritizes development throughput and incoming client requests.
- Executes experiments/design experiments
- Writes use cases, user stories for development consumption
- Maintain and update the product / solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work throughout the project’s life cycle
- Manage product / solution release content and schedules and administer user acceptance testing as appropriate

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you will get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look

Create a future for our people that focuses on

- Expanding your thinking - Experimenting courageously - Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

- Empowering every voice - Encouraging boldness - Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

- Amazing the client - Prioritizing what matters - Acting as one

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to