This position is located in Scottsdale, AZ

Position Summary

This role works with all departments within the company to identify product requirements for a given software release. Gathers consensus and critical details for a product and clearly articulates them in a document form to ensure a product's goals are clearly communicated.

Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs)
• Utilize your experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.

Core Performance Factors

The core performance factors described below are essential for success:

• Customer Focused: Identifies or anticipates customer needs and exceeds customer expectations. Serves as the customer champion by actively improving the customer sales experience (product knowledge, presentation, timeliness, etc.).
• Quality Minded: Produces work (products, services, processes, or other outcomes) that is virtually error free and exceeds external and internal customer expectations. Minimizes rework by exhibiting foresight, displaying ownership, and applying diligence.
• Decision Making/Initiative: Makes reasonable, defensible decisions within scope of authority, seeking approval as needed. Takes initiative and works autonomously to achieve product goals (quality, schedule, etc.).
• Organization/Planning: Plans, organizes, and schedules in an efficient, productive manner. Effectively juggles multiple projects and anticipates reasonable contingencies. Effectively balances resource and time constraints with deadlines.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with colleagues, employees, vendors, and others in order to achieve meaningful results and maintain positive, productive working relationships. Purposely seeks out others for views, guidance, and ideas. Actively participates in solving problems, making decisions, completing tasks, and accomplishing goals.

Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Education

• 5+ years as a technical software/hardware business analyst
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders to define technical requirements for a software release.
• Strong logic and problem solving skills.
• Strong ability to communicate with different teams to gather requirements
• Proven ability to work with internal and external customers to document functional requirements.
• Strong technical skills and knowledge and exposure to all aspects of software development life cycle and processes.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree.
• MBA a plus.

Equipment and Applications

PC and Apple computers and various software applications

This is an outstanding opportunity to leverage your experience with a dynamic, growing company! We offer competitive salaries and benefits, challenging and rewarding work, and the opportunity to learn and grow with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in the workplace

Please apply online and attach your resume as a Word document or PDF.

We are an equal opportunity employer.