Business Analyst

Virtasant•Austin, TX

18d•Remote

About The Position

Our client is a world-class Edtech company that developed a leading platform for high-stakes test preparation for pre-law, pre-med, med school students, residents, practicing physicians, PAs, and NPs. They combine technology and powerful data to create innovative, personalized learning experiences. For them, we're looking for a Business Analyst to work with their engineering teams. This role will also work with product, design, and operations teams to deliver innovative ways to serve our learners.

Requirements

3+ years of experience as a business analyst or product owner, preferably in a technical role for a SaaS product.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Figma, with some advanced expertise in Jira functionality.
Technical fluency - Ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, trade-offs, and new opportunities with technical team members.
Hands-on experience using AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in a product development context and, critically, a practiced eye for validating their output.
Excellent written and verbal communication of ideas, narratives, and complex technical information to a broad audience, including but not limited to executives, stakeholders, and engineers.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrate accurate, nuanced, and concise technical writing, with comprehensive functional requirements and acceptance criteria
Collaborate effectively with the product development team to document product problems and solutions in well-organized project plans
Develop independent processes to "work the backlog" alongside Principal TPM to keep a continuous flow of ready-for-engineering work

Responsibilities

Work with engineering component teams to deliver scalable and extensible software solutions to support business needs.
Translates business needs, user needs, and technological capabilities into developer-oriented user stories and product specifications that will lead to successful implementations.
Document detailed acceptance criteria that developers and QA can rely upon to complete their tasks.
Drive Agile principles and methodologies, including owning the team backlogs, defining and prioritizing epics, features, user stories, and other artifacts to support development goals.
Attend and, as required, lead Agile meetings/ceremonies.
Perform acceptance testing of defined scopes, and document detailed steps to reproduce and expected behavior for any found bugs.