Akkodis is seeking a Product Analyst for a direct hire full-time opportunity in the west suburbs of Cleveland, OH. Qualified candidates will have 3+ years of experience in an Analyst role focused on a Product. The Analyst will be responsible for product requirements, user stories, product backlogs, and product enhancements.

Salary Range: $75-85K plus 100% employer paid benefits and a 20-25% annual bonus; salary negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors

The is a great chance to join an established and growing Cleveland-based employer!

Product Analyst job responsibilities include:

• Provides the link between the technical and business views of the system by ensuring that the technical solutions being developed will satisfy the needs of the business.
• Ensures high level designs including architecture requirements are accurately documented and map to approved requirements.
• Partner with sponsors, stakeholders, and IT to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks & controls for the improvement area.
• Lead, collaborate with, and motivate a cross-functional team of business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.
• Manage, prioritize, and assess the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc., including providing the decision to create, fix or defer at the project level.
• Review, and when appropriate, accept and prioritize feedback and new requirements from stakeholders.
• Review and accept or decline output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
• Ensure development and QA teams understand requirements prior to development. Answer questions and support team throughout development and testing
• Manages integrated functionality, usability, reliability, performance and support requirements of a system.
• Assist with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources.
• Assists in developing training documentation and proactive identification of additional documentation needs.
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings .
• Act as a project manager when necessary. Take responsibility for managing dependencies.
• Analyzing a broadly-defined area and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories to create a well-organized, value-driven framework to provide the required business value in the Product Backlog.
• Writing individual stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
• Identifying related user stories and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary.
• Must be able to collaboratively work within multiple evolving development methodologies including iterative Agile and sequential Waterfall projects.
• Eliciting and documenting requirements from business owners/subject matter experts for new and existing products and/or applications.
• Facilitating meetings and design discussions with on and offshore development teams.
• Tracking and reporting of project metrics/timelines.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of experience in an Analyst role that includes a Product focus
• Experience in Product Ownership, Product Analytics, or Product Roadmaps
• Skills in gathering and documenting requirements and user stories
• Ability to manage product backlogs
• Knowledge in SQL and API’s

If you are interested in this Product Analyst role, please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to . If you have questions about the position, please contact Kathy Becher at 216-750-6232 or

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Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client

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