Midnight Oil · 2 weeks ago
Business Analyst/Product Owner IT
Shakopee,MN,US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expImagine is a leading visual communications company that focuses on delivering high-quality marketing solutions. The Business Analyst/Product Owner IT role involves acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that solutions align with product vision and strategy while maximizing business value.
AdvertisingCreative AgencyMarketing
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clarity and alignment
Create the project charter/vision document (problem statement, stakeholders, success criteria, high level requirements, constraints, etc.)
Elicit, analyze, identify gaps, recommend improvements, and document feature business requirements and clear user stories with acceptance criteria through interviews and workshops
Progressively add details to the user stories with acceptance criteria, tests, and visual models to create shared understanding with the team
Identify, document, and manage assumptions, issues, and risks to project success
Collaborate to create, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog based on business value and user needs
Participate in planning, refinement, and demos; provide ongoing clarifications to the development and quality team throughout the development process to ensure their understanding of the functionality and desired outcomes
Validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and approve releases
Provide input and guidance related to regression testing activities
Coordinate and lead demo sessions of in-progress software with internal and external stakeholders
Collaborate to create user training documentation and external client demos/communication as needed
Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or high school diploma and 4 years relevant work experience
Ability to simplify user demands and work in fast moving environment
Highly organized, self-starter, with strong analytical and communication skills
Basic SQL skills, comfortable working with data, both analyzing existing data sets, as well as validating test results or triaging issues by inspecting data in the database
Experience with agile processes and tools such as Rally, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, etc
Knowledge or understanding of how web applications work. Exposure to application components: UI, web services, server architecture, basic networking, databases
Preferred
5-7 years working as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment; Graphic Arts industry experience
Wireframe tools such as Balsamiq
Strong emotional intelligence - ability to see other perspectives, self-reflect, and find innovative ways of meeting business goals
Experience with mobile applications is a plus
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off
Disability insurance
401(k) with match
Life insurance
Other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages
Tuition assistance
Caregiver leave
Adoption assistance
Employer/partner discounts
Company
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil is a marketing agency that provides go-to-market, brand strategy, print production, structural design, and audience insight.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
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