Position: Business Analyst/Product Manager
Company: Ning
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Ning is a highly loaded platform that enables users to create their own social networks**.


**Must-have skills**:

- 3+ years experience as business analyst or product manager in IT
Knowledge of SDLC 
- Extensive experience in creating and maintaining documentation: vision and scope, product backlog, user stories and acceptance criteria, use cases
- Good understanding of UX, experience with wireframing/prototyping tools;
- Deep understanding of client needs; ability to translate them into lower-level functional pieces and carry out product's gap analysis
- Level of English: Upper-Intermediate
 

**Soft skills**:

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Strong attention to detail, abstract mindset, strong logic skills, ability to identify corner cases and provide the solution for the product
 

**Desired skills**:

- Understanding of REST API
- Educational background in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction,
- Product design, or a related field
- Familiarity with technical SaaS products and payments landscape 
 

**Responsibilities**:

- Defining the vision, clearly expressing Product Backlog items
- Working in partnership with engineering and design teams to enable a smooth agile development process
- Ensuring the development team understand items in the backlog
- Ensuring technical requirements are clear, aligned, testable, accurate, and maintained
- Performing acceptance testing
- Uncovering opportunities for future growth and product initiatives
- Performing “competitive analysis”, be a domain expert, and understand how competitors approach the same domain
- Using a range of inputs from data, customer feedback and your own judgment to build a prioritized product backlog.
 

**Personal Benefits**:

Opportunity to influence the product development strategy
No micromanagement

**Company Offers**:
- Professional and friendly team
- Competitive salary
- Great benefit package
- Learning and growth programs.