Product Analyst

Role Purpose

The Product Analyst is a delivery-enablement role, responsible for translating the Product

Managers strategy, roadmap, and priorities into clear, executable requirements for the

engineering team.

This role exists to remove ambiguity, reduce rework, and improve delivery predictability. It

does not own product strategy, commercial prioritisation, or long-term roadmap decisions.

What This Role Owns (Very Explicit)

Sprint-ready backlog aligned to the Product Managers roadmap

User stories, acceptance criteria, and dependency mapping

Day-to-day clarification for developers

Scope discipline against the agreed customer journey

Change impact assessment (time, complexity, dependencies)

Delivery readiness for MVPs

Key Responsibilities

Backlog & Requirements Management

Convert roadmap items into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria

Maintain backlog hygiene (ready / not-ready, dependencies, sequencing)

Ensure requirements meet definition of ready before development starts

Delivery Enablement

Support sprint planning with the Engineering Lead

Provide rapid clarification to developers during execution

Ensure requirements are testable and aligned to agreed outcomes

Customer Journey Enforcement

Use the approved customer journey as the single control mechanism

Identify scope creep or misalignment early and escalate

Ensure integrations, data capture, and sequencing remain consistent

Stakeholder Coordination

Work with business stakeholders within agreed scope

Support client discovery and MVP1 readiness under direction

Ensure traceability from business intent build release

Experience & Skills

3–6 years experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Product Analyst

Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria

Comfortable working closely with engineering teams

Structured, detail-oriented, and disciplined

Able to operate with clear guardrails and decision hierarchies

Platform, mobility, or data-driven product exposure

B2B or enterprise environment experience

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

Developers receive clear, unambiguous requirements

Reduced delivery rework and scope churn

Faster sprint throughput and improved predictability

Clear separation between strategy and execution