Lead Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Romania.

📋 Description

• Lead the discovery and business analysis for intricate digital products, workflows, and transformation initiatives.

• Organize and facilitate interviews, workshops, and collaborative discovery sessions with stakeholders from business, customer, and technology sectors.

• Gather, analyze, and scrutinize requirements, assumptions, constraints, risks, and dependencies prior to delivery.

• Convert business outcomes into epics, features, user stories, process models, business rules, and testable acceptance criteria.

• Prepare squads and organize work for sprint planning, refinement, estimation, and prioritization.

• Collaborate with Squad Leads and Quality Assurance to ensure that acceptance criteria are understood, measurable, and adequately validated.

• Assume responsibility for testing readiness and coordinate with the Quality Assurance Lead on test scenarios, execution, results, and defect resolution.

• Validate delivered outcomes with stakeholders and provide insights, defects, and recurring operational issues into the product backlog.

• Create maps of current and future-state processes, identifying opportunities for simplification, automation, responsible AI application, and data-driven decision-making.

• Develop reusable templates, quality standards, and best practices for business analysis and product discovery.

• Assist other analysts and collaborate with developers, Quality Assurance, program management, and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in business analysis, product discovery, or digital product delivery.

• Proven experience leading analysis for complex software products, platforms, or transformation programs.

• Strong skills in facilitation, requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrated ability to craft high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, and supporting documentation.

• Experience in modeling IT systems, system interactions, and behaviors.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools to draft, refine, and validate requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with human oversight and governance.

• Practical experience using Jira and Confluence.

• Experience applying Agile methodologies alongside project management discipline and governance frameworks.

• Strong analytical skills and the confidence to challenge assumptions.

• Capability to align strategic objectives with measurable product outcomes and delivery-ready work.

• Professional fluency in English.

• Confidence in collaborating with colleagues across international locations.

• Preferred: experience in a lead, mentor, or practice owner role for Business Analysts.

• Preferred: experience with B2B SaaS, sustainability, manufacturing, supply chains, chemical data, assessment, or compliance products.

• Preferred: experience with process modeling, service design, data analysis, and product management techniques.

• Preferred: familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, OKRs, and modern product operating models.

• Preferred: experience in identifying practical automation and AI-assisted opportunities while adhering to governance and risk controls.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.

• A culture that is open and supportive, based on teamwork, trust, and accountability.

• Work on digital products utilized across international supply chains and regulatory contexts.

• Collaborate within a multinational, distributed technology organization.

• A stable organization with a clear sustainability mission.