Senior Business Analyst

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to manage comprehensive business analysis and ensure smooth follow-up of project delivery. You will act as a crucial liaison between business stakeholders and engineering teams, facilitating daily standups for assigned squads and conducting competitor and market evaluations whenever product features are enhanced or newly defined.

Key Responsibilities

• Interpret business requirements into detailed, written user stories including acceptance criteria, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and success metrics.
• Diagram and analyze current versus future user journeys affecting customer workflows such as browsing, item creation, payment, moderation, and publishing across multiple product domains.
• Maintain an up-to-date, prioritized product backlog for each product area in collaboration with product management.
• Create precise functional specifications that provide clear instructions for designers and engineers to build without repetitive clarification.
• Host daily check-ins with engineering squads to review progress, impediments, and upcoming tasks.
• Monitor active tasks using Azure DevOps tools to detect and resolve stalled work items promptly.
• Provide leadership with a concise dashboard updating the status of progress across product areas readable within one minute.
• Promptly escalate blockers with relevant context to facilitate immediate resolution.
• Lead sprint retrospectives and document actionable items with assigned owners.
• Conduct thorough benchmarking whenever planning new features or enhancements by analyzing 3-5 competitor or inspiration products (regional and global), collecting screenshots, flow recordings, evaluating strengths and weaknesses, identifying opportunities missed, and delivering clear strategic recommendations.
• Periodically track competitors' pricing, monetization strategies, and feature releases.
• Integrate market insights into product decisions before writing user stories.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• At least 6 years experience as a Business Analyst or Product Business Analyst within software product companies, beyond IT services consulting.
• Exceptional written English skills, producing high-quality PRDs and specification documents representing the company.
• Advanced proficiency with Azure DevOps (work items, sprint boards, backlogs) or Jira as a power user.
• Comfortable and experienced with creating quick interactive prototypes, sandboxes, or proofs-of-concept using Replit, including familiarity with Replit Agent and AI capabilities.
• Able to interpret API specifications and database schemas to discuss data flows directly with engineering teams.
• Proven experience creating competitive benchmarking reports; must present 2-3 authored examples.
• Strong stakeholder management skills for interacting effectively with both technical and non-technical teams in sales, operations, and marketing.

Preferred Experience

• Background in classifieds, marketplaces, or multi-sided platform environments.
• Familiarity with the GCC regional market.
• Basic skills in SQL, Power BI, or dashboarding tools to independently extract and analyze data.
• Certification in Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with rapid prototyping tools like Bolt, Lovable, v0, or Cursor besides Replit.