Senior Associate - Tech Product Analyst

$95,000 - $162,500/Yr

New York Life - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Associate - Tech Product Analyst at York Life Insurance Company is a hands-on role focused on analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical specifications for the engineering team. The position involves collaboration with various stakeholders to develop high-quality products that meet customer needs, while managing multiple products and facilitating innovative solutions in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business on product roadmap, discovery and scoping of features, user designs; document product requirements, business rules/logic, define acceptance criteria; Resolve product questions.
• Work with the business team and key stakeholders to define scope updating existing product features and implementing new product features.
• Work with business product managers to understand the high-level business requirements.
• Responsible for delivering the product against business requirements.
• Be hands-on with describing business rules as technical artifacts using internal tools.
• Be the 'pseudo' product owner for the scrum teams driving project execution.
• Highly execution focused by working in conjunction with various counterparts.
• Be the primary liaison between other business units, BU product managers, engineering and other applicable groups to ensure flawless integration of new and existing feature sets.
• Work with the product design team to understand product feasibility and features and analyze and clarify product requirements.
• Work with the quality assurance team to ensure that the delivered system is properly tested and meets the product requirements.
• Closely work with technical team to align their development with business needs.
• Ensure the user experience, responsiveness, and functionalities of applications.
• Participate as a team member in planning the individual product features and their development lifecycles.
• Research and identify best practices both from a business & product perspective.

Requirements

• 4+ years of work experience with a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA)
• Demonstrated quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills through prior projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Visio and MS Project preferred)
• Prior experience as a business analyst or system analyst is a huge plus.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate business opportunities and customer problems.
• Experience in core product management disciplines including but not limited to scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management.

Nice-to-haves

• Proven track record of building software solutions in the cloud and a basic understanding of cloud computing best practices and a consideration for scale, efficiency and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
• High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Experience in implementing Insurance solutions.
• Experience using Atlassian tool sets: Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with Test Driven Development methodology.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• 401k plan
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee giving and volunteerism programs