*** Please note that this is a HYBRID role, requiring this person to work at our Cottonwood Heights office in SLC at least 2 days per week ***
Analyst, Product
Job Summary
At Extra Space Storage, the Product Analyst role is crucial in driving the success of our products by ensuring alignment between customer needs, business goals, and development efforts. As a key contributor, you'll directly impact how our products meet market demands and deliver value to users.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with Product Managers: Work hand-in-hand with Product Managers to translate product vision and strategy into actionable epics and user stories, ensuring alignment with the overall roadmap.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly meet with stakeholders to capture requirements, provide feedback on work-in-progress, and contribute to continuous process improvement.
• Requirements Refinement: Define and refine epics and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, ensuring they are clear, actionable, and aligned with strategic goals. Continuously iterate on these requirements to reflect evolving business needs and priorities.
• Backlog Management: Strategically manage the backlog to ensure that sprint work is prioritized in alignment with goals and the product strategy/vision. Maximize value by ensuring the development team focuses on the most impactful work.
• Support Agile Teams: Participate in sprint planning, stand ups, refinement sessions, demos, reviews, and retrospectives. Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of requirements and deliverables.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Act as the voice of the customer within the team, ensuring that dev work targets user needs, pain points, and opportunities.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Stay connected to data that tells the story of the product. Monitor and analyze key performance metrics to measure the success of product features and make informed decisions to optimize outcomes.
• Quality Assurance and Release Management: Partner with development and QA to ensure that all features meet quality standards and align with defined requirements before release. Oversee the release process to guarantee a clean and successful rollout to customers, including coordinating with cross-functional teams to manage deployment, monitor post-release performance, and address any issues promptly.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 2-4 years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a related role.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working in scrum teams is a plus.
• Experience with Jira, confluence, or other SDL tools.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI or other data analysis tools is a plus.
Competencies
• Analytical Thinker: Strong ability to analyze data, think critically, and make data-driven decisions.
• Ownership Mindset: A decisive individual with a “get it done” mentality who can manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Effective Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to relate to individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Collaborative and Autonomous: Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team, with a strong capacity for collaboration.
• Flexible and Adaptable: Able to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, with a passion for digital innovation and continuous improvement.
• Technical Acumen: A passion for technology with a solid understanding of key concepts such as front-end and back-end development, APIs, databases, and the overall software development lifecycle. This role requires someone who can seamlessly integrate technical knowledge into product development to ensure that solutions are both innovative and technically sound.
Work Environment & Physical Requirements
Performs sedentary work in an office environment with limited lifting (less than 10 pounds) or walking required. Close visual acuity required to perform work at computer terminal. No exposure to adverse environmental conditions. Requires repetitive typing motion, talking, hearing, grasping and feeling.
Disclaimer
The job description outlines the general nature and scope of work employees perform in this role. It's not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications required for the position. The company reserves the right to modify, revise, or update the job description to meet business needs.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Applications Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.