Business Analyst (Aem Product Owner)

TA Digital Washington , DC 20001

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Location: Washington DC Area

Travel Amount: 25% after initial project launch | No travel during the pandemic

TA Digital is a digital transformation agency with 30-40% growth year-over-year focused on hiring leaders within the digital marketing space to support growth and build a scalable foundation for the future. Our vision is to provide innovative digital solutions and services by continuing to expand our leadership team and hiring superstars who may feel lost or marginalized within their current organizations.

If you feel:

there are too many layers between you and decision makers
that your current organization will not make the right decision even after you identify problems and recommend viable solutions
you are ready for a bigger voice, larger platform or place for a stronger impact

then you should consider TA Digital because we are ready to talk to you!

Description:

The Business Analyst - AEM Product owner is a highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills who leverages data to create impactful analysis and reporting to help inform strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will be able to work collaboratively across a diverse team to gather business requirements and conduct process mapping to facilitate the documentation and automation of product and system requirements. This is a dynamic role in a growth organization with direct exposure to corporate strategy and will work closely with Business, UX, Development, QA and Off-Shore resources as a thought partner daily.

Responsibilities:

Obtains the big picture of the product and release vision
Understand current business processes and define future business processes
Work with multiple simultaneous projects by identifying requirements, facilitating change management, impact analysis, supporting execution team
Client engagement:

Engage stakeholders, facilitate workshops, conduct client interviews to define business goals and elicit business requirements
Prioritize requirements collaboratively with business stakeholders, UX and technology disciplines
Define and document business requirements, functional requirements and process flows/ modelling
Determine documentation needs based on the project requirements and manage the documentation efforts

Collaborate with Creative team and ensure that User Experience and Visual Design align with Functional Requirements
Provide requirement inputs during technical design sessions, review design deliverables for consistency and as a source of requirements
Ensure that project team has clear understanding of functional requirements and business expectations
Work with QA teams to develop testing strategy, test plan, identify test cases and participate in UAT
Create product documentation and training material including user manuals
Conduct training session for a product or an implementation

Requirements

Bachelors Degree required (Business or Digital Marketing) Master's degree (preferred)
Experience working in the digital agency or consulting firm space
Minimum 5+ years of experience as Business Analyst, Functional Analyst or Proxy Product Owner
An agile BA with strategic, functional, technical and relationship focus
Experience working with cross functional teams in transition projects with competitor vendors
Ability in working with both onsite and offshore teams in distributed agile
Familiar with use of collaborative tools preferably confluence
Experience in platforms on Content Management
Can work with multiple integration points for a technology stack:
- WCM/CMS Adobe:AEM required
- Adobe Analytics, Target, Audience Manager, DAM a plus
- SFMC (Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Exact Target), SEO is beneficial
Understanding of templates, components and authoring requirements in a CMS
Advanced understanding of Site SEO requirements, benchmarking and audit in stage and live environments.
Great communication and interpersonal skills and stakeholder management
Good research, product demo and presentation skills

Benefits

Compensation:

Base Salary, Benefits: Global Health, Dental, Vision, AD&D Insurance, Vacation / PTO / Holiday pay plus matching 401K, Tuition & Travel Expense Reimbursement as needed

About us:

TA Digital is the only global boutique agency that delivers the best of both worlds to clients seeking to achieve organizational success through digital transformation. Unlike smaller, regional agencies that lack the ability to scale or large organizations that succumb to a quantity-over-quality approach, we offer resource diversity while also providing meticulous attention to the details that enable strategic success.

Over the past 20 years, TA Digital has positioned clients to achieve digital maturity by focusing on data, customer-centricity and exponential return on investment; by melding exceptional user experience and data-driven methodologies with artificial intelligence and machine learning, we enable digital transformations that intelligently build upon the strategies we set into motion. We are known as a global leader that assists marketing and technology executives in understanding the digital ecosystem while identifying cultural and operational gaps within their business - ultimately ushering organizations toward a more mature model and profitable digital landscape.

Recognized in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019 Inc. 5000 list as one of the most successful technology companies in the United States, TA Digital is pleased also to share high-level strategic partnerships with world class digital experience platform companies like Adobe, SAP and Salesforce and possess global partnerships with industry leaders such as Sitecore, Episerver, Elastic Path, BigCommerce, commercetools, AWS, Azure and Coveo.

TA Digital has offices in US, Canada, UK and India. For more information, visit: www.tadigital.com

EOE & OFCCP Compliant regardless of: Minority / Female / Veteran / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity / National Origin

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