You bring:
Research & Analysis – Gather quantitative and qualitative research to rapidly build your understanding of how HomeAdvisor delivers value to our Service Providers. Use this understanding to prioritize product initiatives that will drive higher satisfaction and success for our customers. Create features that can be measured and use tools (Omniture, Foresee, proprietary data) to analyze performance. Work on cross-functional teams across Marketing, Finance, and Product to develop a keen sense of the competitive and market landscape.
Technical Requirement Writing – Work hand-in-hand with your delivery team. Define the business case for new features using data to support the case. Communicate extensively with colleagues in UX, Design, Engineering, and QA to ensure all have a shared understanding of features. Write detailed product requirements and user stories that documents how features will work. Exhibit good judgment in balancing considerations for size of opportunity, scope of development and support costs, risks, and end-user experience.
Get-It-Done Mentality - Establish project timelines and manage project deliverables to ensure products meet target ship dates and match product vision. Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Operations, Product Managers, Designers, Developers and QA to ensure delivery of an optimal finished product. Deliver the right experience for our Service Providers on the agreed upon delivery date.
Teamwork, Leadership, and Ownership – Maintain a highly constructive, positive, and collaborative relationship with your delivery team. Support your team, trust their decisions, and hold an incredibly high standard. Seek out help when needed and be creative in clearing barriers to the team delivering finished products.
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in technical business analysis and requirements gathering/writing
- Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment and knack for working well with designers, developers, testers, marketing, sales professionals and executives.
- Initiative and speed. A track record of taking ownership over projects and helping them succeed; you make solid judgments, have good intuition, and reach decisions quickly. You don't need to wait to ask for direction, but know when slowing down to create buy-in is critical.
- Analytically minded. All your decisions are data-driven and supported by the data and research you’ve collected. You’re comfortable with basic quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and reporting on results.
- Strong collaboration skills: You strongly prefer working in teams, but you're comfortable working independently when necessary.
- Superior organization skills
- Self-motivated with ability to work under minimal supervision
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
HomeAdvisor:
HomeAdvisor is the largest online marketplace connecting homeowners to prescreened home service professionals. Founded in 1999, we’re one of Colorado’s most successful start-up stories. We launched Instant Booking in 2015, allowing for more direct connectivity between our homeowners and service pros. Our environment is a casual, jeans-and-sneakers environment, where we work hard and have fun. Visit our office, and it’s easy to see why we’ve been named a Denver Post Top Workplace for the last 4 years running (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).
Interested in joining our team? Send us a resume to start the conversation.