Business Analyst

About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

Our client is a world-class Edtech company that developed a leading platform for high-stakes test preparation for pre-law, pre-med, med school students, residents, practicing physicians, PAs, and NPs. They combine technology and powerful data to create innovative, personalized learning experiences.

For them, we're looking for a Business Analyst to work with their engineering teams. This role will also work with product, design, and operations teams to deliver innovative ways to serve our learners.

What You’ll Do

• Work with engineering component teams to deliver scalable and extensible software solutions to support business needs.
  

• Translates business needs, user needs, and technological capabilities into developer-oriented user stories and product specifications that will lead to successful implementations.
  

• Document detailed acceptance criteria that developers and QA can rely upon to complete their tasks.
  

• Drive Agile principles and methodologies, including owning the team backlogs, defining and prioritizing epics, features, user stories, and other artifacts to support development goals.
  

• Attend and, as required, lead Agile meetings/ceremonies.
  

• Perform acceptance testing of defined scopes, and document detailed steps to reproduce and expected behavior for any found bugs.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience as a business analyst or product owner, preferably in a technical role for a SaaS product.

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Figma, with some advanced expertise in Jira functionality.

• Technical fluency - Ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, trade-offs, and new opportunities with technical team members.

• Hands-on experience using AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in a product development context and, critically, a practiced eye for validating their output.

• Excellent written and verbal communication of ideas, narratives, and complex technical information to a broad audience, including but not limited to executives, stakeholders, and engineers.
  

Why This Role is Exciting

This job will be great for you if its high-level objectives resonate with you:

• Demonstrate accurate, nuanced, and concise technical writing, with comprehensive functional requirements and acceptance criteria

• Collaborate effectively with the product development team to document product problems and solutions in well-organized project plans

• Develop independent processes to "work the backlog" alongside Principal TPM to keep a continuous flow of ready-for-engineering work
  

Also, here's the list of goals for the first month on the job:

• Learn the technical specifics of how Athena features are typically implemented, and how to most effectively ensure successful engineering of new features.

• Write a sufficient backlog of ready-for-dev tickets based on available product plans and high-level requirements.

• Create a backlog refinement process alongside Principal TPM to efficiently take new "epic-level" scopes of work in, identify and describe the technical implementation steps, and bring them successfully through an engineering sprint to deployment

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Take-home assignment

• Client Interview 1, with the Principal Technical Product Manager (45 min)

• Client Interview 2, a p anel interview with a Product Manager, an Engineering Manager, and the Director of UX Design (60-90 min)

• Client Interview 3, with the Director of Technical Product Management (30 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)

• Work hours - 8 hours, East Coast office hours

• Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement

• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice