The Senior Product Analyst acts as a horizontal connector across multiple product verticals within the Panel Applications team at NielsenIQ. This role is responsible for translating business needs into clear technical requirements, supporting development teams through the delivery lifecycle, and ensuring high-quality digital product delivery through strong stakeholder alignment and precise functional specifications.
What You'll Do
- Conduct deep requirement discovery to understand the business needs, not only the initial stated request.
- Interrogate, challenge, and refine requirements to ensure completeness, feasibility, and alignment with product goals.
- Translate business needs into structured, complete, and actionable functional specifications for development teams.
- Break down ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable user stories and specifications for development teams.
- Facilitate conversations with requesters to ensure alignment, clarify scope, and uncover edge cases or dependencies.
- Partner with Product Owners, AppDev, QA, UAT, and Enablement teams across multiple geographies across the globe.
- Partner with development teams to support sizing, sprint planning, and refinement discussions.
- Adapt communication style to diverse cultural and regional contexts.
- Maintain Jira boards, Confluence documentation, and all requirement artifacts with clarity and accuracy.
- Support agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and PI planning.
- Coordinate requirement handoff, testing cycles and release readiness.
- Monitor timelines, pursue missing inputs, and proactively follow up with stakeholders.
- Support delivery using NIQ-aligned processes (DMAIC).
- Build process flows (Visio, Miro), system documentation (Confluence), and requirement pages.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Analyst, Business Analyst, or similar (less experience accepted when skills strongly match).
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking capability, able to break down complex information and convert it into precise functional documents.
- Experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, Kanban.
- Working knowledge of Power BI.
- Excellent English communication, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently with maturity while staying actively connected to a team environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to push for clarity, ownership, and timelines.
Nice to Have
- Basic understanding of programming logic (loops, conditional logic, SQL familiarity).
- Experience with survey authoring or market research tools.
- Exposure to structured delivery cycles or project-management frameworks (e.g., DMAIC).
- Experience building or interpreting workflow diagrams (Visio or similar tools).
- Hands-on experience in SAFe Framework and Scrum Event Facilitation.
Technical Stack
- Jira
- Confluence
- Kanban
- Power BI
- Visio
- Miro
- DMAIC
- SAFe Framework
- Scrum
Team & Environment
- Cross-functional team including Product Owners, Developers, QA, and global stakeholders across multiple regions.
Benefits & Compensation
- The opportunity to work in a global, multicultural environment with continuous interaction across regions.
- Exposure to vendors, business stakeholders, and product owners across NIQ.
- Access to industry-leading tools, platforms, and learning opportunities (Jira, Confluence, PI Planning, Copilot).
- A team culture that values diversity, inclusion, and cross-collaboration.
Work Mode
Remote collaboration across multiple geographies and regions.
