Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst Location: Riyadh, KSA About the role We need a dedicated senior BA who owns business analysis and delivery follow-up end-to-end so engineering leadership can focus on strategy. You will be the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering, run daily standups for assigned squads, and produce competitor / market benchmarks any time we enhance an existing solution or scope a new one. What you'll do Business analysis • Translate business needs into clear, written requirements: user stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases, non-functional needs, success metrics. • Map current-state versus future-state user journeys for any change touching a customer flow (browse → item creation → payment → moderation → publish, across product areas). • Maintain a living product backlog per product area, prioritised with Product. • Author functional specs that designers and engineers can build from without re-asking the same questions. Task management & delivery follow-up • Run the daily check-in with assigned engineering squads — what shipped yesterday, what's blocked, what's next. • Track every active task across Azure DevOps work items, sprint boards, PRs, and the actual deployed state on QA / prod. Catch tasks that stall silently. • Maintain a single dashboard view of progress per product area that leadership can read in 60 seconds. • Surface blockers fast — to the right person, with enough context that they can act today. • Drive sprint retrospectives and write up actions with owners. Benchmarking & market research • Whenever we plan a new feature or enhance an existing one, produce a benchmark deliverable: 3–5 competitor or inspiration products (regional + global where relevant), screenshots / flow recordings, strengths / weaknesses, missed opportunities, a clear recommendation — what we should match, beat, or skip. • Run periodic competitor sweeps — pricing models, monetisation mechanics, new features they ship. • Bring market intelligence into product decisions before we write the first user story. Must-have experience • 6+ years as a BA / Product BA in software product companies (not only IT services consultancies). • Excellent written English — your PRDs / spec docs are how the company sees you. • Hands-on with Azure DevOps (work items, sprint boards, backlogs) or Jira at a power-user level. • Replit — comfortable building quick interactive prototypes, sandboxes, or proof-of-concepts on Replit to validate ideas with stakeholders before engineering invests in them. Familiarity with Replit Agent / AI features is a strong plus. • Comfortable reading API specifications and database schemas — you are not a developer, but you should be able to discuss data flow with engineers without an interpreter. • Demonstrable benchmarking output — bring 2–3 examples of competitive analyses you have authored. • Stakeholder management across non-technical (sales, ops, marketing) and technical audiences. Nice to have • Classifieds / marketplaces / multi-sided platform background. • Regional GCC market knowledge. • Basic SQL / Power BI / dashboarding so you can pull your own numbers. • Agile / Scrum certification. • Familiarity with other rapid prototyping tools (Bolt, Lovable, v0, Cursor) in addition to Replit.

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