Business Analyst

Summary

Join Fearless Digital as a part-time Business Analyst, working 20 hours per week (Monday-Thursday, 10 am - 3 pm EST). You will provide technical and tactical support to agile teams, collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring high-quality work delivery. Responsibilities include requirements definition, acceptance testing, training material creation, process documentation, and data analysis. The role requires excellent communication, analytical, and organizational skills, along with experience with Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence) and agile methodologies. In-person, hybrid, and remote work options are available in Baltimore. Compensation is competitive, and benefits are offered for full-time employees, with some benefits available for part-time employees.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to facilitate meetings and workshops
• Analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to detail
• Adaptability and capacity to work in fast-paced or ambiguous environments
• Demonstrated experience of organizational data flow and its use in management decision-making
• Demonstrated experience with writing requirements, epics, features, user stories, and maintaining documents
• Demonstrated experience defining acceptance criteria, tests, ready, and done on behalf of the Product Owner and answering clarifying questions on requirements
• Demonstrated two years experience with Atlassian tools, Jira and Confluence
• Demonstrated experience working as part of an agile team
• Demonstrated experience operating as a scrum master
• Demonstrated experience operating in project management
• Demonstrated experience performing acceptance testing on behalf of the Product Owner
• Ability to examine user issues and translate them into user stories
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with others to influence stakeholders and grow buy-in of business projects
• Coordinates with project team members and other teams to produce better business outcomes
• Executes epics, features, and user stories, defining acceptance criteria and tests on behalf of the Product Owner and answering clarifying questions on any requirements
• Performs acceptance testing on behalf of the Product Owner
• Produces training materials and user guides and trains end users
• Facilitates meetings and workshops
• Examines user issues and translates them into user stories
• Documents business processes, system flows, and data flows; analyzes processes; and recommends improvements
• Constructs workflow diagrams
• Documents issues/risks
• Supports the Product Owner and Scrum Master as needed
• Assists in operational rollout and support
• Collects and analyzes data for potential business expansion
• Identifies specific business opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating training manuals, UAT scripts, client facing presentations, documentation of business or functional requirements
• Experience with stakeholder or requirements mapping
• Experience with government contracting

Benefits

• Life-friendly schedules
• Family-friendly workplace
• We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance
• Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
• Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
• Total Pet Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
• PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date ( see table below ) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance