Savvas Learning Company
At Savvas Learning Company, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team that makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe.
We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
About You
- You have a passion for building great products.
- You are curious to learn about how people do their jobs, and what is most important to them.
- You enjoy solving problems by breaking them into smaller pieces and sweating the details.
- You enjoy working across an organization with developers, product managers, product owners, and more.
- You are analytical and have demonstrated conceptual thinking skills.
- As a Business Analyst, you would be responsible for participating in critical aspects of the Savvas’ flagship learning management system, Savvas Realize, and other applications within the Realize ecosystem.
- You’ll work directly within a scrum team to define requirements, prioritize a backlog of groomed stories, perform acceptance testing, and ensure the general success of the team.
What You’ll Do
- Analyze requirements from product, technology, and other stakeholders.
- Organize requirements into stories and acceptance criteria.
- Enable scrum team estimations by providing clarity on requirements.
- Facilitate technical design discussions by setting up meetings and providing the voice of the customer to the technical design team.
- Iterate with user experience and design teams as the development is ongoing.
- Prioritize backlog of epics, stories, maintenance items in accordance with business and technology priorities.
- Evaluate business processes and scrum practices to develop optimization strategies.
- Document and communicate the results of team meetings and deliverables to cross-functional team members and management.
What You’ll Need
- Must have previous experience and or familiarity with software development practices.
- A bachelor’s degree, master’s degree a plus. Engineering, business or related field preferred; other degrees considered with additional experience.
- A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
- Outstanding verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Ability to determine target audience and create communications that are clear, concise and understandable.
- Ability to establish strong working relationships.