Sr. Product Analyst

At Extra Space Storage, what matters to you, matters to us! Join a company that cares about you.  

It is an exciting time to be at Extra Space. We have been featured on multiple "Best Places to Work" awards, including Forbes and Glassdoor. We’re an S&P 500 company that hasn’t stopped growing since our founding in 1977. Today we are leading the self-storage industry in more ways than one, but in order to maintain this lead, we need exceptionally motivated, capable, and driven people like you. Self-storage is our product, helping people is our passion. Come grow with the largest self-storage company in the world and find out why so many of our employees recommend us as a great place to work. 

Job Summary  

At Extra Space, business analysis is the practice of enabling change in the enterprise by defining needs and analyzing potential and effectiveness of products/solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. Business analysis enables the company to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value. 

Product Analysts are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The Sr. Product Analyst is responsible for understanding and expressing the actual needs of stakeholders—which frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires—in order to determine underlying issues and causes. Sr. Product Analysts play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions with the needs of stakeholders.  Within the Product team, the analyst works very closely with Product Manager(s), and as a liaison between business Process Owners/Stakeholders and the Software Engineering group to accomplish desired product outcomes. 

Primary Responsibilities  

• Consult with Business Owners/Stakeholders to gather information about system needs, objectives, functions, and features that are aligned to desired business/customer outcomes. 

• Analyze, refine, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, inputs and outputs.  

• Understand the departments systems and process structures to recommend solutions to requested initiatives.   

• Consult with Stakeholders and Developers to manage requests from initiation to successful production implementation.  

• Document and maintain business requirements and drives functional specifications and testing plans. 

• Work with product managers, as needed, to analyze and estimate feasibility, costs and other factors relevant for a products success. 

• Understand core agile principals and help development teams work within agile frameworks to maintain existing functionality and grow products aligned with business priorities.  

• Coordinate and demo changes to the business stakeholders for training to be developed.  

• Research and evaluate possible tools and systems to assist programming/developing solutions.  

• Monitor performance and adoption of programs and systems after implementation. 

Job Specifications   

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical writing skills and procedures, or governmental regulations.<