Senior Staff Engineer (Senior Product Analyst / Project Manager)

Job Description

Role Overview:

The Product Analyst / Project Manager will help develop and scale innovative AI frameworks that enhance knowledge discovery, research, and content synthesis through intuitive and user-friendly interfaces. In addition to strong product and analytical capabilities, this role will bring end-to-end project management discipline to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with strategic objectives. T

he role focuses on creating AI solutions that address specific research use cases by synthesizing expert knowledge, performing autonomous research via agentic workflows, and unlocking non-traditional data types for generative AI use. The individual will help future-proof client's generative AI infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reusability, and robustness across the enterprise.

They will collaborate closely with squad members, Product Owners, technical leads, and business stakeholders to ensure user stories, delivery plans, and artifacts meet both product and project objectives. The role acts as a single point of coordination, balancing priorities across product vision, execution timelines, and stakeholder expectations.

Product & Analysis Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate across a diverse group of stakeholders to ensure stories, requirements, and designs are captured accurately and aligned to business goals.
• Analyze and break down complex problem statements, uncover requirements, and apply critical reasoning and creative thinking to propose viable solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the domain, users, and associated use cases to inform product development and prioritization.
• Partner with technical leads to align on solution design, feasibility, and implementation trade-offs.
• Collaborate with the data curation workstream to define and validate high-quality metadata specifications.
• Design and execute A/B testing, synthesize results, and communicate insights to leadership.
• Collect and analyze user feedback to refine AI solutions and agent behavior, translating insights into actionable backlog items.
• Develop and maintain product documentation, including feature lists, user guides, and release notes.

Project Management Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end project planning and execution, including scope definition, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing.
• Translate product roadmaps into delivery plans, ensuring alignment across squads, workstreams, and stakeholders.
• Track progress against milestones, proactively identifying risks, blockers, and dependencies, and driving mitigation plans.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) to ensure predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Manage stakeholder communications, providing clear status updates, risks, and decisions required. Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, data, design, business) to ensure alignment and smooth handoffs.
• Ensure delivery meets acceptance criteria, quality standards, and business outcomes.
• Support change management by aligning stakeholders on scope changes, priorities, and delivery trade-offs.
• Collaboration & Leadership Act as a bridge between business and technical teams to ensure shared understanding and clarity.
• Regularly engage with the squad to clarify requirements, remove impediments, and optimize productivity.
• Facilitate product demos and milestone reviews, incorporating real-time feedback into delivery plans.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, actively listening and asking thoughtful questions to continuously improve solutions and execution.

Must-Have Skills

Product & Analytical Skills:

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in product analysis, business analysis, and/or product management in an agile environment.
• Hands-on experience with requirements gathering, drafting user stories, backlog refinement, and story mapping.
• Strong understanding of software applications and concepts such as enterprise architecture, data analytics, and APIs. Enthusiasm for, and aptitude in rapidly developing skills in generative AI.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.

Project Management Skills:

• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects in an agile or hybrid environment.
• Strong capability in planning, scheduling, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Experience balancing scope, timeline, and stakeholder expectations in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to drive execution while maintaining alignment to product vision and strategic goals.
• Experience working with distributed and global teams, coordinating across time zones.
• Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and project tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Communication & Leadership Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops, planning sessions, and stakeholder reviews.
• Ability to work independently or virtually, as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required; major in Business, Technology, or related field encouraged.
• Experience in Knowledge Management, generative AI, web application development, UX/UI, and/or API design is a plus.
• Formal project management certification (PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe) is a plus but not required.

Additional Information

Must have Skills : Scrum Master, Jira, Product Ownership, Scrum Product Owner