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Business Analyst
1 year ago
Company Summary
Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.
We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.
Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game’s division of Pixel United.
Job Posting Title
Business AnalystSummary
We are currently looking to hire a Technical Business Analyst to help build and expand our games. With a solid technical background, the Technical Business Analyst will work closely with product, operations, development and QA teams. Guiding and managing the development process for one or more of our flash and mobile games, while planning the milestones and marshalling resources in the best way to ensure milestones are met.What You'll Do
- Be an active participant in games’ feature discussion and roadmap, ensuring that the business expectations and time frame are successfully managed.
- Act as a crucial interface between the product and the development teams, translating product requirements into a technical workflow, and developer comments into easy to understand issues.
- Work closely with the developers in order to coordinate server vs game communication.
- Be able to assess the risks of a project in order to mitigate them where necessary.
- Able to assess and liaise with 3rd party providers where necessary (audio, art, content, marketing).
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
What We're Looking For
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering and/or prior work experience in a technical role (software developer, tester or technical analyst).
- Solid knowledge about client-server architectures and network concepts.
- Attention to detail. Ability to understand technical details of a system and foresee edge case scenarios and performance issues in a proposed solution.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written when explaining new systems, features and flows to technical audience and any blockages or issues to business and product teams.
- Ability to manage development and delivery across different locations and time zones.
- Flexible to travel.
Desirable Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have work experience in a games/mobile apps development studio.
- Experience in JIRA and managing development backlogs, writing detailed user stories and creating flow diagrams.
- Experience in relational databases, SQL and integration with third party systems.
- Passion for experience in social/mobile games field.
Why Product Madness ?
Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.
We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.
Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.
With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.
We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.
We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.
Our Values
People First
We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
MAD for More
Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
Globally Inclusive
We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
Customer Focused
We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!
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