Business Analyst

About the Company

Rainmaker is built to give lawyers business intelligence for BD: legal news and deal data, a BD tool for building and managing approaches to prospective clients, plus a live rankings system that lets lawyers credential their work against their peers. Product set for launch later this year.

About the Role

The ideal candidate is a team player who will be responsible for coordinating between the business and technical engineering functions across various products and projects.

Specific responsibilities include reporting metrics, analyzing methodologies, suggesting operation improvements, and building proposal evaluations in a cross-functional environment.

The role will help manage our day-to-day tracking of what is being built and ensure parallel delivery streams work to the same goal. It's an embedded role, sitting with the technical team rather than reviewing on a cadence.

Responsibilities

• Scope definition and tracking
• Define scope and produce the corresponding business requirements.
• Document and maintain those requirements in Jira.
• Track estimates, logged time, and scope changes through implementation.
• Manage dependencies and linked items so scope stays aligned across streams.
• Raise and maintain Change Requests in the backlog.
• Documentation ownership
• Keep Confluence current as requirements evolve.
• Review technical documentation for accuracy and completeness.
• Assign documentation gaps to the responsible owners and follow through tocompletion.
• Alignment with delivery
• Maintain regular contact with developers and technical leads to confirm that whatis being built matches what was agreed.
• Work directly with the Data, AI, Backend, Frontend, and QA leads on requirements,technical detail, dependencies, and implementation approach.
• Flag divergence between requirements, estimates, and actual implementationearly.
• Ensure every requirement change or technical clarification is communicated acrossall affected streams.
• Legal and regulatory
• Ensure requirements and supporting documentation reflect the legal and regulatory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Familiarity with AI products and product design desirable

Ideal Candidate

• Profile
• Requirements translation. Close work with Stakeholders and Product Owner togather business needs and converts them into clear, actionable, testablerequirements that a technical team can build from without interpretation.
• Technical fluency. Solid working understanding of system design, APIs,integrations, and the software development lifecycle — enough to hold asubstantive conversation with engineering leads.
• Embedded with delivery. Available to the team day to day, not as a periodicreviewer.
• Legal domain understanding. Familiarity with the legal and regulatory environmentthe product operates in, and the judge

Required Skills

• 3+ years as a BA including at least one multi-team build where you owned scope end to end
• Real technical fluency across system design, APIs, integrations and the SDLC, enough to hold a substantive conversation with engineering leads and challenge an answer that doesn't hold up
• Ownership of requirements in Jira and documentation in Confluence, including change requests and dependency management

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with a legal or regulated environment and the judgement to recognise when a requirement carries compliance implicationsEqual Opportunity StatementWe are committed to diversity and inclusivity.