Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business AnalystLocation: Riyadh, KSA About the roleWe need a dedicated senior BA who owns business analysis and delivery follow-up end-to-end so engineering leadership can focus on strategy. You will be the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering, run daily standups for assigned squads, and produce competitor / market benchmarks any time we enhance an existing solution or scope a new one.What you'll doBusiness analysis • Translate business needs into clear, written requirements: user stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases, non-functional needs, success metrics.• Map current-state versus future-state user journeys for any change touching a customer flow (browse → item creation → payment → moderation → publish, across product areas).• Maintain a living product backlog per product area, prioritised with Product.• Author functional specs that designers and engineers can build from without re-asking the same questions.Task management & delivery follow-up• Run the daily check-in with assigned engineering squads — what shipped yesterday, what's blocked, what's next.• Track every active task across Azure DevOps work items, sprint boards, PRs, and the actual deployed state on QA / prod. Catch tasks that stall silently.• Maintain a single dashboard view of progress per product area that leadership can read in 60 seconds.• Surface blockers fast — to the right person, with enough context that they can act today.• Drive sprint retrospectives and write up actions with owners.Benchmarking & market research • Whenever we plan a new feature or enhance an existing one, produce a benchmark deliverable: 3–5 competitor or inspiration products (regional + global where relevant), screenshots / flow recordings, strengths / weaknesses, missed opportunities, a clear recommendation — what we should match, beat, or skip.• Run periodic competitor sweeps — pricing models, monetisation mechanics, new features they ship.• Bring market intelligence into product decisions before we write the first user story.Must-have experience• 6+ years as a BA / Product BA in software product companies (not only IT services consultancies).• Excellent written English — your PRDs / spec docs are how the company sees you.• Hands-on with Azure DevOps (work items, sprint boards, backlogs) or Jira at a power-user level.• Replit — comfortable building quick interactive prototypes, sandboxes, or proof-of-concepts on Replit to validate ideas with stakeholders before engineering invests in them. Familiarity with Replit Agent / AI features is a strong plus.• Comfortable reading API specifications and database schemas — you are not a developer, but you should be able to discuss data flow with engineers without an interpreter.• Demonstrable benchmarking output — bring 2–3 examples of competitive analyses you have authored.• Stakeholder management across non-technical (sales, ops, marketing) and technical audiences.Nice to have• Classifieds / marketplaces / multi-sided platform background.• Regional GCC market knowledge.• Basic SQL / Power BI / dashboarding so you can pull your own numbers.• Agile / Scrum certification.• Familiarity with other rapid prototyping tools (Bolt, Lovable, v0, Cursor) in addition to Replit.