Senior Business Analyst Job Central area,Louisiana USA,Business

3+ years as a Business Analyst or Product Owner on software product teams, at least 1 of them on a live, continuously released product
Ownership of requirements end to end: a business request becomes a developer-ready ticket without a product manager translating in between
Strong requirement writing in English.
Experience writing and maintaining PRDs, functional specs and living documentation of shipped behaviour in Confluence or equivalent
Ability to analyse a system that already exists: reading API contracts, Swagger docs, database structures and application code to confirm current behaviour
Hands-on use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or similar) in analysis work, with the editorial judgement to cut what they produce before publishing
Direct client experience: running requirement sessions and pushing back when a request is under specified
Agile distributed team experience: refinement, estimation, daily calls, async written communication
English B2+, spoken and written
Self-organised enough to hold a part-time load and keep the refinement queue ahead of the developers without being chased

Requirements:

3+ years as a Business Analyst or Product Owner on software product teams, at least 1 of them on a live, continuously released product
Ownership of requirements end to end: a business request becomes a developer-ready ticket without a product manager translating in between
Strong requirement writing in English.
Experience writing and maintaining PRDs, functional specs and living documentation of shipped behaviour in Confluence or equivalent
Ability to analyse a system that already exists: reading API contracts, Swagger docs, database structures and application code to confirm current behaviour
Hands-on use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or similar) in analysis work, with the editorial judgement to cut what they produce before publishing
Direct client experience: running requirement sessions and pushing back when a request is under specified
Agile distributed team experience: refinement, estimation, daily calls, async written communication
English B2+, spoken and written
Self-organised enough to hold a part-time load and keep the refinement queue ahead of the developers without being chased

Nice-to-Have:

Adtech, affiliate marketing, performance marketing or ad monetisation domain (offers, conversions, postbacks, offer walls, payouts, etc)
Multi-tenant SaaS and role-based or persona-based permission models
Writing QA-facing test checklists as part of the requirement
Working with Figma and reviewing designs against requirements
Product ownership or product management background
Pre-sale and discovery work: estimating analysis effort, shaping scope for a proposal

Responsibilities:

Own backlog refinement. Write and refine tickets to the project standard: user story, aceptance criteria, in/out of scope, QA checklist, notes
Answer developer and QA questions on tickets in development, daily
Maintain the system documentation set used by QA, developers, the client and support
Own the artifacts and requirement consistency across personas and tenants
Run client working sessions (workshops, interviews, brainstormings) for requirements elicitation
Review designs with the project designer against the requirement
Shape and sequence new initiatives with the PM and the client
Use the project's AI-assisted workflow and apply editorial judgement to its output

About the Project:

A multi-tenant SaaS platform for offer serving, conversion tracking and partner management in affiliate and performance marketing. We have built it for a long-term client since late 2023. The MVP went live in mid-2024 and the product has been in active development on a live system since then.
The platform serves four personas (Publisher, Advertiser,…