Product Analyst

Product Analyst – SDLC & Agent Operations (Contract)

Location:

Rahway, NJ, US (Remote is an option but must work EST time zone hours) Buy Rate: $80-82/hr

Must Have

Experience:

• Product Analyst: with Gen-AI experience Who has Process mind set (Business Analyst background dealing with stakeholders’ engagement, Use Cases, & Implementing Use Cases. (Backlog & release readiness:
  Facilitate backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and test evidence (integration/UAT) needed for go-lives; coordinate CAB/exception handling only when warranted by process and capacity)
• At least 1yr experience with Gen-AI
• Understands Product AI what it does
• Responsible for bringing in the Best AI platforms suited for building structures
• Help move towards AI adoption (Improve the SDLC policy and guidance with agents at Client:
  Author clarifications, playbooks, and examples that address today’s adoption roadblocks; align with Enterprise Architecture, ITRMS, Privacy, and value-team partners; and ensure CMDB/DSDLC alignment for agents)
• Strong Production Mind set.

Role Purpose Accelerate safe, compliant adoption of agentic AI at Client by:

• Improving and operationalizing SDLC policy and guidance for agents
• Running day-to-day operations of the Digital SDLC pipeline for agent releases
• Ramping Agent Engagement and product discovery so new agent use cases can move from idea to production with clear value and minimal friction

Scope of Work & Key Responsibilities

• Improve the SDLC policy and guidance with agents at Client:
  Author clarifications, playbooks, and examples that address today’s adoption roadblocks; align with Enterprise Architecture, ITRMS, Privacy, and value-team partners; and ensure CMDB/DSDLC alignment for agents.
• Operations for our own SDLC pipeline:
  Own change records, approvals, and release communications for agent product (agentGPTeal), including versioning, evidence collation, and gating across lower to production environments.
• Ramping up Agent Engagement and product discovery efforts:
  Run discovery sessions, stakeholder questionnaires, and value hypotheses; maintain the engagement rhythm with product teams and portfolio stakeholders; and translate findings into user stories and release plans.
• Advise teams on approvals & governance:
  Serve as point of contact for Agent approvals and SDLC/DSDLC approvals, ensuring consistent interpretation and throughput.
• Backlog & release readiness:
  Facilitate backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and test evidence (integration/UAT) needed for go-lives; coordinate CAB/exception handling only when warranted by process and capacity.
• Enablement & training:
  Coordinate onboarding, contributor training, and launchpad/sandbox workflows that reduce time-to-first-deployment for new teams.
• Metrics & reporting:
  Partner with Platform and Product to improve telemetry and dashboards for agent usage and releases; advocate for ethical, privacy-preserving analytics (aggregate, non-PII).

Required Qualifications

• SDLC / Digital SDLC execution for agents:
  Demonstrated ownership of Digital SDLC deliverables, approvals, and cross-team coordination for agent releases.
• Agent product lifecycle:
  Experience spanning discovery to delivery for agent work streams, including documentation, stakeholder questionnaires, solution proposals, and enablement materials.
• Collaboration in GenAI agent management:
  Operates within the GenAI agent management function; skilled in automation practices that show up in agentic workflows.

Strong facilitation across Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Business teams; excellent written communication (policies, approvals, release notes).