Business Analyst, Risk Quantifier

Company Background

ThreatConnect is a US headquartered cyber security company with operations in the US, Europe, and the UK. The company’s two product streams are in cyber threat analytics and investigation, and cyber risk quantification: RQ.

RQ enables security leaders to identify the risks that matter most to their organization based on their financial risk to the business. RQ provides security teams with mitigations, using financial values, that best buy down a company's risk. The combination of financial analysis and prioritization, with, technical analysis and industry data, sets RQ as a leader in the cyber risk quantification market. To learn more, please visit www.threatconnect.com.

The Role

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join ThreatConnect's Cyber Risk Quantification product. Interested in creating a product that assists the world's major companies to protect them against growing cyber threats while working from the comfort of your own home? Read on! Job descriptions are by nature extremely specific. While it may seem like we’re looking for a particular candidate, we encourage you to apply if you are passionate about delivering technical software products to market, enjoy process improvement, and would like to make the world a better place one application at a time.

About The Job

ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) allows enterprises to quantify cyber risk in financial terms effectively. We step in and make a real impact in the security landscape by working on the industry's only platform for automated, data-driven, and machine-learning-powered cyber risk quantification. Acting as a bridge between product management and engineering, business analysts play an essential role. You will be responsible for uncovering and unpacking software requirements for our industry-leading cybersecurity innovations and communicating them comprehensively and effectively to our engineering teams.

About You

• You think technology is pretty cool. Every day a new product hits the cybersecurity space, and our customers are eager to get their hands on them. You’re excited by what other vendors in the space are working on, and can’t wait to see what innovative use cases they can enable in our platform.
• You like puzzles. Going from a customer's need to a new technology to our platform is not always a straight path. You are eager to translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the development team.
• You’re invigorated by your team. We want to create a team where members are free to take interpersonal risks, challenge each other’s assumptions, and help each other succeed. It’s not just about genuinely caring for one another's well-being and success, but it’s also about building relationships with others and understanding their perspectives.
• You’re inspired by contributing to important and impactful things. Our company mission is to make the world more secure, while we stay committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. 
• You are a go-getter. You are resourceful, flexible, and driven. You understand that priorities and plans change and that the path forward is not always a straight line. You can adapt to the changing landscape and use the challenges as opportunities to learn new things.
• You are a problem solver. You have the highest commitment to the team and the product. 
• You are a strategist. You acknowledge the responsibility to minimize how often problems take place while creating innovative solutions to the challenges encountered. Get prepared to be the link between the technical developers and the business.

Things You Will Do

• Work closely with stakeholders, developers, and the product manager to ensure that the business requirements are understood and incorporated into the technical design and development
• Drive discussions with the Product Owner and/or business partners to understand the process and the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios
• Actively engage the Product Owner or business SME to translate solution needs into actionable user stories
• Facilitate and support product backlog management
• Partner with Product Owners/SMEs to define & refine acceptance criteria
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria and partner with developers on reviewing for understanding and scoring
• Negotiate with product owners/ business experts on alternative solutions
• Write test cases for user stories
• Create designs for use by the user experience team

In this role you'll get to...

• Analyze and interpret complex business requirements and translate them into a technical solution approach and implementation roadmap
• Gain a deep understanding of the most advanced security teams in the world - our users, and how they engage with our product
• Develop expertise in a wide range of industry-leading security software
• Solve tough technical challenges
• Work with a psychologically safe and values-driven team

In the first month we’ll expect you to…

• Get to know your immediate team and engineering counterparts and have 1-on-1s with some of your main stakeholders
• Get to know our product and our processes
• Ask lots and lots of questions!
• Get to know our product and our processes
• Ask lots and lots of questions!

At 3 months we’ll expect you to…

• Start turning the needs our product managers have identified into workable and testable requirements
• Understand the needs of our users and function as a liaison to coordinate work efforts with teams across the firm to accomplish their initiatives

At 6 months we’ll expect you to…

• Start proposing improvements to our processes
• Own the end-to-end requirements lifecycle
• See your requirements turned into software reality at some of the world’s largest companies

At 12 months we’ll expect you to…

• Help us inform your own career development
• Be the nexus that both product and engineering rely on

This job is awesome because…

• We work on a groundbreaking, market-leading product in cyber risk quantification
• You get to design and lead the next stage of growth for the product, from a small product to a scaled API-driven application

Required Skills

• JIRA or other process-management tools
• Experience writing detailed technical requirements
• Demonstrated ability to translate user needs into technical solutions
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies
• Experience working on a multi-customer product
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and tools relevant to programming, databases, data structures, and SDLC
• Strong understanding of capital markets concepts, products, and terms
• 2+ years as a Business Analyst
• Experience creating designs for use in development
• Good written, verbal, and presentation skills in Romanian and English

Desired Skills

• Passionate about cybersecurity and/or cybersecurity tools 
• Experience as a Business Analyst in the cybersecurity space
• Understandment of cyber security tools such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, XDR, Vulnerability Management, Firewalls, IDPS, Ticketing, Identity Access Management products, Security Operations, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence use cases and processes
• Experience working with teams in different time zones and different cultures