Product Analyst

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Salt Lake City, UT
3-5 Years Experience
Other • Real Estate
The Role
The Product Analyst at Extra Space Storage will collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate product vision into actionable user stories, manage backlog, support agile teams, and analyze performance metrics to optimize product outcomes. The role emphasizes customer needs and quality assurance in product releases.
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At Extra Space Storage, what matters to you, matters to us! Join a company that cares about you.

It is an exciting time to be at Extra Space. We have been featured on multiple "Best Places to Work" awards, including Forbes and Glassdoor. We’re an S&P 500 company that hasn’t stopped growing since our founding in 1977. Today we are leading the self-storage industry in more ways than one, but in order to maintain this lead, we need exceptionally motivated, capable, and driven people like you. Self-storage is our product, helping people is our passion. Come grow with the largest self-storage company in the world and find out why so many of our employees recommend us as a great place to work. 

At Extra Space Storage, the Product Analyst role is crucial in driving the success of our products by ensuring alignment between customer needs, business goals, and development efforts. As a key contributor, you'll directly impact how our products meet market demands and deliver value to users.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Product Managers: Work hand-in-hand with Product Managers to translate product vision and strategy into actionable epics and user stories, ensuring alignment with the overall roadmap.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly meet with stakeholders to capture requirements, provide feedback on work-in-progress, and contribute to continuous process improvement.

  • Requirements Refinement: Define and refine epics and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, ensuring they are clear, actionable, and aligned with strategic goals. Continuously iterate on these requirements to reflect evolving business needs and priorities.

  • Backlog Management: Strategically manage the backlog to ensure that sprint work is prioritized in alignment with goals and the product strategy/vision. Maximize value by ensuring the development team focuses on the most impactful work.

  • Support Agile Teams: Participate in sprint planning, stand ups, refinement sessions, demos, reviews, and retrospectives. Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of requirements and deliverables.

  • Customer-Centric Approach: Act as the voice of the customer within the team, ensuring that dev work targets user needs, pain points, and opportunities.

  • Data-Driven Decisions: Stay connected to data that tells the story of the product. Monitor and analyze key performance metrics to measure the success of product features and make informed decisions to optimize outcomes.

  • Quality Assurance and Release Management: Partner with development and QA to ensure that all features meet quality standards and align with defined requirements before release. Oversee the release process to guarantee a clean and successful rollout to customers, including coordinating with cross-functional teams to manage deployment, monitor post-release performance, and address any issues promptly.

Who We’re Looking For:

  • Analytical Thinker: Strong ability to analyze data, think critically, and make data-driven decisions.

  • Ownership Mindset: A decisive individual with a “get it done” mentality who can manage multiple priorities effectively.

  • Effective Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to relate to individuals at all levels of the organization.

  • Collaborative and Autonomous: Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team, with a strong capacity for collaboration.

  • Flexible and Adaptable: Able to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, with a passion for digital innovation and continuous improvement.

  • Technical Acumen: A passion for technology with a solid understanding of key concepts such as front-end and back-end development, APIs, databases, and the overall software development lifecycle. This role requires someone who can seamlessly integrate technical knowledge into product development to ensure that solutions are both innovative and technically sound.

Education and Experience:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience.

  • Experience:

    • 2-4 years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a related role.

    • Experience with agile methodologies and working in scrum teams is a plus.

    • Experience with Jira, confluence, or other SDL tools.

    • Experience with SQL, Power BI or other data analysis tools is a plus.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

Performs sedentary work in an office environment with limited lifting (less than 10 pounds) or walking required. Close visual acuity required to perform work at computer terminal. No exposure to adverse environmental conditions. Requires repetitive typing motion, talking, hearing, grasping and feeling.

Disclaimer

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

We pride ourselves on hiring top talent and provide the following benefits and more: 

  • Well defined career paths 

  • Great work/life balance and hybrid work schedule 

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits 

  • Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending (FSA) 

  • Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short- & Long-Term Disability 

  • 401K with company match after 90 days of service 

  • Holiday pay and paid time off 

  • Extensive wellness program and various employee discount programs 

  • Personal health advocate 

  • On-site fitness center 

  • Free soda, coffee, and snacks all day every day and much, much more! 

If you are a current Extra Space employee, please apply through Jobs Hub in Workday.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The Company
HQ: Salt Lake City, UT
2,400 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1977

What We Do

Extra Space Storage offers climate-controlled, self storage units located all over the U.S

It’s not easy being stuck in a job. Join a company that cares about you.

We’re listed on multiple “Best Places to Work” awards (including Forbes, Glassdoor). We’re an S&P 500 company that hasn’t stopped growing since our founding in 1977. Self-storage is our product, helping people is our passion.

Grow with us.

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