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Trimble Inc. Product Analyst in Westminster, Colorado
Title: Product Analyst Location: North America, Westminster CO Department: Forestry
About Trimble Forestry: Trimble's Forestry Division offers SaaS and enterprise software to improve the productivity and sustainability of the world's most recognized integrated forest product companies, forest managers, conservation organizations, government departments, finished product manufacturers, and the partners that connect the global forest supply chain. The Connected Forest solutions manage the full raw materials lifecycle of planning, planting, growing, harvesting, transporting, and processing.
About the role: Product analysts are critical in providing insights from internal and external sources to drive decisions. They may create insights on markets or large global user base and they may also create specifications specific to a small group of customer needs. Product analysts provide the necessary connection between data, information, insights, and decisions that inform actions for both. They act as high-level decision-makers, determining everything from design choices to technical standards.
Product analysts evaluate complex market, business, and user problems interpreting trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences. Working with product managers and lead engineers, forecasts, recommendations, and strategic/tactical plans are constructed that inform choices to be made on product roadmap options as well as custom software solutions. Documentation is an expectation to enable teams to execute. Examples of documents include business requirements, functionality area specifications, reports, insights based on analysis quantitative and qualitative data, and feature briefs. This can also include sourcing and managing data-sets for evaluation of
Product analysts are expected to share skills and expertise with team members, setting positive examples for how a world-class team delivers software products. Some core skills required include broad and extensive use of development processes, data modelling, use and creation of standardized metrics and dashboards, query languages and scripting to transform data-sets, feature design, feature brief writing to support user experience design, use of product lifecycle (SDLC) processes with remote teams, and API definition.
Your primary responsibilities will be to:
Collaborate with Product Managers, Lead Engineers, and User Experience Designers to deliver on the product vision
Maintain and expand documentation on all market, business, and user needs by functional area and on feature briefs
Translate needs into disruptive and incremental features that improve an anchor product in-line with a product roadmap based on both market and customer inputs
Liaise between business units, product teams, end-users, service teams, and support teams
Document data structures for feature designs to inform user-journeys, feature maps, and API design
Analyze reporting needs, document specifications, and develop or assist in development of reports and dashboards
In order to succeed in this role you will need:
Very clear written, visual, oral expression of ideas with business and technical people
Demonstrated knowledge and experience of systems development methodologies, system analysis concepts, techniques, and tools
A deep understanding of databases and be strong in writing SQL queries
A handle on more advanced data manipulation using python and machine learning/AI data requirements
An understanding of the software development life cycle and be familiar with programming and version control tools
Professional fluency in English
Flexibility to travel
Information to Review: The following links are recommended in order to better your understanding of Trimble, and the products available within this particular division. Trimble Trimble Forestry
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Our Company Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. While GPS is at our core, we have grown beyond this technology to embrace other sophisticated positioning technologies and, in doing so; we are changing the way the world works. Our solutions are used in over 140 countries and we have incredibly diverse lines of business.