Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford's Graduate School of Business has built a global reputation based on its immersive and innovative management programs. We provide students with a transformative leadership experience, pushing the boundaries of knowledge with faculty research, and offering a portfolio of entrepreneurial and non-degree programs that deliver global impact like no other. We are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in service of our mission of developing innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change lives, change organizations, and change the world. We invite you to be part of this mission. Inclusion and diversity are integral to Stanford's commitment to excellence. We are interested in candidates who have demonstrated experience engaging with diversity through activities such as fostering an inclusive environment, working with people from diverse backgrounds, or incorporating diverse perspectives in their work.

The Digital Solutions (DS) Department of the Stanford GSB seeks an experienced and highly skilled Business Analyst/ PM within the Delivery group. Having a customer experience centric service mindset, the Sr. IT Business Analyst/PM will execute substantial techno-functional, operational, project management, and quality assurance efforts with university-wide focus & impact. We seek a creative problem-solver and an enthusiastic team player with a keen interest in developing mastery at the intersection of the fields of technology and higher education. Do you have experience working with business partners and technical team members to design, document, deploy, support, and operate mission critical business applications & IT systems? We need you! We are looking for a skilled senior IT business analyst who can define and document system requirements and manage technology projects for building, improving and maintaining sophisticated, business applications with an expectation to deliver high quality products and services that meet their needs within appropriate timelines and budgets. These applications support GSB's critical functions and program offices who in turn supports faculty, graduate students, staff, and alumni. Our team aids faculty, graduate students, and staff with an expectation to deliver high quality products and services.

This Business Analyst role requires someone who can wear multiple hats and can coordinate & communicate with diverse business partners, understand & elicit business problems, suggest & design solutions, document requirements, and work with our technical team to build an outstanding product. If you are resilient, flexible, highly motivated, able to solve complex problems, and want to be a part of a phenomenal community, this may be the right opportunity for you. In this role, along with supporting operational activities, you will contribute towards all phases of a delivery project, including systems analysis, architecture and technical design, development, build & release, and maintenance. You will be expected to provide innovative solutions to grow and stabilize the technology platforms along with improving the processes. You are a self-motivated, rapid learner, a seasoned thought partner, and an exceptional communicator with the ability to translate between business and technical partners.

The Senior IT Business Analyst will work a hybrid schedule, typically being present on campus a minimum of 2 days per week. May work extended hours, evenings and weekends. The hybrid work schedule could be adjusted in future to better suit school requirements.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Communicate with business users to understand, synthesize, and analyze business problems and their solutions using a rich variety of methods (e.g., interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, data analysis, etc.)
• Design solutions to address complex business problems while balancing business needs, usability, system consistency, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Facilitate & obtain consensus on the solution design between business & technical teams.
• Document user stories and detailed functional system requirements with supporting documentation (e.g., mock-ups, prototypes, workflow diagrams, detailed requirements, etc.)
• Represent our business partners while working closely with the development team to clarify business needs and solutions throughout the implementation process.
• Provide demos, facilitate user acceptance testing, and obtain business partner approval of newly developed functionality.
• Be a champion for the applications you own and look for opportunities to continually improve the systems.
• Instrumental in coming up with innovative solutions following latest tech trends (in higher education) to grow and stabilize the technology platforms along with improving the processes.
• Oversee testing, debugging, change control, and documentation for major projects and applications.
• Lead projects on all phases of application development and help troubleshoot and resolve complex problems.
• Work with a variety of users to gain information, and develop intra-system tradeoffs between different users, as necessary; interact with a diverse client base and outside vendor contacts.
• Independently lead and direct projects, teams, and customers asks requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed.
• Always look out for opportunities based on data to provide plan options for successful project delivery.
• Resolve issues quickly and take actions that meet university goals, with partnership. Align with the University on broad technology directions.
• Adept with using collaboration, tracking, and internal systems like JIRA, Confluence and ServiceNow to name a few.
• Build positive working relationships with departmental staff with customer service centric mindset. Provide one-on-one consultations to provide guidance during key phases of the project and application life cycle.
• Be data driven and analytical in creating and proposing solutions.
• Open to try new approaches, tools and incorporate AI into standard functions to enhance efficiency of the role.