Job Description
About the Company
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Rainmaker is built to give lawyers business intelligence for BD: legal news and deal data, a BD tool for building and managing approaches to prospective clients, plus a live rankings system that lets lawyers credential their work against their peers. Product set for launch later this year.
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About the Role
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The ideal candidate is a team player who will be responsible for coordinating between the business and technical engineering functions across various products and projects.
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Specific responsibilities include reporting metrics, analyzing methodologies, suggesting operation improvements, and building proposal evaluations in a cross-functional environment.
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The role will help manage our day-to-day tracking of what is being built and ensure parallel delivery streams work to the same goal. It's an embedded role, sitting with the technical team rather than reviewing on a cadence.
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Responsibilities
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Scope definition and tracking
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• Define scope and produce the corresponding business requirements.
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• Document and maintain those requirements in Jira.
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• Track estimates, logged time, and scope changes through implementation.
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• Manage dependencies and linked items so scope stays aligned across streams.
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• Raise and maintain Change Requests in the backlog.
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Documentation ownership
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• Keep Confluence current as requirements evolve.
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• Review technical documentation for accuracy and completeness.• Assign documentation gaps to the responsible owners and follow through to
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completion.
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Alignment with delivery
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• Maintain regular contact with developers and technical leads to confirm that what
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is being built matches what was agreed.
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• Work directly with the Data, AI, Backend, Frontend, and QA leads on requirements,
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technical detail, dependencies, and implementation approach.
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• Flag divergence between requirements, estimates, and actual implementation
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early.
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• Ensure every requirement change or technical clarification is communicated across
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all affected streams.
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Legal and regulatory
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• Ensure requirements and supporting documentation reflect the legal and regulatory.
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Qualifications
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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
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• Familiarity with AI products and product design desirable
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Ideal Candidate Profile
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• Requirements translation. Close work with Stakeholders and Product Owner to
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gather business needs and converts them into clear, actionable, testable
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requirements that a technical team can build from without interpretation.
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• Technical fluency. Solid working understanding of system design, APIs,
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integrations, and the software development lifecycle — enough to hold a
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substantive conversation with engineering leads.
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• Embedded with delivery. Available to the team day to day, not as a periodic
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reviewer.
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• Legal domain understanding. Familiarity with the legal and regulatory environment
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the product operates in, and the judge
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Required Skills
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• 3+ years as a BA including at least one multi-team build where you owned scope end to end
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•Real technical fluency across system design, APIs, integrations and the SDLC, enough to hold a substantive conversation with engineering leads and challenge an answer that doesn't hold up
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• Ownership of requirements in Jira and documentation in Confluence, including change requests and dependency management
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Preferred Skills
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• Familiarity with a legal or regulated environment and the judgement to recognise when a requirement carries compliance implications
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Equal Opportunity Statement
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We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.
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