Product Business Analyst

Product Business Analyst

Location:

London

Department

Technology

Salary Range:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

28 Jul 2026

Job Description

Your Team: You will join the News Broadcasting Digital Team, a powerhouse of digital innovation that creates award-winning national and local radio and podcasts. We are the UK's most digital broadcaster, reaching millions of listeners through iconic brands like talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, Talk, and Onic. You will specifically support the App and Platform Team, which manages our core mobile applications and the robust backend services that power our entire digital estate.

Your Role: As a Business Analyst , you will act as the essential bridge between ambitious business goals and technical execution across two agile streams. Reporting into the Lead Business Analyst,you will support the enhancement of our five core apps and the optimisation of our APIs to ensure a seamless user experience. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive self-starter to hit the ground running with both active and upcoming projects in a fast-paced media environment.

Day to day you will:

Collaborate within an agile product team alongside engineers (which also includesQA), product managers, and UX designers to deliver high-quality digital features.

Translate business requirements into clear, technical specifications, including Epics and Stories, to provide development teams with an unambiguous roadmap.

Support Product Managers in managing the product roadmap and refining backlogs to ensure they align with high-value business outcomes.

Coordinate with front-end and backend teams to map dependencies, ensuring new app features are fully supported by our platform capabilities.

Define success metrics for delivered stories and communicate the value created to various stakeholders.

What we’re looking for from you:

Experience working on digital projects within mobile app ecosystems or backend/API integrations, with a comfort for discussing system designs with developers.

Experience delivering projects within agile or iterative environments, specifically using frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.

Self-directed worker who demonstrates high levels of autonomy, taking full ownership of tasks from initial discovery through to delivery without needing constant supervision.

Proactive mindset with the ability to take initiative on projects already in flight and adapt quickly to new challenges.

Clear communicator who can present complex initiatives in a crisp, neat, and concise manner to both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Analytical skills used to create detailed documentation such as story maps, process maps, and impact assessments to guide product development.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 13 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks

Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health conditionat any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.

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