Senior Product Operations Analyst
HAVI · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
MarketingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead intake, triage, tracking, and operational coordination processes for product issues and incidents
- Ensure issues are appropriately prioritized, documented, assigned, and progressed through resolution workflows
- Drive operational discipline and consistency across issue management processes
- Identify process gaps, operational risks, and escalation needs while partnering with stakeholders to improve responsiveness and execution
- Own and maintain dashboards, report frameworks, and operational metrics related to product health, incidents, and performance trends
- Analyze recurring issues, systemic product gaps, and operational patterns to identify actionable improvement opportunities
- Deliver actionable insights that influence decisions across Product and Operations
- Maintain and monitor SLAs, operational KPIs, and resolution performance while proactively identifying risks and improvement areas
- Serve as a key operational partner during product incidents, escalations, and cross-functional response activities
- Coordinate communication, dependencies, action tracking, and stakeholder alignment throughout incident resolution processes
- Lead or facilitate post-incident review activities, including root cause analysis, documentation, and improvement planning
- Ensure accountability and follow-through on corrective and preventative actions
- Partner with Product Management and Product Development teams to support product enhancement and new product initiatives
- Contribute operational expertise and analytical support across product lifecycle activities, including requirements gathering, workflow design, solution validation, and process integration
- Support initiatives involving process optimization, automation, AI-enabled workflows, and emerging technology capabilities
- Conduct research, operational analysis, and business process evaluations to identify opportunities that improve scalability, efficiency, and customer outcomes
- Assist in translating business and operational needs into actionable product or process improvement recommendations
- Recommend and help implement improvements to operational processes, reporting structures, and governance practices
- Support the development of operational standards, best practices, and documentation
- Provide guidance and operational support to less experienced team members as needed
- Foster collaboration across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer-facing teams
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product operations, business analysis, product support, supply chain operations, or related functions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and operational process management skills
- Experience leading cross-functional coordination efforts in fast-paced operational or product environments
- Advanced experience with reporting, dashboards, data analysis, and operational metrics (Excel, SQL, BI tools, etc.)
- Ability to independently manage complex workstreams and influence stakeholders across functions
- Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management capabilities
- Experience supporting product development processes, operational transformation, workflow automation, or technology enablement initiatives preferred
- Exposure to AI-enabled solutions, process automation, or scalable operational design concepts is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to identify improvement opportunities and drive operational execution with limited oversight