Overview
The Product Analyst will play a critical role in enabling the World Bank’s Knowledge Agenda by ensuring the effective delivery of AI-driven, knowledge-centric products and platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Collects, refines, and documents business requirements with a focus on AI solutioning, including clear acceptance and evaluation criteria tailored to AI outputs.
- Drives fast cycle delivery of AI-enabled products, ensuring requirements are actionable, lightweight, and optimized for rapid experimentation and deployment.
- Ensures strong alignment between business needs and AI solution design, enabling high value outcomes with minimal time-to-delivery.
- Facilitates rapid prototyping, iterative testing, and accelerated rollouts—shepherding solutions from MVP to production.
- Identifies and articulates high impact opportunities for AI intervention, prioritizing use cases that deliver fast measurable benefits.
- Captures concise, fit-for-purpose functional and technical specifications to support speedy development of Rapid AI Solutions.
- Gathers and synthesizes user requirements quickly and accurately through focused interviews, design workshops, and rapid discovery sessions.
- Supports backlog prioritization based on value, feasibility, and speed-to-impact, ensuring the Rapid AI pipeline remains efficient and outcomes focused.
- Collaborates closely with business and technical stakeholders to validate AI opportunities and streamline processes for rapid adoption of AI-powered capabilities.
- Contributes to sprint planning, refinement, and reviews, ensuring each increment supports fast-paced AI delivery goals.
- Develops and executes lean test plans emphasizing rapid verification, model output validation, and continuous quality improvement.
- Supports end-to-end testing and validation of AI systems and enhancements, ensuring outcomes are reliable, explainable, and aligned with intended business value.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 2 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering AI solutions - in complex, largescale environments, with a strong understanding of practical constraints, operational realities, and deployment considerations.
- Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable, high impact AI-enabled product features, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and measurable value.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
- Recommended certifications: IIBA Certified Business Requirements Analysis Professional (IIBA CBAP) or SAFe Practitioner (SP) to date knowledge of modern AI practices.
