Imagine if you had the skills, knowledge, and teammates to both understand the root of the world’s most pressing problems and build the technologies and companies best positioned to solve them. RA Capital has done exactly that for more than two decades, backing bold ideas in medicines to further human health and now expanding into Planetary Health to improve how efficiently we utilize the world’s precious resources.
RA Capital is among the leading providers of capital and services to the most promising innovators in the world. We invest flexibly—seed to IPO and beyond, anywhere in the world—with $10 B+ under management and a culture that prizes curiosity, rigor, and collaborative debate. We are investors who not only fund companies but get elbow deep in building them. From helping them recruit talent to helping them recruit patients for their studies to helping match them to strategic partners and even going to Washington to win reforms, RA Capital’s large team has people with nearly every relevant expertise one might need to turn an idea into a cure that actually helps people.
If you live for first-principles problem-solving with great colleagues, thrive on complexity, and want to do meaningful work that ripples across industries and ecosystems, you’ll feel at home at RA Capital. Here, questions are welcomed, ideas are tested, and victories are shared. Even our lawyers are creative and engaging. And don’t get us started on our compliance team’s wicked sense of humor; nothing about what we do is boring.
Are you ready to bring your creativity, discipline and collaborative spirit to help us invent the future? Join us and you’ll collaborate daily with investors, founders, physicians, biologists, engineers, economists, and reform advocates who think in systems and act with urgency.
Join us to invent a happier, healthier, more productive future - and have fun doing it.
RA is seeking a detail-oriented Business Analyst to join our Information Technology team and play a critical role in the development and enhancement of our business systems, those internally developed as well as 3rd party. The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements while serving as a key liaison between stakeholders and development teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document detailed business requirements for system enhancements and new features
- Create comprehensive functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Develop and maintain business process documentation, workflows, and system documentation
- Conduct requirements gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops
- Analyze current business processes and identify opportunities for improvement through system enhancements
- Work closely with development teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and properly implemented
- Support user acceptance testing by creating test scenarios and validating deliverables against requirements
- Maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle
- Assist with change management activities and communicate impacts of system changes to stakeholders
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field
- 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in software development environments
- Experience in financial services, investment management, etc. preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with requirements gathering techniques and documentation tools
- Proficiency in creating process flows, use cases, and functional specifications
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools
- Must be based in Boston with the ability to work in our downtown office on a hybrid schedule
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with research management or academic systems
- Knowledge of database concepts and SQL
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
- Understanding of UX/UI principles and user-centered design
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RA Capital Management Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
200 Berkeley St, Boston, MA , United States, 02116
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