by Ronald Barron | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Product Designer I – (Remote – US)
REMOTE
Austin, Texas, United States
Product Management
Full time
Description
Mediavine is seeking a Product Designer to join our User Experience Team. We are looking for someone who enjoys shaping new and existing Mediavine products used by thousands of publishers. Applicants must be based in the United States.
About Mediavine
Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 10,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.
Mission & Culture
We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is ensuring your brand and business grow in every respect.
We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position. Diversity and inclusion aren’t platitudes to us; we take them seriously.
Position Title & Overview:
The User Experience team is seeking a junior Product Designer to join our team of four in shaping new and existing Mediavine products. This role reports to the Director of User Experience and works closely with the other Product Designers and Product Managers.
We’re looking for someone who can help us expand our Grow product and partner with our product designers to complete projects both big and small.
This role will also have the opportunity to jump into other projects as well such as designing marketing landing pages, contributing to our design system, adding features to existing products, and more.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Creating wireframes and UIs in Figma
- Working collaboratively with other designers to complete projects together
- Managing workload and delivering high-quality work on-time
- Participating in Peer Review Critiques and giving feedback to the team
- Iterating often on UI designs to incorporate feedback and product requirements
- Ideating in the early phases of a project to explore different design directions
- Writing comprehensive behavioral specs for engineering teams to accompany hi-fidelity designs
- Meeting with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand product requirements and share designs
Requirements
Location:
- Applicants must be based in the United States
You Have:
- 1+ years of experience working in Product Design
- Experience presenting designs to stakeholders
- Knowledge of prototyping and utilizes Auto Layout to design flexible layouts
- Experience designing mobile and web applications and experiences
- An understanding of common web and mobile UI patterns, as well as best practices
Nice to haves:
- Expertise in creating Figma animations and advanced prototyping
- Extensive knowledge of accessibility standards on the Web
- Familiarity with the Material UI design system
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
UX Designer
REMOTE /
TECHNOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT – TECHNOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT /
FULL-TIME
/ REMOTE
WHAT YOU’LL DO
We are looking for a creative and analytical UX Designer, who enjoys challenging and multifaceted responsibilities. In this role, you will be conducting user research and testing, developing wireframes and workflows based on user needs, designing solutions for web applications, ultimately creating an intuitive and enjoyable experience when using Viant’s products.
THE DAY-TO-DAY
- Create sitemaps, workflows, interaction models, wireframes, high resolution mocks, and interactive prototypes to test proposals, select and communicate solutions with product team and engineers.
- Create frameworks and artifacts that aid Product and Engineering in understanding Design
- Lead Product Management and Engineering in obtaining analytics solutions and resultant data for decision-making. Mine this data to inform design and identify areas of improvement.
- Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback.
- Identify UI and UX problems, generate and test hypotheses, provide innovative solutions to the product direction, visuals and experience.
- Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
- Manage queue of proactive tasks against queue of requests from others, set expectations of delivery for both, and communicate changes from plan.
- Implement and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
GREAT TO HAVE
- 2+ years of experience as a UX designer
- Knowledge and application of UX principles and methods: User-centered design, process-centered design, tasks and needs analysis.
- Experience with application design, interaction design, information design, information architecture, infographics, data presentation/visualization, and typography.
- Proficiency with tools of trade (Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, Figma, Adobe, or their equivalents).
- Ability to anticipate needs, think several steps ahead, and walk up and down ladder of abstraction.
- Ability to design back-of-the-napkin solutions and in high detail.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Solutions Architect
Location: US – Remote
About Us
dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.
Your role as a Solutions Architect on the Commercial team is to help prospects understand the value that dbt Cloud will provide to their organization. To achieve this, you will lead technical discussions with prospective customers, uncover their data challenges, and showcase how dbt Cloud can address their needs through live demos and technical workshops.
In post-sales you will be responsible for continued relationship building to ensure your customers’ ongoing success and identify opportunities for expansion.
Internally, you will help our team as we continue to build out our processes and playbooks and act as the voice of the customer to ensure that we continue to build product that solves real problems and delights our customers.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Spend the majority of your time working on pre-sales opportunities in order to understand their use cases and identify the value that dbt Cloud can bring to their organization
- Consult with potential customers to understand their data challenges and identify opportunities for dbt Cloud to alleviate their pain and help them achieve their goals
- Own the technical aspects of a sales opportunity, providing technical expertise and delivering demos of dbt Cloud tailored to the unique needs of potential customers
- Collaborate closely with your Account Executives, building strong trust-based relationships and providing strategic input on deal processes
- Act as the ongoing technical QB on your post-sales accounts to ensure they are successful in their journey to utilize dbt Cloud
- Maintain ongoing relationships with technical contacts in your accounts
- Identify opportunities for expansion in larger accounts and flag risks in accounts that may churn or contract
- Work with the team to improve the way we work together, be the voice of the customer in product discussions, and participate in other cross-functional activities
- Participate in the knowledge loop helping to improve our processes and assets and enabling others on the team
- Create and deliver external facing content through live events, blog posts, recorded tutorials, or other content
You are a good fit if you have:
- 3+ years of sales engineering, solutions architecture, or as a data practitioner
- A solid technical background, with a firm understanding of modern data warehousing architectures, the modern data stack, and SQL proficient
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- High degree of comfort presenting to various stakeholders or audience, ideally with experience in an externally facing role
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment and think on your feet when engaged in customer conversations
- Desire to be part of a team, both as an active member of the SA team as we continue to evolve and improve how we work, and in your day-to-day work with Account Executives as part of a deal team
- Openness to travel. While we work in a remote first company, we value the power of in-person relationship building, both internally and externally, so a willingness to travel to external and internal events is required.
You’ll have an edge if you have:
- Prior dbt experience, bonus points for dbt certification
- Basic python competency and advanced SQL knowledge
- Proven experience in a pre-sales tech role
- Experience with traditional ETL tooling
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer, Azure
Location: US – Remote
About Us
dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.
About the Infrastructure Team:
The Infrastructure team at dbt Labs works to expand our platform capabilities and features. The team improves reliability and accessibility for Enterprise customers. Internally, the Infra team supports developers as they bring novel features to production.
We’re looking for an experienced Azure Infrastructure Engineer to help us build out critical infrastructure components that enable our product engineering teams to build and deploy solutions. Particularly, we need to achieve parity with our existing offerings hosted in AWS. This will help better support current SaaS clients in our Azure environment.
You’ll be joining a talented team of infrastructure engineers whose primary cloud has been AWS with some Azure experience – ideally you’d be an Azure-first infrastructure engineer excited to help other folks create and support infrastructure in Azure. You have a strong sense of Azure best practices and are familiar with major Azure services and their limitations.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Drive strategic scaling and automation initiatives across Azure and AWS
- Leverage tools/languages such as Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), Helm, Python, and others!
- Lead the team in creating Azure parity with existing AWS offerings
- Integrate with a high powered engineering team where you will help drive company goals while growing your technical skillset!
- Work closely with engineering and product to drive sustained infrastructure growth
Qualifications:
- Have 5+ years experience in software engineering, including production experience supporting SaaS deployed on Azure
- Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR
- Completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp
You are a good fit if you:
- Supported containerized workloads in production on Azure (AKS a plus!)
- Are passionate about Azure but open to working in AWS and are able to find equivalents that minimize developer friction when creating solutions capable of running in either cloud
- Have mentored peer developers in Azure best practices and tools
- Have production experience with IaC (Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
- Have the ability to break down complex technical concepts and communicate them to business stakeholders
- Have a creative attitude towards problem solving, and enjoy working directly with business stakeholders to help them get past roadblocks
You’ll have an edge if you:
- Have experience working in multiple Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
- Have experience managing multiple ongoing projects at once
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Freelance UX Designer
REMOTE
CREATIVE
CONTRACT
Position Summary
In case we’ve never met before, we’re WebMechanix – an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Columbia, MD. We run high-impact performance marketing programs for over 65+ clients and frequently offer additional creative and development services as well.
We are looking for an experienced Freelance UX Designer who can support our in-house Creative Team with strong B2B experience to support redesign projects. Initially, we are looking for someone to take on 1-2 projects for roughly six weeks at about 20 hours per week. This may change over time and could lead to ongoing project work if interested.
In this role, you’ll lead UX design for redesign projects, including conducting stakeholder interviews and other light research activities to understand the customer and their tasks.
Your IA will be the strong foundation on which our designs and development will be built.
You will work alongside a larger creative team and will likely be involved in advising in an accessibility role, aid in translating wireframes for designers, and defending UX principles interacting with developers, designers and content creators.
Here’s what you’ll be doing
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, heuristic analysis, and other light research activities to support our understanding of the end-user
- Create user stories and IA that leverage usability best practices to improve UX
- Determine information architecture, design wireframes, and create sitemaps to convey the strategy for a redesign experience
- Present UX designs to clients and internal teams to help sell them on complex ideas
- Work alongside designers and developers to translate wireframes into fully functioning websites
Requirements
Here’s what you’ll have
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a UX discipline
- Thorough knowledge of Figma to design wireframes
- Significant experience in UX of websites, supporting site redesigns
- Significant experience in B2B marketing, branding preferred
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