Senior Product Manager, Compliance

by Ronald Barron | Jul 18, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Product Manager, Compliance

Location: Remote

The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role

We’re looking for an experienced Sr. Product Manager to drive the roadmap for Compliance at GitLab. This team owns key features in GitLab that enable compliance teams to enforce, monitor, and verify that key regulatory requirements are met across the entire software development lifecycle.

The compliance team is responsible for building GitLab’s audit events, including our streaming audit event functionality. Additionally the team is responsible for GitLab’s compliance framework labels and compliance dashboard. These areas of the product are aimed at directly serving the needs of compliance teams and are also closely related as the compliance adherence report is designed to be powered by our audit events.

You’ll collaborate closely with other GitLab stages to ensure that compliance extends across the entire GitLab platform. You’ll enable GitLab to be an easy platform to develop code in a way that is both secure and compliant and will help bring a compliant-by-default experience to the millions of people who build software with GitLab at over 100,000 organizations

What you’ll do

• Work closely with internal development, technical field, legal, compliance, security, and privacy teams to enable GitLab to build compliance capabilities into our product effectively.
• Ensure that the next milestone contains the most relevant items to customers, users, and us.
• Work with customers, users, and other teams to make feature proposals enticing, actionable, and small.
• Keep /direction up to date as our high-level roadmap.
• Ensure that we translate user demands to features that make them happy but keep the product UI clean and the codebase maintainable.
• Willingness to keep up with the rapidly evolving regulatory compliance and governance requirements and making recommendations for functionality that keeps GitLab positioned as a thought leader.

Additional core responsibilities of GitLab Product Managers.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt quickly to new technologies.
• Experience developing successful product strategy in an ambiguous, dynamic, and/or evolving market.
• Experience managing stakeholders, including internally-facing product teams, senior executives, field sales teams, and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a cross-functional team in a large Product organization.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally, as compliance is closely related to many parts of GitLab.
• Understanding auditor and compliance team pain points with existing tools on the market.
• Experience building features within enterprise SaaS and Self-hosted software platforms.
• Prior experience building related security, compliance, or governance applications, such as SIEM tools, GRC tools, and/or other security tools.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

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Senior Director of Machine Learning

by Ronald Barron | Jul 18, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Sr. Director of Machine Learning

Location: Remote US

Hiring Ranges:

US Tier 1 Locations: $300,000 USD – $441,000 USD

US Tier 2 Locations: $276,000 USD – $406,000 USD

US Tier 3 Locations: $255,000 USD – $375,000 USD

To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this link.

The company

The Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that is on a mission to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. We design, build and distribute open-source software that enables more than 225 million people around the world to enjoy the internet on their terms.The team and opportunity Mozilla Social’s vision is to develop an integrated platform that empowers users through seamless communication, content discovery, curation, and sharing capabilities, enabling them to stay up-to-date, explore new perspectives, and engage within a safe and enriching experience.For 25 years, Mozilla has been committed to building an internet that is a global public resource, based on principles that safeguard privacy, accessibility, and transparency. As we venture into the social internet landscape, we are seeking a Senior Director of Machine Learning who is eager to address exciting challenges and craft the future of social media in favor of users rather than shareholders. With ample opportunities for end-to-end ownership, you will have a tremendous impact on people across various domains, platforms, and geographies.What you’ll do:

• Define and own the technical execution of our long term ML strategy with a particular focus on developing industry leading recommender system techniques.
• Set the standard for deploying recommender systems in a way that aligns with Mozilla’s values which include privacy, fairness and explainability.
• Build and nurture an applied ML community within Mozilla Social and the broader company as a whole.
• Lead product-first ML contributions and innovations. When appropriate publish these in relevant industry and academic forums.
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members, and exposes them to new opportunities.
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and drive the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
• Mentor and provide regular feedback to employees regarding model architecture, data quality, code quality, solving the right problem for the product, career development, employee performance, community building, communication style, and work-life balance.
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, Engineering, Design, UX, and Marketing.

What you bring:

• 15+ years of professional experience within the software engineering industry, working across a diverse range of companies and products.
• 5+ years experience of large scale recommender systems.
• 5+ years of management experience and working across multiple distributed teams.
• Expertise with large-scale ML model development frameworks.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining machine learning products in a production environment
• A passion for the responsible development of AI systems. You have an interest in solving the recsys challenge in a way which empowers users.
• Comfortable driving multiple large scale concurrent projects, and able to focus your efforts to drive towards maximal impact.
• Proven team leadership skills leading and mentoring teams of diverse managers and engineers.
• Desire to grow and learn as a leader, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
• Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed asynchronous team members with different skills from your own.

Bonus points for

• Exemplary scientific communication skills, both in written and presentation form. You have the ability to quickly distill sophisticated topics into concepts that are tailored for your target audience.
• You are a lifelong learner, and continue to refine and improve your skills when you see an opportunity to do so.

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Content Designer II

by Ronald Barron | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Content Designer II

Location: Fearless HQ or Remote

Fearless is looking for a Content Designer II to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.

The Content Designer II is a highly collaborative team member who is responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining content solutions for complex products and services. They are experts at taking industry jargon and transforming it into simple, clear, and easy to understand content. They take an evidence-based approach to deliver and maintain content that is accurate, relevant, and consistent with organizational tone and voice. They conduct various research activities focusing on user needs, organization goals and information architecture to make informed content decisions.

We need your Content Design skills! What other skills will help you succeed at Fearless? Glad you asked! We’re excited about candidates who can accomplish the following:

Responsibilities and Contributions

Organizational and Leadership Role

• Independently executes and implements solutions with minimal direction from senior Designers or team leaders.
• Coaches and mentors other Designers to develop their professional skills and improve the quality of their work.
• Strengthens Fearless content design community and fosters positive collaboration across the company.

Functional Role

Collaboration & Communication

• Builds relationships across organizations in order to identify and understand the needs of users and to influence decision-making.
• Collaborates with the team and customer to visualize outcomes, prioritize work, and craft requirements.
• Collaborates with Designers, Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Product Managers to guide design best practices within the team to ensure that the customer goals, user needs, and business needs are met.

Implementation

• Engages with Engineers and Technical Leads to implement content that meets design specifications and delivers business value.
• Incorporates evidence, data, and research into the content design process in order to make informed design decisions.
• Derives user-focused outcomes through quantitative and qualitative data.
• Develops, contributes, and implements style guides and design patterns to maintain consistency and elevate the overall quality of work.
• Determines the order in which content should be displayed through activities such as mapping user journeys, scripting sub-conversations, card sorting and competitive research, analysis, and iteration.
• Identifies and compares best processes and delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
• Evaluates current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.
• Continuously reviews and maintains content to ensure it is accurate, relevant, and optimized for users and search engines.
• Crafts content that turns industry jargon into plain language that is clear and easy for users to understand.
• Creates, edits, and improves the content of products and services to make them easier to use.
• Leads the improvement of digital products and services through content design practices such as content reviews, content audits, and usability tests.
• Plans and conducts research activities such as user and stakeholder interviews, desk research, bench-marking of other products and services, and mapping user objectives in order to understand the needs, goals, and pain points of users and stakeholders.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies

Must-Have Skills

• Experience writing content for digital platforms or experiences, such as UX copy, blogs, social media, and web pages.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a group, actively network with others, and provide varying feedback to the team at the appropriate time to ensure that discussions stick.
• Experience implementing and coaching others on content design best practices and standards.
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
• Experience creating content that aligns with the federal plain language guidelines.
• Ability to authoritatively communicate and facilitate discussion around usability, accessibility, and content design.
• Ability to identify and communicate constraints and can work within them.
• Experience establishing, iterating, and documenting design patterns to solve problems.
• Experience creating content design standards and processes.
• Experience incorporating human-centered design methods into content creation.
• Experience conducting Flesch-Kincaid tests.
• Demonstrated understanding of how content should be displayed on a product level (systems thinking), flow level (journey mapping), and page level (information architecture).

Icing-on-the-Cake Skills

• Experience working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships.
• Experience working with government customers.

What else you should know?:

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package:

• Flexible schedule
• Family-friendly workplace
• 14 days of PTO allowance (not accrued so you get it up front!) PTO + 8.75 days sick leave + 11 federal holidays + your birthday off!
• 100% coverage of the employee-only premium for HSA, HMO, or PPO plan and Employee Wellness Plan
• Tech, education / training, and snack allowances
• Free parking in downtown Baltimore / public transit coverage
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions and immediate vesting

Location:

• In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our offices are located in Baltimore and Montgomery.
• All new employees must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for the position. Reasonable accommodations for qualified exemption requests will be considered.

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Lead Web Developer

by Ronald Barron | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Lead Web Developer

Locations
US-REMOTE-DC
USA-Remote (Any)
US-REMOTE-NC

Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition Id: Requisition – 2023200731

Job Summary:
Design Lab is FHI 360’s creative studio specializing in print and web design for human development. Design Lab provides creative support to FHI 360’s business units to meet the program needs of the company. The Lead Web Developer will serve as the technical expert and lead developer for the Design Lab’s digital projects, including small and large-scale websites, email templates, and other digital projects as needed. Typical assignments include translating website designs created in Adobe Illustrator or XD to highly customized themes in WordPress that are derived from core theming. In addition to custom front-end theming and styling, create a technical system design for the WordPress dashboard that makes maintenance of the site easy and intuitive using plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields to make editing simple and understandable from an admin perspective.

Accountabilities:

• Build custom WordPress themes to design specifications, ensuring websites are optimized for mobile devices and low-bandwidth internet connection
• Create an intuitive user-experience in the backend for client content editors
• Serve as technical expert for small and large-scale web projects, and actively participate in client kick-off and status meetings to define requirements, provide rationale for build approach, and propose solutions for user and business needs
• Provide monitoring, ongoing maintenance/backups, and plugin updates for websites
• Work with Design Lab Studio Manager to create realistic budgets and timelines; meet all agreed-upon deadlines and budget parameters
• Identify and communicate web accessibility and compliance concerns and recommendations at the outset of the project specifically color contrast, semantic markup, alt text on imagery, etc.
• Review proposed wireframes and visual design prior to client submission, and appraise designer of any recommendations/concerns to ensure feasibility of development
• Implement effective page speed optimization and SEO strategies to ensure that websites are quick to load and easily discoverable
• Write user documentation and provide WordPress training as needed for clients so they have the ability to update web content
• Manage and oversee the work of external contractors (e.g., web designers, web developers) as needed
• Collaborate with other business units and internal clients, build rapport, and nurture productive professional working relationships through the course of the project
• Mentor, share knowledge, and provide direction to Senior Web Developer; for large projects, develop and implement a plan to divide tasks so that the project can be completed on time and within budget
• Troubleshoot bugs/issue as they arise and contact external vendors (e.g., hosting service providers, plugin technical support) to resolve them in a timely manner
• Contribute to business development activities
• Continuously improve upon technical skills
• Maintain archive of projects following the established file structure and organization
• Performs other duties as assigned

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• Expertise and demonstrated fluency in WordPress development and system design, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP
• Must have strong portfolio of highly-tailored CSS-driven websites, with demonstrated ability to translate design mockups into code
• Thorough knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and remediation of documents to meet Section 508 compliance standards in addition to familiarity with GDRP and EU compliance.
• Strong expertise in Google Analytics, SEO, Google Tag Manager and extracting information from analytics to make development decisions and inform design decisions.
• Experience with UI/UX design tools such as Adobe XD or Figma
• Strong understanding of coding for search engine optimization, page speed optimization for low-bandwidth scenarios), and cybersecurity protocols
• Experience with Drupal 8/9 theming, SQL, PHP, Mongo DB & Mongo Charts, ASP.NET MVC, Angular 6 framework are a plus.
• Must be able to translate design to development independently and communicate decisions based on bandwidth concerns and analytics.
• Supervisory experience required
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Ability to nurture client relationships is key
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Must be able thrive in a diverse, fast-paced collaborative studio environment and have superb time management skills

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Works on problems that are diverse in scope and require judgment in resolving or making recommendations for solutions.
• Respond to client feedback in a timely, professional manner
• Exercises judgement within defined policies and procedures to obtain solutions to perform duties.
• Decisions made generally affect own job or specific functional area.
• Decisions and actions have serious implications with delays in schedules, operations and may affect overall business operations.

Supervision Given/Received:

• Works as a team member by doing own share of work and listening to and acting on expressed needs.
• Serves as a mentor or lead to less experienced staff.
• Reports to Design Lab Creative Director.

Education: **

• Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or Related Field.
• **Or equivalent years of experience and education

Experience: **

• Minimum of 8 years professional experience in custom WordPress web development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP).
• Experience in the use of common WordPress plugins and integrations (Search & Filter, Advanced Custom Fields, Google Analytics, etc.)
• Experience managing or serving as technical lead for large-scale web projects
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Prior experience working in a non-governmental organization (NGO) is preferred.

Typical Physical Demands:

• Typical remote office environment.
• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit/stand for extended periods of time.

Technology to be Used:

• Personal Computer/Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

Travel Requirements:

• Less than 10%

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Software Engineer – Mobile Experience

by Ronald Barron | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Software Engineer – Mobile Experience

Location: Remote – US

Who we are

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.

Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.

Recent awards we’ve won include:

Great Place To Work Certified 2023

Best Place to Work by Built In 2023

Financial Times The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2023

Deloitte Fast 500 Companies

IoT Analytics Company of the Year in 2022’s IoT Breakthrough Winners

We see a profound opportunity for data to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of operations, and hope you consider joining us on this exciting journey.

About the role:

The Mobile Experience team is responsible for our mobile application platforms, upon which other internal teams build customer-facing features. Our team has three primary areas of ownership:

• Core mobile infrastructure like our React Native app container, build systems for iOS & Android, metrics collection, and release management tools
• App-wide user experiences like login, app settings, and navigation.
• Shared cross-app UI components and frameworks like push notifications and in-app workflows.

Apart from owning specific areas of code and infrastructure we also leverage our expertise to consult regularly with development teams across the company and help them design reliable, scalable mobile features. The mix of internal and external stakeholders means that we get to do a variety of projects that span across backend, web, and mobile – this is a truly fullstack team.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world’s physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win together.

In this role, you will:

• Propose, design, implement, and document shared components/frameworks for use across multiple applications within our ecosystem.
• Develop skills and knowledge across multiple technologies – Go, Python, GraphQL, Typescript, JavaScript, React and ReactNative are some of the components of our technology stack. Prior experience with these technologies is not required.
• Consult with and mentor other engineering teams to guide them through mobile-specific concerns as they plan and build customer-facing features.
• Ensure a top quality developer experience by improving reliability and usability of our continuous integration, metrics collection, and mobile build systems.
• Grow as an engineer – Samsara devs are constantly learning. We’re an engineering-first organization with ample room for progression.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• An interest in growing and developing as a software engineer

An ideal candidate also has:

• 1+ years of experience on mobile- or platform-focused teams
• 1+ year building web applications using React or mobile applications using either native (iOS/Android) or React Native frameworks
• Enjoys thinking about systems – their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
• Experience building and using observability tools, frameworks, and standards

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