by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Scrum Master
Fully Remote Remote Worker – N/A Software Engineering
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Are you listening, comprehending, repeating, summarizing, energizing, observing, writing, simplifying, critiquing, suggesting, asserting, chatting, and presenting – all in one? Are you a detail-oriented but when-to-switch-gears thinker, who can quickly tailor your approach to the situation? Do you have Scrum Master experience in publishing? Wayside Publishing is looking to add you to our growing Software Development team!
Who We Are
Wayside Publishing is a progressive developer of world language programs, resources, and materials for middle and high schools across the United States. We partner with educators to craft transformative texts and digital tools that engage students and foster successful communication and understanding across cultures.
Scrum Master
As the Scrum Master you are responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the Product Development team and Product Owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. The Scrum master not only addresses all facets of the agile development process but also serves Wayside Publishing, Product Owner, the team, and individuals and facilitates communication and collaboration between all these elements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Facilitates all scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Helps build a productive environment where team members own’ the product and perform at the highest level.
- Maintains and updates active sprint board and backlog, ensuring that the team commits to valuable and achievable work each sprint.
- Coaches the team on Agile practices and tools that support productivity.
- Monitors progress of projects, including managing task dependencies between team members, identifying blockers, and collaborating with the product owner and project team to drive work forward.
- Responsible for tracking and sharing relevant metrics about team practice and velocity.
- Supports Product Owner to refine and manage the product backlog, ensuring that user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, and teams understand expected outcomes.
- Builds a safe environment where the emphasis of retrospectives is on problem-solving and not fear of blame.
- Helps increase the maturity of teams, so they are empowered to experiment safely with new methods.
- Works with team to define and maintain core development team processes and coach team members in best practices.
- Serves as liaison between departments to ensure effective & efficient communications and processes.
- Facilitates discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of job-related experience in software development utilizing an Agile framework.
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master with a real-world understanding of Agile and its application, supporting tools, and processes.
- Experience with Agile techniques including, but not limited to relative estimation and sizing, value/effort prioritization, the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, & backlog refinement.
- Expertise with Agile project management tools Atlassian Confluence & Jira.
- Experience in creating Agile training and workshop material.
- Able to effectively manage conflict, leveraging different techniques for resolution.
- Understand all elements of an application life cycle, including incremental planning, continuous elaboration, integration and deployment, and release management.
- Team-focused leadership abilities with effective relationship and team-building skills.
- Willingness to help the team as a servant leader.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively and interface with leadership and external departments to manage expectations and timelines.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
- Must be organized, confident, analytical, self-motivated, and self-directing with a proven ability to identify priorities and propose solutions to achieve desired results with minimal supervision.
- Proven experience coaching and mentoring teams and individuals to help them adopt Agile practices with continuous improvement.
- Must have excellent situational awareness, the ability to remain calm under pressure, and be cognizant of how you are perceived.
- Understand the sometimes-conflicting needs of team members, leadership, and stakeholders, guiding the team to solutions that serve customers.
- Be curious, continue to learn, adapt to change, embrace different perspectives, and guide the team to embody Wayside Publishing’s values.
- Experience working in a small and dynamic company.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Attributes
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- Holds a current Agile certification PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum. Master (CSM) equivalent, or higher.
- Maintains active membership in Agile organizations to enhance skills and learn new techniques.
- Experience working in the Education or EdTech industry.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation: base salary plus achievement-based incentive program, uncapped potential.
- Health insurance with options for dental, vision, life insurance, and more.
- Retirement savings plan with employer contribution.
- Employer-paid STD and LTD policies
- Paid holidays.
- Work/life balance as a company value.
We believe that traditional hiring policies can hurt the most marginalized people in society, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ people. Because we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
Wayside Publishing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
When submitting your application, please include a concise cover letter that speaks to your experience, and why this role is the next best step in your career.
NO PHONE CALLS OR RECRUITERS PLEASE
Salary Description
$70,000 – $90,000
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Lead Analyst – Healthcare Economics
Franklin, Tennessee, United States of America
Virtual, US
Category
Data & Analytics
Job Id23006712
Role Overview:
eviCore, part of Evernorth Health Services at The Cigna Group, has a diversified portfolio of proven medical cost management solutions that enable our clients to improve the quality and efficacy of care while at the same time reducing medical expense. We believe and have demonstrated that better healthcare is inherently less expensive. We are looking for an individual with a background in financial, actuarial, hospital, or medical analysis to join our Healthcare Economics team. The role of the Healthcare Economics Lead Analyst supports our data-driven culture by leveraging technology and an analytical mindset to improve company-wide operations and financial performance. The position reports on program results and identifies opportunities to enhance program effectiveness for new and existing customer relationships using claims data and revenue detail data. The Healthcare Economics Lead Analyst will report to the Manager of Healthcare Economics and will work closely with our Account Management team, Finance, Informatics, Medical, Sales and Marketing staff, including direct involvement with customers in the form of written and verbal presentations to support corporate-wide strategic decision-making that impacts revenue, medical expense and product growth. The ideal candidate will be a results-oriented individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced multitasking environment.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide analytical support, program design assistance, and reporting of revenue and medical expense in client-facing environment.
- Work with IT and data warehousing counterparts to develop and design deliverables to support the economics team, client reconciliations, and customer reporting needs.
- Conduct baseline and trend analyses for targeted eligibility lines of business, geographies and segments.
- Calculate baseline and trend metrics (e.g., PMPM and Utilization per 1000).
- Apply analytical concepts and tools to enhance understanding of membership, utilization, cost and revenue trends across networks and products.
- Validate findings against established benchmarks.
- Monitor program effectiveness from the perspective of cost saving to both internal and external customers.
- Effectively communicate results to key stakeholders and policy makers. Communication of results include clean and well organized presentations to reflect analytic methods used, key decision points with sufficient detail to support comprehension and replication of the analysis.
- Provide analyses that support all areas of the business: pricing, claims reconciliation, eligibility and revenue reconciliation, financial operations reporting, provider network analysis, and fee schedule pricing.
- Relate analytic findings to business questions and objectives. This includes integrating information from multiple sources, discern implications for future analysis and identify opportunities for enhancing the integrity of data results.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics, math or other quantitative background.
- 4-7 years of progressive, financial operations or analytical experience in a healthcare or corporate setting.
- Experience with, or ability to quickly understanding of managed care metrics (PMPM, Utilization/K and Average Cost).
- Experience with or ability to quickly understand medical claims and membership data from Commercial, Medicaid and Medicare organizations.
- Thorough expertise using Excel.
- Ability to self-serve data via SQL is a plus
- Business intelligence software applications experience.
- Ability to reason, convince and influence internal stakeholders in order to accomplish objectives
- Ability to present performance to technical and non-technical audiences
- Desire to work with both internal and external customers with a constructive, customer-service focus.
- Demonstrate problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 72,800 – 121,400 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Designer
Location: Remote (US)
The future, as we see it, has millions of devices connected to the internet everything from citywide bike sharing systems to smarter heart monitors to internet-connected eggs to catch turtle poachers. Hologram is here to connect anything to the internet via our global cellular platform and network available in over 200 countries and territories. The future is connected, and we are connecting it.
We’re looking for a Designer to help us build delightful and functional experiences for users who interface with our brand or product.
About This Role
As a Designer at Hologram, you’ll deliver high-impact designs across brand, web, and product experiences. For brand work, you’ll collaborate closely with the marketing team to produce beautiful and compelling designs for digital campaigns, events, and internal and external collateral. For web work, you’ll collaborate with marketing and engineering to design new web pages and identify ways to optimize the current marketing site experience for visitors. Lastly, for product design work, you’ll help contribute interactive designs for our Dashboard and Store, receiving mentorship from our Principal Product Designer. This role reports to our Senior VP of Product & Design and will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Marketing.
What you’ll do:
- Conceptualize, design, and deliver high-quality brand, marketing, and product experiences that showcase strong usability, brand cohesion, and customer value.
- Work independently on multiple projects, ensuring that project timelines are on track and that the status is clearly communicated.
- Collaborate with peers in every discipline to solicit input and feedback throughout the design process.
- Clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions, based on customer, business, or brand value.
Helpful skills and experience:
- 3+ years of visual design and web experience with a portfolio that demonstrates proficiency in typography, color, information hierarchy, responsive layout, iconography, and general aesthetic sense across digital and web platforms.
- A portfolio that showcases your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, including interaction and visual design artifacts and high-fidelity prototypes across brand, website, and product experiences.
- Multiple examples where you demonstrated an ability to understand customer and business goals, identify opportunities, and make prioritization and design decisions based on relative impact.
How we work at Hologram
Hologram is a fun, upbeat, and remote-first team united by our mission to build a more connected future. We trust you to do what’s best for our product, customers, and team members and empower you to make the right calls without heavy bureaucracy.
As part of our team, you’ll receive:
- Competitive, transparent pay and equity. The salary for this role is $121,560-$182,340.
- Unlimited paid time off and flexible scheduling
- We cover 100% for employees and dependents on our base medical plan
- 14 weeks of family leave
- Monthly benefits budget
- Generous home office setup stipend
We pride ourselves on celebrating everyone Hologram is an equal opportunity employer actively working on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where underrepresented groups can thrive.
Together we’re building something great: a way to help everyone and everything stay online and connected.
What to expect in the interview process:
- Intro chat with a recruiter
- Interview with our SVP of Product and Design
- Brand Design Interview
- Product Design Interview
- Portfolio Review
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Software Engineer – Frontend
Location: San Francisco, CA | Montreal, Quebec | Remote
Our vision is to build the next generation platform to enable easy and fast creation of audio and video content powered by cutting-edge AI. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit and mix spoken audio and video comes with a series of unique challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.
We’re looking for a frontend software engineer to help us refine and expand our next-generation web-based, collaborative audio and video editing tool. Frontend engineers at Descript work on wide-ranging projects, from the nitty-gritty details of editing interactions, to the critical features of a modern cloud product, to the systems that power real-time collaboration and media playback, to cutting-edge AI integrations. As Descript is a unique product, engineers will often need to find creative solutions to problems in collaboration with product and design.
Tech Stack
- Descript is built with Typescript, React/Redux, and Node.js, and takes advantage of WebAssembly, WebCodecs, WebGL, and WebAudio for real-time rendering and compositing.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver a high quality user experience
- Develop and refine front-end architecture and best practices to support a fast-moving product engineering team
- Work alongside AI researchers to build innovative user experiences around the state-of-the-art advancements in AI
- Iterate on our script-and-scene media editing paradigm to keep users in flow state during the editing process.
- Push the web browser to its limit, writing high-performance code rivaling native applications
What You Bring
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Industry experience in a frontend software engineering role.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages and frontend frameworks, especially Typescript/Javascript/React.
- Pride in delivering high-quality, maintainable, observable, debuggable features
- Desire to take ownership, and resourcefulness to find answers and simplify problems
- Experience building or using creative tools (or a passion for learning how to build them!)
- Self aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve
- Strong written and verbal communication
Nice to Have
- Experience building creative tools
- Experience building and optimizing single-page web applications (SPAs)
At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking senior and above Software Engineers to join our team.
The base salary range for this role is $130,000- $215,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Remote within US
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Engineering within Reforge develops new products, features, and enhancements to our already robust platform.
As a Staff Engineer, you will manage engineering team, make meaningful contributions to the product & codebase, and work collaboratively with thought leaders in the org to help shape product strategy and ship impactful experiences for our users
ABOUT REFORGE
Reforge is a new kind of educational company that helps you access the earned insights of the world’s leading practitioners, learn and apply frameworks without leaving your job, and build a strong professional network. Our content, community, experience, and brand combine into a unique product offering that creates unparalleled access to insights that are typically trapped in the heads of top operators.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
- VP, Engineering
- Head of Product
- Head of Design
- Lead PM, Courses
- Lead Designer, Courses
WHAT YOU’LL OWN
- Contribute to the Reforge offering by understanding the mission and contribute feedback/ideas on how to improve Reforge
- Meaningfully contributing to the Reforge product via code, architecture and design (50+% hands-on)
- Manage a small but mighty engineering team
- Work collaboratively with product thought leaders; help shape product strategy and ship impactful experiences for our members
- Provide technical strategy and direction to your teams
- Help engineers develop their long term careers, provide performance feedback, and conduct one-on-ones with your team to make sure they are thriving
- Balance hands-on contribution and program management for products your team ships
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 8+ years as a Senior or Staff-level Software Engineer
- 1+ year of people management experience, either as a senior IC with direct reports or direct Engineering Management
- Experience building software with a proven track record of making it part of a successful business
- Strong communication skills with engineers and non-technical colleagues, both written and verbal
- Prior experience developing growing technical teams in a startup environment
Nice to Have
- Ruby on Rails / GraphQL / React development background
- Experience with PMF experimentation and mindset, including rapid iteration and building with customers
Attributes that will make you successful in this role
- Prior experience in at a small company with a strong technical bar (Strong forward-looking architecture, eliminating developer friction, driving business outcomes as opposed to pure shipping)
- Prior experience in a remote organization
BENEFITS
The internal mission of Reforge is to create an environment where you create the best work of your career. In order to do that we offer:
- Flexible/Distributed Work Environment – Everyone does their best work in different environments. We operate as a distributed-first team and offer financial support that enables you to create the schedule and environment that fits to you.
- Professional Development – We focus on a culture of learning. We offer full financial reimbursement for almost all professional development interests and efforts.
- Benefits – We offer top rated health, vision, and dental insurance. We cover 100% of monthly premiums for employees, and 70% for dependents.
- Salary + Equity – We offer highly competitive salary and equity inline with top tier technology companies.
- 401k – We offer the opportunity for you to contribute to a 401k directly from your paycheck
- Flexible PTO – Having plentiful off the grid time is a key to doing your best work. We offer flexible PTO. Take time when you need it. Everyone must take at least 10 days per year, and we highly encourage more.
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