by Ronald Barron | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Global Trade Compliance Manager
Location: Scottsdale, AZ/ Remote US
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is a world famous brand with offices across the globe. Within Fender Musical Instruments Corporation’s (“FMIC”) Global Transportation & Trade Compliance team. The department focus is on network optimization and planning in delivering silent execution in moving products around the globe, import / export and ability to ship from anywhere to anywhere. Trade Compliance is a fundamental and critical part of seamless execution focusing on our FTZ operations, Cities and Lacy Act regulatory compliance and Free Trade Agreements.
An American icon, Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence extending beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument, it’s a cultural symbol that resonates globally.
We are searching for a Global Trade Compliance Manager based in Scottsdale, AZ or remote.The role will focus on maintaining a highly efficient, effective, and disciplined flow of export and import controls to ensure compliance with Customs and other government offices. Management of our Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes for all Fender and Specialty Brand products. Responsible for Fender’s FTZ operation and all regulatory compliance standards per US Customs. The role will also continue to establish our Free Trade Agreements and search for new opportunities.
Essential Functions:
- Collaborate with leadership to develop a 5 – year road map and strategy for the Global Trade Compliance department and our international regional DC operations.
- Initiate the management of our global custom brokers to include establishing broker KPI’s and leading quarterly broker meetings.
- Serve as the primary interface for Fender with Customs authorities worldwide.
- Maintain import and export metrics and scorecard.
- Implement and manage the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program.
- Management of our Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes for all Fender and Specialty Brand products. This should include extending the US HTS to build a data base of Harmonized Codes for Canada, Mexico, Japan, Europe, Asia and Australia working with our global broker(s).
- Trade Compliance Management of our FTZ distribution and manufacturing zones within the US.
- Responsible for our GTM (Global Trade Management) system to ensure we are fully utilizing the platforms and develop a plan to use the module globally.
- Some prior experience with transportation and logistics regarding cross-border movement of goods; to include understanding of INCOTERMS.
- General knowledge of sanctions, export controls and anti-bribery compliance.
- Provide internal expertise on trade regulations; this will involve keeping accurate records, providing interdepartmental training and increasing compliance communication and awareness; to include mitigating any risk within our global network.
- Requesting rulings from Customs, replying to requests for information, and filing protests as needed.
- Develop relationships with customs and other governmental bodies.
- Responsible for continuous improvement opportunities within the department.
- Research opportunities for international trade cost avoidance.
- Ensure timely and accurate filings with customs for all of Fender’s import / export shipments.
- Excellent communication skills will help this position be effective in dealing with freight forwarders, brokers, import vendors and steamship lines.
- Additional duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6+ years of experience in a leadership role managing a centralized global trade compliance group
- Working knowledge of Customs & Duties, HTS, NAFTA, GSP, Lacey Act and CITES requirements.
- Experience managing and / or supporting an FTZ operation.
- Working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP system preferred.
- Experience with ACE, AES and global trade management systems.
- US Customs Broker License or equivalent knowledge preferred.
- Experience with root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Ability to perform and provide analysis at multiple levels.
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (in particular, Word, Excel, Access)
- Certified Licensed Broker preferred.
- Haz-Mat / Dangerous Goods certification preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Director of Product Design, Search
- Product, Design, and Research
Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee – whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, Depop, or Elo7 – you’ll tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
Job Description
What’s the role?
Search connects Etsy buyers with our diverse, creative, global marketplace. It is often the starting point for buyers to find what they come to Etsy for—from custom furniture to engagement rings. This year, we’re evolving our search experience to feel more focussed, personalized, and curated than ever before. We want to help bring buyers’ dreams to life by making it easy to navigate the breadth of our marketplace and the best of our seller’s inventory.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Director of Product Design, of our Buyer Experience Groups and the base salary range will be 202,000.00 – 262,000.00 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our flexible work options and workplace safety policies here.
What’s this team like at Etsy?
- You’ll join a leadership team that represents all functions that contribute to product development including of user research, product management, data analytics, and engineering
- You’ll manage a team of designers working on the search experience, and a manager who leads our Etsy Ads product, which allows sellers to market their items in search
- In addition to working on the search customer experience, you’ll work alongside expert engineers specialized in search ranking, retrieval, localization, and personalization.
What does the day-to-day look like?
- Collaborating with cross-functional leads to craft the vision, strategy, goals, strategic roadmap, and operations of your initiatives
- Regularly sharing work with stakeholders to provide visibility; managing relationships and collaboration across product groups working on overlapping parts of the search experience
- Dedicating time to mentor, coach and sponsor managers and designers on your team; finding or creating career growth opportunities for members your team
- Ensuring we are building the right products for our customers, and help teams take the best near-term steps toward their long-term vision
- Leading regular design reviews, critiques, and brainstorming sessions for your teams
- Work alongside the broader Design Leadership team to craft our teams’ culture, processes, and tools
- Recruiting, hiring and onboarding outstanding designers and leaders
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy’s discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.
Qualifications
What director level at Etsy means:
- You give direction to designers within your team, and raise the design bar by leveling up skills across all of the Product Design team
- You have experience using data and research to inform decision making and measure outcomes
- You can propose new, high-impact product initiatives and align your group around a vision and approach, all while taking into account capabilities and limitations of our product
- You have a track record of leading through ambiguity and collaborating with research, analytics and engineers in a continuous delivery environment
- You embody design quality, understand what success looks like in the ecommerce space and know how to shepherd execution to launch impactful changes to the experience
- You regularly make use of your soft skills to persuade and build alignment: listening, consensus-building, and decision-making
- You spend time providing leadership and mentorship to managers and designers, and recommend new methodologies and approaches for design
- You play a lead role in forecasting, hiring, onboarding, and improving our team’s culture and engagement
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:
- Effective articulation of ideas, strategy and design solutions
- Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
- Creation of psychologically safe spaces for idea sharing, coaching and mentorship
- Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
- Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
- Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Group Creative Director (Remote)
Location Remote, Remote, United States
General & Administrative – Creative
Summary
First, let’s talk about you. You are a good human who cares about other humans first and foremost. Notice how we led with that and not the work stuff. OK, and now for the work stuff. Even though you hate using the phrase “brand moment,” you believe that a password reset email and a 15,000-square-foot billboard in Times Square are equally important brand moments—and you know how to inspire and guide people to make both of those things, and everything in between, beautiful and memorable.
Now, a little bit about us. Hi. We’re Yelp Creative—a team of writers, designers, project managers, dog parents, and cheese lovers who make up Yelp’s internal creative agency. Our sole purpose is to enable fandom—both inside and outside of Yelp. We do this by living our values every day.
We’re looking for an experienced leader of creatives to support, grow, and guide the team to make even more of an impact on a brand that hundreds of millions of people trust to discover and experience the best of the world around them.
We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. This is a full-time remote role based in the United States.
What you’ll do:
- We have a current team of 12 creatives and your top priority will always be to lead, mentor, motivate, and support the career growth and trajectory of those lovely people
- You will manage and prioritize high-volume, high-visibility projects in a fast-paced, stakeholder-driven environment ensuring efficient and effective on-time delivery.
- You will be a strategic people leader who is plugged into the business, with a demonstrated ability to use data to inform creativity and boldly lead our talented creatives
- You will lead multiple verticalized creative teams, and partner with agencies, to guide the creation of brand consistent creative.
- You will create, maintain, and advocate quality standards for the team, and collaborate with other leaders to ensure consistency on quality across Yelp.
- You will be a thought partner within and outside of the team, and provide input on the approach and plan for creative efforts of all kinds, from the simple to the complex.
- You will work with project management and cross-functional partners to shape projects and requirements, knowing when to scale ideas up or down to deliver on the brief and achieve business goals
- You will work with project management to make sure teams and projects are properly staffed, and the creative development process is smooth
- You will recruit and retain top talent, and meet regularly with your team to promote development and growth.
- You will lead by example and foster a culture of kindness, respect, and resolving issues with compassion
- You will develop and share best practices for the team that allow for the highest quality creative execution. Drives/owns standards for execution for the brand.
- You will understand creative asks and right creative direction to deliver on KPIs.
- You will build strong relationships and personal communication channels across the team and the company, and earn the credibility to influence creative decisions on complex top business priorities.
- You will be accountable for the output and quality of the team’s work and having an impact on the business.
- You will maintain high standards of creative excellence, accountable for assembling teams capable of navigating the production process to ensure accurate and error-free execution of creative materials within agreed timelines.
What it takes to succeed:
- You are excited about our mission of connecting people to great local businesses
- You have 5+ years as a creative leader, ideally both in-house at a tech brand, and agency-side
- You are a strong leader who is passionate about developing the next generation of creative leaders, with experience managing teams in an in-house setting
- You have a desire to build a culture of positivity, inclusivity, and accountability
- You are able to advocate for creative integrity while respecting timelines
- You have experience working with design systems and collaborating with product design teams
- You have excellent communication skills with the power to listen and ask good questions, as well as influence, inspire, and persuade
- You have a high EQ, with an understanding of how to build strong, cohesive working relationships among people and groups with different points of view
- You have a portfolio demonstrating a background in work that defines brands and drives measurable business goals across channels
What you’ll get:
- Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental (100% paid employee only coverage)
- 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter), 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday
- Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
- Monthly wellness subsidy
- Work from home reimbursement
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Compensation range for this position is $151,000- $281,000 annually. You may also be offered equity and benefits.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Designer Yahoo Finance
United States of America – Remote
Full time
job requisition id JR0022397
The largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights and original editorial content.
A Little About Us:
At Yahoo Finance, we believe that business news is for everyone — from Wall Street to Main Street. Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app+site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and up-to-the-minute financial news. Under a new leadership team, we are recommitted to building and revitalizing this financial OG and positioning it for the future. This role will have a huge impact as you will be contributing to efforts that will allow millions of Yahoo Finance users to make the best investing decisions and act on them. If you’re a consumer product leader and are passionate about finance or investing, this one’s for you!
Your Day at Yahoo Finance:
As a senior product designer, you collaborate with other product designers and cross functional partners to help define and execute the vision for new features/explorations that inspire others and that are recognized by the team as raising the bar for the product.
- Executes across all phases of the design process from conception to implementation to include (but not limited to) wireframing, prototyping, and visual design.
- Design lead for large projects or responsible for major parts of several projects that are deemed business critical.
- Implements innovative team practices that drive change and identify new opportunities for value creation.
- Acts as a thought leader in their cross functional group, demonstrates ability to implement forward thinking design.
- Leads Design vision and strategy for cross functional group.
- Builds relationships & collaborates with internal stakeholder leads (Product Management, Engineering etc) to ensure consistency with broader Product goals and company objective.
- Demonstrates strong understanding & implementation of internal design process.
- Leads their cross functional team in framing and providing thoughtful solutions to complex design problems.
Qualifications:
- Location Preference: Mountain View or surrounding areas – hybrid work environment
- 7+ professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
- Mastery in UX software such as Figma etc.
- Design Portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on identifying and meaningfully solving true user problems.
- Foundational understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Exceptional track record to execute on product design strategy, mentor designers, and partner with cross functional team members.
- Experience building world class product experiences, streamline workflows with continuous iteration and improvement.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to be a user experience design leader, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeve and get things done.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
- Passionate about contributing and maintaining design systems
- Excellent communicator
- Skills such as data visualization, or copywriting a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Events Brand Design Lead
Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is seeking an Events Brand Design Lead for a client of ours.
About Crawford Group.
We are revolutionizing how marketing gets done! Crawford Group provides expert marketing, digital, creative, events, and communications talent solutions for marketers.
Our customers want flexibility in their workforce solutions and need experts with the skills and capabilities to deliver on revenue and pipeline growth through marketing activities. At Crawford Group we believe in developing collaborative customer relationships to create the best talent solution for their marketing organization’s needs.
Responsibilities:
- Bring the company brand positioning alive through the newly created brand visual identity and design for company events
- Partner with other members of the events team to help define the creative strategy and visual manifestation an event
- Collaborate with external and third-party creative agencies to ensure design consistency, brand relevance and usability across the entire event
- Own the visual identity for events and provide guidance to others across the company and to agency partners on the proper application
- Partner with creative teams to create resources to meet common needs of the event with flexibility for event location and market customization
- Facilitate communication and strategic alignment of brand visual identity across businesses, marketing disciplines, sectors, and stakeholder groups
- Serve as an event brand design expert to make recommendations and steer strategic creative design decisions for the event’s creative deliverables
Requirements:
- 5-7 years’ experience in graphic design and branding or a related field
- Experience creating corporate assets for large corporate brands strongly preferred and creative assets in support of large Tier 1 events is a plus
- Portfolio demonstrating strength in graphic design and brand development preferred
- Excellent project management skills, overseeing multiple workstreams and internal/externals partners and agencies
- Experience as a brand specialist, lead designer, graphic artist, or related position required
- Knowledge of branding guidelines and maintenance required
- Ability to write and communicate brand guidance in support of brand guidelines required
- Experience with direct responsibility for brand development and management preferred
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
- Familiarity with UX/UI and HTML is a plus
- BA degree in graphic design or a related field
Location: Remote, U.S.
Duration: 6-months consulting, full-time (30 hours/week)
Rate: $60-$64/hourly, W-2 consultant of Crawford Group; benefits available (Our pay ranges are determined based on skills, experience, and location)
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