by Ronald Barron | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
UX Designer
Job Locations US CA
2023-5343
Job Overview
Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a UX Designer to lead designs for a number of products that enable insurance agencies to provide their insured clients with digital, self-service solutions. This UX Designer will be driving projects across multiple products, have an equal seat at the table with Product and Development, conduct primary user research, explore user requirements, vet user scenarios, sketch, mock-up and prototype solutions – all with the end goal of creating an amazing end user experience throughout our suite of products for insureds.
What You’ll Do
- Develop a strong understanding of the insurance vertical and our users’ needs and motivations to advocate for the users
- Proactively take initiative to push projects forward to completion, own the details, and quickly become an expert
- Promote product consistency across the platform(s)
- Identify how to best integrate usage analytics into our product that will generate data to help us track and measure the success of our designs
- Lead collaborative ideation and discovery sessions with product and development
- User Research
- Drive consistent standards on user research best practices
- Conduct mixed-method research with stakeholders and users to acquire both attitudinal and behavioral user data
- Get hands dirty talking to and observing real users
- Ideation and Design
- Explore solutions to the problem in conjunction with stakeholders using one or more of the following tools: user flows, information architecture, sitemaps, wireframes, and mockups
- Conduct usability testing with customers to evaluate and iterate on your designs
- Articulate with ease the why behind your design decisions
- Leverage and contribute to our design system of reusable UI components
What You’ll Need to Succeed
We’re looking for someone who:
- Can work remotely or from an Applied Systems office
- Ability to travel (post-COVID-19)
Your experience should include some or all of the following:
- 2+ years working in UX, with a portfolio of examples of successful user research-driven design for B2B enterprises software or SaaS products
- Experience with Design discovery
- Understanding of user experience methodologies and design principles
- Experience with research methodologies such as user observation, user interview, usability testing, card sorts, persona development, user journeys, and surveys
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team and assist direct reports as needed
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, reasoning, and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills that promote idea-sharing and knowledge transfer
- Experience with UI design and managing design at scale using design systems.
- Excellent planning, time management, and organizational skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines
- We proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to apply
Additionally, you may have:
- Experience working with Figma for high-fidelity mockups and prototypes
- Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new technologies and techniques
- Insurance industry experience
What You’ll Gain
Benefits from Day One
- Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
- Wellness incentives
- 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match
Work-Life Balance
- Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
- Personal/sick time
- Paid holidays
- Flex Time
- Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
- Volunteer time off
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Business Analyst
Job ID 2023-4719
Job Locations US-Remote-United States
Overview
Are you an innovative Senior Business Analyst who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? As a Senior Business Analyst specializing in data requirements and analysis, your role will be to collaborate with CMS business owners, product owners, and users to gather and analyze data requirements for various reports and applications. You will work in a Safe Agile environment, contributing to the successful delivery of data-driven solutions.
TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, a leading and fast-growing federal government contractor headquartered in the DC area, is seeking a SAP Basis Engineer to join our growing team. Veterans are encouraged to apply!
TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!
Responsibilities
- Data Requirements Gathering: Engage with stakeholders to understand their data needs and requirements. Conduct interviews, workshops, and meetings to elicit and document clear and comprehensive data requirements.
- Data Analysis: Perform in-depth analysis of existing data sources, systems, and structures.
- Data Dictionaries: Create and maintain UI data dictionaries. Ensure data dictionaries are accurate, up-to-date, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
- UI to Reports to Database Mapping: Collaborate with UI designers, report developers, and data teams to map user interface components to report requirements and underlying database structures. Ensure alignment between the front-end UI, report outputs, and the data sources.
- Report Data Requirements: Gather data requirements specific to reporting needs. Identify key metrics, dimensions, filters, and aggregations required for each report. Translate business requirements into technical specifications for report developers.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Work closely with business owners, product owners, and end-users to ensure a clear understanding of their needs and expectations. Facilitate communication and alignment between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Agile Practices: Apply Safe Agile methodologies and practices to drive efficient and collaborative delivery. Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and accurate delivery of data-related deliverables.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with a focus on data requirements and analysis.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data analysis techniques, and data governance principles.
- Experience with creating and maintaining data dictionaries or data catalogs.
- Proficiency in mapping UI components to reports and underlying databases.
- Knowledge of SQL and database querying.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coordinate with various stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Safe Agile practices and frameworks.
- Analytical mindset and the ability to translate business needs into technical or data requirements.
- CMS or Medicare and/or Medicaid experience is preferred.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
Location:
Clearance:
- Eligible to hold a Public Trust
Salary Inforamtion:
- The pay for this position ranges from $65,205 to $134,375.
- The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
- Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Financial Analyst, Auto Retail
at Upstart
United States | Remote
About Upstart
Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart’s AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than two-thirds of Upstart loans are approved instantly and are fully automated.
Upstart is a digital-first company, which means that most Upstarters can live and work anywhere in the U.S. We also have offices in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!
The Team
The FP&A team at Upstart plays an integral part in the company’s business and financial planning process. We are looking for a highly motivated and hard-working individual to join our team to provide operational and strategic decision-making support to our Auto business as we scale our Auto Retail and Auto Refinance products.
As a Senior Financial Analyst at Upstart, you will drive and support all aspects of FP&A which includes in-depth financial and business planning, collaborating with business leaders across the company, and driving analyses for business and strategic cases. Through your efforts, we’ll be able to ensure the Upstart leadership team stays on top of our financial performance and risks. If you are naturally curious, love data, versed in financial modeling and analysis, and are an excellent communicator who enjoys collaborating with people with a diverse set of talents, this could be a great opportunity for you.
Position Location – This role is available in the following locations: Remote, USA
Travel Requirements – This team has regular onsite collaboration sessions. These occur 4 days per Month if you are in San Mateo, or 2-3 consecutive days per Quarter at either the San Mateo or Columbus office if you are remote. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Finance partner to the Auto team, leading the forecast and planning cycles with key business partners as well as overseeing other opex functions
- End to end ownership of the Auto P&L model for revenue, margin, and expenses, driving financial accountability and transparency
- Manage operating expense budgets, working closely with department team leads to set, monitor, and manage budget
- Partner and collaborate with leadership team in planning strategic direction across the Auto Retail and Auto Refinance products, operations, sales and marketing
- Support financial analysis for new product and pricing initiatives and build key metrics analysis
- Create reports and dashboards in BI tools such as Looker to monitor financial trends and relevant metrics and report on key insights
- Support month-end and quarter-end processes, working closely with Accounting to understand key variances, summarize and present the results to the Finance Leadership
- Prepare executive summaries with monthly results and key stats and communicate findings of monthly budget analysis to functional leadership
- Support key corporate financial deliverables as needed, such as earnings preparation and monthly business reviews
What we’re looking for:
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/MS Degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Statistics or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant FP&A experiences
- Highly competent in Excel and/or Google Sheets: excellent modeling skills and ability to perform complex analyses with big data sets required
- Proven track record in demonstrating well-developed strategic, analytical, interpersonal, organizational and communications skills
- Excellent presentation skills and comfort in communicating with multiple levels of leadership
- Proven ability to learn quickly, work independently, and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment
- Organized and proven ability to juggle multiple tasks while still meeting deadlines
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with NetSuite
- Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Looker or Tableau
- Experience with advanced data analytics tools such as SQL, Python or R
- Previous consumer marketplace lending industry experience
- Previous SaaS experience
- Previous Accounting Experience
What you’ll love:
- Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs
- Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
- Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Director, Web Strategy
Location: Remote – USA
Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) is a leading, comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands like Burger King, Delivery Hero, HBO Max, Mercari, and Venmo can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns, and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies. And we do it at scale last fiscal year our customers used Braze to send approximately 1.5 trillion messages to billions of monthly active users.
But we’re so much more than our platform. Although we’ve recently grown to a team of over 1,300 people, Braze still buzzes with energy, collaboration, and transparency. We value curiosity, individuality, and tenacity as part of the team, you’ll be encouraged to take your seat at the table and create your own destiny. Our values are inspired by our employees, which means Braze is a place where you can truly be yourself. We’re growing, with a focus on building for the long term under tenured leadership and continuing to evolve for the better.
Need more proof? Braze is proudly certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and the UK. In 2022, Braze ranked #1 on Fortune’s Best Small and Medium Workplace in New York, #5 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces for Millennials in the US, and #11 on Fortune’s Best Medium Sized Workplace for Women in the UK.
You’ll find many of us at headquarters in New York City or around the world in Austin, Berlin, Chicago, London, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, and Toronto.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Define and drive execution of our web strategy and be responsible for managing, understanding, and optimize action/results driven customer journeys on braze.com
- Develop and deliver key success metrics and OKRs for our website including but not limited to traffic, ranking, TOFU, conversion, revenue, task completion, user satisfaction,
- Serve as a thought leader for optimizing the customer journey (web) across the business, creating shared goals with marketing, other customer-facing and product functions.
- Design and implement data driven experimentation/test frameworks to optimize across the funnel from activation to conversion
- Collaborate with analytics team to uncover and reach audience segments at the right time and place, along with right offers in their customer journey
- Partner with marketing operations to forecast, measure performance and share results with leadership on a regular cadence and quickly remedy any shortfall
- Operate with speed and agility, an experimental mindset, continuously optimize to achieve business goals
- Collaborate with and manage web requests from across the business and goals and prioritize initiatives based on overall business impact.
- Work alongside other marketing teams to lead customer-based research requirements as needed
- Foster the growth of the web team including mentorship of direct reports to drive professional growth, governance of programs to ensure scalable best practices, and provide direction to guide the execution activities.
WHO YOU ARE
- Proven track record of building and leading web marketing team in a SaaS business
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking in identifying target audiences, orchestrating web journeys that inspire action, and improve funnel metrics
- Knowledge of front-end and back-end web development and the design limitations and capabilities of both
- Experienced in running a web redesign project, and continuous optimization initiatives
- Experience in scaling, and transforming web engagement, including experience in contributing to scaling organizations to a $1bn + in revenue in a velocity/SMB, Commercial/mid-market, and enterprise SaaS environment, is highly preferred.
- Data driven mindset and orientation towards marketing programs strategy and execution
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to simplify the complex, bringing clear insights and action plans to all stakeholders and the executive leadership team
- Strong sense of ownership to drive key business metrics and company growth
- Ability to navigate and network and lead by influence across departments to build consensus around critical initiatives with a bias towards action
- Experience coordinating, directing, and guiding the work of teams within a high-growth organization
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mentality with experience working on complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams. Creative approach to new ideas, experimentation with new initiatives that fuel growth
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Jr. Quality Assurance Analyst (Contract)
Deployment | 100% Remote within the US | Contract
JOB DESCRIPTION
Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
Finalsite will transform the way school communities engage with their schools.
SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
The Quality Assurance Analyst (Deployment) is responsible for daily review of websites following an established framework and recording any issues found during the review along with reviewing fixes implemented or feedback provided by the project teams. The Quality Assurance team (Deployment) reviews all websites during the build process to ensure each site meets Finalsite’s standards.
LOCATION
100% Remote – Anywhere within the US.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Review websites based on established frameworks including core functionality, application of styling, and accessibility across multiple browsers, operating systems and mobile devices/platforms
- Report issues to project teams in clear and concise manner, including links, description of issue and screenshot or video as needed
- Communicate in a timely and professional manner with each project team including project manager, developer, designer and contractors
- Maintain timely return of projects on a daily basis to ensure scheduled tasks are performed as scheduled
- Escalate recurring or concerning issues to Delivery QA team lead or manager.
- Create and communicate a daily schedule for the QA team based on projects scheduled using Finalsite’s project management platform and messages from project team members
- Regularly check on projects of projects in the QA phase to ensure timely progress through the QA process toward approval
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred., or commensurate experience.
- Detail-oriented, with the intelligence, persistence, and creativity to appropriately and thoroughly test software
- Able to think like an end-user and critically evaluate website features and their implementation to maximize customer satisfaction
- Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills in a web based environment
- Experience reviewing sites for compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Software Development, Support and/or Automated Testing experience a plus
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within the United States is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
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