by Ronald Barron | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Director of Design
WASHINGTON D.C. OR REMOTE /
PRODUCT /
FULL-TIME
/ REMOTE
CommonLit is a nonprofit EdTech organization dedicated to providing high-quality literacy instruction to low-income students and students of color to prepare them for success in college and careers. We operate a free online reading and writing program that is used by millions of teachers and students worldwide each month. We are a quickly growing team of passionate professionals – many of whom are former teachers. Our team is now almost 100 full-time employees spread across ~20 states.
About the Opportunity:
CommonLit launched its free digital literacy program in 2016, and the program began to spread virally. By 2020, over 20 million students in over 90,000 schools were registered for the program. Throughout this period, CommonLit was funded almost exclusively via philanthropy and grants. Since then, the organization has also developed a host of paid products and services for schools and districts interested in implementing CommonLit’s full instructional program. To date, CommonLit has paid partnerships with thousands of schools across the United States. This product-market fit has allowed CommonLit to expand its programmatic offerings and quickly expand its team to nearly 100 employees.
As the company continues to expand, we are looking for a Director of Design who is excited to build out our design team and make a significant impact on our fast-growing organization. This role is for someone who can lead and roll up their sleeves to get things done. You will be responsible for revamping our design systems and user experience to create a cohesive and delightful user experience across all our products.
What you’ll be doing:
- Build and manage a team of talented UX/UI designers to execute design projects and create exceptional user experiences.
- Revamp our design systems to ensure consistency across all products and platforms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, and Marketing, to understand business requirements and user needs, and translate them into effective and engaging design solutions.
- Lead the design process, from ideation to execution, including conceptualizing, prototyping, and designing new features and products.
- Roll up your sleeves and contribute as an individual contributor to design projects when needed.
- Continuously improve our design processes and workflows to increase efficiency and quality.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in UX/UI design and share your knowledge with the team and the wider organization.
- Champion design within the organization and build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure design is included in business planning and decision-making processes.
- Manage and prioritize design projects, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality designs.
- Coach and mentor designers, providing feedback and support to help them grow and develop in their roles.
- Build a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation within the design team and the organization.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in UX/UI design, with a proven track record of designing successful products and experiences.
- Experience leading and managing design teams, with a passion for building and developing talent.
- Strong portfolio showcasing your design skills and problem-solving abilities, with experience designing for web and mobile.
- Expertise in UX/UI design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and levels.
- A passion for delivering exceptional user experiences and an obsession with detail.
- Experience with design systems and creating and maintaining design guidelines and principles.
- Experience with project management tools and methodologies.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Compensation:
- CommonLit also provides the following benefits:
- Salary is $130,000 to $160,000 commensurate with experience.
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401k and retirement services
- Free telehealth services
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (for employees based in the metropolitan D.C. area)
- Small Necessities Leave
- Full-time employees have 15 company holidays, 20 personal and paid sick days, and paid family leave
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by Ronald Barron | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
Location: Remote
Patreon is the best place for creators to build memberships by providing exclusive access to their work and a deeper connection with their communities. We’re building a content and community platform where creators can engage directly with their fans and monetize their creativity, while maintaining full ownership over the work they make and the communities they create.
We’re leaders in the membership space with 250,000+ active creators and over $3.5 billion paid directly to creators on our platform. Our team is building tools to optimize the creator-to-fan relationship, including native video, enhanced podcasting features, improved creation tools, and new community experiences. We’re continuing to invest heavily in building the most talented team in the Creator Economy and are looking for a Staff Software Engineer – Database Infrastructure to support our mission.
About the Role
At Patreon, we deal with some of the most sensitive data such as patrons’ payment methods, creators’ financial information to process payouts, along with several other bits of personal information from patrons and creators alike. We process over a billion dollars annually. Our security team takes on the responsibility of protecting and safeguarding this data, and making sure these transactions proceed without being tampered with.
We are looking for an engineer to act as the tech lead for our database team. This role allows for remote work.
What you will do:
- Design, architect, and implement Patreon’s next generation relational database strategy to support high availability, low latency, and scalability of a rapidly growing platform
- Implement self-service database tooling to automate complex tasks such as database provisioning and schema migrations
- Design and implement database tooling for CI/CD environments
- Partner with technical leaders to define data access and caching best practices for Patreon’s core application.
- Partner with cross functional leaders across engineering to understand pain points and proactively build a more robust database platform
- Provide architectural, design, and guidance to software development teams to improve application performance when accessing databases
- Build tooling and process to ensure databases are performant and cost efficient
- Respond to and, when appropriate, resolve or escalate database incidents
Skills and experience you possess:
- 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on high scale MySQL deployments running in the cloud (preferred AWS)
- Experience with horizontal sharding technologies (preferred Vitess / Planetscale)
- Hands-on experience with Python or similar programming languages
- Working knowledge of cloud native environments and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- You demonstrate high engineering craft and are passionate about being a bar raiser
Who You’ll Work With:
At Patreon, you’ll join a high-performing and highly-empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission of funding the creative class. Our culture of creator-first, thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching, and rewarding.
About Patreon
Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:
- Put Creators First | They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
- Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
- Make it Happen | We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.
- Win Together | We grow as individuals. We win as a team.
Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.
Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, unlimited paid time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
The posted range represents the expected salary range for this job requisition and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, benefits and perks previously outlined. Ultimately, in determining pay, we’ll consider your experience, leveling, location and other job-related factors.
San Francisco Pay Range
$189,000-$263,500 USD
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by Ronald Barron | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Product Manager, Care Navigation
Location: Remote
About AbleTo
Join our mission-driven organization, where your work matters and a diversity of ideas and backgrounds are welcomed. AbleTo is the leading provider of high quality, technology-enabled behavioral health care. We believe that everyone deserves access to high-quality care and offer a suite of technology-enabled services to empower people to lead better lives through better mental health. A proprietary platform connects individuals with AbleTo highly trained licensed providers who deliver weekly sessions by phone or video supported by an integrated digital experience. Members also have access to mental health coaches, and digital support programs. Our outcomes-focused approach is proven to improve both behavioral and physical health and lower medical costs.
Overview
The Product team is focused on delivering technology solutions which power AbleTo’s delivery of high-quality behavioral healthcare. We build intuitive and seamless experiences that bring together user-centered design principles with evidence-based clinical best practices to support members through their care journey, as well as developing platform solutions that support our teams in treating participants.
In this role, you will be responsible for AbleTo’s participant-facing onboarding capabilities and experiences. You will develop and support solutions which allow people to register for an AbleTo program, help them navigate to the right program for their needs, and set them up for success within that program. You will gain broad exposure to AbleTo’s business, understanding our different product lines, sales processes, and clinical protocols, while building delightful, intuitive, and informative participant experiences.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the vision, strategy, and implementation for AbleTo’s participant-facing onboarding experiences and capabilities
- Drive improvements to and expansion of AbleTo’s digital participant onboarding to allow more people to access care, make it easier for them to access that care, ensure they’re routed to the right level of care, and set them up for success as they begin their program
- Work in an agile environment, leading a team of engineers, designers, and clinicians, as well as partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve your goals
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis about AbleTo’s participant onboarding experiences; understand trends, generate and validate hypotheses, and run A/B tests to improve the user experience
- Develop products that achieve the quadruple aim of improving the health of participants, enhancing the participant experience, increase efficiencies in the healthcare ecosystem, and support AbleTo’s providers in delivering care
Who You Are
- 2+ years of experience in a product management or related role
- An independent thinker who shows strong initiative but isn’t afraid to ask for help
- Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes in a dynamic environment
- Experience creating and executing on a vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Experience prioritizing work across a range of projects with competing interests and stakeholder groups
- Comfortable identifying and facilitating tradeoff decisions in an efficient manner
- An understanding and appreciation for the impact your work has on our participants
- Clear communicator and excellent collaborator, capable of leading conversations with multiple stakeholders with a variety of perspectives
- A proactive, positive disposition to swiftly and creatively problem-solve
- Excellent project management skills with a strong attention to detail and the ability to manage demanding timelines
- A capable operator who can work well with remote, geographically-distributed teams
Why You Should Join Our Team
We’re proud to be a Great Place to Work-Certified company. We want you to show up and feel your best at work, and that means respecting your time outside of work. Our inclusive, flexible workspace prioritizes a work/life balance. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive health benefits (for full-time employees), and professional perks such as 401K matching, fully funded HRA, and generous time off, including mental health days because your well-being is important to us.
The salary range for this role is $80,000 to $125,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, AbleTo offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
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by Ronald Barron | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
[Long Term, Big Impact] Product Manager for Innovative New App at Established Education Company
This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of building the next big language learning site and mobile app. Parrot helps people learn through immersive first-person video and speech recognition.
Parrot is a new project started by the same company behind FluentU, a popular language learning app and website. We’re a profitable, stable company (started in 2011) with a long-term focus proudly self-funded. Many people know us through our blog, which is visited millions of times every month.
We offer you:
- the reliability of an established company
- the calmness and low drama environment of a 100% distributed team
- the dynamism and excitement of working on a startup
In this role, you will:
- own the mobile app, which is still in the early stages.
- work closely all members of the Parrot team (the founder of FluentU, developers, designers, content creators, and marketers).
What is this job about?
Your job will be to:
- help come up with product priorities
- create wireframes
- think through edge cases
- refine tasks and user stories
- benchmark competitors
- conduct user tests and summarize results
- work with designers who implement the wireframes
- suggest UX changes
- reply to developers about implementation questions
- analyze usage data to see the impact of the feature releases and identify priorities
How we work
- We’re a 100% distributed/remote team.
- All of our communication is text-based (mostly Asana) and we have a low-stress environment.
- We also have a flat collaborative environment.
- We make decisions based on logic/reason. We prioritize communicating clearly.
We’re looking for someone who:
- has meaningful product experience with B2C mobile apps
- has a strong understanding of mobile app UX
- is comfortable comprehensively thinking through scenarios (ie. does not just think about the “happy path”, but considers edge cases)
- has strong communication skills with clear and well-structured messages
- is fluent in English
- has experience creating wireframes and doing user testing
- has a sensitive/keen ear and can understand the implied meaning behind what users say (does not just take the response at face value)
- can do rapid prototyping on the fly based on user feedback
- applies changes or updates based on user feedback and not just gut intuition
- can organize tasks, scenarios, and discussions well
- has experience with product analytics tools like Amplitude
- can work at least 25 hours per week on a regular, long-term basis. Ideally, we are looking for someone to be full-time on this, and for this to be their sole focus.
Please note that this initial job is a 3-5 hour trial to see if there’s a mutual fit.
If you’re interested, please reply with:
- relevant work samples
- description of a few of your most relevant previous work experiences
- your weekly availability (the minimum amount that you can guarantee per week)
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by Ronald Barron | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Operations Manager, Scaled Operations
Location: United States
The Community You Will Join:
The Scaled Operations team at Airbnb helps increase supply effectiveness, utilization, and impact using people-powered operations. The Vetting team is responsible for creating and curating structured data to be leveraged at scale across various products and programs throughout the entire company. We are an experienced group of creative and goal-driven individuals who are constantly looking for ways to improve, even in challenging situations such as tight deadlines, rapidly changing demands, and ambitious targets.
The Difference You Will Make:
As the Senior Operations Manager, you will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders and global external partners to create, plan, and execute data labeling projects at scale. Utilizing your subject matter expertise you will develop and implement operational strategies and tactics to optimize data labeling processes to ensure efficiency and accuracy, and help improve Airbnb’s ability to create world-class data labeling operations.
A Typical Day:
- This role aids the Manager of Vetting Operations with data labeling initiatives, both emerging and scaled.
- Utilizing in depth industry knowledge and expertise: create, plan, and execute data labeling projects at scale, ensuring timely and accurate completion of tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop and implement operational strategies and tactics to optimize data labeling processes and ensure efficiency and accuracy.
- Monitor and analyze project performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals and incorporate feedback into data labeling projects.
- Drive discussions and present short and long-term strategies for data labeling operations.
- Identify and resolve complex problems and blockers that may arise during data labeling projects.
- Support leadership on key strategic projects and lead ad-hoc strategic projects for local and country teams.
Your Expertise:
- 5-8+ years experience managing large scale human powered tech-enabled projects, product management, and/or data labeling programs.
- Experience interfacing with Product and Engineering teams to define requirements and implement solutions.
- Strong understanding of data labeling and machine learning strategies, principles and best practices.
- Analytical thinking and ability to make decisions based on insights and analytics.
- Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving organization that operates within a matrixed structure, embracing ambiguity and complexity while working towards common goals.
- Experience driving innovative efficiencies at scale to provide productivity uplift for global operations teams.
- Highly developed organizational and time-management skills to assess and prioritize tasks.
- Excellent analytical abilities; ability to dig into complex processes and data to help inform decisions. SQL and Excel experience required.
- Some travel may be required.
Preferred experience
- Experience with machine learning algorithms, data management, or data quality control.
- 1+ years in working on Machine Learning concepts/tools understanding of classification, labeling, training of data.
- Strong understanding of AI prompt engineering.
Your Location:
This position is US – Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb,Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
How We’ll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$140,000$167,500 USD
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