Staff Product Designer – Spend Management

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Staff Product Designer | Spend Management

at Ramp

New York, Miami, Remote

Ramp is building the next generation of finance toolsfrom corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrationsdesigned to save businesses time and money with every click. Over 12,000 customers cut their expenses by 3.5% per year and close their books 8x faster by switching to the Ramp platform.

Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year. Ramp continues to grow quickly, more than doubling its revenue run rate in the first half of 2022.

Valued at $8.1 billion, Ramp’s investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companiesStripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital Oneas well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp was named Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in North America in 2023 and #5 on LinkedIn Top Startups 2022.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer motivated by the opportunity to tackle incredibly complex and abstract areas to deliver exceptional experiences for our customersa ground floor opportunity in a design-driven company. You will partner directly with product and engineering to own the core of our product. You will define the strategic direction, identify the right problems to solve, take ownership of the experience, and ship the simplest, most intuitive solutions at the highest level of craft and execution.

This is a role for an individual contributor with a genuine desire to champion our users’ voices, move fast, own decisions, and ship software every day. This person will lead the charge on our Spend Management team to eliminate busywork and repetitive tasks for finance teams, managers and employees.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design and user experience for significant parts of our core product; own the design process from prioritization through launch
• Be comfortable with breaking down large, ambiguous problems, ruthlessly prioritizing the highest impact work, and aligning a cross-functional team around it
• Sweat the details, strive for simplicity, and tie together many interconnected projects to make complex tasks approachable
• Work directly with product/engineering leads to translate company strategy into prioritized initiatives in the roadmap and identify the right problems to solve
• Collaborate across various business functions to bring our product, brand, and experience to life
• Be opinionated and leverage a direct line to our customers to get insights and make decisions quickly
• Explore solutions, create prototypes, and dive into user feedback/data to identify points of friction and opportunities for improvement for every initiative
• Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences. Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day
• Collaborate with the rest of the design team to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, brand guidelines, and internal design collaboration process
• Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc.
• Help us hire more amazing people to grow the design team and bring diverse perspectives to our design process
• Contribute to developing our design internship program, where you will mentor the next generation of product designers

What You Need

• Minimum 8 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design
• Experience in building and shipping applications or software
• Experience owning products from start to finish, working with developers and PMs
• Ability to research, ideate, and define the vision for projects within their unit
• Extraordinary visual design skills and understanding of UX principles
• Mastery of low and high-fidelity prototyping and its use in UX Research
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Mastery of Figma

Nice to Haves

• A strong understanding of software engineering workflows and principles is encouraged

Compensation

• The annual salary/OTE range for the target level for this role is $195,500-$230,000 + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)

Ramp Benefits (for U.S. based employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match)
  • Please note only 401k contributions made while employed by Ramp are eligible for an employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Fertility HRA Up to $5,000 per year
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support
• Pet insurance

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Product Specialist

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Product Specialist

Remote, United States

About Us:

Apprentice helps life science manufacturers get therapeutics to patients faster by providing one platform to turn molecules into medicine. Our Tempo Manufacturing Cloud accelerates the end-to-end drug product lifecycle by connecting together distributed teams and sites, helping them execute better on the shop floor, and optimizing their operations through enterprise-wide visibility. From preclinical benchtop to large-scale commercial manufacturing, Tempo keeps your global teams connected, empowered, and in sync.

With $207M in funding, a 3.4x growth YoY rate, and 218% net customer retention, Apprentice is revolutionizing manufacturing in Life Sciences. We’re a roll-up-your-sleeves culture that’s dedicated, mission-driven, and relentless on our path to changing the world.

About the role: We are looking for team players who are driven, proactive, passionate about the space, our business, and the opportunity, and are effective problem solvers able to execute with little supervision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help achieve the Apprentice Tempo product mission and vision.
• Fall in love with discovering, dissecting, and understanding our pharma manufacturing users’ problems.
• Analyzes and works through complex batch records independently.
• Identify gaps in batch records if any, analyze gaps, and advise as needed.
• If a client does not have a mapped-out process in place, the product specialist will assist in the process mapping function for the client.
• Answer specific product related questions as needed and advise clients as needed.
• Measure your impact by defining key results for companywide OKRs.
• Cross-collaborate with the other product specialist and managers as needed to ensure we maintain a holistic product experience.
• Ability to design a solution framework independently.
• Has a deep understanding of Apprentice Tempo Infrastructure, Software Release Approach, Delivery Methodology, and Integration.
• Ability to gather requirements independently with clients per use case and translate into our MES solution.
• This role requires to at times be client facing so attention to detail and executive presence is ideal.
• Ability to meet deadlines and the ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
• Must be involved in testing our internal products as it relates to various iterations of our platform. This involves training internally and externally.
• Maintain and prioritize your product area’s backlog of epics coordinating with the other product managers to ensure seamless and cohesive releases.
• Engage with and collaborate with process owners to understand the details of their problems.
• Ability to assist the Product Team to understand MES use cases for Product design and Implementation.
• Successfully able to participate in support call and help understand problem root cause.
• Ability to lead a team by way of leadership without delegation.
• Be adaptable to accelerating market changes resulting in swift prioritization changes.
• Communicate and collaborate regularly with sales, marketing, and customer success teams to understand their product needs.
• Work closely with our executive leadership ensuring our roadmap aligns with business priorities and mission.
• Proactively communicate project updates in a timely fashion.
• Be curious about and stay on top of the pharma market and competitive trends and incorporate them into your analysis and recommendations.
• Be a passionate evangelist of the Apprentice platform helping present, author, and drive content, road mapping, process etc. and other ad hoc tasks.

Qualifications:

• “Roll-up-your-sleeves” entrepreneurial, startup attitude.
• Passion for learning and helping in pharma manufacturing.
• Ability to create a logical path in ambiguity.
• 5+ years’ experience as a Product Specialist for a software product (MES, business process experience, and cloud experience a plus).
• Understands how to build a solutions framework with a senior MES specialist/expert.
• 2+ years of experience having worked with an MES system.
• Excellent communication skills – ability to build alignment and clarity across both technical and non-technical audiences, including internal teams and customers/partners.
• Technical or engineering-based Bachelor’s degree (MBA or master’s a plus).
• Legal authorization to work for any employer in the U.S.

Benefits & Perks

• Generous benefits package (health, dental, vision)
• Unlimited PTO
• Every employee is a shareholder!
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-friendly & flexible with a $250 at-home work setup stipend
• 16 company holidays, including one week off for the 4th of July and the week off between Christmas and New Year
• Generous 401k match and contribution

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Senior Backend Engineer

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Backend Engineer, Manage: Import and Integrate

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.

Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes the open-source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and front-end engineers towards common goals.

The Manage Stage handles everything you need to manage your GitLab workspace. Starting with Importing your data from competitor tools and allowing users to quickly join GitLab with the right level of access while adhering to compliance regulations and procedures and ultimately allowing you to fully implement your DevOps processes and be able to monitor your DevOps adoption and manage your Value Stream.Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Requirements

• Ability to use GitLab.
• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails or the language required by the specialty.
• Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the specialty.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

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Data Platform Engineer – Model Life Cycle

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Data Platform Engineer – Model Life Cycle

Location: Remote, USA

About the Team

The Algo & Experimentation Frameworks team is a multi talented group of engineers and data scientists responsible for core decision platforms and processes at Stitch Fix. The team consists of two sub focus areas:

• Model Life Cycle – our own ML orchestration frameworks: Kudu & Model Envelope
• Experimentation Platforms and Practice

We effect change through designing, building, and maintaining platforms and processes which enable:

• A high velocity of ML product development and productionalization
• Data informed product decisions at scale

As a member of the team, you will contribute to the evolution of our platforms and help increase innovation velocity at Stitch Fix.

We believe that diverse teams are better than the sum of their parts. We encourage people from all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply!

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer preferably with a background in ML operations to join the Model Life Cycle sub focus area of our team.

As a team member you will spearhead design and implementation of world class ML frameworks underpinning our algorithmic products at Stitch Fix. In this role, you will participate in all phases of software development, from system design through implementation and ongoing support. As a part of this talented team, you will be a collaborator and an owner of foundational frameworks which underpins ML model development and productionalization at Stitch Fix. This role is highly cross functional and you will get opportunities to collaborate with various data science and engineering partners across various areas of the business.

As a team, we work together to prioritize features and directions, but you will be largely self-directed in determining what you work on. This is not a role where your day-to-day is determined by a PM or a ticket – success on the team includes defining problems, brainstorming ideas, implementing innovative solutions, supporting users and owning the process end to end.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

• Help shape the vision for the ML ecosystem at Stitch Fix.
• Be an owner of highly visible, high-traffic platforms.
• Have the opportunity to work on all aspects of systems, from services to backend data stores to analytics and logging.
• Share the responsibility of directing the team’s investment in impactful directions.
• Contribute to a culture of technical collaboration and scalable, resilient systems.
• Work with bright and kind colleagues who are passionate about their craft.

We’re excited about you because

• Minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in Python required.
• Experience building libraries and/or frameworks
• Familiarity with using and assembling at least one ML tooling ecosystem (e.g. pytorch, tensorflow, jax)
• Experience implementing low latency public APIs (REST architecture, Fast API preferred).
• Knowledge of machine learning concepts.
• Familiarity working with data scientists to understand their needs and translating that understanding into engineering requirements.
• Experience working autonomously and taking ownership of projects.
• A rigorous focus on simple solutions that yield business impact.
• Strong experience building out scalable, distributed, and production systems.
• The ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical business partners alike, and who are interested in building strong cross-functional relationships.
• A desire to question the status quo and promote innovative solutions to challenging problems.

Why you’ll love working at Stitch Fix…

• We are a group of bright, kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity, innovation and trust. You’ll bring these characteristics to life in everything you do at Stitch Fix.
• We cultivate a community of diverse perspectives all voices are heard and valued.
• We are an innovative company and leverage our strengths in fashion and tech to disrupt the future of retail.
• We win as a team, commit to our work, and celebrate grit together because we value strong relationships.
• We boldly create the future while keeping equity and sustainability at the center of all that we do.
• We are the owners of our work and are energized by solving problems through a growth mindset lens. We think broadly and creatively through every situation to create meaningful impact.
• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits.

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Senior Front End Engineer

by Ronald Barron | May 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Front End Engineer

Location: Remote – USA & Canada

Who is Boulevard?

Boulevard provides the first and only client experience platform for appointment-based, self-care businesses. We empower our customers to give their clients more of the magical moments that matter most.

Before launching in 2016, our founders spent months interviewing salon managers and working behind front desks to understand their pain points so we could design a modern, user-friendly platform that meets the unique needs of their business. Our roots may be in hair salons, but we are built for the broader self-care industry, including many types of salons, spas, MedSpas, barbershops, and more. Our technology not only helps our customers survive but thrive. Take a look at how we (and YOU) can make that happen.

We have an insatiable curiosity and embrace experimentation. We believe that simple solutions require the most sophistication, and we design each and every detail to maximize potential, power, and impact. Do our values match? Read through our story and what we value the most.

Our team values and celebrates our diverse backgrounds. Being open about who we are and what we do allows us to do the best work of our lives. We believe in equal opportunity for all, and you should too.

Come do the best work of your life at Boulevard.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our User Experience team and share ownership of our design system. You will work with our design team and front-end engineers developing and operating the Boulevard design system. You will improve and automate the delivery and maintenance of our components and assets. You’ll develop and execute strategies to migrate legacy systems to our modern ones. With your help, Boulevard will innovate and scale faster than ever. You’re a perfect fit for this role if you:

• Passionate about design and user experience.
• Familiar with Design System challenges or you have owned or significantly contributed to a Design System.
• Experience with Angular and especially with migration from Angular to React.
• Aware of the importance of good communication between designers and engineers, and you can easily discuss your work with a non-technical audience.
• Can proactively advocate your impact and autonomously communicate progress, learnings, and goals to the company and beyond.

What you’ll do here:

• Build and maintain Boulevard Design System and related entities: Component UI library, usage guidelines & documentation, Storybook, and styling system.
• Build and maintain UI components that are scalable, performant, accessible, and consistent.
• Develop and execute strategies to migrate legacy systems to our modern systems, overcoming roadblocks as necessary.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the success and adoption of the design system.
• Helping us ensure our experiences adhere to accessibility standards and other relevant practices.
• Self organize on tasks from start to finish, placing emphasis appropriate to risk and urgency, providing transparency to team without needing to be nudged, and escalate issues in a timely manner.

What you’ll need to thrive:

• Programming Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience working on web-based application development using React and Typescript.
• CS Foundations: Strong knowledge of computer science principles. Ability to make sound decisions and tradeoffs in design and implementation, appropriately anticipating scale, maintenance, and overall operational feasibility of solutions.
• Pride in the Work: We care deeply about the work that we do and the quality of outcomes.
• Bias Towards Action and Incremental Value: Collaborate and iterate with peers to help drive discussions and surface tradeoffs that accelerate decisions. Manage competing priorities for effective time management.
• Team Player: Working in highly performant and collaborative teams. Promote psychologically safe environments where everyone’s thoughts are heard and respected.
• Design Appreciation: Strong appreciation for good design and accessibility.
• Building Solutions: Contribute to our engineering culture by proposing ideas, tools, and infrastructure wherever you see a problem to be solved.

How We’ll Take Care Of You:

Your starting total cash compensation for this role is between $140,875 and $201,250, depending on your current skills, experience, training, and overall market demands. This total compensation range is subject to change, and there is always room for growth and advancement.

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