Technical Program Manager

by Ronald Barron | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Technical Program Manager

Location: Denver, CO or Remote

At SonderMind, we know that therapy works. SonderMind provides accessible, personalized mental health care that produces high-quality outcomes for individuals. SonderMind’s individualized approach to care starts with using innovative technology to help people not just find a therapist, but find the right, in-network therapist for them.

How you’ll make an impact

The Technical Program Manager will coordinate business, product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment across projects and initiatives, so that SonderMind teams can iterate quickly against our product roadmap, delighting our customers and ensuring our executive team can communicate progress and value efficiently to our Board of Directors and investors.

You will coordinate the planning, execution and delivery of key roadmap objectives, always focused on creating feedback loops and removing impediments. This requires strong relationship, organizational and communication skills, as well as the ability to think critically across multiple initiatives.

Success looks like

• You build deep connections with leaders across the business to ensure that all parties have the correct amount of context and involvement in the product roadmap and vision.
• You quickly identify breakdowns in communication, culture or process and intervene or escalate these issues through appropriate channels.
• You break down large projects into smaller components to quickly deliver value to the business.
• You ensure that planning and discovery is efficient and any blockers are escalated so that requirements and scope can be defined.
• You are responsible for ensuring initiatives are scoped and on track based on estimated delivery timelines.
• You are responsible for ensuring initiatives are measured and results are communicated in a clear and timely manner across the business.
• You have a strong sense of ownership related to program and initiative delivery.

What you’ll do

• Organize and manage cross -functional projects across multiple value streams.
• Lead quarterly and continuous planning discussions with product, engineering and business leaders.
• Program-level risk identification, escalation and management.
• Participate in standups, and other meetings with the engineering team to provide status updates and answer questions about project decisions.
• Cross-program coordination with other program managers to identify and address gaps and concerns within the project teams and development teams.
• Gather and use data to coach engineering leaders on best practices for cycle time, throughput, estimation and productivity.
• Ensure that business teams are operationally ready for test and production releases.
• Work with product and engineering leaders to continuously review dev team backlogs, reprioritize work and escalate trade-off conversations.
• Be a leader in change management as SonderMind grows.

What you’ll bring with youRequired Experience

• 3+ years of program or project management in a technical role or relevant experience
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban and the ability to apply those methodologies
• Experience working within the software development lifecycle
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for work management and documentation

What we value

• Curious: Seek to understand and pull the thread
• Courageous: Takes action, even when uncomfortable
• Lightful: Assume positive intent in others
• Authentic: Say what you mean, mean what you say, act accordingly
• Bucketworthy: Don’t let your bucket leak

Our Benefits

The anticipated salary for this role is $110,000- $125,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan. Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

As a leader in redesigning behavioral health, we are walking the walk with our employee benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their life and work.

Our benefits include:

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A flexible PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off
• Therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA and FSA options
• Paid company holidays and a company shut-down during the last week of the year
• Employer-paid disability & AD&D to cover life’s unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to eight (8) weeks of short-term disability leave
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching on up to 4% of base salary

Mental wellness impacts people of every community. At SonderMind, building and supporting a diverse workforce is foundational to our goal to redesign behavioral healthcare to be more approachable and accessible. SonderMind is a committed equal opportunity employer and provides a workplace that will not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status.

Vaccination Policy: SonderMind requires all employees to be up to date with their COVID vaccination before entering our office space, the SonderMind Studio, or attending in-person meetings or events (including both indoor and outdoor).

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Lead Product Designer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Lead Product Designer

Location: US Remote

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 300,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

The Lead Product Designer position is an individual contributor role that will report to the Design Manager of the Engagement team. You will be designing experiences within Nextdoor’s core product areas, including Feed, Discover, Marketplace, and Content Creation, with the goal of building an active valued community, transforming how people connect and engage with the neighborhoods that matter to them.

The Impact You’ll Make

If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume

• You’ll tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs
• You are impact oriented, and can imagine for the long term, design for the mid term and ship in the short term
• You thrive in ambiguity and transform abstract ideas into tangible solutions
• You think holistically through a customer-focused body of work that drives iterative experiments, building towards a long term vision
• You have delivered metrics results that have changed the course of products in a material way
• You design delightful products, and understand that great products are built to not only meet functional needs but also emotional needs
• You can reduce system complexity and streamline processes to improve outcomes
• You design desirable products that our customers love, going above and beyond to create experiences that are considerate, special, and evokes emotions
• You effectively communicate, utilizing prototypes and integrated user stories to share the story of your design direction. You use the arc of setting, problem, solution, celebration and learning to help communicate product direction
• You help build a better Nextdoor by contributing to an inclusive, creative and positive Design team and company culture

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 10 years demonstrated experience shipping great consumer products in an agile environment, preferably including work on social networks, building social graphs, follow or relational models
• Bring a deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re trying to solve
• An eagerness to think big, paired with the rigor and resolve to iterate and experiment your way there, and a sharp eye for the metrics to track to know if we’re on the right track
• Comfort working across the product development spectrum: strategy, ideation, concept work, pixel-level details, and front-end development and implementation
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity and set the vision and strategy
• Excellent UX, Interaction/prototyping, visual design. Animation and motion design is a plus
• Ability to create rich interactive prototypes with Framer, Origami, or similar
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
• You’re deeply curious about how to empower neighbors to strengthen their communities, how local businesses enhance their communities, and about what makes different neighborhoods around the globe thrive

Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume.

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $119,000 to $195,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your ‘level’ of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Location: United States

Pie’s mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining tooling to empower Pie Insurance’s engineers. This position not only works on deliverables directly but will also be an advocate for instilling a company-wide DevOps culture by providing additional knowledge and guidance to Pie’s engineering organization. The candidate will join a team which exists to help provide operational excellence through tooling which generates a multiplying effect by reducing cognitive load on feature-based engineers and reducing repetitive tasks through automation. The candidate can expect to work on a diverse set of greenfield and brownfield projects that encompass all aspects of Pie’s technical platform. The candidate should be able to identify areas of improvement across the organization, generate solutions that are measurable, and iterate to continuously improve on the processes while focusing on results based on the measured data.

How You’ll Do It

Develop Pie’s Developer Experience by creating Tooling and Automation

• Build tooling and automation that allow other engineering teams to self-service their infrastructure needs and remove impediments and cross-team dependency.
• Direct focus on automation and tooling that allows engineers to automatically build in security, reliability, scalability, and observability with the least amount of cognitive load to allow the engineers to deliver value to customers as quickly as possible.
• Responsible for advocating for best practices in a Cloud Native environment, and using built-in tooling monitors for resource usage, cost, ownership, and adherence to best practices.
• Being an ally during incidents and an active participant in post-incident response. Work with a cross-functional team to quickly and effectively triage and correct service disruptions.

Technical Leadership

• Have a results-oriented mindset that delivers measurable value.
• Drive excellence across the organization by observing opportunities for improvement and crafting solutions for improvement that provide the best business value.
• Actively lead and facilitate code reviews.
• Thought leadership in DevOps cultural practices.
• Capable of leading without authority.

The Right Stuff

• Expert technical experience within AWS
• 3+ years in software development life cycle using enterprise-level object-oriented programing languages(C#/Go preferred)
• Expert understanding of common infrastructure architecture patterns and cloud best practices including AWS Lambdas and ECS Fargate
• Proven track record of owning and leading projects from genesis to completion with measured and quantifiable results, across multiple teams within an organization.
• Expert communication with the ability to engage in complex technical discussion across multiple levels within an engineering organization.

Standout System Expertise

• Github with GitHub Actions
• Octopus Deploy
• Datadog
• Atlas MongoDB

Base compensation for position: $155,000 – $210,000

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
• Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work

Job Description

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Location: United States

Pie’s mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining tooling to empower Pie Insurance’s engineers. This position not only works on deliverables directly but will also be an advocate for instilling a company-wide DevOps culture by providing additional knowledge and guidance to Pie’s engineering organization. The candidate will join a team which exists to help provide operational excellence through tooling which generates a multiplying effect by reducing cognitive load on feature-based engineers and reducing repetitive tasks through automation. The candidate can expect to work on a diverse set of greenfield and brownfield projects that encompass all aspects of Pie’s technical platform. The candidate should be able to identify areas of improvement across the organization, generate solutions that are measurable, and iterate to continuously improve on the processes while focusing on results based on the measured data.

How You’ll Do It

Develop Pie’s Developer Experience by creating Tooling and Automation

• Build tooling and automation that allow other engineering teams to self-service their infrastructure needs and remove impediments and cross-team dependency.
• Direct focus on automation and tooling that allows engineers to automatically build in security, reliability, scalability, and observability with the least amount of cognitive load to allow the engineers to deliver value to customers as quickly as possible.
• Responsible for advocating for best practices in a Cloud Native environment, and using built-in tooling monitors for resource usage, cost, ownership, and adherence to best practices.
• Being an ally during incidents and an active participant in post-incident response. Work with a cross-functional team to quickly and effectively triage and correct service disruptions.

Technical Leadership

• Have a results-oriented mindset that delivers measurable value.
• Drive excellence across the organization by observing opportunities for improvement and crafting solutions for improvement that provide the best business value.
• Actively lead and facilitate code reviews.
• Thought leadership in DevOps cultural practices.
• Capable of leading without authority.

The Right Stuff

• Expert technical experience within AWS
• 3+ years in software development life cycle using enterprise-level object-oriented programing languages(C#/Go preferred)
• Expert understanding of common infrastructure architecture patterns and cloud best practices including AWS Lambdas and ECS Fargate
• Proven track record of owning and leading projects from genesis to completion with measured and quantifiable results, across multiple teams within an organization.
• Expert communication with the ability to engage in complex technical discussion across multiple levels within an engineering organization.

Standout System Expertise

• Github with GitHub Actions
• Octopus Deploy
• Datadog
• Atlas MongoDB

Base compensation for position: $155,000 – $210,000

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
• Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work

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Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager

by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Sr. Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Location: Remote

About the Role:

Realself is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager to oversee the Devops, IT, Data Engineering, and Security teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing and leading a team of engineers, as well as a deep understanding of the principles of site reliability engineering.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee and manage the Devops, IT, Data Engineering, and Security teams, ensuring that all systems are operating efficiently and securely.
• Develop and implement strategies to improve the reliability, scalability, and availability of our systems.
• Manage and Maintain CI/CD and Site infrastructure
• Work closely with the development teams to ensure that new features and products are designed with reliability in mind.
• Create and manage incident response plans to ensure that any outages or disruptions are addressed promptly and effectively.
• Conduct regular reviews of the infrastructure to identify areas for improvement and develop plans to implement changes.
• Ensure that all systems meet compliance and security standards.
• Develop and manage budgets for the IT, Data Engineering, and Security teams.
• Hire and develop a high-performing team of engineers, providing mentorship, coaching, and career development opportunities.

You might be the right fit if you have:

• At least 5 years of experience managing a team of engineers
• Understand Corporate IT systems and their management
• Are action-oriented and lean into collaborative decision-making
• Thrive on idea generation and innovative, creative problem solving
• Focus on rapport and relationship-building to achieve results
• Have a strong understanding of AWS and GCP cloud-based infrastructure, systems, and applications.
• Expertise in designing and implementing reliable and scalable systems.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards, such as ISO27K and GDPR.

Travel:

Travel is not anticipated for this role.

Compensation:

$180k – $215k Base Compensation + Full Benefits

All offered salaries are based on many factors, including experience in a similar role and geographic location of the candidate.

Work Environment:

RealSelf employees work from 26 states in the United States; while we have offices in Seattle, Washington we are a remote-first company.

This fully remote role is open to candidates in most states. Working remotely from a primary residence outside the United States is currently not permitted for this role.

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Vice President, Product

by Ronald Barron | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Vice President, Product

REMOTE

CURRENTLY HIRING PRODUCT

FULL-TIME

At Blueprint, we believe that there is a better way to close real estate transactions, and that buying and selling a home should be as seamless as any other transaction or investment. To create a solution, we combine technology, national title and closing expertise, and innovative insurance solutions to remove the stress, cost, and opacity from title and closing.

Put more simply: Blueprint’s mission is to use technology and transparency to remove cost, complexity, and confusion in real estate transaction. Founded in January 2017, Blueprint Title operates over a broad, multi-state footprint serving real estate professionals and their end customers.

Our company is made up of passionate, forward-thinking professionals who are excited about being a part of a team that is helping to modernize title and closing processes, and an entire industry!

We are looking for new team members who share a passion for modernization, and embody our core values: Collaboration, Empathy, Ownership, Growth, and Innovation. As a member of the Blueprint Title team, you will help us lead the charge in proving that the real estate closing industry is ready for novel technology, lower pricing, and better service.

As a VP of Product, you will:

Play a pivotal role in the future of our company by leading our Product efforts and helping to set the associated direction for Engineering. Our VP of Product will be responsible for the overall vision and, ultimately, the execution of our Product strategy. You’ll manage the Product team and collaborate with other executive leaders to ensure alignment.

The VP of Product will report directly to our CEO and work closely with all other departments at the company.

What you may work on:

• Product Management and StrategyLead, manage, and mentor the Product team.
• Work closely with the Head of Engineering and engineering team to deliver a best-in-class product to drive transparent, frictionless real estate transactions.
• Review and approve the Product team budget.
• Drive innovative ideas, solutions, and products through leadership and decisive action.
• Communicate with C-level staff, board members, and other stakeholders on the product roadmap.
• Work with Marketing leadership to assess product mix and product marketing strategy.
• Define, in collaboration with cross-functional leaders, competitive positioning for each product.
• Build incredible teams and processes to deliver products that satisfy the needs of customers.
• Work directly with buyers, sellers, lenders, agents, and internal resources to develop best-in-class transaction communication and processes.
• Be an evangelist of our product and participate in press activities, conferences, and external discussions with thought leaders in the industry.
• Cultivate a product and user-centric culture in a traditionally slow, paper-based industry.
• Participate in the quarterly and annual planning of the Product department objectives.
• Drive efforts, in collaboration with other leadership team members:
  • Product roadmap planning
  • Product lifecycle management from concept to launch of the product(s) across all products/product lines
  • Development of Product department forecasts and metrics
  • Define, represent, and communicate the Product strategy to all stakeholders

Leadership & Strategy:

• Participate in the quarterly and annual planning of the Company’s objectives.
• Actively participate in executive and senior leadership meetings and retreats, regularly sharing the Product team perspective in strategic conversations.
• Participate in Company Values audit and review sessions, and inspire department team members by serving as an example of our values.
• In collaboration with the CEO and Head of Finance, develop the Product department’s annual budget.
• Motivate multiple teams with diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
• Manage the Product department effectively through large company changes and priority shifts with ease and optimism.
• Build strong and effective relationships with executive leaders.

What we are looking for in you:

• Experience leading product organizations for 3+ years.
• Experience partnering with Marketing and other teams to create go-to-market strategies and campaigns.
• Ability to effectively evaluate the success of strategies for the Product department with a data-based perspective.
• Knowledge of the title insurance and proptech industry and our competitors.
• A customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating user feedback and research into the product development process
• Ability to turn insights from multiple data sources into an actionable product roadmap.
• Passion for improving the title and closing experience through innovative product solutions.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and inspiring diverse teams.
• Ability to set, track, and successfully execute department objectives that contribute to the company’s overall objectives.
• Direct experience with project management software or workplace collaboration software.

What you will get from us

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonuses and stock options
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Wellness Stipend
• Professional Development Stipend
• 100% employer paid medical coverage for employees
• Dental/Vision coverage and FSA account
• Flexible hours and opportunity to work-from-home
• Unlimited vacation policies
• A variety of growth and development opportunities
• Team events, casual dress code

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