by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: VP Learning Experience Design
Location: US
Job Requisition ID: 18229
Remote
Fully remote Position May be performed from any State in the US.
Who We Are
HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators, and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.
Day in the Life
The Supplemental and Interventions (SIS) group at HMH is focused on building innovative educational content and software to meet the challenges facing teachers and learners. We design and build digital & print content, applications, and services used by millions. The VP, Learning Experience Design (LXD) reports to the SVP, Product Development and is responsible for leading a team of Learning Experience Designers across a portfolio of products to ensure the greatest impact on student outcomes and teacher support, as well as defining and implementing metadata strategies and authoring solutions across SIS. This role will represent curriculum and learning experience design approaches with internal and external stakeholders and will partner closely with colleagues across the organization to build inventive solutions that solve problems for teachers and students.
High level summary and Realistic Preview of Job
The VP will:
- Directly lead and manage teams of Learning Experience Designers with a digital-first focus and with content developed for all current interactive digital media formats and platforms.
- Lead three-four direct reports with a span of 12-15 LXDs.
- Apply learning design; content expertise; market awareness; and technological knowledge to lead teams to create innovative solutions
- Apply learning science and research to guide the team in analyzing, creating, and integrating pedagogical features throughout product development.
- Serve as a subject matter expert internally and externally.
- Serve as stakeholder and learning experience design lead across scrum teams, and support teams providing recommendations, prioritizations, experimental ideas, and potential trade-offs to product management.
- Influence a content authoring vision and own the corresponding strategy and execution across SIS products. The VP will work closely with leaders across lines of business on alignment, integration capabilities, workflows, and dependencies.
- Provide thought leadership and coaching across teams to optimize the use of authoring tools in ways that elevate content, engage students, and can scale across the organization.
- Provide leadership, direction, and professional development for talent within the team.
- Establish relationships within and out of the organization to enable the creation of market-leading solutions.
- Optimize workflow processes.
- Lead RFP analysis and response as needed.
- Leverage customer feedback via multiple channels to develop solutions for challenging problems.
- Provide estimates for budgetary planning purposes and manage to an operating expense and capital budget.
- The ideal candidate has experience:
- Defining and executing a scalable content metadata strategy authoring approach across an organization or line of products.
- Leveraging content authoring tools to create engaging content at scale.
- Synthesizing customer needs and recommending approaches to build and release quick wins to increase customer satisfaction, along with longer-term product enhancements.
- Experimenting with process and product ideas via rapid prototyping or other mechanisms that provide evidence and enable quick adjustment.
What you’ll need:
- 8 years of experience leading team(s) responsible for learning experience design, content creation, instructional design, or similar focus with demonstrable results quantified in student outcome metrics, NPS, revenue growth, or relevant metric.
- 10 years of experience in K12 edtech or higher ed, with K12 preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in education or instructional design, or relevant discipline; master’s degree or higher preferred.
- Experience leading team(s) through change management
- Understanding of content authoring tools to create content at scale.
- Ability to successfully build relationships and navigate in a matrix-organization to deliver on a shared vision.
- Ability to connect the team’s work every day to the company vision.
Preferred but not necessary: Experience with agile product development
How We Work (Competencies)
- Drives Results
- Manages Complexity
- Cultivates Innovation
- Values Differences
- Instills Trust
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager, Research
locations Home Office
time type Full time
job requisition id JR-013285
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Oversee WGU’s Equity Research
- Responsible for the hiring, training, and development of data scientists and research scientists focused on equity research
- Provide technical guidance on research methods and analytical tool sets
- Establish processes to manage research projects and to codify and communicate results and insights to internal stakeholders
- Collaborate with all appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
- Represent WGU by presenting at relevant conferences.
Knowledge, Skill and Abilities
- Deep knowledge of a field such as learning science, behavioral science, behavioral economics, education psychology, or related field.
- Ability to manage team of research scientists and data scientists
- Project management skills
- Expert ability to independently define and conduct original scientific research.
- Data manipulation using programming languages like SQL and Python.
- Data visualization skills using tools like Python and Tableau.
- Deep experience with qualitative and quantitative primary research methods.
- Proven ability to lead research projects including cost, resource, schedule management, compliance and reporting.
- Excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional ability to communicate research results and key ideas to lay and scholarly audiences.
- The ability to be a subject matter expert to provide thought leadership in the field.
- Thrives by working collaboratively and creatively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and exemplifies pride and ownership over the quality of our learning experience.
- Ability to foster strong relationships within the team and external stakeholders
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a related research field (e.g. Education, Psychology) or analytics discipline (e.g. Data Science; Economics, etc).
- 5 years’ experience inrelated research field in the field of education or other human system using datascience, experimental and quasi-experimental designs and qualitative research
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in a related research field (e.g. Education, Psychology) or analytics discipline (e.g. Data Science; Economics, etc)
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sr. Director, Salesforce Solution Technical Owner (work from home)
Location: United States
Full Time
About the job:
The Senior Director, Salesforce Solution Technical Owner is responsible for strategic and tactical planning, delivery and operation of IT systems that enable and support the business objectives of the American Red Cross within a line of business. This person will be responsible for all the Salesforce systems that support the line of business. This is a strategic and highly impactful role, helping the organization use technology to increase response to the mission.
The role will be responsible for building strong partnerships with business leaders, developing a deep understanding of the business and technology needs, and working closely with business leaders to develop technology plans and roadmaps, and to deliver and operate solutions that meet business objectives. This role will lead a combination of managed services vendors, internal IT teams and consulting vendors to deliver programs in this area.
This role will collaborate with IT leaders and organizations to deliver integrated solutions that are cost-effective to operate and maintain, and that adhere to IT standards, policies, and processes.
The work location for this exciting opportunity is virtual. The selected candidate will work 100% remotely from home and be located anywhere in the United States. Typical work hours follow an East Coast schedule but may require extended hours/on call support as needed to support any major outages.
What you will be doing:
• Initiate, build and maintain excellent working relationships with business leaders, including key senior management
• Partner with business leaders and senior management to understand strategic business plans and roadmaps and develop supporting information technology plans and roadmaps.
• Develop IT execution and delivery strategies, including in-house vs. outsourcing approaches
• Develop and oversee development of program and project plans, milestones, deliverables, timelines, resources and budgets
• Provide oversight, guidance, and contributions to help ensure project success
• Ability to be hands on when needed and be able to function across the spectrum – from strategic and tactical
• Weigh in as necessary on requirements, architecture, security, engineering, infrastructure and other aspects of solution delivery or system maintenance to represent the business objectives and priorities. Ensure non-functional and technical requirements are included in all project plans.
• Provide Salesforce subject matter thought leadership and expertise to steer the technical direction of workstreams based on sound technical basis
• Act as a technology guardian to promote sustainable solutions and discourage poor choices
• Comprehension of architectural decisions and ability to convey those decisions to stakeholders to explain how business strategy alignment is satisfied
• Monitoring key Salesforce technology trends and recommend the right additions that will make us more efficient and lower our total cost of ownership
• Manage vendor performance and relationships to effectively and efficiently meet business objectives.
• Responsible for IT human capital management to include staffing, employee training and career development, establishing performance standards and conducting reviews, and succession planning.
• Ensure 24/7/365 staffing for mission critical systems
• Accountable for system redundancy and technical continuity of operations
Qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. The American Red Cross does not sponsor employment visas.
What we need from you:
• 10 plus years experience to include 5-7 management/supervisory experience and proven experience managing large Salesforce projects and systems (case management experience preferable)
• 4 year degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline. Advanced degree desirable.
• Extensive experience with the Salesforce platform across its various offerings (firm understanding of the underlying technology framework and tools; prior development experience is a benefit to success in this role )
• Prior design and development experience strongly desired to aid in sound technical decision making from a directional perspective and be able to socialize and convince key business stakeholders
• Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud implementations and support is required
• Experience with Skedulo is strongly preferred
• Experience in early part of the career serving as the primary lead for multiple critical corporate applications on Salesforce platform
• Strong Program/Project management experience, and experience with Agile, Scrum, DevOps practices required
• Experience of working with cloud platforms AWS/Azure/Google Cloud or equivalent
• Experience using Service Management tools, such as EasyVista
• Knowledge of ITIL framework required
• High level of knowledge/expertise in case management process design and implementations desirable
• Strong understanding of data management technologies (MDM, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Science)
• Strong understanding of Integration technologies including ESB, iPaaS, API Management and Service Governance experience
• Strong desire to keep up with emerging technologies to act as a thought leader to help guide technology innovation
• Strong knowledge of systems security, data protection, and data privacy as it pertains to delivering enterprise grade Salesforce solutions
• Experience working with clients with significant and complex IT needs
• Experience working in large, complex IT project environments
• Highly intelligent, conceptual, excellent judgment, and capable of analyzing business and management problems. Must possess the ability to arrive at sound and effective business solutions.
• Excellent communication skills; able to present a solid business case, form business partnerships, and frame issues for a wide variety of stakeholders including executive management.
• Assertive and proactive, decisive, and tenacious with political wisdom and discerning judgment. Must have a sense of humor.
• Able to work both autonomously and with appropriate collaboration among other team members and senior management across a matrixed organization.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Web Developer
at Rec Room
Remote (United States)
Rec Room supports a growing community of users from all around the world. Our mission is to ensure that Rec Room is a fun and welcoming environment for people from all walks of life.
Our community can’t spend 24/7 in the app (yet!). We’ve expanded how our community can interact when they’re not inside Rec Room via our website, rec.net. As a Web Developer, you will own, design, build and deploy the website that interacts with and delights Rec Room players throughout the day.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:
- Own rec.net – design, build and deploy new features for desktop and mobile
- Continuously improve the look and feel of rec.net with a strong eye toward UX/UI and web interfaces
- Communicate effectively with various cross-discipline teams
- Work in a fast-paced, autonomous, and ambiguous environment
- Learn, grow, improve and help others be better
QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience as a web developer and/or working in web development
- 2+ years of experience with React, TypeScript, CSS and HTML
- Experience designing, building, and deploying features for desktop & mobile
- Strong eye for UI/UX & design of web interfaces
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
BONUS POINTS IF YOU ARE:
- Familiar with online communities in the games space
- Have experience with web analytics tools
- Have experience with Next.js
- Have experience with or knowledge of Entity Framework, C# and/or .NET
- Have experience working with e-commerce and/or social networks
Company Info to know:
The base pay range for this position is $85,000 – $110,000 per year; however, the base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, location, skills, and experience. Stock options and, in some cases, a sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. We also offer a full slate of benefits, including flexible vacation, medical, dental vision, life and disability coverage, long-term care insurance, FSA, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, and a parental leave program. We also offer some not-so-standard benefits, including equipment, family, and pet care stipends.
Rec Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Ruby Software Engineer
REMOTE
ENGINEERING – APPLICATION ENGINEERING
FULL TIME EXEMPT
About Recurly:
Recurly, Inc. provides a versatile subscription management platform to manage the entire subscription lifecycle for market-leading brands worldwide. Subscription businesses such as Sling TV, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Cinemark and Fubo.tv depend on Recurly to harness the power of the subscription model and drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2009, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 42 countries. Our platform empowers billions of credit card transactions and has enabled customers to recover $450 million + in Revenue.
Recurly is backed by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm with over $9 billion in capital commitments. The partnership offers Recurly access to significant capital and resources to make continued investments in technology and platform innovation and expand our go-to-market initiatives.
Since 2009, Recurly has provided enterprise-class recurring billing, revenue optimization, and subscription management services for thousands of businesses worldwide, processing more than 5 billion dollars in transaction volume annually. With that in mind, we are looking for an energetic and dynamic candidate to help build our payment solutions and processing infrastructure. You will be a key component to ensuring the continued success during our rapid growth, and your impact and contribution to the bottom line will be significant.
About you:
You are a passionate engineer who wants to be part of a collaborative team which cares about delivering the right solution to new and interesting problems. You like to push others and be pushed to constantly improve and iterate our product and our process. You care about owning the outcome of your work.
If you do not match the job description 100% we would still like to hear from you!
Required Skills & Experience
- 4 or more years experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails or Node.js
- Functional knowledge of Ruby/RoR platform
- Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment
- Experience with writing automated testing and TDD
- Experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies
- Self-motivated, with a strong desire to learn and improve
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A mindset focused on measuring impact, security, and stability
- Ability to hold yourself and others accountable to high standards when working with production systems
Desired Skills & Experience
- Fintech experience
- Payment Processing Experience
Bonus Points
- GoLang
- Node.js
- React
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- Remote work experience
- Ability to debug across the stack
Benefits:
As a full-time employee, Recurly offers competitive benefits programs, perks and options designed to fit your needs and the needs of your family. We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and a menu from which to choose options that work best for you and eligible dependents. We also offer life insurance, short and long-term disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness coverage, employee accident protection, health savings account (HSA) with company contribution & flexible spending account (FSA) options, employee assistance program, Legal and Pet Insurance.
Other perks may include:
Optional remote or in office work
401(k) Retirement Plan and company match
Company equity
Flex Time Off
Company Events
Training/Development
Tuition reimbursement
Commuter benefits
Volunteer opportunities
Monthly internet stipend
Recurly is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Recurly is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
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