by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Intermediate UX Designer (Remote)
- Houston, TX – Remote OK
- Full-Time
- Product
Location: Remote
Work anywhere in the US, must live in the US
We are growing! Join an Agile technology team of 35+ talented product managers, developers, test engineers, project managers, UX designers, etc. who support a company of ~150 people with industry-leading web applications in areas of subscription-based continuing education, simulation and training, eCommerce, content management, and more.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
A leader in online education, Continued is composed of passionate individuals dedicated to providing an exceptional learning experience that enhances the lives and careers of the professionals we serve. We are fast-paced, nimble, and laugh a lot. We all work from home offices in various locations across the country. We are dynamic, engaged, highly motivated, and highly skilled. We are passionate about our work and our professions and we’re looking for another team member to join our cause. We are certified as a great workplace, ranked #100 in Fortune’s 2022 Best Small & Medium Workplaces for Millennials, ranked #86 in Fortune’s 2021 top 100 Medium-Sized Workplaces in the US and ranked #13 in Fortune’s 2020 top 25 Small & Medium Workplaces for Women by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work. Learn more about us at continued.com.
We celebrate diverse voices within our organization and in the professions we serve, and we welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We strive to be an inclusive workplace where our team members feel empowered and supported in their careers. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious creed, disability status, veteran status or age. We are also committed to paying our team members at fair rates based on their skills and experience.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Though we are virtual and scattered across the country, we communicate frequently, have a tight-knit team, and support each other across roles and projects. We are driven by endless curiosity, a love of learning, and a desire to solve problems.
ABOUT THE POSITION
As a UX Designer at Continued, you’ll be responsible for translating research and insights into delightful user experiences. You’ll work closely with other designers, product managers, stakeholders, and developers to help shape the future of our products. On a typical day, you’ll spend time designing in Figma, validating your designs in Maze, organizing your work in Jira, attending Agile ceremonies via Zoom, and carrying on plenty of chats in Slack.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design usable, accessible, data-driven, and engaging user experiences for mobile and web
- Conduct interviews with key stakeholders to create user stories, personas, and storyboards
- Deliver design work, including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
- Respect and contribute to the evolving design system
- Seek to understand user behavior and motivations using qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Engage in critiques as well as share new learnings and case studies
- Challenge existing processes with new ways for the team to be more effective
REQUIREMENTS
- 4+ years of relevant design experience required – looking for intermediate level of experience rather than junior (1-3 yrs) or senior (7+ yrs)
- A Bachelor’s is required, but a degree in a relevant field is preferred.
- An online portfolio demonstrating experience creating user-centric design solutions (sketch, storyboard, final designs to live experiences)
- Extensive experience using Figma, Adobe XD, Axure, or similar tools, but Figma is highly preferred.
MORE ABOUT THE POSITION
- Full-time W2 position, work core U.S. business hours in your time zone
- Ability to fulfill the job requirements with or without reasonable accommodations
- Work from your home office
- Company-provided MacBook Pro, internet stipend, etc
- Must be located in the United States and be legally eligible to work for us
- Travel is required for an annual company meeting, and may be required once per year for team or project meetings
- We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision group health insurance, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, accident insurance, and more
- We offer 21 days of paid time off per year as well as your birthday and national holidays and observances (you may substitute any of the standard holidays for another public holiday such as bank/school or other regional or religious holidays)
- We offer a 401k match, professional development, charitable gift matching, robust wellness programs, and more
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Head of Game Design
Full-time | Dapper Sports Studio | US, Remote | Creative
We are looking for a passionate and innovative thought leader to run game design across our portfolio of sports products.
The ideal candidate has proven experience shipping gaming experiences in a variety of different categories including games-as-a-service, mobile and web platforms. You bring a desire to pioneer gaming and products on blockchains and decentralized platforms that will change the landscape of collectible gaming forever. You have experience managing a roster of diverse creatives and a passion for unlocking success in others. Deep understanding of the world’s largest sports leagues is a huge benefit.
What we’ll accomplish together:
- Lead the design of the most innovative and best-in-class Web3 experiences as measured by key results co-developed with the executive team; Retention & Engagement, Acquisition & Conversion, LTV, Increased total market value, etc.
- Establish an overall template and approach to collectibles and gamification that can be applied across products of varying maturity.
- Develop a unified approach to analytics, data-driven decision making and management of the economic health of live NFT products.
- Establish operating practises for content creation with an eye to value, market activity and retention.
- Design features (from vision to specifics) that enhance the player experience and drive target OKRs.
- Drive innovation through development of hypotheses, live experimentation and iteration in the constantly evolving category of Web3 gaming.
- Establish quality bars and driving delivery of the key live service components of the experiences including fluid product economics, quest / missions, metagame systems and community events.
- Lead, train and hire a best-in-class game design team to service all sports products.
- Lead creative services as needed, including art, graphic design, product design, copywriting and user research.
A little about you:
- Deep game design experience including all phases of development, production and live operations.
- Design, deployment and refinement of monetization features and live economy balancing.
- Management of mid-to-large sized teams, focused on game designers but the ideal candidate has experience with UX, art and production.
- A passion for emerging technologies, in particular decentralization, blockchain and NFTs.
- A focused determination to ship quality experiences in a world of dynamically changing requirements.
More about Dapper Labs:
Dapper Labs uses blockchain technology to make web3 experiences easy, safe and fun.
Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them to contribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves.
Dapper Labs is the makers of the Dapper Platform – the trusted gateway to digital worlds – and the officially-licensed digital video collectibles including NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, UFC Strike and LaLiga Golazos.
Notable investors in Dapper Labs include Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Google Ventures (GV), Samsung, and the founders of Dreamworks, Reddit, Coinbase, Zynga, and AngelList, among others. Dapper Labs’ studio partners include the NBA and NBPA, the NFL and NFLPA, Ubisoft, Warner Music, Turner, Dr. Seuss, Genies, as well as 100+ others.
Visit our website to learn even more about Dapper Labs, including information about benefits and perks.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Lead Data Analyst
Location: Remote – United States
About Us
NOCD is the #1 telehealth provider for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is one of the most severe, prevalent, and misunderstood mental health conditions. NOCD creates access to online therapy for people with OCD through our telehealth platform. In the NOCD app, members can quickly access and schedule live, face-to-face video therapy sessions with our national network of licensed therapists that specialize in Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) – considered the “gold standard” in OCD treatment.
At NOCD, we help people reclaim their lives with clinically proven OCD treatment, by removing barriers to OCD care, and reducing the stigma associated with OCD. We’re changing the world and need other like-minded individuals to accelerate and expand our efforts.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a highly analytical and mission-driven Sr. Lead Data Analyst to join the Analytics team at NOCD. Our team aids decision-making by providing the right data to stakeholders and using it to identify solutions. We are a highly collaborative team working with leaders across the company, so the Sr. Lead Data Analyst should expect to gain experience and exposure with all teams at NOCD. This includes providing advanced analytical support to Finance, Network Operations, Clinical, and Member Services. This role will take the lead in managing and enhancing the clinical measurement platform. The platform captures the clinical progress of all members, quantifying the reduction of symptoms, improvements in quality of life, and measuring the efficiency of our clinical protocol. This role will also support clinical research, clinical publication, and the development of predictive analytics that improve care delivery and member adherence to the clinical protocol.
Role Responsibilities Include:
- Develop and maintain analytic models and reporting structures that are used to evaluate and improve clinical healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency
- Serve as a data/analytics mentor to internal business departments to increase the analytics acumen of the organization
- Meet with NOCD’s health plan partners to share the clinical outcomes and utilization data
- Work on big pillar strategy and planning projects, including goal setting and tracking, process optimization, and data analytics reporting
- Uncover areas within the business to drive process improvements that enhance growth and provide clarity toward execution
Qualifications:
- 4 – 8 years of experience in consulting, business operations, or product operations in tech, healthcare, or high-growth startups
- Strong data modeling skills with experience implementing enhancements in a data warehouse
- 3+ years experience in Healthcare (with providers, health plans, or as a vendor)
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, information management, public health, statistics, or equivalent work experience
- Excellent data and analytical skills (fluent in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets)
- Exceptional data presentation skills (ability to develop presentation and present)
- Strong cross-functional project management skills (experience working with finance and software teams preferred)
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Mission-driven and a passion for mental health and lowering the cost of healthcare
NOCD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. NOCD is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO); Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Partnership Builder (Common Voice)
Location: Remote US, San Francisco Office, Remote Canada, Toronto Office, Berlin Office, Remote Germany, Remote UK
Half a million people around the world have contributed to Mozilla Common Voice. They are language activists, software engineers, researchers and artists and they speak more than 100 global languages. MCV is part of a wider effort within Mozilla to mitigate bias in Artificial Intelligence by building open tools and innovative, practical resources. The Common Voice datasets have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by technologists around the world in all kinds of organizations.
We are supported through multi-sector investments from government, foundations and technology companies.
About this role
We are looking for an exceptional partnership builder to support the Common Voice team. Your role will be to identify partners from across the ecosystem, with a particular focus on technology organizations of all scales. You will work closely with the Product Lead and Technology Community Manager to map the speech AI ecosystem, and build relationships with high potential partners. Your work will be guided by our ethos of movement building, and you will be accountable for significant funding goals – targeting at least $1.5 million to be spent on the platform over 3 years – alongside understanding our particular governance needs as an open-source community project.
You will initially be engaged for 12 months, at 2.5 days per week, with the possibility of extension and/or expansion subject to performance review & organizational priorities.
You will
- Build a pipeline of partners for the project, with a particular focus on supporting data consumers to invest back into the project (especially: for profit technology organizations, research entities with substantial grants etc)
- Engage internally with collaborators around the organization, ensuring there is alignment and clarity
- Engage with the Product Manager around any MCV platform needs to support efforts – for example changes to partnership pages, or tapping into Donate stacks through the Foundation microsite
- Deepen partnerships with said organizations and guide them through to fruition
- Identify other aligned funding opportunities, for example tenders and CFPs
- Spot opportunities beyond financial investment for collaboration and ecosystem building (for example, events, training, mobilisation, competitions or grant-making)
- Structure insights for the Product Lead to deeply understand enterprise partner needs, in order to shape platform capabilities and the wider project roadmap
- Work with the Technology Community Manager to identify new data partners, and raise our profile with them
- Deeply listen to, and grapple with, the governance and community issues entailed by particular engagements – we are a community-first project
- Represent MCV in spaces of interest, including conferences, networks and events
You must
- Be tenacious, self-motivated and difficult to daunt – you will be the first person doing this job
- Have the confidence and credibility to represent and advocate for MCV with senior external collaborators and high impact partners
- Have fantastic communication and interpersonal skills – easily adapting to very different cultures and processes
- Be ferociously organized, with great attention to detail – ensuring a great exploration and on-boarding experience for partners
- Be credible with technologists and technical partners who want to talk in detail about MCV’s platform and dataset
- Have 3+ years of senior experience in sales, partnerships, fundraising and/or account management
- Technology experience would be a significant advantage
Salary and Benefits Information:
The Mozilla Foundation is dedicated to fair and equitable compensation for our staff. We aim to pay a competitive and market-based salary that takes into consideration the responsibilities and requirements of the role. We aim to offer at the midpoint of our salary ranges for the purposes of inclusivity and fairness of our offer process and ensuring internal equity. We do not ask for, or take into account, salary histories in our offer process.
The base salary ranges, along with mid-point, for this role in each of the key countries in which we employ staff is listed below. We also welcome applications from all backgrounds to this role
We target the 75th percentile of market pay as a salary band midpoint for all levels, with 10% either side of the midpoint to create a salary range.
- Germany: 38,987 – 47,650 (mid-point: 43,319)
- UK: 23,442 – 28,651 (mid-point: 26,047)
- Canada: $44,833 – $54,796 (mid-point: $49,815)
- US: $42,154 – $51,522 (mid-point: $46,838)
Depending on the successful candidate’s location, we may also add in a geographic differential to this base salary that accounts for local job market weighting. This differential is applied to the above ranges. Below are some of the common cities in which we hire staff along with representative examples of salary ranges, mid-point, and the geographical differential applied:
- Inner London: 25,552 – 31,230 (mid-point: 28,390)
- Toronto: $48,375 – $59,125 (mid-point: $53,750)
- New York: $46,706 – $57,086 (mid-point: $51,896)
The range for your specific location will be discussed in screening conversations if your application is successful.
We offer the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance + Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement Plan contributions
- 20 Paid Time Off days per year (prorated) + your birthday
- Company Holidays + Shutdown
- Wellness budget
- Professional Development budget
- Top up program for Parental leaves
Benefits are subject to change at any time at the discretion of Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Foundation Hiring Practices:
Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Python Software Engineer
Boulder, CO or Remote
We are looking for a Python Software Engineer with a serious commitment to climate technologies to join our team in Boulder, CO. If you want to help shape a new future of a cleaner, most cost-effective energy supply and work for an industry-leading software company with dedicated and talented people passionate about our future, this could be a great fit. Ascend is a fast growing and profitable company with opportunity for advancement.
Ascend Analytics is an innovative climate tech software and consulting company focused on energy analytics that are transforming the electric grid to renewables. Ascend’s solutions provide the analytics to support critical power supply decisions from operating strategies over the next hour, to hedging and budgeting decisions over the next five years, to long-term investment and resource planning decisions over the next thirty years.
Job Description
As a Back-End Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe.
Job Responsibilities
Support and advance back-end software applications by:
- Design and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript)
- Refactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability
- Develop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts
- Implement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale
- Work with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software
- Communicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Mentor and guide junior engineers
- Contribute to scoping and design discussions
- This position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning.
Education & Experience
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems
- 2+ years as a back-end software engineer
Preferred Skills & Knowledge
- Demonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design
- Familiarity with data processing in Python (including Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, Scikit-Learn) is strongly preferred
- Experience designing and developing full-stack applications and RESTful web services
- Familiarity or exposure to cloud computing platforms and ecosystems, e.g., Azure, AWS, and containerization, e.g., Docker
- Data Science, including statistics, machine learning, and data visualization
- Referential databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
- Ability to communicate with impact and confidence, both orally and in writing
- Strong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic
- Knowledge of wholesale electricity markets; passion for renewables and storage
- Experience with code review, architecture, development, and promotion processes
Compensation ($100,000 – $150,000)
Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. We offer flexible work hours with a relaxed environment and opportunities for advancement. Excellent benefits are available, including medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.
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