Senior Product Designer

by Ronald Barron | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Senior Product Designer (Remote)

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Solar power is the largest source of new energy in the world. Raptor Maps is a fast-growing, venture-backed, MIT-born climate tech startup that is building software to enable the solar energy industry to scale. Parties across the entire solar lifecycle use Raptor Maps’ data model to manage ever growing utility-scale solar portfolios. We are an industry leader with hundreds of customers, including owners, builders, operators, and aerial service providers, across over 45 countries with 200+ million solar panels under management. Our software platform is essential in the fight against climate change.

Raptor Maps is looking for a dynamic Senior Product Designer to help design and expand products that drive the efficiency and ROI of solar projects around the world. In this role, you will provide input into overall design decisions and complete the tactical design work associated with your projects. You’ll be a member of our product team, working together with designers, engineers, and other cross functional stakeholders to build product solutions that address real user needs.

You are a design thinker with a creative eye who is passionate about user experience. You love translating the wants and needs of customers into high impact product design features. In this role, you will dive right into our fast-paced, multi-faceted product team and play a vital part in scaling our user experience and design system.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on features that solve our customer pain points
• Collaborate closely with other designers and Product Leadership to define features and contribute to the overall direction of our product
• Drive alignment, set goals, and drive understanding and motivation with your partners and team
• Lead design activities like experience mapping, co-design sessions, and design critiques
• Use and evolve our design system to craft flows, sketches, and high-fidelity prototypes for features
• Use data analytics, consumer insights and research data to inform design decisions
• Partner with engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation of your designs
• Establish and maintain design standards and best practices for our product
• Contribute to UX research experiments and customer discovery calls
• In team discussions and feedback sessions, clearly and succinctly articulate the goals and concepts behind your work
• Solicit feedback from your peers, including other product designers and teammates within your product area
• Mentor other designers as you play an active role in growing Raptor Maps team and culture

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant product design experience
• An online portfolio of shipped products that demonstrates data-influenced decision making and an ability to balance beauty with usability
• An excellent understanding of design system theory and execution; an ability to build usable, accessible, and modular designs that can scale with our platform
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple projects concurrently
• Proficient experience in creating beautiful high-fidelity mockups and detailed interactive prototypes
• Experience in working alongside Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for features
• Experience in applied user research such as usability testing
• Demonstrated ability to influence product decisions and drive customer impact
• Self-motivated and organized with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of UI Accessibility standards
• Must be proficient in Figma
• Must be primarily located in the contiguous US
• Must be authorized to work in the US

Preferred Qualifications

• This is not a UI developer role, however familiarity with modern UI technologies and best practices is a bonus
• Prior ownership of design system management
• Understanding of utility scale or commercial and industrial solar technology

All Raptor Maps Team Members Have:

Complete ownership and accountability over their role and success in the team.

Transparency into the operations of the rest of the company and are expected to be transparent and communicate honestly and effectively.

A sense of urgency. We are tackling a global problem, working in a fast-paced industry, and building a once in a lifetime company at Raptor Maps.

Benefits

Raptor Maps is a remote-first company with employees across the country and headquarters at Greentown Labs in Boston, MA. Team members are free to work anywhere in the lower 48 states. A few remote benefits include:

– Paid travel for in-person team trips

– Healthcare with dental and vision options

– Unlimited vacation policy

– 401(k)

– Desk budget

– Monthly remote social events and plenty of DoorDash credit

– Amazing team members that tend to love memes, pets, solar, and being active

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User Researcher II

by Ronald Barron | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

User Researcher II

Location: Fearless HQ or Remote

Fearless is looking for a User Researcher II to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).

What you’ll be doing:

The User Researcher II plans, designs, and conducts research activities with users that help teams gain a deep understanding of the people that use the products and services we create and work on. They are responsible for conducting user research, analysis and synthesis, persona development, and usability testing to unearth human insights in order to guide the application of design of digital products and services.

Responsibilities and Contributions

Organizational and Leadership Role

• Independently executes and implements solutions with minimal direction from senior Designers or team leaders.
• Coaches and mentors others to develop their professional skills and improve the quality of their work.
• Strengthens Fearless’ research community and fosters positive collaboration across the company.

Functional Role

Collaboration & Communication

• Communicates research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed designs, design rationale, and goals both verbally and visually.
• Presents findings and articulates opportunities to cross-functional teammates and stakeholders.
• Guides and leads team members in analysis and synthesis when needed.
• Collaborates closely with other Researchers, Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to identify research objectives.
• Coaches interdisciplinary teams on basic research and synthesis skills, and co-facilitates synthesis sessions.
• Collaborates with Visual Designers to help translate insights into visual artifacts.

Research & Analysis

• Conducts qualitative and quantitative research, managing research participants in an efficient, inclusive fashion in accordance with privacy guidelines to meet research objectives.
• Develops and carries out research plans.
• Implements an evidence-based approach to craft information radiators, such as user personas, journey maps, and service blueprints to communicate insights.
• Designs and carries out research activities with users and team members to help them get a deep understanding of the people that use products and services.
• Informs policy and proposition by aligning research activities and objectives.
• Applies user-centered design practices in an agile workflow to deliver timely findings.
• Conducts iterative design activities, such as observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
• Analyzes and synthesizes the results of usability testing and other research methods to provide recommendations for change and improvement to products and services.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies

Must-Have Skills

• Experience with a wide variety of research and synthesis methods applied across the product development process.
• Experience with user experience design, service design, and human-centered design practices.
• Demonstrated ability to align user research activities to help the team understand changing user behavior.
• Experience creating and implementing research plans.
• Experience effectively implementing a variety of research methods.
• Demonstrated understanding of the diversity of users of Government services and the need to make services usable and accessible for everyone.
• Ability to collaborate, actively network, and provide diverse feedback to the team at times when information can be fully absorbed.
• Experience working in agile environments, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them.
• Knowledge of the technologies used to build and operate digital services.
• Experience recruiting end users for research activities.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and communicate constraints and work within them.
• Ability to conduct analysis and visualization of large, multi-faceted data sets.
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.

Icing-on-the-Cake Skills

• Knowledge of the social and technological context for Government products and services.
• Experience in service design, visual design, interaction design, content design, and/or user research.
• Experience working with Government customers.

What Else You Should Know

Compensation and Benefits:

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package:

• Flexible schedule
• Family-friendly workplace
• 14 days of PTO allowance (not accrued so you get it up front!) PTO + 8.75 days sick leave + 11 federal holidays + your birthday off!
• 100% coverage of the employee-only premium for HSA, HMO, or PPO plan and Employee Wellness Plan
• Tech, education / training, and snack allowances
• Free parking in downtown Baltimore / public transit coverage
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions and immediate vesting

Location:

• In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our offices are located in Baltimore and Montgomery.
• All new employees must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for the position. Reasonable accommodations for qualified exemption requests will be considered.

Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole you over the course of your career.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we’ve established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills is given equal pay for equal work.

Our approach to compensation is intended to ensure our total package serves all of your needs and includes base pay, medical and other benefits, performance rewards, 401k matching, plus a few perks (tech and wellness reimbursement programs)!

Our salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location and provide team members salary growth within a salary grade over time. Team members automatically progress within a salary range through annual increases (given to reward service at Fearless) or merit increases (given to reward and individual’s demonstrated performance and growth within the position). Fearless team members are also eligible for discretionary bonuses based on company performance.

The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.

• AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $81,946(min) – $104,482 (mid) – $144,024 (max)
• NC Residents: $84,481 (min) – $107,713 (mid) – $130,945 (max)
• DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $88,705 (min) – $113,099(mid) – $137,493 (max)
• MA Residents: $93,774 (min) – $119,561 (mid) – $145,349 (max)
• DC Residents: $99687 (min) – $127,101 (mid) – $154,515 (max)
• CA & NY Residents: $103,067 (min) – $131,410 (mid) – $159,753 (max)

Within the range, starting pay for team members is based on the evaluation of the alignment with the position description requirements including job-related skills and experience or training. This range reflects your earning potential over the course of your career at Fearless in this position.

So, what’s next?

Over the years, we’ve honed a 3-step interview process that helps ensure that every employee we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews!

• Culture Ad Interview – We’re a people-first company, so we always start off by getting to know more about you, how you work, what your career goals are, and what you’re passionate about. This is your opportunity to ask questions and get a feel for Fearless, so don’t be shy!
• Technical Interview – This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by our Passion Coaches and/or the team’s Project Lead to make sure your skills align with the project requirements.
• Business Interview – At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.

Why Fearless?

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package:

• Flexible schedule
• Family-friendly workplace
• 3 weeks accrued PTO + 1 week sick leave + 10 federal holidays + your birthday off
• 100% coverage of the employee-only premium for HSA, HMO, or PPO plan and Employee Wellness Plan
• Tech, education / training, and snack allowances
• Free parking in downtown Baltimore / public transit coverage
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions

About Fearless:

Fearless is a full-stack digital services firm in Baltimore that delivers sleek, modern, and user-friendly software designed to push the boundaries of possibility. It’s our mission to build software with a soul tools that empower communities and make a difference so we can create a world where good software powers the things that matter.

That’s not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our employees excited to come to work every day. That’s why we encourage our employees to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With built-in company mentoring, continuing education support, flexible schedules, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.

Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.

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Energy Analytics Developer – Optimization

by Ronald Barron | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Energy Analytics Developer – Optimization

Boulder, CO or Remote

We are looking for a Energy Analytics Developer Optimization with a strong commitment to energy system modeling to join our team in Boulder, CO (remote work possible from other locations). If you want to help shape a new future of a cleaner and more cost-effective energy supply and work with an industry-leading software company with dedicated and talented people who are passionate about our future, this could be a great fit.

AscendAnalyticsis 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 decisionsover the next thirty years.

Job Description

As an Energy Analytics Developer at Ascend Analytics, you will be responsible for advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong analytical skills and ability to develop innovative problem-solving solutions will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. Responsibilities include prototyping new solutions and extending existing models. Required skills include knowledge of mixed integer linear programming, simulations and stochastic processes. Familiarity with electrical energy systems and markets is preferred.

Job Responsibilities

Solve complex analytic problems to make mission critical decisions for energy supply by:

• Translating requirements into model formulation
• Implementing forecasting and optimization models for operation and valuation of renewable resources and battery storage
• Develop both prototype models and production software
• Supporting existing commercial software and production systems

This position also involves computational stochastic optimization, decision making under uncertainty, statistical learning, algorithms in statistics and finance applications, stochastic search, simulating high penetrations of wind and solar energy, optimizing generation under uncertainty, unit dispatch and transmission modeling, modeling of hydroelectric storage systems, and planning and control of electric battery storage.

Education & Experience

• Masters in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, or Power Systems; PhD Preferred
• 3+ years of industry or academic experience in the field

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Time series modeling and advanced statistics
• Optimization methods and commercial solvers (e.g., GAMS, Goroubi, CPLEX, Xpress)
• Familiarity with relational database platforms (Oracle, MS SQL, Postgres)
• Ability to communicate with impact and confidence, both verbally and in writing
• Strong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic
• Interest in learning about and deploying novel software solutions
• Prior knowledge of, or strong interest in learning about wholesale electricity markets
• Preferred, Experience in Python and relevant libraries (e.g., NumPy, Pandas, SciPy)

Compensation ($130,000 – $190,000)

Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment and opportunities for advancement. Excellent benefits are available, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability insurance, dependent care spending account, and 401k plan. Ascend values their employees’ overall well-being and contributes a monthly stipend to any gym membership our employees choose. Ascend Analytics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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Salesforce Administrator

by Ronald Barron | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Salesforce Administrator

Location: United States

Edmentum is the leading provider of K-12 digital curriculum, assessments, and services to 43,000 schools in all 50 states and over 100 countries worldwide. We partner with educators to create instructional technology that is proven, easy-to-use, individualized, and aligned to state standards. Built on a 60-year history of innovation and impact, we believe that when educators succeed, students thrive, everywhere learning occurs.

As a Salesforce Administrator, you will be an integral part of the Business Systems Team, responsible for the administration of 550+ users utilizing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and Salesforce Maps as well as integrations including Marketo, NetSuite, Conga, Planhat, and Outreach. We are seeking a creative, collaborative, self-starter to support process transformation and new feature adoption. You should love Salesforce and be excited to work with a top-notch team to maintain and innovate Salesforce and business processes where we can have the most impact. Thorough discovery and discussions with key stakeholders and end users are critical pieces of this role. You should possess the necessary knowledge to keep Salesforce optimized and efficiently maintained, as well as bring ideas to the table of new and creative ways to leverage Salesforce features and improve processes. The ideal candidate will have exceptional technical, analytical, project management, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills and will be comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Manage the Business Systems ticketing process by triaging tickets submitted by end users, perform discovery make recommendations, work on solutions with team, and document work.
• Communicate with stakeholders and leaders to keep up to date with their internal processes
• Collaborate with Business Systems Team on solutions, new feature usage, and business process changes.
• Perform general maintenance including running internal diagnostic tools such as health check and optimize and make recommendations.
• Configuration of new and existing Salesforce features including user management (roles, profiles, groups permission sets), object management, validation rules, Flows, workflows rules, process builder, dynamic pages and records.
• Partner with Sales, Support, and Services leaders and teams to promote Salesforce best practices and improve processes
• Support and improve Omni-Channel, email-to-case, queues, escalation rules.
• Create curriculum and deliver monthly Salesforce new user trainings via Zoom or recorded.
• Work on a variety of special projects related to Edmentum systems, tools, programs, and projects as assigned.
• This includes requirement definition, system design, documentation, and testing.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree recommended
• Salesforce Administrator Certification required, additional Salesforce certifications a plus
• 2 years of Salesforce Administrator experience
• Salesforce CPQ experience a plus
• Conga Sign, Conga Composer, Conga Contracts for Salesforce or similar CLM or eSignature tool knowledge a plus
• NetSuite experience a plus
• Agile or Scrum experience a plus
• Critical-thinking, on-the-fly solutioning, and proactive collaborating required
• Experience using and implementing tools and technologies such as DemandTools, DataLoader, Rollup Helper
• Comfortable working with highly customized Salesforce environments, with complex data models and integrations with other systems, such as Marketo, Conga, Planhat, Outreach, or similar tools
• Proven ability to design and implement new processes and facilitate user adoption
• Excellent time management, prioritization, decision-making, communication, and organization skills required.
• Less than 10% travel; some weekend work to release updates to production

Edmentum is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for our employees, vendors, and guests. Our organization will comply with all COVID-19 vaccination requirements at a site or facility that requires all employees and contractors who will be performing services. The CDC defines fully vaccinated as being two weeks after the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 Vaccine or two weeks after the single dose of a one-dose vaccine.

Edmentum is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Edmentum’s notice regarding the collection of personal information from interested candidates is available here

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Product Designer

by Ronald Barron | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Product Designer (Contractor)

Location: Remote

InVision is the visual collaboration platform powering the world’s best companies. The heart of InVision is Freehand, our online collaborative whiteboard. We built Freehand to transform the way people work together. Transformation is a bold term, but we stand by it. So do our users from IBM, Salesforce, Credit Suisse, and Netflix. We are trusted by 100% of the Fortune 100 because we understand that collaboration is about more than just seeing each other it’s about creating a space of purpose. More than 7 million people across global enterprises and small teams come to us when they are looking to transform the way they work together. InVision Freehand enables businesses to work across distances and disciplines to unlock the expertise of every team member and deliver powerful business results.

With Freehand we’re on a mission to transform the way people work together by helping them collaborate better. On anything. From anywhere.

InVision has always been a fully distributed, remote organization. Our internal culture is made up of diverse, collaborative, connections forming a community where everyone belongs, thrives, and grows. We are shaping the future of work. Come join us.

Our team is in search of a Contract Product Designer who will collaborate with us to reimagine the future of work with Freehand. This role will be a 1099 contractor with the potential for conversion to a full-time employee in the future.

About the team:

This role will work most closely with our Growth Zone, which is responsible for evolving and redefining our foundational products across a suite of experiences, both new and existing. This includes areas of our E2E experience, including: core tooling, navigation, organization, sharing content, solving for collaboration across teams, and the entire InVision home experience.

In this role, you will be empowered to identify the right problems to solve and create solutions that our customers love while driving the business forward. You will be challenged to redefine existing patterns, create innovative solutions for complex systems, and explore new directions for some of our most visible and impactful product areas. The innovation that you and the team bring to market will have a measurable impact on expanding InVision’s addressable market and drive the growth and success of the InVision platform.

You will act as a senior design leader who drives strategy and inspiration across multiple product areas, all with the goal of continuing to build the future of a collaborative platform critical to InVision’s strategy. The pandemic has sped up digital transformation across so many companies that now we are at the dawn of a new era. Creating great digital experiences demands collaboration at a whole new scale – it’s the work of the entire company, not just one team. In partnership with Design, Product and Engineering peers, you will lead the team to create a workspace that catalyzes creative collaboration, creative thinking, and creative energy across teams and organizations.

What we’re looking for:

• You consistently create high-fidelity visual aids that promote the future direction of the business, and your creative ideas will inspire future facing roadmaps.
• You take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and desirable customer experiences that are impactful for our business.
• You’re a systems thinker, approaching each problem by considering how the elements in the experience interact with one another across multiple workflows.
• You take complex problems and scenarios and turn them into simple, easily understandable experiences.
• You easily work with cross-functional leaders to establish systems, rules, practices, and guidelines that benefit and facilitate work for the entire organization.
• Your work will drive innovation and elevate the product experience by designing flows and interfaces that are delightful, simple, and effective.
• You contribute to high-level strategic direction with your Product and Engineering partners, as well as Design peers.
• You work closely with designers, product managers, engineering, marketing, and leadership in a highly collaborative environment.
• You give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality.

What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in the design of digital products that have been released to the market, with a proven track record of success
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end (from brief to shipping) digital products within a cross-functional team environment with an iterative approach that leverages quantitative and qualitative measurement
• You balance intuition with rigor and use your powers in craft to make and to drive influence within the organization
• Demonstrated ability to think at a high level about product strategy but also act with speed and precision to identify and deliver the tactical pieces that realize it
• Thorough knowledge and experience across a range of design approaches and methodologies
• Proactive initiative that identifies problems and acts on opportunities to improve the product offering
• Excellent written & verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong collaboration skills across disciplines that drive change
• Ability to manage and contribute to multiple projects concurrently

Please note: Candidates must share a portfolio to be considered for this role.

About InVision:

InVision offers an incredibly unique work environment. The company employs a diverse team all over the world. Each InVision team member is given the freedom and tools to do their best work from wherever they choose.

The benefits we offer are locally competitive and comprehensive. InVision-wide benefits include a flexible vacation policy, monthly spending card, annual allowances for books related to your profession, home office setup, and wellness reimbursements. InVision is an international employer so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.

InVision is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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