Organic Growth Manager

by Ronald Barron | Dec 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Organic Growth Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Based in the U.S.)

Growing our company with strategic and analytical marketers is a high priority for us. We are seeking an experienced Organic Growth Manager to join our SEO Team supporting high-growth verticals. You will be an instrumental part of leading the organic audience acquisition strategy alongside our diverse team of Organic Growth Managers as we support our company’s mission to provide clarity across all life’s financial decisions!

In this role, the top initiative is to ensure we continue building our organic visitor traffic which has a direct impact on NerdWallet’s success. You will be responsible for owning the audience acquisition strategy for specific verticals with a focus on SEO. Flexing your problem-solving skills, you’ll delve into our verticals and craft the execution and delivery of key initiatives across content, product, business, and marketing. The right candidate is an excellent cross-functional partner, can balance multiple priorities and thrives in a fast-paced environment. If you want to develop your skills in organic growth marketing or SEO, we encourage you to apply!

If you were here 6 months ago, here are some things you might have worked on:

• Architect a Traffic & Monetization Annual Plan incorporating organic audience behavior patterns, Google SERP development and macroeconomic factors
• Increase our visibility in localized search results for geo targeted keyword phrases
• Building a growth path for both emerging and legacy verticals

Where you can make an impact:

• Own vertical performance and proactively find opportunities to improve existing tactics and/or implement new ones
• Champion effective communication and practical recommendations to ensure alignment across product, content, and marketing teams
• Partner with Brand, Paid Marketing, CRM, and other core marketing functions to collaborate on full-funnel user journey strategies
• Maintain backlog of testing recommendations to consistently Hypothesize, Build, Measure, and Learn

You are:

• Collaborative: build effective working relationships with Content, Engineering, and Business partners through clear, reliable communication
• A problem-solver biased for action: knows how to assess and approach a situation to understand the root of the problem quickly to make decisions that drive execution with little oversight; you take ownership and initiative for crafting strategy and execution
• Relentlessly inquisitive: NerdWallet is a well established and highly-successful SEO program but has growth opportunities in unconventional SEO
• Resilient: able to adapt to changing situations and ambiguity by being proactive and taking the initiative to get things done

Your experience:

We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the requirements below and you’re passionate about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

• Understanding or expertise in SEO and SEO tools
• 4+ years of work experience in growth marketing, strategy consulting, or business operations at a high growth B2C or B2B company
• Proven track record of delivering business outcomes and/or products that move the needle on company metrics
• Experience working with Editorial Content teams to improve channel distribution
• Experience in local SEO at scale (100+ locations) or you have worked on an enterprise website with over 50k pages

Where:

• This role will be based in San Francisco, CA or remote (based in the U.S.).
• We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

What we offer:

Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
• Rejuvenation Policy Flexible Time Off + 13 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
• Mental health support through Ginger.io
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
• Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
• Weekly Virtual Bootcamp, Yoga, and Mindfulness Meditation sessions
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

• Nerd-led group initiatives Intramural Sports, Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
• Hackathons, Happy Hours, and team events across all teams and departments
• Company-wide events like Little Nerds Day (aka bring your kids to work day, even if you’re remote!) and our annual Charity Auction

Lifestyle (Be your best self – we’ll take care of the details)

• Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward Donate to your favorite causes with a company match
• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy
• Anniversary recognition program choose from different items and experiences
• Commuting stipend

Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)

• 401K with company match
• Annual Enrichment Stipend for learning and development
• Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
• Access to Rocket Lawyer for online legal support and resources

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Principal User Experience Designer

by Ronald Barron | Dec 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Principal UX Designer – Remote Opportunity

Location: Remote United States of America

The job of a Principal Experience Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life. In this role, you ll take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs for our clients around the world. Achieving this goal requires that you are grounded in IxD and Design Thinking practices. You’ll collaborate closely with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers throughout the design process from crafting user ows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes. At each stage, you will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them, and ensure that the nal product surprises and delights them. The Principal Experience Designer will support and report to UX Managers.

The wage range for this position is $150K to $170K with the actual pay dependent on your skills and experience as they relate to the job requirements and the location where you will be performing the job. This position is also eligible to earn an annual incentive bonus.

Responsibilities

In a self-directed fashion acting in a leadership capacity:

• Define the user model and user interface for new and existing products and features.
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Gauge the usability products and making constructive suggestions for change
• Planning and estimating work
• Devise a research roadmap for a product; plan, run and synthesize qualitative & quantitative user research
• Contributes to Design System

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, Human Factors/Ergonomics, CS, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in crafting usable digital interfaces
• Professional References
• Deep understanding of the business or domain area
• Must have a portfolio of past design work

Technical Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency in these areas:
• UX prototyping experience with tools like Figma, Axure, Sketch
• Creating user journeys, personas, scenarios, navigational maps, flow diagrams, wireframes and prototypes
• Planning and running usability testing and synthesizing the results into actionable recommendations
• Agile practices
• Working knowledge of analytics tools such as Google Analytics.
• Interest in tracking user metrics to inform design decisions.
• Mobile design (native & web) experience preferred.
• Experienced and comfortable working with Agile development teams
• Maintain expert level knowledge of competitive products & experiences

Soft Skills

• Curious and passionate about innovation and design
• Proficient with quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Able to lead and adapt to changing priorities
• Highly collaborative, flexible and communicative
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work in self-directed fashion
• Comfortable presenting recommendations to colleagues and stakeholders
• Excellent leadership skills
• Coaching junior members of the design team
• Expert in Design Thinking and Lean UX principles & techniques
• Diplomatic and skilled negotiator

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Art Director

by Ronald Barron | Dec 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Art Director

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Based in the U.S.)

NerdWallet’s Brand Studio team is looking for a versatile Art Director to be a strategic design partner for a consumer-first company. As a member of Brand Studio, you will conceptualize, design and implement creative solutions that align with NerdWallet’s roadmap. With a start-up mentality and your full range of skills in graphic design and art direction, you will help our team push the boundaries of what’s possible to grow and extend the NerdWallet brand. On Brand Studio, we define and evolve our brand expression, build all the creative for our advertising channels, integrated marketing campaigns, our CRM program, content experiences, and our internal brand.

Your center of excellence should be design and creative development as you will be acting in the capacity of a Lead Visual Designer and Art Director supporting everything from marketing campaigns, to sponsorships, events, and the occasional internal project as well. You will lead and create multi-deliverable campaign assets, from OOH, to radio, digital, photography, and experiential design.

We hope that you are excited by the opportunity to bring meaningful change to the world of FinTech with innovative design that informs, delights, and engages.

You are:

• Innovative: An outstanding designer and art director with a jaw-dropping portfolio that demonstrates your ability to build inspiring creative solutions for consumers across brand advertising channels. You have a proven track record of leading projects from development, through execution, and to success.
• Visionary: Not one to shy away from complex challenges that require new thinking and a willingness to take chances. You have in-depth knowledge of innovative trends and technologies in the advertising and marketing space that you share with the design team to influence and elevate.
• Strategic: As a creative problem solver, you supply innovative ideas that build on data and analytics in order to meet business objectives.
• Insightful: Able to inspire while articulating design decisions. You can effectively communicate your ideas to other designers and collaborators through strong oral and written communication skills.
• Flexible: In a fast-paced, dynamic working environment, you can handle quick feedback loops and fluctuate between jumping from campaigns to working on internal projects.
• Collaborative: Experience partnering cross-functionally with team members across marketing and product – from creating concepts and pitching ideas to delivery – in order to build best in class creative executions.

Where you can make an impact:

• Work closely with other Brand strategists and designers to craft engaging and performant concepts for our integrated campaigns including landing pages, display ads, social, radio, and video elements.
• Partner with our marketing team to bring to life creative concepts with brand objectives and our target consumer in mind.
• Evolve and inspire the NerdWallet brand within the Brand Studio Team and the company at large.

Your experience:

• 8+ years of applied design experience, management experience nice to have but not required
• Very comfortable developing strategic concepts based on business and audience insights
• An expert in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma with photography and illustration chops
• Excellent graphic design skills (layout, typography, color)
• Working knowledge of motion graphics and interaction design is a plus

Where:

• This role will be based in San Francisco, CA or remote (based in the U.S.).
• We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

What we offer:

Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
• Rejuvenation Policy Flexible Time Off + 13 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
• Mental health support through Ginger.io
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
• Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
• Weekly Virtual Bootcamp, Yoga, and Mindfulness Meditation sessions
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

• Nerd-led group initiatives Intramural Sports, Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
• Hackathons, Happy Hours, and team events across all teams and departments
• Company-wide events like Little Nerds Day (aka bring your kids to work day, even if you’re remote!) and our annual Charity Auction

Lifestyle (Be your best self – we’ll take care of the details)

• Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward Donate to your favorite causes with a company match
• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy
• Anniversary recognition program choose from different items and experiences
• Commuting stipend

Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)

• 401K with company match
• Annual Enrichment Stipend for learning and development
• Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
• Access to Rocket Lawyer for online legal support and resources

APPLY HERE

Information Security Program Manager – Continuous Monitoring

by Ronald Barron | Dec 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Information Security Program Manager – Continuous Monitoring (FedRAMP)

Location: United States, Remote

Information Security – Who We Are

Rubrik is seeking creative problem solvers with a passion for cyber security. In this role you will partner with all parts of the business to help grow the business, secure the brand, and protect organization, company, and customer environments. You will be responsible for building and executing on security programs and delivering technologies and improvements across security domains. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who can thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that is sometimes like working at a startup. Your work will make a difference here as we deliver strong cyberdefense capabilities that enhance the posture, maturity, and value of Rubrik’s information security organization as a whole.

What you’ll be doing:

Information Security is looking for a success-driven, US-based Program Manager to organize, plan, and execute on continuous monitoring and compliance activities for Rubrik’s new government cloud service offering(s). This mission-critical position will lead efforts to obtain and maintain associated certifications and authorizations including FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level, CJIS, CMMC, and StateRAMP.

Rubrik’s new cloud service offering (CSO) is nearing its delivery date,, so your initial assignments will involve controls implementation and authorization package (System Security Plan, Policies and Procedures, etc.) development to ensure Rubrik is across-the-board ready to undergo security assessment for our Initial FedRAMP Authorization in 2023. Other security frameworks will soon follow.

This role represents Rubrik externally with the FedRAMP PMO, our Government / Agency Partner(s), and our third party assessment organization (3PAO). Once Initial Authorization is achieved, the incumbent will help Rubrik accelerate and assure the growth of our govcloud services through diligent continuous monitoring, timely government reporting, and security assessment & authorization activities for each certification we obtain.

Our ideal candidate is a subject matter expert in FedRAMP, NIST SP800-53, NIST SP800-171, and Department of Defense Impact Level security requirements, with previous experience in leading and performing assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring activities for a Cloud Service Provider. They will also need to bring personal accountability for results and excellent leadership as well as solid communication, decision-making, and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

Program / Development

• Implement and serve as Lead / Control Owner for Rubrik’s Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) capability, covering requirements for FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level, and similar frameworks. Others will perform scanning, inventory, and flaw remediation; your role is to ensure ConMon and related procedures are in place with ongoing compliance, and that issues are appropriately documented, managed, and addressed on a timely basis.
• Implement and serve as Control Owner for Rubrik’s FedRAMP Significant Change (SigChange) process, ensuring that all information system changes for the new service have been assessed for significant change applicability per FedRAMP requirements.
• Implement and serve as Control Owner for Rubrik’s Security Impact Analysis (SIA) process, ensuring that security impact has been assessed for each proposed change before its presentation to the change control review board.
• Ensure Rubrik’s compliance with FedRAMP Significant Change, POA&M, and monthly ConMon reporting processes.
• Maintain the calendar of continuous monitoring activities covering weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance requirements for FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level, and similar programs.
• Collaborate with a range of stakeholders from individual contributors to senior leadership to external parties including Agency Partners and/or Third Party Security Assessor (3PAO).
• Drive activities related to the remediation of technical security and compliance risks with cross-functional teams, including, but not limited to, engaging third party services, leading meetings, assigning and tracking work items, producing reports, and escalating risks and issues.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and an integral member of the government compliance team, cultivating strong relationships across the company to aid in achieving consensus, expectation setting, risk and vulnerability awareness, and continual process improvement.

Operations

• Develop, maintain, and disseminate Rubrik’s government Authorization Package(s) and related artifacts, obtaining updates from Control Owners when needed and ensuring each item is correct, complete, and current.
• Develop and maintain the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) workbook and use it to log and report vulnerability remediation status for Rubrik’s government cloud service offering(s).
• Perform and document Security Impact Analyses on proposed changes, ensuring consensus of our 3PAO on annual vs. off cycle security assessment timing whenever possible.
• Identify and manage Significant Changes as defined by FedRAMP, ensuring Agency Partner approval and 3PAO concurrence prior to approving changes for release to production.
• Package and submit monthly ConMon reporting, and similar duties as assigned for FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and Dept. of Defense Authorizations.
• Ensure Agency Partner approval or concurrence for monthly reporting, annual test plans and exercises including Incident Response and Information System Contingency Plan testing, and security assessments.
• Respond to Executive Orders, requests from CISA and other entities that require reporting, and assist as needed with incident response involving public sector organizations.
• Participate in Change Control Board activities to present security impact analyses and make recommendations as to whether requested changes should be approved and implemented.

Technical

• Develop and manage activities using JIRA as a primary project and work tracking tool.
• Drive automation where opportunities exist for effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability.
• Share expertise in cloud services (GCP, Azure, AWS) and cloud security.
• Manage third party assessors and auditors through control selection and assessments.

Ideal Background

• 7+ years of related work experience in Information Security or relevant Compliance roles in the tech / SaaS industry
• 4+ years of experience in a U.S. public sector compliance role associated with FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, Controlled Unclassified Information, or Assurance & Authorization activity
• Experience in a dynamic, high growth / start-up business environment
• Comfortable wearing many hats in a small and agile team that stays upbeat and enjoys working together to get things done
• Performed security impact assessments for a SaaS Cloud Service Provider (CSP), from determining relevant / in-scope controls, to identifying significant changes that warrant special handling, to following significant change processes as defined by FedRAMP
• Advanced knowledge of government compliance and cloud security risks, vulnerabilities, and threats, and can take these issues through triage / risk treatment conversations
• Deep understanding of relevant information security frameworks, including FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, and DoD Cloud Security Requirements Guide
• Develops plans and roadmaps, and implements cross-functional policy, process, and procedures to meet planned objectives
• Hands-on experience with agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using technical expertise and problem solving abilities to prioritize efforts and work through ambiguity and issues
• Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag time
• Familiarity with / interest in use of OSCAL for automation is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Security, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration or related field preferred
• Professional certifications in Information Security, Cloud Security, or Systems Audit/Assessment (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CCSK) preferred

Security and Privacy Responsibilities

This position carries special Security and Privacy Responsibilities for protecting the U.S. Federal Government’s interests:

• Must be U.S. Citizen located on U.S. Soil (within the lower 48 United States);
• Know, acknowledge, and follow system-specific security policies and procedures;
• Protect data and individual privacy per requirements and regulations;
• Perform ongoing activities in compliance with service and contractual obligations;
• Participate in role-based training, completing assignments on a timely basis;
• Report security issues promptly, and aid investigation when needed;
• Support controlled changes and vulnerability remediation activities; and
• Work collaboratively with Information Security in designing, implementing, assessing or enhancing system-specific security and privacy controls.

Position Risk Designation

This position carries duties and responsibilities involving the U.S. Federal Government’s interests. The selected incumbent may be subject to one or both of the additional background checks with periodic re-screening as noted below:

Position Risk Designation: Non-Sensitive, Low Risk, Tier 1

• Incumbents without access to U.S. Government data may be required to complete Standard Form 85 and undergo a Tier 1 Investigation (T1) for non-sensitive positions of Low Risk. (Baseline screening; formerly National Agency Check and Inquiries (NACI)).

Position Risk Designation: Non-Sensitive, Moderate Risk, Tier 2 (Public Trust)

• Incumbents with access to U.S. Government data may be required to complete Standard Form 85P and undergo Tier 2 (T2) Investigation for non-sensitive positions designated Moderate Risk.

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Senior Database Architect

by Ronald Barron | Dec 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Database Architect

Location: Albuquerque NM US

Albuquerque, NM

Full Time

RESPEC is an IT consulting and services company that seeks a senior database architect who will provide support to the Indian Health Service Software Engineering and Support Services (SESS) federal contract. The individual will work in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment and is responsible for owning and supporting multiple project priorities. This role will be client-facing; thus, the candidate must have the ability to interact successfully with internal and external clients to understand client needs and resolve issues. The desired location for this position is Albuquerque, NM, but will consider remote work arrangement for qualified applicant.

Responsibilities:

The following responsibilities are included with this position:

• Advanced knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in all phases of database development, coding, and design, including business analysis, event modeling, logical and physical database design, data access analysis and design, database management systems (DBMS) optimization, archive and recovery strategy, load strategy design and implementation, security, and change management.
• Design, code, maintain, and enhance relational databases.
• Analyze and determine information needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities.
• Develop data modeling and be responsible for data acquisition; access analysis; and design, archive, recovery, and load strategy design and implementation.
• Coordinate new data development and ensure consistency and integration with existing data warehouse structure; review business requests for data and data usage.
• Research data sources for new and better data feeds.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.
• Design data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance, and accessibility.
• Develop screens and queries; test designed applications.
• Provide technical support and guidance to users.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant hardware and software applications as assigned.
• Potentially serve as team or technical task lead and provide guidance and training to junior level staff.
• Participate in special projects as required.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree (technical discipline preferred).
• 10 years of industry experience with 7 of those years specialized in working with large datasets.
• May substitute master s degree with 12 years of industry experience and 9 years of specialized experience.
• Experience in designing data solutions within cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure) using technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, and related.
• Solid experience, preferably as a lead or an architect, in designing and implementing data warehouse, Architectures, OLAP technologies, data modeling, Change Data Capture, and BI visualization.
• Possess detail-oriented and good problem-solving skills.
• Team player who works well with clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Excellent time-management skills with the ability to work on stringent deadlines.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Indian Health Resource and Patient Management Systems, or any other major electronic health records system.
• Experience in building data as a product in a cloud environment (SaaS).
• Hands-on experience with big data ETL technologies (e.g., Hadoop or Spark) and experience in working with query engines (e.g., Presto, Snowflake, or other open-source big data Query & ETL engines).
• Advanced SQL and programming experience with Python and/or Scala.
• Experience in leveraging DevOps and DataOps tools and principles in delivery.
• Experience in developing CI/CD processes and procedures with teams in delivery.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source-control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Understanding of and ability to explain complex technical concepts.
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with the skill to prioritize projects.
• Proven ability to work effectively on a remote/distributed team.

Compensation: Salary depends on experience and expertise. Compensation includes a comprehensive fringe- benefits package that consists of medical, vision, dental, holidays, paid leave, 401(k) Plan, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), continuing education, and professional societies. RESPEC is a 100% employee-owned company and employees are eligible for participation in the ESOP after a qualifying period.

Compensation for the role will depend on several factors, including a candidate s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Compensation includes a comprehensive fringe-benefits package that consists of medical, vision, dental, holidays, paid leave, 401(k) Plan, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), continuing education, and professional societies. RESPEC is a 100% employee-owned company and employees are eligible for participation in the ESOP after a qualifying period.

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