by Ronald Barron | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior UX, UI Designer
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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:
- Mentors and trains UX/UI Designers on more complex projects and design decisions.
- Designs and leads complex and high-exposure UX/UI projects and initiatives.
- Collaborates with leadership to determine UX/UI objectives and strategies.
- Researches, develops, and implements innovate, UX/UI design, encompassing branding strategies and best practices.
- Creates visually impressive UX and UI designs for web desktop, responsive, and mobile applications.
- Drive and apply design processes.
- Understands the user-base who will be working on the application and design the UX and UI accordingly.
- Quickly creates mockups, prototypes, and wireframes that reflect the business needs.
- Builds finished screens using the developed prototypes that can be re-used across multiple lines of business.
- Rapidly produces multiple possible approaches for internal use, usability testing, presentation to customers, and demos.
- Creates web and mobile optimized graphics as needed by various team members.
- Leads/participates in brainstorming sessions to elicit business requirements by talking to stakeholders.
- Maintains an appropriate balance between performance and content delivery.
- Applies best-practice UX and UI design skills to create proof-of-concepts, mockups, and prototypes.
- Works with other developers to ensure technical feasibility of designs.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:
- In-depth understanding of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design principles
- Understanding of HTML 4/5 and CSS 2/3 as it applies across different browsers and screen resolutions.
- Expert in visual graphic design and proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite
- Mastery over Color Theory, Typography, Layout/Composition, grid systems, animation/transitions
- Very good understanding of Data Visualization and Data representation
- Proven ability to artistically conceptualize a multi-product UI framework.
- Ability to implement high performance and high availability web applications.
- Solid communication skills, including the ability to initiate and run meetings and comfortable working with different teams within the organization.
- Strong attention to detail and a feeling of pride and ownership over the quality of our product.
- Proficiency in design tools such as: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Invision, etc.
Job Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a field related to UX/UI design
- Five (5) years of experience in UI design for high performance/high availability web and mobile applications and in designing User Interfaces for Enterprise scale products.
- Outstanding design shown in a portfolio that demonstrates the required skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Broad knowledge of project management.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Remote, Anywhere in North America
Postscript is redefining marketing for ecommerce companies. By introducing SMS as an entirely new channel for ecommerce stores to engage, retain, and convert their customer base, brands are seeing huge ROI with Postscript. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and other top investors, Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help build a world class organization.
** We are not open to working with external agencies on this role and are only considering candidates based in North America**
As a Senior Fullstack Engineer at Postscript, you will utilize strong software engineering and product skills to build and maintain products across our backend and frontend systems. Our backend stack is a Python (Flask) API with a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS, and our frontend stack is a modern React app that leverages Styled components, Storybook, and Cypress integration tests. Senior Engineers at Postscript are key members of the team that directly impact the team as an individual contributor and also through critical leadership, mentorship, and decision-making activities. As a Senior Engineer you will guide your team in weighing trade-offs of technical constraints and business priorities to consistently deliver customer value.
Your passion for building great products, especially in early-stage companies, will lead you to have a meaningful positive impact on both the product and the company. In addition, you will have the opportunity to help expand the engineering team and build out architecture and processes as we scale. We are scaling and growing our Engineering Team, and this is one of many positions available. This role is fully remote.
Primary Duties
- Build products that deliver customer value and/or business value through software engineering and product development skills
- Lead a team through make technical and product design decisions to get work done including weighting trade-offs of customer value, technical constraints, and business priorities
- Work closely with others, including engineers, designers, and product managers as part of a cross-functional product team, to deliver a beautiful, world-class product
- Take ownership and get creative with your solutions
- Mentor other engineers on best practices, standards, and learning opportunities
- Lead group sessions to actively ensure your team is guided by product-focused architecture and implementation to achieve our goals
Requirements
- Experience building or directly contributing to a great product
- A proven career as a software engineer developing full stack applications
- Experience using Python (Flask and SQLAlchemy a plus) and JavaScript (React a plus)
- Experience building applications on Cloud Services (AWS preferred)
- Expert with relational databases, proficient in SQL, and experience with database modeling (PostgreSQL a plus)
- A proven ability to transform complex technical concepts into technical designs and be an expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment and support across our stack
- Holistic understanding of the software development lifecycle and uses this understanding to define best practices for their team and drive improvements in all aspects of the dev lifecycle
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating complex technical requirements into easy to follow direction and documentation
What we’ll love about you
- Experience building or directly contributing to a great product
- Comfortable working outside your strengths and knowing how to partner with others to get work done
- Experience shaping the end product through active contribution in product conversations and other settings
- Recognized as an experienced professional who is a leader in their team and technical area
- Passion for customers/users and delivering value to them
- Passion for early stage companies and the opportunity to be responsible for owning and improving a new, fast-growing code base
What You’ll Love About Us
- Salary range of USD $152,250 to $206,500 base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
- High growth startup – plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
- Remote team – work from home (or wherever!)
- Fun – We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
- Flexible paid time off
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- Other great perks, such as home office stipend
You are welcome here. Postscript is an ever-evolving place of equal employment for talented individuals.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior / Staff Product Manager, Snyk Open Source
Location: Ottawa, or Remote
Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced sneak ) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
All roles listed as remote’ are available as remote within the same country.
Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Senior or Staff Product Manager to help drive the direction of Snyk Open Source and the way developer-first security products, features and integrations are built by Snyk and our community of customers, partners and developers.
In this role, you’ll help define and execute on the product strategy for Snyk Open Source including working on roadmap and KPIs for Snyk Open Source and in particular around the developer experience and ensuring developer success with our products.
Snyk has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture — we look for curious, creative people that are ridiculously easy to work with. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, and hardworking. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you!
You’ll spend your time:
- Being a product leader for Open Source, driving direction and ensuring experiences oriented around developers and their needs
- Mentoring and coaching other product managers around both practice of Product management and the personas we are targeting
- Collaboratively supporting crafting and communicating a roadmap for the aspects of Open Source you own, including strategy for your area of ownership
- Embracing being a community advocate for Open Source and tracking community trends
- Researching and understanding market trends, and assessing market opportunities, addressable markets and building business cases
- Carrying out ongoing customer and prospective customer conversations to acquire a deep understanding of their needs and pain points, identifying new opportunities for Snyk
- Partnering with the User Research and User Experience teams to facilitate using best practices to develop and evolving the Snyk Open Source product
- Defining feature requirements, collaborating with relevant stakeholders including engineering, marketing and others for successful end-to-end delivery and launch of capabilities
- Partnering with your engineering counterpart to understand technical details and make business decisions on prioritization and positioning
As a company we are distributed across four offices in London, Tel Aviv, Boston and Ottawa, with 10% of the company working fully-remote. We’ve made an organizational commitment to building a strong, effective, distributed company: we form teams across multiple offices wherever possible, and we invest in communication so that we can benefit from each others’ perspectives. As well as an always-on webcam so we can see what’s happening in each office, we make heavy use of video calls, Slack, and some inter-office travel.
You should apply if you:
- Have experience working with developer-oriented workflows/products and appreciate their needs.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, empowered, distributed environment that respects the team, our customers, and our partners.
- Make good product decisions in an incomplete business context of cost, value, risk, and opportunity.
- Work collaboratively, communicate proactively, take a team-first mind-set, and skillfully give and receive difficult feedback when necessary
- Have a proven track record of delivering SaaS products to market from business case through to GTM and successful customer adoption
- Are customer obsessed! Have in-depth understanding of how successful developer/user experience are defined and have a passion for understanding developers – their capabilities, needs, and how they work
- Have a keen ability to synthesize a mass of data including market research, user feedback and asks, industry standards and general trends and then translating this into experience strategy and roadmap
- Are comfortable influencing and leading with a wide range of different internal stakeholders, from internal engineers to executives
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, and enjoy helping others to learn new things
We’d especially love to hear from you if you:
- are excited by Snyk’s mission, open-source, or developer tools
- have experience as a product manager working in both technical and go-to-market product roles
- have experience in the developer-tooling or cyber security space
Tech Stack
Our current stack consists of: NodeJS, JavaScript, Vue.js, TypeScript, jQuery, Express, Postgresql, SQL, Sass, BEM, CSS, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Docker, Fractal, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes.
While we are looking for candidates with existing experience with our tech stack we believe curiosity, communication, and the ability to learn are most important.
Interested?
Please apply below! We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role, but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway 🙂
About Snyk
Snyk’s mission is to help developers use open source code and stay secure.
The use of open source is booming, but security is a key concern (https://snyk.io/stateofossecurity/). Snyk’s unique product enables developers and enterprise security teams to continuously find & fix vulnerable dependencies without slowing down, offering seamless integration into Dev, DevOps and DevSecOps workflows. We care deeply about the quality and usefulness of the tools we develop, always focusing on our customers and users.
We are experiencing rapid growth – and we want you to join us! By the end of Q3 2019 alone, Snyk was already adopted by over 450,000 developers, and including multiple enterprise customers (such as Google, New Relic, ASOS and others). We also raised an additional $200 Million, announced on September 9, 2020, from investors such as Stripes and Salesforce Ventures, demonstrating that they are as excited as we are by Snyk’s progress and potential.
We believe open source software is a force for good, and we’re building Snyk to make it easier for developers who aren’t security experts to stay secure.
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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Project Manager
Remote /
Age of Learning, Inc. – Schools Division /
Full Time
/ Remote
Company Overview
Age of Learning® is the leading education technology innovator, creating engaging and effective learning resources to help children build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning. Our research-based digital education programs have proven efficacy in increasing children’s learning gains, and our curriculum is developed by an experienced team of education experts. Age of Learning’s flagship product, ABCmouse.com® Early Learning Academy, is an award-winning comprehensive curriculum for children. Adventure Academy™, the first AAA education massively multiplayer online game (MMO), provides elementary-and middle-school-age learners the opportunity to build critical knowledge in language, arts, math, science, social studies, and more in a fun and safe virtual world. The company’s School Solutions Programs include My Math Academy® , an adaptive, personalized program that helps students master foundational math concepts, and My Reading Academy™, which helps young learners become fluent readers and build a foundation for reading comprehension and literacy. With over 10 billion learning activities completed by more than 50 million children worldwide, Age of Learning is a global leader in efforts to advance equity, access, and opportunity for all children. To learn more about Age of Learning, visit www.AgeofLearning.com.
Summary:
The Project Manager within the Schools Division will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on a variety of department projects, serving as a bridge between the team members tasked with the execution of the project, collaborators from other departments, and management. He/she/they will ensure that the parameters for each project are sound, clearly defined, and understood by all stakeholders. He/she/they will develop workflows and schedules that align with requirements, evaluate risks during the project, and make recommendations for mitigating those risks.
The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver with a deep understanding of the tools, techniques, and best practices for effective project management, including but not limited to agile and waterfall projects. He/she/they have a commitment to excellence, attention to detail, and exceptional communication skills. This person thrives within a fast-paced, ever-changing work environment and is comfortable making decisions amid ambiguous inputs. This position reports to the Director of Operations – Schools Division.
Responsibilities:
- Help define and document projects’ scope, goals, and deliverables, ensuring feasibility
- Create schedules and timelines for each project
- Develop detailed project plans to track progress
- Coordinate internal and external resource availability and allocation
- Measure project performance using appropriate metrics, tools, and techniques
- Evaluate risks to projects and coordinate efforts to mitigate them
- Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project requirements
- Monitor and report on project progress
- Complete other tasks as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience (required)
- Project management certification (PMP) preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of project management process, workflows, and terminology
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Advanced time management and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and project management software tools (i.e., Smartsheet, JIRA, Trello, Confluence, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience with PreK-12 education market highly desired
Age of Learning currently provides:
• 80% – 90% of health and welfare benefit premiums
• A 401(k) program with employer match
• 15 paid vacation days, 11 observed national paid holidays plus 9 sick days
• Our flexible work culture means 2 or more days in the office (hybrid) or 100% fully remote options available for most positions
• Team bonding events and a highly collaborative environment
• Access to our internal DEI Task Force that focuses on ensuring our products represent all children on a global scale
• Opportunities for professional growth through professional learning and development programs
• Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment in addition to an inclusive and supportive company culture
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Project Mgr III Exchange
Location Remote, United States
Primary Job Function Project Management Office
ID** 27261
Your career starts now. We’re looking for the next generation of health care leaders.
At AmeriHealth Caritas, we’re passionate about helping people get care, stay well and build healthy communities. As one of the nation’s leaders in health care solutions, we offer our associates the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people through our national footprint of products, services and award-winning programs. AmeriHealth Caritas is seeking talented, passionate individuals to join our team. Together we can build healthier communities. If you want to make a difference, we’d like to hear from you.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, AmeriHealth Caritas is a mission-driven organization with more than 30 years of experience. We deliver comprehensive, outcomes-driven care to those who need it most. We offer integrated managed care products, pharmaceutical benefit management and specialty pharmacy services, behavioral health services, and other administrative services. Discover more about us at www.amerihealthcaritas.com.
The primary Key Accountabilities of the job at this level is performed:
- Manages a very large, complex project or set of medium-sized projects, as a well experienced project manager. These projects involve multiple technologies and significant complexity, visibility/priority, and risk to the business
- Plans, tracks, and manages to success the projects they are assigned
- Coordinates with tech and business groups in establishing project scope, forecasts, and requirements/specifications gathering
- Facilitates the relationship between stakeholders and project team to ensure accuracy of functional requirements/specifications for handoff to development and QA teams.
- May lead the development of RFI/RFP process
- Conducts feasibility, risk, regulatory compliance, and ROI analyses for proposed projects as needed. Presents recommendations related to project feasibility
- Develops project plans. Manages resources, project schedule, and budget to meet deliverables. Tracks and reports key project metrics
- Actively manages the execution of the project, including assigning work to project staff, managing project scope and finances, and ensuring the quality of deliverables
- Leads feedback sessions, such as post-mortems and/or retrospectives
- Interfaces with customers and management to manage expectations, provide status updates on project, and discuss concerns. Accountable for ensuring resolution of concerns/issues
- May provide input to manager on staff performance relating to technology, but does not prepare or deliver reviews
- Provides coaching around Agile frameworks and best practices for feature/project delivery and/or coaches team members on traditional project management approaches, when needed
- Identifies, tracks, and removes impediments for feature/project and team success
- Manages the Project Transitions
Complexities:
- Establishes project resource requirements during the lifecycle of various projects; reallocates resources as needed
- Proactively manages potential conflicts between quality, timeline, and cost considerations
- Identifies and leads the management and resolution of risks, issues, and change controls encountered during the program and develops mitigation strategies to address them
- Identifies vague, undefined business needs, working to determine how to best address them
- Capable of helping users identify, develop, and plan for their current and future technology needs
- Develops and facilitates change management strategies related to their project(s) to ensure delivery is optimized
- May lead the assessment of the technical and economic feasibility of proposed solutions, uncluding ROI and other financial analyses.
- Works independently, typically only receiving oversight and direction during critical decision points or issues in the project
- Determines a course of action to resolve most project related problems and updates team members
- Selects tools, frameworks, and methodologies for projects, within established guidelines
- Designs the optimal project or program team structure and roles that will ensure the delivery of project results
- May lead negotiations with vendors and managing vendors in their work
- Negotiates and commits to deliverables with business partner(s) and project team
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience or Master’s degree and 4+ years of experience required
- Degree in Business or related field preferred
- PMP/Agile certification required, or the commitment to achieve certification within 12 months in the role
Job Related Experience & Skills:
- Six plus years of experience
- Possesses expertise in project management methodologies, tools, and techniques
- Requires financial acumen to provide leadership on project estimation and budgeting
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge multiple technologies, development methods and systems, and a solid understanding of programming languages
- Has an extensive understanding of business areas, their key success factors and objectives
- Understands technical and architectural considerations in order to effectively factor them into planning, decisions, and recommendations.
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