by Ronald Barron | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Interaction Designer, Search
Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.
Qualifications\
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
- Portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- 1 year of experience leading design projects.
- Problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (Android and iOS).
- Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features within a user-centered design process.
- Skills in communicating and influencing product design strategy.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.
Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.
As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.
In Google Search, we’re reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
- Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
- Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
- Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Content Designer
Location: Remote US
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
Content design at Affirm is small, mighty, and growing. We’re looking for a mid-level content designer (content strategist, UX writer) who shares our passion to revolutionize how people spend, save, and get credit to join our team.
Things are moving fast at Affirm! The content designer in this role will work on high-priority projects, potentially on more than one team. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers. You’ll design and iterate on various aspects of the way people shop with Affirm, taking features from discovery all the way through A/B testing. You’ll own and shape the voice of our products, collaborating with the many other teams the work touches.
You’ll focus both on longer-term strategic considerations and more tactical day-to-day writing. To achieve success in this role, you excel at collaborating with cross-functional partners. You ask insightful questions that uncover gaps and propel teams forward. You move easily between big-picture thinking and fine tuning details. You’re great at communicating, explaining your reasoning, and advocating for the user. And, of course, you’re an excellent writer!
What you’ll do
- Work cross-functionally with PMs, designers, researchers, and engineers at all stages of the product development process from ideas to optimizations.
- Contribute your expertise to product strategy and vision (not just how it should look, but what should we build? ).
- Develop first principles at the org, team, and project levels. Help write style guides and other writing guidelines.
- Shape product experiences through information architecture, content hierarchy, usability principles, accessibility, and other best practices.
- Work closely with stellar legal and compliance partners to finetune language where needed.
- Write human UX content that is clear, consistent, concise, and engaging.
- Create and collaborate on user flows, communications (like texts and emails), test prototypes, research questions, and more.
- Bring your keen sense of usability to participate in design sprints for new products, helping define flows and features.
- Participate in our greater writing community at Affirm, including brand and technical writers.
- Advance brand voice across our products.
What we look for
- 2-4 years of UX writing experience, both for web and native products.
- A BA or BS in a related field (English, journalism, human factors), or equivalent experience.
- Experience and interest in financial services is a plus.
- You are deeply fluent in all-around writing skills you’re a language nerd who lives and breathes UX writing.
- You think strategically you’re comfortable working on complex systems and frame your work around business objectives.
- You work independently with confidence and authority and with minimal oversight.
- You love to collaborate and advocate for the user and for content strategy.
- You’re creative you’re a natural storyteller with the ability to persuade.
- You value and enjoy doing user research.
- You participate in and can help run design sprints, both as an advocate for content and a source of great product ideas.
- You advocate for a content-first approach to design!
Location – Remote U.S.
Grade – USA2
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
[For U.S. Candidates] All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. The grade for this position is noted above and in accordance with various U.S. pay transparency laws, we provide the base pay range and benefits for our U.S.-based positions in the links below:
Jobs in Grades 21-54: shorturl.at/H0124
Jobs in Grades 61-74: shorturl.at/kK015
If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.
We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Experience Designer
Location: San Francisco, United States
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community you will join:
Design takes the ideas and vision of Airbnb and turns it into a visual language and graphic identity that is recognizable around the world. We are a multi-disciplinary organization of designers, writers, researchers and other disciplines. While we bring different skills and perspectives to our work, we’re all committed to a core mission: to design iconic, real-world experiences for our global community of hosts and guests. Through this effort we aim to build a brand people love and create a positive experience for everyone in our community, from button to billboard. Our vision is to build the most creative company on earth.
The difference you will make:
As a Design Lead you’re a thought-leader in and outside the organization helping to advance the craft. You’re a hands-on maker at the highest level of craft. You’ll pave the way for innovation in not only what we make, but how we make it.
The Design Lead position is an individual contributor (IC) role that will report to a Design Manager. You will be responsible for the creation of elegant and strategic internal products and services. Success in this role is defined by team sentiment as well as the quality of the user experience including the impact, consistency, ease of use and beauty of the final product.
This Design Lead will be a part of both the Design and Infrastructure teams. They will be designing products used by our 3,000+ Tech workforce for product & data development, as well as creating the best practices, frameworks and standards for designers across the company for Infrastructure and Data systems.
A typical day:
- Leads a project or initiative helps define strategy, objectives and sets the vision for the user experience. Oversee multiple streams of work from insight and strategy, to launch across all platforms and devices
- Inspire and direct their team to help them build towards a meaningful vision efficiently
- Responsible for advancing craft on their team. Ensures consistency across a variety of products and platforms in the end-to-end user experience.
- Partner with the Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientist, Researchers and Content Strategists to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services
Your expertise:
- 10 years of experience with end-to-end product design, preferably with experience in enterprise and/or data products
- Defines the design process and can lead others through it. Can accurately scope their work as well as their teammate’s. Responsible for the work of other designers on their project. Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent visual, interaction and/or service design skills a master in their field
- Systems-thinker with the ability to think beyond the pixels and design for offline experiences
- Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision and strategy for global products
How we’ll take care of you:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between $152,000 and $207,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Your Location:
This position is US – Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb,Inc. can employ in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our commitment to inclusion & belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Security Engineer, Security Operations, Threat Detection
Location: Remote – United States
Are you interested in securing the home for all developers? GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help change the way we secure GitHub. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to evolve and advance the security posture of GitHub and its ecosystem.
Threat Detection and Response are core functions of Security Operations at GitHub. To effectively protect our people, our customers, and our business, THOR must strategically hire individuals who can effectively identify and respond to threats across our platform and supporting systems. To date, we have primarily focused on hiring analysts and engineers with varied skill sets, able to perform security analysis, threat hunting, incident response, and tooling development at high levels.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will work alongside other members of Security, IT, and Engineering organizations to help drive technical direction for all things security. You will develop and mature a comprehensive security program, build software to manage security system’s sustainably, and foster effective, scalable process development. A successful applicant will have a desire to work in tandem with other security professionals to secure GitHubbers and GitHub systems in diverse environments at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and building systems to detect potential threats at scale
- Maintaining and maturing the services that support our threat detection pipeline
- Partnering with other security teams to identify, investigate, and mitigate threats
- Communicating persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation
- Working solo or collaboratively while delivering simultaneous projects on a deadline
- Developing, maturing, and documenting security policy and processes
- Participating in an on-call rotation
- Making well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energize others
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience with software development in Python
- Familiarity with data correlation and modern threat detection techniques
- Knowledge and understanding of security controls across all security domains
- 3+ years experience in taking pragmatic, risk-based approaches to decision making while applying practical security principles and practices
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience and/or expertise with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or a similar cloud provider
- Familiarity with building, maintaining, and orchestrating containerized services
- Passionate about mentoring and helping their peers grow
- Strong experience with production system monitoring & observability
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a strong sense of empathy
- Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
Minimum salary of $104,400 to maximum $234,300.
At GitHub certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States or onsite in one of GitHub’s U.S. offices (San Francisco, Bellevue, Raleigh).
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Community Development Project Support Specialist (REMOTE ROLE)
locations Nationwide Remote Office (US99)
time type Full time
job requisition id R2205786
ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Diversity & Inclusion, is simply who we are and what we do.
Community Development Project Support Specialist
As a Community Development Project Support Specialist, you will be responsible for supporting a variety of projects providing strategic consulting support to affordable housing, community development, and/or economic development agencies throughout the United States. You will become an integral part of a team that is developing and offering innovative, accurate, timely, and high-quality products and services for multiple clients. Typically working on multiple projects at a time with all levels of staff, you will provide project support on a variety of tasks, including logistical support and delivery of webinars and trainings, financial management and tracking, developing communication and outreach materials, drafting reports and written products, and much more.
This is an early-career position. If you have a background in public policy, community development, or affordable housing, we want you to apply! If you have an eye for visual design too, even better! This position is fully remote.
We are open to supporting 100% remote work anywhere within the US.
What you’ll be doing
- Work with a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team of HUD subject matter experts, content managers, graphic designers, data analysts, and more
- Develop knowledge of HUD programs to draft content for website, training materials, and other communications
- Assist in developing and preparing written and web products, training materials, or other deliverables to clients
- Assist with supporting webinar planning, logistics, and delivery.
- Format slides and deliverables, and develop graphical elements for web pages, listserv messages, guidebooks, trainings, infographics, etc.
- Update website text, images, video, and other media
- Draft and edit content for clarity, readability, and effectiveness
- Conduct web research on community development topics
- Support project administration including budget tracking, scheduling, deadlines, file management
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, such as in Public Policy, Political Science, Government, Economics, Urban Planning, or another similar field
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in housing and/or community development field
Additional Skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Tech savvy and eager to learn.
- Strong eye for visual design
- Experience using Canva
- Experience using Adobe Creative Cloud Applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat)
Professional Skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Proactive and work well both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple responsibilities, and manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, including the ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Superior interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude
- Excellent copyediting and QA/QC skills
- Outstanding customer service including being able to remain cool under pressure and possessing a no-problem-too-big-or-too-small attitude
- Ability to effectively prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
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Working at ICF
Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.
We can only solve the world’s toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy.
Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more about non-discrimination: EEO is the law and Pay Transparency Statement.
Pay Range – There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final salary for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The salary range for Colorado is –
$34,206.00 – $58,150.00
Nationwide Remote Office (US99)
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