by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior UX Designer, Web (remote eligible)
United States
Full time
REQ_001391
Join the hundreds of talented and innovative team members who are making an impact every day at California Times, incorporating Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, two of the most iconic media brands in the nation. Whether you love to tell compelling stories or want to drive our award-winning powerhouse in new directions, the Los Angeles Times team is the place to be.
Job Description Summary
Our mission is to inform, engage, and empower. Our storytelling and journalism help people in Los Angeles, in California and across the globe understand their world and make real decisions about their civic, social, personal, health, family, and work lives. Our Product team creates and innovates user experiences across web and mobile apps for both the L.A. Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune that help users and subscribers find the best and most relevant content they’ll love, come back for and pay for.
We’re making big, bold bets with new Product leadership, a keen focus on user-centered problem-solving and big investments coming in talent across Data, Product and UX Design. We’re energized to find high-impact leaders to help us do big things.
The Senior UX Designer, Web is a vital role helping to drive our highest-profile, highest-impact area: our web apps for the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Tens of millions of people come to us on the web, and this design leader will help drive leaps in how we enable subscribers and users to discover content and journalism they love, need, and come back for drive feature adoption and improve customer satisfaction and retention. Our two core measures for success are subscriber growth and engagement, and you’ll be a core part of our Engagement UX team critical cross-functional squads composed of expert product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, and working in tandem with product engineers.
The work of these teams is central to our mission to deliver the best subscriber experience possible. You will use your expertise to ensure that feature discovery and the subscription experience are effortless, delightful, and effective. To deliver a best-in-class platform, you will lead design and build products our readers love based on insights, data, user testing, and design intuition. The products you produce will provide vital support to Caltimes’ business as the company continues to grow.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Lead the experience design for the Engagement team, improving the user’s experience by helping users and subscribers find the best and most relevant content they’ll love, come back for and pay for
- Work on the entire lifecycle of the engagement experience, leveraging design strategy, IA, heuristic auditing, product planning, user flow/journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, high fidelity comps, A/B testing, and collaboration with engineers on implementation
- Identify key user problems and opportunities for improvement in our products and process and take the initiative to recommend solutions
- Lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big thinking while raising the bar on the details
- Collaborate closely with engagement team members, including product managers, engineers, UX researchers, and other cross-functional teams, in drafting & brainstorming initial concepts
- Advocate for and leverage both quantitative and qualitative research initiatives
- Using a data-driven approach, create visual design variations for A/B testing (quarterly test roadmap) and rapidly iterate with rational design adjustments based on testing results
- Balance the needs of the users and the business
Qualification:
- 8+ years of professional experience working on digital products as a UX Lead
- Expert UX/IA experience
- Software expertise with modern product design tools such as Sketch, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite, and using wireframing and prototyping tools, such as Invision, Omnigraffle, XD or Balsamiq
- Experience designing and launching several successful web and mobile products
- Contribute to the growth of your colleagues by providing feedback, candid critiques, and bringing fresh thinking to the team
- Ability to grasp the essence of user struggles and complex design problems and translate them to practical design solutions
- Can thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, agile environment while also leading process improvement efforts
- Demonstrate and articulate an understanding of layout, typography, and visual hierarchy, coupled with user-centered design and product best practices
- Excellent interpersonal skills such as empathy, active listening, & emotional intelligence
The Company is a mandatory vaccination employer for COVID-19 and its variants. The Company requires that its employees be fully vaccinated as of their start date. If you require a medical or religious accommodation we will engage in the interactive process with you. Proof of vaccination will be required prior to start. If we make you an offer and you are not yet vaccinated, we will accommodate a delay in start date.
Thank you for your interest in joining our team at the Los Angeles Times! We look forward to reviewing your application.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
QA Engineer II
Remote
Why Housecall Pro?
Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work every day to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America’s 100 million homes.We’re all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and—ultimately—save time so they can be with their families and live well. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, employees, and Pros grow and succeed together. Leadership is as focused on growing team members’ careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros. We also offer:
- A generous benefits program that supports the whole you with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and 401(k)
- Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it paid time off
- Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs
- Monthly tech reimbursements
- A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from
About BuildBook
BuildBook helps residential construction companies and their clients collaborate more effectively, make better decisions, and simplify the construction process. Builders love us because we help them minimize miscommunication that leads to costly mistakes, make more money, grow their business, and delight their customers. Homeowners love us because we give them a feeling of control and help make the construction and renovation process less stressful.
This industry is full of older “kitchen sink” style software products that are expensive, dated and difficult to use. Most people who need this software are non-technical and struggle on a daily basis to keep track of the details within their business. These struggles are where costly errors typically come in.
Our mission is to create intuitive software that is easily adoptable by builders and their clients alike, and improves the outcomes for both sides.
Helping Real People
Our end users are construction small business owners and their clients (homeowners). Every change we make, every feature we add has a visible, direct impact on the bottom line of our customers. You will be able to see your work being used by real people and see the impact it has on their lives. Our success as a company is directly linked to the success of our customers. We’re only doing well if they’re doing well.
Role Overview:
As a QA Engineer II, you develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. As a key member of our growing Quality Assurance team, you support and create API, Web, and mobile automation framework and tests. You design, build, test, and deploy effective test automation solutions for web and mobile applications. You are motivated, enthusiastic, and focused with a real passion for quality assurance engineering. You have strong knowledge of product quality standards, automations, and processes. You enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems.
Our team is patient, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.
What you do each day:
- Design robust test scripts for API, Web and Mobile applications using industry standard testing tools and scripting languages
- Conduct review of requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Develop detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases on different test levels ( integration, system, functional, regression, exploratory testing)
- Contribute to improve the test automation infrastructure & CI/CD jobs
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
- Implement and help the team embrace best automation practices to maintain quality
- Participate in iteration planning meeting and daily stand ups to stay on top of things and report progress
- Work closely with team squads to clarify requirements, ensure testability and automatability and provide feedback on design (functional and technical)
- Act as a vocal champion for quality in every phase of the development process
- Work closely with development to facilitate unit tests and integration tests
- Coach /mentor collaborative team members
- Stay abreast of industry-best tools, methods, and best practices related to both manual and automated testing
Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or a related area, or with relevant work experience
- 3-5 years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Software Developer, or similar Automation role
- Experience in SQL and scripting
- Demonstrated strong programming skills in Javascript, Java, or other OOP languages.
- Solid understanding of test framework design that is easily maintainable, resilient, performant and scalable
- Proficient in developing API, Web and Mobile (iOS and Android) test automation using tools like Selenium Webdriver, TestNg, Appium, RestAssured, Rainforest
- Have successfully implemented a CI/CD automation strategy and understand the value derived from shipping code rapidly to production and learning/iterating on the results
- Experience enabling teams to have high quality testing and best practices like CI/CD and “Push-on-Green”
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Proficiency at identifying and analyzing the root cause of complex bugs in your code as well as others’ code
- What will help you succeed in this role:
- Strong analytical & problem solving, documentation, and communication skills
- Have a passion for mentoring others and growing the careers of those around you
- Comfortable working cross-functionally to drive quality
Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service.
Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes BuildBook, construction management software for builders and remodelers, and CONQUER, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.
We support more than 25,000 businesses and have over 1,000 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving employees across the United States and all over the world. If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.
Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. #LI-RB1
Location Dependent Information
This role is open to candidates and the expected salary range for this role is $90,000-$121,000. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible to participate in Housecall Pro’s equity plan and the following benefits: health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability), employee assistance program, 401(K), flexible time off, paid parental leave, tech reimbursement, and other company benefits. Housecall Pro is growing fast and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Full Stack Engineer
Full Stack Developer to help us discover, track and maintain publicly available data of over 600k+ games on different mobile app store platforms.
Opportunities
Joining the Yodo1 mission will give you opportunities to learn and grow by:
- Taking ownership of high-impact projects and ideating game-changing solutions;
- Working with a diverse, international, and entrepreneurial team;
- Learning hands-on from leaders and experts in our platform and publishing departments;
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the backend APIs of a heavily integrated internal platform;
- Support frontend development of the platform, with peer review, and contribute ideas to improve the user and development experience;
- Improve and maintain the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) codebase for our constantly evolving and diverse platform infrastructure, spanning different AWS and bare metal services;
- Communicate the status of various tasks related to your projects, proactively keeping all stakeholders in loop;
- Solve time-consuming day-to-day business and technical operations with effective automation solutions.
Requirements
- 4+ years of Python, Django experience; 3 years of Docker, Docker compose experience; 2 years of React experience; 2 years AWS DevOps experience.
- Willingness to learn and contribute to infrastructure maintenance strategies to improve cost per resource and performance; mainly: ECS, EKS, CDK (AWS Cloud Development Kit) automation, RDS, ElastiCache.
- Experience working with selenium and chromedriver to automate and create scalable web APIs tests.
- Experience in working & optimizing multiple, distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch (AppSearch), Redis &, MySQL.
- Passion for learning: You’ll be working on bleeding edge technologies and ideas to iterate quickly and help solve the most critical outreach problems in our internal business processes.
- Communication: You’ll be working with colleagues and clients in multiple countries and must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and proactively.
- Scalable thinking: We are growing fast; those who think scalably, advance quickly.
Brownie Points
- Experience with Zoho APIs.
- Open source maintenance.
What We Offer
We want our contributors to grow with Yodo1 and take ownership in our shared success. At Yodo1, you will enjoy:
- Fair pay based on qualifications, experience, and fit for the role.
- Flexible hours and unlimited paid time off.
- The ability to work from anywhere (WFA).
- The option to be paid in your currency of choice.
- An allowance to purchase devices or equipment to improve your WFA setup.
- Variable compensation through our annual bonus programs.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Project Manager – Enterprise Systems
Remote /
Client Services Service Development & Delivery /
Full-Time Employee
/ Hybrid
The Project Manager is an individual that has proven experience planning and managing projects through the entire project lifecycle. The ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to facilitate and manage key communication and deliverables, plan and lead initiatives, drive issues to resolution and takes ownership in the delivery of the end-to-end solution. The role requires an individual who is resourceful, confident under pressure, detailed oriented, and able to listen to the client’s needs and translate those to key business drivers and strategies.
The Project Manager’s role is to deliver the project on time, on budget and with high-quality deliverables. They are responsible for ensuring that the project has been planned efficiently, communicated effectively, and exceeds the client’s expectations upon delivery. CampusWorks’ Project Management services have been designed to give clients confidence that the vision, strategy, and tactical elements of their initiatives are being addressed and monitored. The CampusWorks’ approach to project planning and management is rooted in the phases defined by PMI, which form the foundation for successful project management organizations worldwide.
A CampusWorks Project Manager enjoys a fast-paced work environment with a deep understanding of the client’s project and goals. The project manager will collaborate with teams across CampusWorks and at the client site to deliver high-quality service that aligns with the project objectives. A CampusWorks project manager will work with vendor project managers to ensure the approach is sound, that the client team understands their roles and responsibilities, and that the client steering committee has a clear and current understanding of the true state of the project. During the engagement, the project manager will be responsible for communication across the client organization and to the management team at CampusWorks. While the CampusWorks methodology follows these PMI phases, the project manager will refine and customize the approach based on the specific needs of the client to ensure alignment with the client’s preferred project management processes and/or policies (as applicable).
Accountabilities
- The Project Manager is responsible in partnership with the project stakeholders for overall project success
- The Project Manager in collaboration with the client establishes the creation, execution, and monitoring of the project governance structure
- During initiation, the project manager will create the Project Charter, (including requirements, scope, success factors, milestones, budget, and resource identification), Stakeholder register and Risk Register
- During planning the project manager will create the Project Plan (including Quality Assurance Plan, Resource Management Plan, Procurement Plan, Change Plan, Communication Plan, Data Conversion Plan)
- Creation of the project schedule and workplan(s)
- Responsible for collaborating with appropriate CampusWorks and client stakeholders to maintain client project plans and status reporting
- Produces project management reports, monitors, and adjusts resource plans and site budgets, escalating and collaborating where appropriate
- Provides key decision support, monitors issues and risks, and creates mitigation plans for clients
- The Project Manager is responsible for learning and applying CampusWorks project management methodology and processes, and producing the related project management artifacts to support CampusWorks client success
- Manages project change control processes
- Facilitates weekly status meetings and delivers weekly status reports to client and internally at CampusWorks
- Routine status communication to the project steering committee and project sponsors
- Project closure
Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree or above preferred
- Experience with leading transformation from a business/operational perspective required
- Experience with applications such as Salesforce, Oracle, Anthology, Ellucian, Workday, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, SAP, Unit4, Canvas, Blackboard, Raisers Edge, etc. Experience across multiple applications a plus
- Experience with software solution and implementation services
- Experience in managing enterprise software implementations in higher education including products such as HR/payroll, Finance, Student, CRM, and Advancement systems
- o3+ years
Knowledge, Skills, & Ability
- Aptitude to comprehend complex business objectives
- Ability to articulate complex ideas into easy-to-understand business terms to all levels of management including executive leaders
- Strong written communication, verbal communication, analytical, problem solving, creative thinking, organizational, leadership, and time management skills
- Ability to be client facing and facilitate and contribute to meetings virtually and/or on-site
- Elevated level of attention-to-detail
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
- Ability to learn quickly and work collaboratively in a team environment
- Ability to make decisions at the individual contributor and project leadership level
- Ability to shift with changing priorities.
- Higher education industry business knowledge
- Knowledge of software and implementation services vendor solutions and capabilities serving higher education
- Understanding of common public and private higher education IT procurement practices and rules
- Ability to properly escalate decisions or delays that cannot be resolved on a timely basis
- Highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office products
Preferred Experience
- 3+ years with a consulting/professional services firm preferred and experience consulting with Higher Education a plus
What You Can Expect from Us
At CampusWorks, we don’t just help our clients succeed; we help our employees succeed. Competitive pay, robust benefits for full-time employees, and professional development opportunities are a few of the many reasons that CampusWorks is a great place to build your career. Our employees enjoy:
Meaningful work. Our employees often tell us that their work gives them a sense of purpose because it makes a difference in the lives of students and educators.
A CEO who cares. Chairman and CEO Liz Murphy has made it her mission to create a culture that appreciates and takes good care of its people. As a result, being an employee of CampusWorks feels like being a member of a big family.
A virtual and onsite workplace. In an effort to reduce our environmental footprint, CampusWorks became a virtual company in 2012. As such, our team members are located across the U.S. and Canada, where they work from their home offices and at client sites.
Flexibility. We value work-life balance because we know that happy employees create happy customers. T hat’s why CampusWorks offers both full-time and part-time 1099 consulting career opportunities to fit life’s unique demands.
A company that gives back. Every year CampusWorks proudly supports numerous charitable fundraising initiatives that align with our vision to make higher education accessible to everyone.
There are many things our employees love about working for CampusWorks, but don’t take our word for it. Hear what they have to say. Read employee testimonials
About CampusWorks
Founded in 1999, CampusWorks is dedicated to helping higher education overcome business and technological challenges that stand in the way of student success and completion. We work with community colleges, technical colleges, four-year public and private institutions, multi-college districts, and statewide higher education systems to tackle problems big and small. Our services are rooted in systems thinking and reach across the institutionfrom Student Services to Human Resources to Finance to Academicsto achieve transformative results.
AAP/EEO Statement: CampusWorks, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) and Affirmative Actions (AA) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Project Manager, Persuasion Research & Campaigns
Job Locations: US
Job ID: POS-7090_488
Job Family: Membership/Marketing
Time Type: Full Time
Overview
Put your passion and skills to work for the planet. Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time, and we need people like you to help us build a vital Earth — for everyone.
We’re Environmental Defense Fund, a fast-paced nonprofit with a growing staff of more than 850 people in nearly 30 countries. We deliver game-changing solutions that cut climate pollution and strengthen people’s ability to thrive despite the effects climate change is already having. We work wherever we can have the most impact, from local communities to top companies to governments worldwide, and even in space.
Our culture, values and commitment to diversity make EDF an exciting and meaningful place to work. Every job here makes a difference. Won’t you join us?
Responsibilities
Location
- This position can be based remotely within the contiguous United States.
Overall Function
EDF is excited to expand our Audience Insights team. The Persuasion Research & Campaigns Project Manager will help build and lead a new capability to monitor relevant false narratives and create and implement debunking and inoculation campaigns into our digital marketing and media relations. You will work with various data sources and the global coalition, Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), to help the team understand the digital conversations, specifically the false narratives, that affect our brand, our mission areas, and our key target audiences.
This newly created position will report to the Manager, Audience Insights and work collaboratively with internal stakeholders including close coordination with our Marketing and Communications Teams and CAAD members, to build a program that combats the most harmful mis/disinformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Use cutting-edge software to manage the day-to-day monitoring, understanding and communication of the mis/disinformation narratives that negatively impact EDF’s ability to achieve progress.
- Develop strategies to leverage digital tactics to combat mis/disinformation including debunking and inoculation.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external partners to create, implement and monitor influence and message campaigns that combat mis/disinformation.
- Establish data-driven mechanisms to determine the efficacy of our persuasion campaigns.
- Prepare regular progress and performance reports and timely updates on data collected.
- Socialize learnings internally and with key external partners to increase our ability, and that of the broader environmental sector, to effectively combat mis/disinformation.
- Participate in advancing EDF DEI goals in which people from all backgrounds and experiences feel connected, included, and empowered to address the environmental and organizational challenges in alignment with EDF values.
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of relevant work experience.
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience creating and driving compelling online content
- Experience with behavioral psychology and persuasion messaging techniques
- Experience with digital listening tools such as Meltwater, Buzzsumo, or Crowdtangle is a plus
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects, sudden deadlines, and curveballs
- Strong analytical ability and experience with digital marketing testing methodologies
- Some experience monitoring online activity preferred
- Demonstrates self-awareness, cultural competency and inclusivity, and ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Pay Ranges
We offer a strong total rewards package encompassing competitive salary, robust benefits, and professional development opportunities consistent with a modern global organization. We take into account factors such as candidate experience, skills, training, internal team equity and local norms.
The pay range for this role is shown below.
Please note that pay ranges are country specific. As a result, the stated currency is not meant be converted into any other currency.
- Minimum Salary: USD $68,000.00/Yr.
- Maximum Salary: USD $76,000.00/Yr.
EEO Information
Environmental Defense Fund is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant’s qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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