by Ronald Barron | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager of Product Design – Remote
Nationwide
TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace and we are on a mission to make car buying and selling easy, transparent and efficient. We work to empower consumers with data, and foster connections with our network of Certified Dealers who share our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation to a great experience. We forge partnerships to power car buying programs for some of America’s most trusted brands. And we continually innovate to provide useful tools, research, market context and pricing transparency to help consumers feel empowered and confident all throughout their journey.
As consumers’ priorities and shopping habits shifted, so did we. We are building a modern day marketplace and invite you to come join the TrueCar Crew. You can have a real & direct impact on our journey as we continue to evolve and revolutionize the car buying and selling experience. We are seeking talented individuals who are excited by our mission to revolutionize & elevate the car buying & selling experience.
The Opportunity:
You will work closely with the Product Design/User Experience team, Product leads, engineers, and executives in the development of critical TrueCar products. You will have influence on the direction of major company objectives and be expected to solve difficult design problems, cross-platform. You’ll manage an inspired team of mobile-first designers who understand the complexities of desktop and mobile app solutions. You are a humble hands-on design leader and have the ability to translate your vision into beautiful designs and functional prototypes to demonstrate ideas and interactions.
How you will contribute to TrueCar’s success:
- Manage and oversee a team of user experience designers and work on multiple projects with rapid development deadlines
- Collaborate with executives, managers, product managers, engineers, and researchers to define, conceptualize, and design user-facing products
- Champion user experience design throughout the company and contribute to making it an essential process for improvement and innovation
- Support Product Leads, engineers, executives, etc. to develop compelling user experiences from beginning to end
- Actively recruit, interview, and hire new team members
- Onboard and train UX Designers; staff and/or contract
- Manage performance evaluations, including self-evaluations and peer feedback surveys
- Foster improvement of the user experience across our product suite
- Supervise and design, component, and brand standards across the UX team
- Seek out and discover valuable learnings and insights that help define and drive opportunities to improve process efficiencies
- Translate business goals and requirements into effective digital experiences that help customers
- Develop, apply, and help oversee user research findings to enable designers to conduct usability validation and A/B testing
- Work closely with other cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Managers and Development teams to deliver to sprint-estimated expectation
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers, stakeholders, and users to continually raise the quality of our designs
- Keep current with advances in interaction and contemporary design patterns
Your Expertise:
- Deep understanding of desktop design, including responsive and adaptive techniques
- Strong organization and analytic thinking skills: ability to translate moderately complex requirements into user scenarios, flows and diagrams
- Proven track record of collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 5+ years of experience in a related field
- Self-motivated and passionate about solving complex problems
- Internalize and care about the company strategy and vision, not just how things look
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to defend design decisions
- Understand design methodologies such as Agile, Design Thinking, Lean UX
- Expert in Figma and experience with design systems
- Proficient in prototyping tools including but not limited to: Figma, Sketch+InVision
- A solid understanding of both quantitative and qualitative user research methods; familiar with research products (usertesting.com, usabilityhub.com, FullStory)
- Support occasional travel as requested
- Experience in data-driven analytics capabilities
- Experience presenting to and influencing senior management
Your TrueCar Experience
As a crew member, you’ll be primarily based out of your home as a part of our Dynamic Workplace strategy. We provide additional benefits & perks to assist our crew members in having a sustainable home workstation including monthly credits for at-home food delivery, internet/mobile phone service coverage and furniture & equipment for your space.
You will receive excellent benefits that includes, but isn’t limited to: 100% employer-paid health/vision/dental premium, 401k with contribution matching, equity for eligible roles, a wellness reimbursement program, a learning & development reimbursement program, and charitable contribution matching. We recognize that everyone needs an occasional recharge, so we offer a flexible PTO policy for exempt TrueCar Crew along with a generous PTO accrual policy for non-exempt TrueCar Crew, in addition to 11 company paid holidays and 1 floating holiday. In short, we care deeply about our crew members and build employee-centric programs that prove it.
At TrueCar, we believe in the power of diversity to build a deeper understanding of our consumers and partners and drive innovation in our products. We welcome a workforce that reflects all the diversity of car buying consumers. We encourage everyone interested in our company mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that is protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law. In addition, TrueCar will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
*** While this position is open to remote work through TrueCar’s Dynamic Workplace initiative, applicants may not reside in Colorado. Colorado candidates will be required to relocate. ***
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Data Engineer
Location: Remote – US
See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as our next Data Engineer (L3)
Who we are & why we’re hiring
Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.
Although we’re headquartered in San Francisco, we have a presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. We’re on a journey to becoming a globally anti-racist, anti-oppressive, anti-bias company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business. We employ thousands of Twilions worldwide, and we’re looking for more builders, creators, and visionaries to help fuel our growth momentum.
About the job
This position is needed to design and build data pipelines and services in cloud environments that fuels strategic business decisions across Twilio. You will partner with other engineers and product managers to translate data needs into critical information that can be used to implement scalable data platforms and self-service tools. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving problems using engineering and data, thrives in an evolving environment, brings an enthusiastic and collaborative attitude, and delights in making a difference. As a successful candidate, you must have a deep background in data engineering and a proven track record of solving data problems at scale leveraging distributed data systems. You are a self-starter, embody a growth attitude, and can collaborate optimally across the entire Twilio organization.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll:
- Design, Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and Data warehouse to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.
- Develop set processes for analytics, data modeling, and data production.
- Collaborate with Data Architects and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering educated decision-making across the organization.
- Implement processes and systems to manage data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key partners and business processes that depend on it.
- Writes unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work.
- Perform data analysis required to solve data-related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues.
- Work closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and analysts.
- Design data integrations and data quality framework.
- Prepare accurate database design and architecture reports for management and Business teams.
- Execute the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.
- Manage the system performance by performing regular tests, solving problems and integrating new features.
- Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems.
- Offer support by responding to system problems in a timely manner.
Qualifications
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having desired qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required:
- 5+ years of diverse experience in building data pipelines and in data lake /warehousing
- Experience working with distributed analytics platforms – Hive, Presto etc.
- Experience working with data processing technologies like Kafka, Spark
- Expertise in SQL
- Expert coding skills across a number of languages including Scala, Java, Python etc.
- Experience in processing various file formats such as Parquet, Avro, JSON etc
- Experience in AWS EC2, S3, Redshift, Snowflake, etc
Desired:
- Experience with DAG-based open-source workflow management solutions airflow etc.
Location
This role will be remote in the US but is not eligible to be hired in San Francisco CA, Oakland CA, San Jose CA or the surrounding areas
What We Offer
There are many benefits to working at Twilio, including, in addition to competitive pay, things like generous time-off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.
Twilio thinks big. Do you?
We like to solve problems, take initiative, pitch in when needed, and are always up for trying new things. That’s why we seek out colleagues who embody our values something we call Twilio Magic. Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.
So, if you’re ready to unleash your full potential, do your best work, and be the best version of yourself, apply now!
If this role isn’t what you’re looking for, please consider other open positions.
*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado as well. The information below is provided for those hired in Colorado only.
*If you are a Colorado applicant:
- The estimated pay range for this role, based in Colorado, is $132,000.00-$165,000.00
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state. This role is also eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
Twilio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Twilio is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Additionally, Twilio participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Elite Enterprise Technical Support Specialist
Location: Remote, US
The Enterprise Customer Support Team works closely with many innovative and impressive customer accounts to unlock their business objectives and ultimately realize the value of using Airtable.
As a Senior Enterprise Technical Support Specialist (Sr. ETSS) on our Dedicated Support team, you will serve as a trusted first point of contact for technical product questions and troubleshooting for select customers. You will spend the majority of your time in customer-facing scenarios providing real-time (e.g., email, screen-shares, Slack, and possibly phone!) and best-in-class support to ensure customer satisfaction. You will develop direct relationships with our business partners and Customer Success Managers.
An ideal candidate has strong analytical and problem-solving skills and technical aptitude, and strives to articulate complex workflows simply and clearly. They will enjoy working independently and in partnership, are comfortable navigating ambiguity and managing expectations, and can quickly master new technologies and technical concepts.
Candidates must be able to work Monday to Friday in the US on an EST schedule and should be open to occasional changes in their hours. For instance, to provide backup to a peer or to support a customer through a major product launch or workflow change occurring off-hours. Remote work while traveling out of the US in this role may be limited due to customer contracts.
What you’ll do
- Support a portfolio of assigned accounts and customers in troubleshooting technical issues related to Airtable and various enterprise systems
- Educate customers on Airtable products and programs to enable best business practices
- Identify customer needs and quickly develop solutions
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to escalate and resolve customer needs
- Support Customer Success and Engineering partners as they work to drive the account’s growth
- Document and continuously improve best practices, resources, and SOPs
Who you are
- A love for Airtable and past experience with the product (personal or professional!)
- Hands-on technical experience with Airtable Automations, Linked Records, Interfaces, and Views
- Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Javascript, Python, or Java
- Previous experience troubleshooting Single sign-on (SSO) authentication methods like Okta, Google, ADFS, Azure, or OneLogin
- Technical expertise in areas like writing formulas, relational databases, and REST APIs
- Passion and at least 3 years of work experience in delivering high-quality, personal, customer support or professional services
- An ability to consistently deliver, provide feedback on, and hold yourself accountable to support targets and a proven ability to do so across multiple accounts simultaneously
- Strong written & verbal communication and presentation skills; extraordinary listening skills
- The ability to establish credibility with key decision-makers and business influencers
- Demonstrated resilience, creativity, and analytical thinking in problem-solving
- A teaching and learning mindset. You dig in to learn the why behind the what. You thrive in technically complex or nuanced situations and love empowering others through them!
- Experience working with enterprise technology (e.g. Salesforce, Confluence, Gsuite, Jira, Zendesk)
What We Offer
- We have your medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered (and your dependents covered at 80%)
- High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
- Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
- Monthly Lifestyle Wallet to use for benefits like personal fitness (e.g., gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.) to pet care to nutrition coaching, and more.
- Complimentary mental health support via Modern Health
- Family planning support via Carrot (fertility, adoption, and surrogacy)
- Flexible and generous time off and sick time benefits
- 16 weeks of parental leave
- Annual Learning & Development wallet to support your career development
- Emergency backup care for dependents
- Access to financial planning and legal support
- Supplemental reimbursement for Gender Affirmation procedures and services
- Access to pre-tax Transportation & Commuter Benefits
The compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their location, relevant skills and experience. For Colorado based roles, the base salary range for this role is $88,828 – $109,618. The total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation.
About Airtable
Airtable enables any team to create apps on top of shared data and power their most critical and unique workflows. Teams at more than 300,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on the Airtable Connected Apps Platform to connect their people and data and achieve their most important goals. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Airtable ranks #6 on the Forbes Cloud 100 and has raised $1.36 billion to date.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Design Project Coordinator- New Logo
REMOTE /
CLIENT SUCCESS PRODUCT FULFILLMENT TEAM (PFT) /
FULL-TIME
As the Design Project Coordinator, you’ll oversee the build-out of our client’s websites and the implementation of their revisions during their onboarding phase. The websites should incorporate the client’s vision in a creative manner and must be a robust representation of what they are trying to accomplish.
Every single website that we deliver to our clients must level up to our standards. As such, you must have an incredible eye for design and phenomenal attention to detail. You’ll quickly master our product, processes and tools in order to consistently deliver beautiful websites.
This is a challenging and highly visible role in the company. You will be entrusted with overseeing the build of each client’s website while ensuring the new website is a branded yet elevated version of their existing online presence.
Only those who love optimizing processes, have an eye for design, and have exceptional pride in their work need apply.
You are an integral member of the Product Fulfillment Team and company. Your work ethic, attitude, intelligence and keen eye for detail are tremendously valuable and we would like to put you in the position to continue to grow at Luxury Presence.
In order to set you up for future growth and leadership opportunities, we put together a roadmap that will allow you to focus on refining your ability to stay organized while delivering high-quality work consistently.
There are a few ways we will accomplish this:
1. Master the inputs and outputs of the new logo website build out + revisions process
2. Make structural improvements to our processes
Our ultimate goal is to enable you to work in a motivating, high-impact capacity while being part of an excellent team, evolving your leadership skills, and fully own a PFT Pod.
Here are a few focus areas we’ve outlined.
I. Areas of Competence: Website Build + Revisions
Ensuring each website is built in an efficient manner maintaining a 2 day turnaround time.
Ensuring the new website is a branded yet elevated version of their existing online presence.
Ensuring each revision is completed accurately and in a cohesive manner within 2-business days of submissions.
Limit revision rounds to one, to provide a seamless and efficient onboarding process.
Actively monitor client builds and revisions and provide technical solutions while keeping design at the forefront to keep each account moving forward.
Report and escalate technical issues as needed.
Become an expert at our systems and tools.
II Areas of Competence: Developing Leadership Skills
Build a team of skilled website builders and data specialists with an unparalleled eye for design
Motivate your team to think like owners and work with them to improve your team’s efficiency
Scale your team, while reducing micromanaging
III. What does success look like?
Demonstrable improvement in metrics
Mastery of software and workflows
High-quality output and no unforced errors
Maintain a rigorous revisions cycle
Clear understanding of trends and ability to anticipate issues
Continuous improvement of processes to the point where efficiency is maximized
Who we are: Luxury Presence is the real estate industry’s most powerful marketing platform, providing award winning websites and cutting edge tech to the world’s top agents.
Founded in 2016 by Stanford Business School alumni Malte Kramer, Luxury Presence currently serves over 5000 clients in the U.S. and Canada with its SaaS model including over 20 of the top 100 WSJ real estate agents and teams. In addition, Luxury Presence is the official website partner to some of the industry’s most powerful brokerages.
The Los Angeles-based SaaS company raised $25.9 million for its Series B round. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round alongside fellow existing investors Toba Capital and Switch Ventures. Former Dallas Mavericks basketball player Dirk Nowitzki also participated in the round, along with other angel investors.
Its solutions include stunning website design, an engaging home search tool, an agent-to-agent listing referral network, powerful content & SEO strategies, expert-lead social media management, and digital advertising for lead generation. In 2020, Luxury Presence was recognized as a Best Place to Work by BuiltinLA and by Inc. as the 322nd fastest growing private company in America and then again in 2021 LP ranked 598th.
Luxury Presence is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer
Remote
Our Mission is to Make Healthcare Right. Together. Built upon the belief that by connecting and aligning the best local resources in healthcare delivery with the financing of care, we can deliver a superior consumer experience, lower costs, and optimized clinical outcomes.
What drives our mission? The company values we live and breathe every day. We keep it simple: Be Brave. Be Brilliant. Be Accountable. Be Inclusive. Be Collaborative.
If you share our passion for changing healthcare so all people can live healthy, brighter lives apply to join our team.
SCOPE OF ROLE
As a Cloud Engineer you will work in a dynamic team and partner with teams across the company to ensure that our Cloud Infrastructure meets the needs of our growing customer base. The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for setting cloud architectural standards and ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the production cloud environments. As Cloud Engineer you will work hands-on in a Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment. This role is works in a fast-paced environment leveraging cutting-edge technology to reimagine how healthcare is provided.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Apply technical knowledge and business insights to solve complex technical problems
- Set Azure architectural standards and best practices for our cloud environments
- Plan, configure, deploy, and optimize Microsoft Azure based solutions
- Work closely with our Data and Engineering teams to design best in class Azure implementations
- Work closely with our Security Team to ensure the environment is secure and adhering to our HIPAA and SOC2 commitments
- Design and implement automation for Azure infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code)
- Establish and maintain documentation for our Azure environment
EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Technology (preferred), or relevant experience required.
- 10+ years of enterprise scale IT infrastructure design, deployment, and support, including networking, virtualization, servers, containers, storage, backup and DR.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure design, deployment, and migration.
- 5+ years of experience in designing DevOps pipelines, installations, configurations, automations, and monitoring of various cloud services including: (laaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
- Strong experience with designing, deploying, and supporting Azure IaaS services including networking, storage, compute, AKS, etc., Azure PaaS services including key vault, app services, function apps, logic apps, etc., Azure data services including data factory, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Databricks, etc.
- Strong experience with designing, configuring, and supporting Azure security and monitoring services including Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Application Insight, Log Analytics, Azure Sentinel, etc.
- Strong experience with designing, configuring and supporting Azure identity management services including Azure AD, Azure AD DS, Conditional Access Policy, Privileged Identity Management, JIT access, etc.
- Experience with Azure cost management, monitoring, and reporting.
- Experience with administering and supporting CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
- Experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as ARM templates, Terraform, Ansible etc.
- Experience with scripting languages PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc., experience in writing scripts to interact with APIs.
- Great Linux and windows server administration skills and knowledge.
- Azure Solution Architect Expert certification (AZ-303/304 or AZ-305) strongly desired.
- Experience in implementing full lifecycle DevOps automation including Configurations management, Build Automation, Release Management, Development automation and Infrastructure management.
- Solid experience with DevOps implementations, migrations, and upgrades within the Microsoft Cloud Azure solution suite.
- Deep understanding of Cloud Azure Kubernetes Service with container-based development skills, Experience with container management tools like Docker, ACS, Kubernetes, AKS, and GKE.
- Experience with DevOps CICD tools and concepts Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Chef, Ansible, Azure DevOps and staged integrations etc.
- Understanding of micro-services, containerization, and other app modernization strategies
- Understanding of APIs, SDKs, and other integration methods
- Experience integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 with various Azure services.
- Familiar with Network Infrastructure and Security. Knowledge of IP networking, private tunnel, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
- Experience with Azure SQL Services, SSRS, SSIS
- You should have communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, including effectively communicating with technical and non-technical team members.
- Experience working in a high context switching work environment
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
- Detail oriented with excellent organization and analytical skills leading project.
- Ability to plan and take initiatives to accomplish objectives in a timely fashion.
- Ability to prioritize work and meet moving target deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments.
We’re Making Healthcare Right. Together.
We are realizing a completely different healthcare experience where payors, providers, doctors, and patients can all feel connected, aligned and unified on the same team. By eradicating the frictions of competing needs, we are making it possible to give everyone more of what they want and deserve. We do this by:
Focusing on Consumers
We understand patient pain points, eliminating complexity while increasing transparency, for greater access and easier navigation.
Building on Alignment
We integrate and align individual incentives at all levels, from financing to optimization to delivery of care.
Powered by Technology
We employ our purpose built, integrated data platform to connect clinical, financial, and social data, to deliver exceptional outcomes.
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