Director of Merchandising

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Director of Merchandising

Remote

Who We Are

Maisonette is an online marketplace for high quality baby and kids products across every category; from apparel to gear to toys and home decor. Founded by two moms in 2017 with the goal of helping modern families raise the next generation, Maisonette carries over 1000 unique brands from around the globe, providing relevant, high quality product at every price point, and expert-led content tailored to every stage of parenthood.

More about Maisonette:

  • We are a fast-growing venture-backed start-up primed to become the dominant single-destination player in the kid’s market.;
  • Our vision and business performance resonates with investors; we’ve completed multiple rounds of funding from top-tier investors including NEA, Thrive Capital and G Squared.;
  • Our board of directors consists of leaders across the fields of tech, e-commerce, and fashion.; They include Co-Founder of Lumi Labs, Inc., and former President and CEO of Yahoo! Inc Marissa Mayer, Co-Founder & CEO at BRANDED Pierre Poignant, and General Partner at NEA, Tony Florence.;

We have a diverse, collaborative, and experienced executive team hailing from Vogue,Jet.com, Casper, Birch Box, Rent the Runway, Industrious, and Retail Me Not.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do. We look forward to interest in our roles from all walks of life. Please see our diversity report for more information.

What We Need

A key stakeholder in setting our merchandising strategy and vision for the marketplace brands, and vision across all future and current categories (play, apparel, gear, home, accessories, beauty) and future and current segments (baby, toddler, kids, pre-teen, teen). The role requires both vision for the long term merchandising strategy/assortment as well as ability to execute and drive growth in the near term, and will help to drive topline company growth and margin in addition to other annual goals.

What You’ll Do

  • Own development and execution of marketplace merchandising strategy, with ability to tie it to overall company objectives; seek alignment on strategy from VP of Merchandising
  • Own the strategy and drive assortment growth, with a POV on where (categories, product types, price points, etc) growth should come from
  • Understand and clearly articulate how merchandising strategy drives business goals, setting key KPIs for all buyers to manage to
  • Have a solid understanding of the children’s market – who competitors are across each category – identifying moats we can create for each
  • Passion for children’s space with an understanding of what parents need at different life stages with ability to pivot across categories and understand differences among each
  • Leverage data to build cases for the initiatives that are core to marketplace success. Work with cross-functional leaders to garner buy-in and align on prioritization of requests.
  • Have strong understanding of vendor terms and vendor value proposition, with view of how we build value for both vendors and ourselves overtime
  • Be a champion for building vendor community, with view of how to best service vendors and drive strong vendor NPS
  • Develop strategy with team for exclusives/collaborations and outline business value of such partnerships; partner with marketing team to bring them to life
  • Help to prospect and close top vendor accounts in conjunction with buyers
  • Develop organizational structure that scales overtime, developing understanding of technology needs, outsourcing needs, etc.
  • In partnership with Merch Ops, identify and build processes, practices, tooling and partnerships to automate and scale the merch team’s operations to drive efficiency and effectiveness
  • Develop direct reports to utilize business intelligence tools to better inform their decision-making and strategy
  • Provide stretch opportunities for buyers and senior buyers to lead key cross-functional initiatives
  • Coach direct reports on developing and empowering their junior merchants
  • Partner with Finance, Planning, and GMV squad to ensure marketplace forecasts aligns with company budget and goal
  • Drive the MD and Promotional strategy in partnership with Marketing and Finance
  • Act as a cross functional leader between Merch and other teams on key initiatives

About You

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 10+ years of retail merchandising buying experience, ideally in a cross category e-commerce or retail organization
  • Analytical thinker and strategic problem solver
  • Ability to partner with and influence vendors/cross-functional partners
  • Knowledge of retail landscape, trends and the digital marketplace
  • Natural merchant, with eye for Maisonette’s uniquely curated assortment and an aesthetic point of view
  • Ability to understand analytics and data driven strategies
  • Clear, collaborative communicator; ability to streamline and synthesize copious information for various audiences
  • Entrepreneurial, intrinsically motivated, enthusiastic, and adaptable
  • Ability to effectively manage a broad team of buyers across all product categories
  • Ability to prioritize among myriad and shifting priorities
  • Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with day-to-day tactical execution
  • Personal passion for and perspective on consumer products within the children’s space

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Project Manager – eLearning

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Note From FlexJobs: This role is only open to candidates outside of the US. Ideally hiring in the following locations: Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

Project Manager(eLearning) – Remote

FT – HOURLY | ACHIEVE TEST PREP | OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES

Job Description

About Achieve Test Prep

We believe our employees empower our company and are the reason behind our success. We are the nation’s largest educational consultant and test prep center specializing in credit-by-examination degree paths, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey.

Most working adults find it challenging to overcome the many obstacles associated with obtaining their college degree. Achieve acts as a counselor, advocate, and partner, helping students achieve their degree in less time, with less effort, and for less money by utilizing an alternative path to earning college credit known as the credit-by-examination process. Essentially, Achieve helps students bypass all of the busywork associated with taking certain college courses the traditional way by instead passing just one test-out exam. While our credit-by-examination programs can shorten the path to any degree at virtually any college, the field where we have the most significant impact is the nursing profession.

Employee engagement and development is one of the keys to our success at Achieve! Embracing a work-from-home model for the entire company, all employees enjoy a better work-life balance through flexible work schedules.

About the role

We are looking for Project Managers who will lead various projects, initiatives, research, audits, and analytics across our departments to support consistent planning and operations.

Compensation: Up to $11/hr dependent on experience

Responsibilities

  • Define the scope of projects to schedule regular & timely delivery of value
  • Define, manage and lead well-defined project management processes
  • Developing comprehensive project documents, including project plans
  • Regular status reporting to track project progress against goals, objectives, and timelines
  • Working with other stakeholders across departments to gather needs and transform them into requirement documentation
  • Effectively coordinate and collaborate with internal department stakeholders and staff to analyze and document best practices and operational procedures for training purposes
  • Scheduling and conducting prioritization meetings with stakeholders
  • Managing resource availability and allocating resources for projects
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve and/or streamline operations and processes
  • Audit for accuracy/completeness of business-critical activities, as assigned
  • Manage the implementation of process improvement projects by utilizing leadership skills and project management methodologies
  • Collaborate with the company leadership team to assist with the execution of key initiatives
  • Conduct research, analyze information, and summarize results/make recommendations on business-related topics, as assigned

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Must be able to write and speak fluently in English
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 4+ years of experience in a variety of functional, operational, project management, and analytical roles.
  • Knowledge and application of PM processes
  • Function specific or Project management certification is a plus
  • Experience with SalesForce is a plus
  • Experience with Agile frameworks is a plus
  • Must be highly detail-oriented and a problem solver
  • Must be highly adaptable and comfortable with a fast-paced environment
  • Skilled in collecting and analyzing data and information, drawing logical conclusions, and summarizing in a clear, concise manner
  • Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with organization management and staff
  • Advanced proficiency with Google workplace apps — particularly Google Docs and Google Sheets (or MS Office Suite expertise) and generally technologically savvy

Job Details

Type: Full-Time

Schedule: Flexible schedule with availability to overlap during the 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST business day.

Remote: 100% Online

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Product Design Manager

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Product Design Manager

REMOTE (UNITED STATES)

PRODUCT – PRODUCT DESIGN

FULL TIME

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to join our Money Crew to help creators start and grow their businesses on Teachable. Together with your group, you will explore exciting new opportunities for creators to monetize their content and expand their reach. You will mentor and manage a team of designers to take complex financial problems and create simple, elegant solutions that empower small business owners.

You will report to the Director of Product Design.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets
  • Advocate for prioritization of changes, refinements, and improvements to the user experience
  • Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with cross-functional partners
  • You will champion user-centered design and craft, and ensure the team is building towards outcomes based on user needs, leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights to drive decisions
  • You will actively contribute to constructive design reviews, playing an important role in helping our deliverables adhere to high design standards. Providing direction on design work that challenges assumptions, encourages exploration, addresses user needs and ties to objectives, research and data
  • Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Teachable products
  • Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your organization’s product strategy
  • Effectively communicate your team’s product goals (both within the team and outside the team), and connect related projects across the company so that problems or joint decisions can be resolved quickly
  • Establish trust with cross-functional partners and executive leadership
  • You will have an opportunity to seek out new ways to help grow and shape our creative output and culture.

What We’re Looking For

  • 2+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership
  • 6+ years of experience of professional product design experience
  • A portfolio with case studies showcasing your product design work with demonstrable user and business impact
  • Thorough command of the UX lifecycle with deep, direct experience in all skill areas and tools, including facilitation of workshops or other collaboration techniques to drive momentum and credibility within the organization
  • That spark of curiosity that drives you to create great experiences for our users

Teachable is an instructor-focused platform that empowers creators to build and sell online courses and coaching on any topic-from iOS development to watercolor painting to card tricks. Instructors using our platform have collectively earned more than a billion dollars to date.

Since our founding, we’ve raised more than $12.5 million from top venture investors and were acquired in March of 2020. Teachable is now part of Hotmart Company, a global tech group focused on the Creator Economy, with over 1,300 employees in 8 countries (Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, France and UK). Hotmart´s mission is to help creators make a living from their passions, using digital products to entertain, help and instruct their audiences.

Teachable is continuing to build a diverse team of top-notch talent. We won’t hold you back from reaching your full potential at Teachable; you’ll have the freedom to be an integral member of our tight-knit team, with great benefits and perks. Your work here will directly impact hundreds of thousands of online educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives.

Teachable operates under a hybrid work model, meaning we give our employees the flexibility to work from home or from one of our offices at their leisure.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health, Dental, & Vision benefits with options covering up to 100% of monthly premium

Generous Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time

Parental leave, 16 weeks fully paid after three months of service

4% 401(k) with match after three months of service

Supplemental student loan repayment assistance or a professional education stipend

Tax-free commuter benefit

Conference budget

50% gym & wellness match

Headspace subscription

$250 Donation Match Program

Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer, meaning we’re committed to a fair and consistent interview process. Please tell us in your application if you require an accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job.

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Graphic Designer

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Graphic Designer

Location: Remote (US or Canada)

Driven by the mission to democratize education, Paper is the largest provider of educational support, supporting millions of students through partnerships with thousands of school districts. Paper helps deliver true educational equity through their category leading Educational Support System (ESS) that offers virtual access to 24/7 tutors and essay reviewers. Founded in 2014, Paper philosophically believes that all students should be given the tools and resources to reach their academic potential, independent of socio-economic status, geography, language or other barriers. We are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec with remote employees across the US and Canada. Paper is proud to have been named by GSV as one of the most transformational growth companies in digital learning.

Paper is looking for a talented Graphic Designer to join its marketing team. In this role, you will be vital in creating next-level marketing materials that not only champion the Paper brand but are fun. As Paper’s newest designer, you will be responsible for the design through the production of marketing materials, branding campaigns, websites and so on. You will collaborate with other designers, developers, writers, and stakeholders to ensure content is successful. Your ability to work independently, as well as with a team, coupled with strong project management skills and a drive to achieve excellence are essential to this position.

This position can be located in any geography in the US or Canada.

Responsibilities:

  • Support Paper’s Marketing team in its design initiatives, creating effective and engaging content
  • Creating compelling designs for a diverse array of projects such as print collateral, digital, web, event collateral and signage, logos, infographics, emails, etc. following existing brand guidelines
  • Combine an understanding of design systems, grids, color, typography and photography to deliver clear and powerful visual messages
  • Think of new and fun ways to make content exciting and relatable
  • Attention to detail and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
  • Manage multiple projects and timelines, to ensure deadlines are met
  • Clearly communicate and collaborate with internal and external teams
  • Champion new ideas and design-best-practices to cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Qualifications:

  • 4-6 years experience in design or in a related field.
  • Portfolio or work samples, showing experience
  • Experience in standard design and presentation applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, Sketch, InVision
  • Ability to learn new software quickly; experience with Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Notion, Monday, or Hubspot is a plus.
  • Comfortable working in Google G Suite, including Google Slides
  • Experience in video and motion graphics is preferred
  • Knowledge of social media platforms and social content creation is a plus
  • Familiarity with Monday, Asana, Trello, or similar project management programs a plus

Nice to have:

  • UI experience: Ability to lead the design for new mobile and web experiences and enhancements to existing ones in collaboration with Marketing, Products and Development teams

Job perks:

  • We’re remote-first
  • but we still want to meet you, so we’ll fly you in for annual meetups (sometimes more)
  • We’re growing fast, and so will your career
  • Monthly stipend to support the growth of your home office
  • Unlimited access to tutoring and educational support for children of Paper employees
  • Benefits, retirement plan (+ match), stock options, and more

About Paper

Paper offers an exciting, dynamic, inclusive work environment putting excellence at the center of everything we do. Our mission is woven into the fabric of our culture, challenging our team to build meaningful and creative solutions.

We thrive when we collaborate with each other, and use integrity and selflessness to align our business decisions with our mission. We approach every challenge with positivity, achieving the outcome we want regardless of what gets in the way. Our tenacity propels our hyper-growth, where trust is key and we all strive to make an impact every day.

We believe that diverse teams build better products. Paper does not and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender orientation, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations.

Nobody checks every box, but the Paper team is built by passionate and innovative people who share our mission for democratizing education. If you don’t think you meet all of the requirements above but are still interested in the job, please apply.

PS. Equity is our mission! We make sure to treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our job board – our amazing talent team will reach out! Our team isn’t able to pass on any calls/ emails our way – and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone.

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Scrum Master

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Scrum Master (REMOTE)

Job LocationsUS-REMOTE

ID

22-15824

Category

Engineering

Position Type

Full-Time

WHO WE ARE

RealPage Outperforms! We are a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry. Clients use our platform to improve operating performance and increase capital returns. We are a run fast, have fun and reap rewards type of environment. RealPage offers an engaging work culture that fosters personal and career growth for our employees. We continually reinvent and evolve to meet the needs of the customers we serve through technology and vision. You can feel it in the work we do and the clients that benefit. Our unique company philosophy fosters innovation, excellence and collaboration.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Scrum Master III will guide team developing our solutions using Agile practices that include guiding, coaching, and training in scrum methodologies for software build activities. The Scrum Master III will ensure clear communication and guide the team to close its stories and complete sprints on time and drive the appropriate Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/etc.) focused on predictable, quality delivery.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Guide and coach scrum methodologies and assist the team in Scrum / Agile principles to drive process improvement
  • Coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices and process improvements
  • Ensure cross team coordination
  • Work with teams to deliver value and coordinate within and outside of the team to facilitate the completion of the team’s backlog and guiding the team to adding stories to its backlog as appropriate
  • Proactively identify impediments and appropriately resolve using network of peers (Scrum of Scrums) and formal channels (including escalation if required)
  • Drive/manage/oversee all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned projects with distributed teams
  • Manage the release plan, communication plan, risks and issues management plan
  • Assist Product Owner in managing scope of team(s) and facilitating changes
  • Facilitate team’s Agile Scrum ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective
  • Ensure (using SCRUM and AGILE) appropriate, complete and timely team achievement of all documentation, tracking and reporting metrics (including: user stories, project progress, resource utilization, change requests, issues, risks, risk mitigation plans, test scripts, test results) and ensure delivery timelines
  • Report, Refine and use Metrics (Quality, Quantity) exhibiting highest level of transparency to stakeholders in support of Informed decision making
  • Facilitate documenting, publishing and executing the team’s continuous improvement plan (based on retrospectives)

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, Computer Science/Information Technology, related field or equivalent
  • 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, project management, related field or equivalent
  • Advanced MS Office applications (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel) skills
  • Advanced knowledge of multiple Agile delivery frameworks
  • Proven success in building strong relationships, managing stakeholder expectations, possess exemplary communication skills #LI-JL1 #LI-REMOTE

WHAT WE OFFER

At RealPage, we’re always looking for talented professionals who thrive in a learning work environment that continually supports individual greatness. We foster a culture of innovation and creativity. It is the things you do that bring out the best of you and RealPage.

RealPage considers qualified applicants without regard to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, race, national origin, age, veteran, or disability status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive work environment where all teammates feel a sense of belonging while bringing their authentic self to the table and being valued for it.

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