Director, Product Design 

by Ronald Barron | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Director, Product Design

Remote

It’s an exciting time at Crossbeam. We have more than 10,000 companies using our platform, our product has produced repeatable and demonstrable value for our customers, and we have a first-rate team to support our continued growth. Best of all, we’re just getting started. In a market full of uncertainty, we are fortunate to have an unwavering long-term vision and the funding to see it through at full speed.

Crossbeam helps companies partner with each other in a more data-driven way by acting as an escrow service for data. Our partner ecosystem platform allows companies to find overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while keeping the rest of their data private and secure.

Crossbeam is seeking a Director of Product Design to join our leadership team and direct our product design and user experience efforts. We have an existing, small-but-mighty team of talented designers, ranging from expertise in UX to IA to Design Systems, and are creating this new leadership position to advance and accelerate their efforts and create a more senior voice for product design at the company.

As the Director of Product Design, you will be the senior-most product design leader at the company, responsible for managing (and growing) a team of Product Designers. You will report to the VP of Product. You will shape and amplify the voice of Product Design at Crossbeam, advocating for a world-class User Experience and ensuring design has a strong voice in our product and overall company strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Share Design Experience: Bring extensive experience as a seasoned product designer and leader. Working closely to coach your team and share those experiences and influence the development of world-class user experience and visual design for our system
• Manage & Mentor: Recruit a diverse pool of world-class product designers and provide them professional development opportunities as well as clarity on their growth within the company. Additionally, create values and principles to guide the design culture and processes, and ensure that as a remote team, members feel empowered to do their best work.
• Product Design Advocacy: Communicate product design’s impact on business outcomes with the product team, leadership team, and company-wide contexts. Be the champion for the product design function internally, creating a healthy culture of celebrating successes.
• Cross Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Engineering, and other internal teams to align on priorities and identify opportunities for improvement both in product and process. Build a strong cross-functional relationship with our GTM teams to fully understand the pain of the customer
• Put Customers and Data First: Be a constant, vocal advocate for the customer in research, design, development, and GTM. Ensure product usage data and customer feedback are at the forefront of the product design process, guiding every decision
• User Research: We believe in giving our users the simplest path to their goal and valuing the user’s experience above all else. Help build a discipline around UX research that weaves into our existing process while upholding a high bar for the quality and consistency of work from the team, supported by our internal review processes and good UX principles
• Design Systems: Understand the value and importance of design systems in product design and front-end development while ensuring design systems are a core part of our product design and are prioritized appropriately.

THESE ARE SOME OF YOUR TRAITS:

• You have 8+ years of experience in product design (primarily in B2B SaaS contexts)
• You have experience managing a product design team in a high-growth startup environment
• You are an exquisitely talented product designer who has experience and perspectives as an individual contributor
• You are comfortable leading by example as a player-coach as the team scales
• You have experience leading UX research or working closely with UX researchers
• You love using data to drive business decisions
• You care deeply about DEI and accessibility within design
• You understand our philosophy of product-led growth (PLG) and believe that product design is a key input
• You understand the importance of organization & documentation (bonus points if you’ve used Notion in the past for this).
• You speak your mind and have no issue raising concerns with colleagues, but are also able to “disagree and commit” when things don’t go your way.
• You just read this whole list and got excited.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

We go through the same interview steps for all Product Design candidates to ensure equity in our hiring process. Our process is designed to learn as much about each candidate as possible, as well as to give candidates access to our team and learn about what it’s like to be a team member at Crossbeam. Topics will range from technical skills to problem-solving approaches and collaboration

1. First-round call with a Crossbeam in-house recruiter
2. 1:1 call with Hiring Manager, VP, Product
3. 1 hour panel interview to better understand your design leadership experience
4. The final Interview is set up to meet multiple folks in succession, here’s how we break it up:
   • 30 Minutes with VP of Product
   • 45 Minutes with Product Designers
   • 30 Minutes with an Engineering Leader & Growth Leader
   • 45 Minutes with Product Team Members
   • 45 Minutes with VP, People & CEO

BENEFITS

This is a salaried* role. In addition, Crossbeam offers:

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Parental leave
• Stock Option Plan
• 401k Plan + Match
• Learning & Development Budget
• Remote Work Options
• Generous Wellness Stipend

*Residents of Colorado: There is a minimum salary of $180,000 plus equity and benefits for this position. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, health, dental, vision, 401k+ Match, flex PTO, parental leave, & fully remote work. The salary for this role may vary depending on your location, skills, and experience.

HOW WE WORK

This role can be based anywhere in the US.

Crossbeam has always been committed to building a remote-first culture, even before the pandemic. We have a founder footprint in the Philadelphia area and team members distributed across 20 + states and several continents. The majority of our collaborative work happens on Slack and Zoom.

As long as traveling is safe, we’ll celebrate with non-mandatory team offsites and events a few times a year & team meet ups at manager’s discretion.

OUR VALUES

Trust is our business. We create value by building trust in our company, our team, our technology, and our network. Never let anything compromise that trust.

Feed the Network. Our customer network is our most valuable asset. Prioritize its growth.

Equity. We will build a workplace that ensures everyone access to the same opportunities to share in our success.

This is Fun. Few people are lucky enough to do what we do. Follow the fun in every step of the journey.

Crossbeam’s core value of Equity sits at the heart of our hiring process, and we’re proud to be building a culture where differences are valued. Applicants from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Senior Product Manager, Data Ops 

by Ronald Barron | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Product Manager, Data Ops

Location: United States

About Panorama:
Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston/San Francisco offices, or a hybrid option.

About the role:

Panorama has a big-picture vision to radically improve student outcomes by helping educators act on data and improve their practice.

As Senior Product Manager, Data Operations, you will work to scale our approach to maintaining integration pipelines and will ensure a reliable flow of student data into Panorama’s products. Educators depend on our integrations to utilize data from other systems to inform student support. This Product Manager will develop new ways for our client users and internal teams to maintain integrations, resolve issues, and prevent problems before they arise, leading to a more reliable experience for our users.

You will work cross-functionally with other teams – including our Client Success, Teaching & Learning, Account Management, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams – to meet business goals and develop a vision for how we support the needs of our users and a strategy to get us there. Specifically, you will drive product innovation and execution to ensure that we can scale our support model and ensure that educators across the country always have access to the most up-to-date data about their students.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a vision and strategy for evolving Panorama’s approach and technical offerings around data operations, integration support and data freshness.
• Build and evolve a successful execution strategy, working with your design and engineering counterparts to align individuals and teams in the product area to themes of work.
• Partner with other teams to build a change management and rollout plan for successful launch of new features and functionality.
• Take input from executive and product leadership, architects, internal business experts, consultants, and user research to create user stories and technical requirements that align with client needs.
• Through research, listening, and discussion, become Panorama’s expert in the challenges of and opportunities for improving user management in the K-12 education space across Panorama’s products.
• Spend time talking to district leaders and technical users across the country, understanding their challenges and validating that our solutions help solve their problems.

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager, strategy consultant, business analyst, or other related role.
• Experience related to APIs, ETL and other data-sharing technologies
• Ability to develop a strategy: Starting with high-level questions, ability to structure and scope the problem space, break the problems down into their components, and set up and validate strategic choices
• Strong analytical ability to derive actionable insights from large datasets and define valuable product metrics to back up assumptions and inform decision-making
• Ideation experience, particularly experience using various techniques to generate, flesh out, and validate new ideas, and engaging other stakeholders in these approaches
• Ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and inclusively, in a way that generates enthusiasm and invites feedback and engagement
• Strong project management skills: the ability to backwards-map from an outcome to plan the steps to get there, and then successfully convey this plan to others

Panorama excitedly hosts two in-person “all team meetings” a year. All Panoramians attend and travel/hotels are provided.

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.

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Manager of Revenue Insights and Analytics

by Ronald Barron | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Manager of Revenue Insights and Analytics

Location: United States

About Panorama:
Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston/San Francisco offices, or a hybrid option.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Manager of Revenue Insights to join our Revenue Operations team and build out our new Insights team. As the founding member of this team, you will help Panorama develop its reporting, insights, and analytics infrastructure to increase business visibility and enable teams to confidently plan based on all relevant data.

This is a key role, highlighting pipeline gaps and growth areas, identifying which marketing campaigns are most successful, and analyzing products sold. The candidate must be an excellent communicator, operational planner, and analytical thinker. They will be a key resource for Sales, Account Management, and Marketing leaders in identifying and documenting pipeline goals, areas for expansion, and tracking progress towards goals. Cross-functionally, they will be a key liaison between Revenue and other Panorama teams such as Client Experience, Product, and Finance.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must be comfortable engaging in ad hoc analysis to identify root-cause issues, drive ongoing data structure improvements, connect with Sales, Account Management, and Marketing leaders to align on strategy and reporting, and have a passion for translating technical issues to non-technical crowds. In the future, as we continue to grow, the Manager of Revenue Insights will manage direct reports who support our emerging needs for reporting, insights, and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Own key company metrics and reporting including ARR, products sold, number of students served, renewal rate, and others; QA reporting to ensure accuracy in data
• Forecast revenue for sales and account management
• Develop a cohesive strategy for revenue reporting and build a data definition guide that can be used by all teams at Panorama (e.g. Product, Client Experience, Finance)
• Partner with members of the Revenue Operations team and counterparts on other cross-functional teams to align on shared metrics and goals
• Prep revenue and performance metrics for board meetings
• Analyze reports for marketing, sales, and account management and share insights that drive action and improvement
• Refine QBR (quarterly business review) reporting and analysis for each subteam of revenue (field sales, inside sales, business development, sales development, account management, marketing, etc.)
• Facilitate regular meetings with managers across marketing, sales, and account management to review data and track performance toward goals
• Analyze marketing campaign performance and understand ROI to inform future spend
• Support ad hoc reporting requests from revenue team members, and cross-functional teams, as needed
• In the future, coach and support each person on the Insights team including: holding regular one-on-one’s; identifying opportunities for growth and development; supporting hiring, onboarding, and ongoing training for team members

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• 6+ years relevant experience in business development strategy, sales operations and strategy, finance, consulting, or in equivalent roles, experience in SaaS preferred
• Leadership and people-management experience in a similar role
• Expertise in revenue platforms such as Salesforce, Outreach.io, Ambition or other similar tools
• Fluency in Excel and business intelligence platforms (e.g. Looker, Tableau, etc.)
• Experience with SQL a plus
• Strong analytical skills, with ability to provide data-driven insights and recommendations
• Excellent collaboration and project management skills
• Attention to detail

Panorama excitedly hosts two in-person “all team meetings” a year. All Panoramians attend and travel/hotels are provided.

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.

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Associate Editor, Product Management and Product Data Management Blogs 

by Ronald Barron | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Associate Editor, PM/PdM Blogs

About Toptal

Toptal is a global network of top freelance talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and over 40% year-over-year growth, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote company.

We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Position Description

Supporting the editors of the Toptal Projects and Product Management Blogs, you will help us continue to grow as a world-class English-language publication for top PM and PdM experts. Reporting to the Projects and Product Management Blog’s Lead Editor, you will be working closely with editors and authors alike to help meet deadlines, craft effective article metadata, and perform article quality control.

You will offer project management, research, and editorial support to keep our editing pipeline rolling by facilitating prioritization, communicating actively with internal and external collaborators, and getting all the details perfect. This includes crafting small amounts of copy yourself, and frictionlessly adding important details to articles written by others.

All aspects of a new article must conform to specific, high standards. Stellar writing abilities, ambition, a collaborative spirit, and drive are requirements for this position.

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere. Due to the remote nature of this role, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities:

• Attend regular meetings with editors to help prioritize individual workflows and balance team tasks.
• Ensure editors follow the editorial processes of the Toptal Projects and Product Management Blogs and wider Toptal Publications team to develop, publish, and distribute content in a timely manner.
• Follow up with editors, authors, copyeditors, editorial assistants, illustrators, expert reviewers, social media team, and lead editor as needed to maintain momentum on every article and ensure all checklist details are completed.
• Document the current status of each article to help maintain visibility to key stakeholders and to gather data to help improve internal processes.
• Support authors and editors by conducting research to provide best sources for hyperlinks, statistics, news articles and reports, and illustrations/charts for use in articles.
• Research possible areas of interest for Projects and Product Management Blogs coverage and help with ideation.
• Be a helpful second reader by providing feedback on articles in development, as needed.
• Write and customize metadata accurately by summarizing and highlighting key article features for various social media audiences while conforming to each context’s special requirements.
• Write accessible, accurate, and helpful text to describe images for those who cannot see them.
• Introduce new authors to our processes, answer their questions, and maintain a positive relationship with them throughout their collaboration with the Toptal Projects and Product Management Blogs.
• Represent Toptal Publications at network welcome events by answering questions and encouraging participation.

In the first week, expect to:

• Learn about Toptal’s Projects and Product Management offerings and get a sense of the voice of the publication.
• Onboard to the Publications team by meeting with team members and learning about what they do.
• Learn the publishing process and associated tools.

In the first month, expect to:

• Become familiar with what an A+ article looks like, and develop personal habits and processes to ensure that all pieces to be published will achieve this standard.
• Adapt to and become a regular contributor at team meetings.
• Write metadata and image descriptions.

In the first three months, expect to:

• Coordinate with contributors to help maintain pipeline priorities and momentum using a professional and helpful communication style.
• Help the team balance large numbers of simultaneous editing assignments.
• Develop proficiency in using the CMS and in editorial processes.

In the first six months, expect to:

• Collaborate with peers on the Publications team to contribute ideas for process improvement as needed.
• Develop subject matter expertise in project and product management.
• Seek out expert contributors from the talent network to ensure impeccable article quality on the Toptal Projects and Product Management Blogs.

In the first year, expect to:

• Work to improve the quality and impact of the publication via partnerships and assets across Toptal (PR, events, community, etc.).
• Continually raise the bar and contribute new ideas for elevating the expertise of Toptal’s network talent.
• Act on feedback to help ensure writers enjoy working with Toptal Publications and are proud of the end result.

Requirements:

• Strict attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially in a project management context.
• Ability to work under pressure when needed, keeping priorities balanced and delivering on time without missing any best practices along the way.
• Self-starter who is a “power user” when it comes to using common web-based tools, and more than comfortable learning new ones as needed.
• Demonstrated writing and editing experience, especially some with a focus on project and/or product management and related topics. (Samples welcome.)
• Meticulous about implementing and enforcing processes. Strong understanding of workflows.
• An exceptional eye for quality and a relentless drive to improve anything that falls below your standards or Toptal’s standards.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
• Bonus: Project management and/or product management subject area experience can be helpful in working with the content we produce.

For Toptal Use Only: #northamerica #LI-MR2 #LI-REMOTE

Associate Editor, PM/PdM Blogs

Required skills HTMLCSS

Location United States, Canada

Commitment Full-time

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Senior Data Analyst

by Ronald Barron | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Senior Data Analyst

Location: United States

Company Overview

At Modernize (a QuinStreet division) our mission is to simplify home improvement by inspiring motivated homeowners and connecting them with qualified contractors. Our foundation is based on 10 years as a driving force as Home Improvement Leads in online lead generation connecting homeowners with high quality contractors in the $300 billion annually grossing home improvement market. We’re working hard on a new brand and new products to cater to homeowners and the most successful contractors in the industry.

We’re looking for sharp, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Teammates who enjoy using technology to solve problems will thrive in our dynamic startup environment. We have an open floor plan that encourages the entire team to participate in critical discussions and allows everyone to be a vital contributing factor. You’ll enjoy our hip, newly renovated office in the heart of downtown with a view of the capital and the downtown skyline.

Covid-19 Hiring Update: As a company, we’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and will continue to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

Job Category

As a key member of the Strategic Marketing & Analytics team, you will be responsible for data-driven insights that enable QuinStreets Marketing and Media teams to maximize profitability while developing customer relationships. You will gather, organize, and aggregate complex sets of data in order to produce meaningful business insight in areas such as ad network optimization, ad merchandising, marketing performance, quality monitoring, partner development, product testing, and more. You will also communicate your insights and findings to various members of our Client, Media, Analytics, and Executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with media and client managers to understand business opportunities for media, client and market growth.
• Actively mine data to develop actionable insights from our proprietary datasets using various statistical techniques.
• Evaluate strategies and forecast their expected impact to the key performance indicators.
• Support analysis and monitoring of business metrics and trends.
• Key liaison between business and technical teams in managing day to day data analytics.

Qualifications:

• Record of high academic achievement with a BS degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Math/Science, or otherwise proven background in business/analytics. MS preferred.
• 5+ years of work experience in data analytics/science.
• Strong understanding of statistical methods used in to elicit insights from data.
• Strong analytical mindset with a drive toward actionable insights from data.
• Deep interest in online marketing and media industry. Industry experience a plus.
• High internal motivation with ability to understand the full stack of product development.
• Willingness to initiate and own research, exploration, and analysis from start to finish for any business problem.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to remain focused-yet-flexible in a fast-paced internet company environment.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Tableau and SQL.
• Familiarity with Python (preferred) or R programming to the level necessary to perform ad-hoc analysis.

#LI-REMOTE

Modernize (a QuinStreet division) is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy status, sex, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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