by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager, User Experience Design (Remote)
Job Category: Product Development
Requisition Number: DESIG024871
Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Manager, User Design Experience, functions both strategically and at a systems-level by applying a user-centered design methodology to manage a team of user experience (UX) design professionals to arrive at successful solutions for education-related applications that support business goals and user needs. The role works with leadership and practitioners across UX, Product Management, and Development to guide the UX design of complex applications and is a leader who is creative and technically adept, highly collaborative, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and passionate about improving educational experiences for people.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Manage a team of UX design professionals including overseeing and guiding their work, developing performance management goals, providing timely feedback throughout the year, and playing a critical role in the formal annual and mid-year performance management processes;
- Create an open, inclusive, and trusting environment where teamwork and cooperation are valued
- Partner with product management, engineering, and stakeholders to define and drive the product vision for major initiatives or multiple smaller initiatives throughout the product lifecycle;
- Engage in planning at the product level by working across product owners and across scrum teams to understand the design needs for the stories necessary to release the next and future product increments;
- Understand the behaviors, motivations, unarticulated challenges and unstated needs of our customers to develop relevant and impactful interactions and experiences;
- Define user goals and ways to measure success;
- Lead the work of user experience (UX) designers and researchers to realize the vision, execute the strategy, fulfill the requirements, and create product designs that achieve business and user goals within time and budget;
- Define and articulate design problems to facilitate focus and create simple, elegant and effective designs that align with product vision and business outcomes;
- Drive excellence in the final visual and interaction details of our products, both through own work and through the thoughtful, constructive and kind feedback given to others;
- Develop user flows, user journeys, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for complex applications with multiple user roles;
- Effectively prioritize projects, manage tasks, and communicate with the project management team, delivering projects on time and on budget;
- Use data from various measurement tools in conjunction with user research to provide insights on user behavior and identify recommended design changes;
- Review implementation for adherence to designs and style guide;
- Understand and incorporate design principles and accessibility and mobile-friendly/responsive guidelines into product designs;
- Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to continuously improve our processes, products, and culture across disciplines and teams;
- Proactively support knowledge-sharing across disciplines, teams, and projects;
- Mentor and engage within the UX team and across disciplines, teams, and projects.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 2 – 6 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in human-computer interactions, product design or related field AND
- Seven (7) years of experience in planning and executing successful web applications/managing design INCLUDING
- Three (3) years of managing design teams OR
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
Other Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience managing people including hiring, providing feedback, and managing performance (goals and skills development)
- Demonstrated ability to build meaningful cross-functional relationships and work collaboratively
- Demonstrated experience developing standards, processes, and guidelines to help teams do better work
- Demonstrated sense of the principles of user-centered design
- Demonstrated use of innovative graphical user interface design, information design, and interaction design, including accessible and inclusive design
- Fluency in best practices for web-based and mobile information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Knowledge of UX research methodologies and analyzing research data.
- Technical competence
- Excellent written, oral and diagrammatic communication skills to effectively present and negotiate design solutions to a variety of audiences, including senior leadership
- Adept with relevant design and information flow software
- Experience with online collaboration tools such as Miro, Google Docs, etc.
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.); Web proficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity and multiple priorities.
- An online portfolio that communicates a range of successful user-centered designs while also demonstrating breadth and creativity and proven experience in telling stories, building UI models, generating detailed wire frames or prototypes, and delivering comprehensive specifications.
- Ability to clear required background check
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong creative skills with a strong sense of the visual aesthetic and a consistent track record in the craft of design.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Experience with consumer products
- Experience working in educational technology
- Experience designing for children (K-12 graders).
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Remote
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $106,631 to $159,946. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is at-will as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the at-will nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Product Designer
Remote Full Time
Who We Are
Measured helps DTC brands grow by identifying media s incremental contribution to business outcomes and providing a single source of truth for media investment decisions. The Measured Intelligence Suite is easy to use, enterprise-grade software that delivers automated incrementality experiments for every marketing channel and cross-channel source of truth reporting. Measured experiments are powered by a marketing data warehouse that was purpose built for analytics, providing a privacy-compliant place to store, manage and utilize valuable marketing data from across the business. Measured is a 100% remote-first company with employees located all around the world.
Summary
Our fast growing design team is looking for Senior Product Designers who care deeply about their users and can solve complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions. You will collaborate with global cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product experience for our customers and users.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the design efforts for a significant part of our award winning solution suite through discovery, ideation, design/prototyping, test, and release.
- Work closely with product managers, product designers, researchers and technology teams to align on feature direction, and to create and implement best in class design solutions.
- Rapidly iterate on design solutions using design thinking and user-centric approaches.
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user journeys, workflow diagrams, prototypes and other design artifacts to communicate your designs to the rest of the team.
- Present design concepts and articulate design rationale to explain design decisions.
- Work from and contribute to our design system and component/pattern libraries.
- Advocate for the end user and foster a deep understanding of their needs within a multidisciplinary product team.
- Create design solutions that scale for the future but understand the technology constraints of now.
- Strive for clarity, work to influence others and build consensus.
- Conduct usability tests to discover and fix usability issues before and after they go into production.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of design experience (previous SaaS, B2B or enterprise experience a huge plus).
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in interaction design, UX design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related fields.
- Knowledge of design principles and usability theories.
- A design portfolio that shows sophisticated and creative UX.
- Experience using modern product design software (Sketch, Figma, InVision, Adobe XD, etc.)
- Able to scope and estimate time with fair accuracy.
- Basic Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS and understands technical complexities of proposed solutions.
- Proven ability to execute at a high level in a remote environment.
- Strong verbal communication and presentation skills.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Note from FlexJobs Staff: Employer states this position will be remote in the US.
Milky Way Maps Evaluation Freelance
We are currently looking for long-term participants for our new project, MILKY WAY!
During this Search Engine Evaluation project, participants will evaluate the quality of queries made by internet users while navigating through different MAP applications.
The entries to evaluate will be of varied nature, from user intent to authentication of data accuracy.
Purpose:
Thanks to this project, we will help develop and optimize current and future map and geo-localization applications, to produce more accurate and intuitive maps in terms of location, search functions and more.
Main requirements:
- You are currently based in any of these countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK, USA, and you have been living there for at least 5 years! Our evaluators must be familiar with the local businesses, points of interest , colloquialisms, etc.
- You are a native or fluent speaker of the language of the country where you are located.
- You have access to a good internet connection and a computer.
- You are available for at least 20 hours per week Schedule is totally flexible: you decide when to work!
- You are willing to take our entry certifications to ensure you qualify for this project.
Compensation:
We will pay per task submitted. On top of your earnings, you will also receive a special set of entry bonuses!
As an evaluator you will work in a very international environment with members from all around the globe! You will have a steady and long-term income while working from the comfort of your homes!
Interested? Join our Milky Way team today!
OneForma is part of Pactera EDGE, a global digital and technology services company. We bring together data, intelligence, and experiences to deliver human-centric solutions to complex business challenges.
OneForma and Pactera EDGE are an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any of our applicants on the grounds of race, gender, religion or nationality.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Analyst, Content Moderation
locations
Los Angeles, California, USA
USA – Remote
Full time
job requisition id R50019934
OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the Fox Network, and the FOX Television Stations. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
JOB DESCRIPTION
FOX has always given unfettered access to the moments that have collectively captivated us. The breaking story. The unmissable final. The outrageous touchdown. The shocking cliffhanger. We changed the game on sports and news production. Now we’re looking to change the game again. We are pioneering the future of news, sports and entertainment in the digital realm. It’s an audacious mission. We’re challenging ourselves to be the first to do it – to disrupt the digital entertainment category and redefine the live experience for the next generation.
And we’re doing it by starting from scratch. Think of FOX as a start up with the backing of a Fortune 500 corporation. You will be part of a new team with full permission to reinvent, disrupt, and build in a highly collaborative and transparent environment. FOX has always been an advocate for the disruptive spirit. And now we’re looking for like-minded people to push the boundaries on what entertainment can mean. Join us to help make the best of sports, news, and entertainment more personal, more immersive, and more interactive than ever before.
Our Trust & Safety team, part of the User Dynamics team within the broader FOX Digital organization, is a growing team with a distinct role covering user-generated content across FOX. We strive to:
- Implement industry-leading trust and safety measures to safeguard our user communities
- Innovate new methods to improve community health
- Deepen engagement in user communities and encourage discovery of the wealth of content available across FOX
Reporting to the Vice President, Trust & Safety, the Content Moderation Analyst will be a key member of this growing team. You will work closely with internal and external partners to drive Trust & Safety priorities, including developing and communicating FOX content policy stances on a variety of topics, and establishing a cohesive content moderation schema across FOX businesses.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and evolve policies for user standards & safety, and set guidelines for community behavior across our platforms in partnership with key internal stakeholders
- Deliver analysis to help FOX understand the state of its online user communities and come up with creative ideas for improvements
- Work effectively across various business units at FOX to further both user trust and safety and engagement
- Help deliver innovative technology solutions support user safety
- Manage external relationships with vendor partners involved in content moderation and enhancing community platform dynamics
- Advise on emerging content moderation issues, including those in Web3 environments – such as content implications for NFTs, working with cryptocurrency, and moderating modern online social communities like Discord
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
- Experience in online social dynamics and communities
- Experience managing vendor relationships in the content moderation space, such as setting SLAs, building processes and training staff
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong quantitative reasoning and comfort with using metrics and data to inform recommendations and deliver analysis
- Ability to feel comfortable collaborating across functions and teams to drive results
NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
- Prior experience working in news technology or media
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company’s success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Agile Project Manager
Remote
Full Time
Product
Formstack improves people’s lives with practical solutions to their everyday work.
We are looking for an Agile Project Manager to help us accomplish this mission.
Formstack is a remote-first company with team members who live and work across the U.S., Canada, and the globe. We offer more than just a job; we provide a community where you can learn, grow, and thrive your way. Join a dynamic and diverse team that values relationships as much as results. Come build what matters with Formstack.
Ken Medley, Agile Enablement Lead at Formstack, is looking to hire someone who will complement and strengthen the team.
Who You Are:
- You are passionate about fostering a collaborative environment across various departments.
- You are eager to be the driving force behind project delivery.
- You love to solve problems and remove obstacles to ensure the success of your team.
- You are a leader that finds value in identifying your team members’ strengths and coaching them on how to optimize their work for efficiency
What You’ll Do:
Agile Project Managers serve the organization by coordinating the completion of projects and ensuring teams are set up for success by following Agile principles. They do this by planning, monitoring, reporting, and delivering large scale projects to meet the goals of Formstack. The Agile project Manager will be accountable for product delivery and will work alongside Engineering Managers to ensure projects have the appropriate level of resourcing to achieve timelines.
How You’ll Succeed:
- Own the execution of the entire Product Development Lifecycle, and manage all stages of the project life cycle to ensure teams are on track to consistently deliver value
- Manage cross team/department dependencies, as well as internal communication on project status and timelines
- Facilitate the team’s Scrum practices by serving as the team’s Scrum Master and remove impediments and blockers for teams so they can continuously deliver value to customers
- Accountable for creating project artifacts such as project charter, project plan, communication plan…etc.
- Effectively work with the organization to manage risks
- Track project and team performance to analyze the successful completion of short and long term goals
- Be the first point of contact for project stakeholders
- Ensure teams follow proper playbooks, processes, and procedures defined in our PDLC
- Consistently deliver product department projects on time, within scope, and within budget
- Provide reporting on project plans and outcomes to appropriate stakeholders
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum process maturity and increase velocity over time
- Support the team in building, communicating, and maintaining the project artifacts
What We’re Looking For:
- 4-6 years of relevant experience managing teams and projects, and using agile methodology
- Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
- Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum
- Strong knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices
- Great communicator that excels in both transparent and tactful communication
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Self-motivated and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
- Ability to anticipate impediments for the team before the team encounters them, and solve the root cause
- Proven track record of making process and velocity improvements through Kaizen retrospectives
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Bonus Points:
- Scrum Master Certified
- CAPM Certified
Salary Range:
$80,000 – $90,000 (USD) per year + bonus up to 5% of base salary
***This is a remote position***
What Formstack Offers for Full-Time Employees in the US and Canada(exclude Quebec):
- Free health plans and company-paid Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance Benefits for US and Canadian full-time employees.
- Monthly Health & Wellness and Technology stipends
- Half-day Fridays
- Unlimited PTO for all employees.
- 401k & Roth w/ safe harbor match (the US and Canada)
- The most up-to-date technology, including company-issued Macs, the latest software, and other tools needed to excel at your job
- Company-paid conferences and extended learning opportunities
- Yearly company and team gatherings
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Formstack, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Formstack is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionately committed to equitable hiring and boldly dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions), age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, uniform service member status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Women, people of color, bilingual and bicultural individuals, LGBTQ+ persons, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
All data collected in our application process from resume collection to application questions is used for recruitment purposes only. We will store it in our applicant tracking system, JazzHR, and will not share this data with anyone else. We will keep your data until the role is filled and only continue to store it if we feel you may fit future roles.
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