by Ronald Barron | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Director, Communications
Remote – USA : Communications
Who is Bird
Bird is on a mission to bring environmentally friendly transportation to everyone. Our products, services, and people share one common goal: to make cities more livable by reducing gas-powered car usage, lowering carbon emissions, and improving the safety of all road users.
We are relentless in our pursuit of better—for our riders, for our partners, for our employees, and for future generations. Our award winning electric vehicles help millions of riders take carbon-free trips in more than 300 cities globally. And our teams push boundaries and challenge the status quo in pursuit of a brighter future.
Job Summary
As Bird’s Director of Communications, you will be responsible for developing and executing an exceptional communications strategy for internal and external communications. You will support various teams such as product, government partnerships, operations, people, and the executive team in advancing the organization’s communications and PR strategies while ensuring everything remains on track. The right candidate will be comfortable managing a team and working as an individual contributor on positioning and message development, media opportunities, and writing and editing. You will also serve as a connector for employees in the organization to better understand how their work contributes to Bird’s mission, vision and strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Implement forward-thinking messaging and communications plans to achieve Bird’s communications goals for audiences including riders, media, political decision-makers and other stakeholders
- Work closely with stakeholders across the company to distill information about key business initiatives, strategic planning initiatives, and business processes into clear, concise communications that provide the knowledge our organization needs to work efficiently and effectively
- Work in partnership with the Legal and Government Partnerships team with press strategies and outreach
- Contribute to Bird’s speaking and awards programming by identifying, recommending and securing speaking and award opportunities for Bird spokespeople
- Manage earned media development and creation, including drafting media outreach materials, editorial briefs, talking points, op-eds, speeches, presentations, etc.
- Collaborate effectively with internal end-users and cross-functional teams to solve problems, implement new communications solutions, and deliver successfully against high standards
Requirements
- 10+ years experience in Comms, PR, Media Relations, etc. demonstrating development and leadership of integrated comms strategies
- 5+ years of leadership or supervisory experience required
- 5+ years of project management experience (supervisory experience preferred)
- The ability to generate and disseminate content across the globe that speaks to both consumers and regulators
- Strong relationships with preferred media outlets, including financial, business and technology press and mainstream print and television
- Precise, empathetic communication skills in both 1:1 and company-level settings
- Strong cross-functional relationships with product, operations and government relations teams in past roles
- A belief in the importance of providing access to sustainable forms of transportation
- Excellent communications skills and ability to speak in public
- Proven track-record displaying thought-leadership and influence
Culture at Bird
We’re an ambitious, smart and open-minded team that is passionate about our mission. Each day is unlike the last, as we’re constantly moving forward, challenging each other, and working together to create the future of micro-mobility.
Perks up
We want people to succeed at Bird, so we give our teams plenty of time off to relax and recharge. We also offer a generous employer-paid healthcare package, childcare support, pre-tax spending accounts, mental health resources, a work from home stipend, a wellness stipend, and a whole host of other out of the box benefits that meet you where you are.
Bird is the world
Bird stands for a culture of inclusion. We celebrate different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives —encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. We have a diverse environment that empowers our team to feel comfortable when they voice their opinions. For these reasons and more Bird is a proud equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome everyone regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetics, and we are dedicated to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.
Sound like a place you’d like to work? Sweet. Let’s chat.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Web Development Project Manager | Remote Position within the US
Atlanta, GA
Full time
Job Requisition Id: R2201369
Location: This position is fully remote within the US
The Team
Here’s your chance to join our award-winning agency, ICF Next. We’re changemakers, a community of mission driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists. We’re searching for our next Web Development Project Manager to work with our teams across federal, state, and local government client accounts. If you’re passionate about working with senior leadership across federal, state and local government accounts and leading digital project teams from project planning through final delivery, as well as providing senior staff with ongoing resource management and operational decision-making support, we’d love to talk to you. This is a dynamic position and requires an individual with strong communication and collaboration skills who can think strategically and execute tactically.
About This Role
In this position you will manage projects for the US Department of Health and Human Services and coordinate the ongoing operations, resource management and maintenance related workstreams for multiple citizen facing health education websites focused on substance use prevention and early childhood education.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Work with key stakeholders to identify resource needs based on demand and future projects
- Ability to work in a matrixed mode with cross disciplinary teams, including UX and engineering.
- Actively communicate with clients to understand and define current needs and priorities.
- Establish and maintain schedules and release plans in accordance with customer and stakeholder needs.
- Manage budgets and track resources using financial management tools
- Perform continuous risk assessment and mitigation; work with management to identify and remove resource, feasibility, and technical barriers that can impede development
Education and Experience Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience
- 3+ years IT project management experience leading web development efforts
- Ability to provide technical strategic guidance to the customer and project team.
- Experience launching digital website solutions, including ongoing analysis and continuous product improvements.
- Experience managing budgets.
- Working knowledge of the technical software development process, Agile delivery methods including Agile Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience working with state and Federal government
- Proficiency working with JIRA
- Team player with problem-solving skills.
Working at ICF
Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.
We can only solve the world’s toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy.
COVID-19 Policy: New or prospective U.S. employees must provide proof of complete vaccination on the date of their commencement of employment. If selected for employment, you will provide proof of your full vaccination status, defined as vaccinated two weeks after receiving the requisite number of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved or authorized for emergency use by the FDA.
Pay Range – There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final salary for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The salary range for Colorado is – $66,658.00-$113,319.00
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Payments)
Location: Remote US
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
The Payments Engineering team is responsible for building the systems which power financial transactions at Affirm, from our consumer scale lending products to enterprise money movements. We are looking for a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of services which serve all of our financial products. You will work to integrate industry leading payment processors and banking partners, abstracting the complexity into scalable and fault tolerant services to other Affirm engineering teams.
What you’ll do
- Design and build scalable and robust payment services which power billions of dollars in transactions every year.
- Partner with Product managers on building beautiful internal APIs to enable payments across our products.
- Work closely with our Partnerships team on integrating the best vendors in the payments space.
- Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
- Develop a deep understanding of the payments industry.
- Establish effective monitoring, alerting, and on-call rotations to serve this mission critical area.
What we look for
- 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset.
- Experience with Payments systems and vendors.
- Fluency in back end development.
- Familiarity with Python, AWS, and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products.
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
Location – Remote U.S.
Grade – USA 31
Employees in proximal-to-office roles have the option of working from an Affirm office in the U.S. or remotely, if they are able to return occasionally to the office with one business day’s notice and potentially for consecutive days, in order to fulfill certain job duties and responsibilities. For required in-office presence, Affirm pays expenses for travel to and from the office of up to 90 miles one-way. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis.
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here.
If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.
We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
By clicking “Submit Application,” you acknowledge that you have read the Affirm Employment Privacy Policy, or the Affirm Employment Privacy Notice (EU) for applicants applying from the European Union, and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Engineering Manager, Backend (Fraud Investigations)
Location: Remote US
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
Fraud Investigation team owns and iterates on the suite of tools the Risk Operations team uses to investigate fraud and reduce it’s harm after it has occurred. We are looking for an engineering manager to manage a team of 9 engineers!
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Machine Learning, Compliance, Operations and other engineering managers to develop a long term technical roadmap that meets stakeholder needs
- Recruit and hire talented engineers
- Hold a high technical bar with a bias towards longevity and simplicity via specification and architecture review
- Coach, develop, retain, and provide thoughtful feedback to team members
- Establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to set the engineering team’s direction and measure its success
- Build a strong engineering culture around innovation, accountability, empathy, and execution
What We Look For
- Experience: 2-3+ years managing high performing engineering teams
- Past experience in Fraud/Risk/Financial systems is a plus
- Past experience managing internal tools is a plus
- Technical: solid engineering fundamentals and real world experience building scalable distributed backend services
- Collaborative: track record of successful cross functional collaboration especially with product managers, business partners, and engineering counterparts
- Potential: ability to grow alongside a fast growing company and team
- Humble: you lead with the humility and self-awareness needed to navigate challenging situations
- Passionate about Affirm’s Mission: “Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives
Location – Remote U.S.
Grade – USA31
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here.
If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.
We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
By clicking “Submit Application,” you acknowledge that you have read the Affirm Employment Privacy Policy, or the Affirm Employment Privacy Notice (EU) for applicants applying from the European Union, and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
APPLY HERE
by Ronald Barron | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Graphic Designer
A/B is a digital storytelling studio based in NYC creating new narratives about people, power, and social change to transform our politics and the economy. Our team is racially and gender diverse at every level, from entry level to ownership; we are bringing the best-in-class creative strategies usually reserved for the private sector side by side with deep experience in social movements and ventures; and we are building a team that can help a new generation of leaders win the debate on their terms.
This role will be a member of our Design Lab and report into the Creative Director. Grounded in research, informed by movement building and driven by creativity, the Design Lab at A/B brings the sector expertise of the A/B Partners to a new practice in campaign design and execution. Equity is at the heart of our full-service agency, reflected in our team of artists and designers who turn insightful strategies into award-winning creative that reaches, moves and inspires at scale.
We are seeking an experienced Graphic Designer to work in concert within the Design Lab to brainstorm, design and execute innovative multi-platform digital and print experiences. The Graphic Designer will work closely with the Head of Creative and Creative Director to develop sophisticated brand identities and systems.
Special Instructions: Please include a link to your portfolio in the website field.
Responsibilities
- Assign, concept and art direction graphic content, illustrations and animations.
- Design responsively across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms.
- Be a strong presence in the ideation and concepting process of dynamic, multimedia cross-platform campaigns.
- Work closely with the Strategy and Experience teams to develop visually rich pitches and presentations.
- Present design concepts and articulate vision to clients on a case-by-case basis with support from senior team members.
- Design and build final web layouts
Minimum Qualifications
- BA/BFA in Graphic Design with 2-4 years of digital design experience at a branded content studio, creative advertising agency or editorial publishing company.
- Sophisticated sense of digital design, composition, typography and strong, strategic conceptual skills.
- Proven ability to create powerful photo/illustration moodboards and annotated wireframes/storyboards.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines.
- Fluent in the full Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Powerpoint, Keynote and Google Slides.
- Comfortable with HTML/CSS for front end design styling.
- Excellent organization and communication skills.
Desired Qualifications
- Have a personal illustration style which can be used on a program by program basis.
- Ability to natively create animations in After Effects.
- Ability to create data visualizations based on reporting and research, feels comfortable work with data-driven stories and graphics.
Shared Values:
- Outstanding communication skills. Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills are needed. Much of our work depends on responsiveness, timely communication, and detailing the next steps with our partners with clarity and concision.
- Goal-oriented. Our work entails a combination of entrepreneurial creativity and straightforward execution. To maintain continual progress, we collaboratively set and check weekly goals.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to working in diverse teams and committed to creating an equitable and just world for Black and Brown people.
Equity is at the heart of A/B. From the clients we partner with and vendors we engage, to the team we’re building, we are committed to creating opportunities for the diverse community of talented, creative professionals who have been systematically denied opportunities across the professional communications industry. Women, people of color, LGBTI people, people of any religion or nationality and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Opportunities for advancement exist, and A/B is committed to helping all staff develop and grow.
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