by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Marketing Manager – Fashion
at Whatnot
Remote – North America
Whatnot
Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work. You can read our principles here.
Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.
Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 120+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely.
Opportunity Size
The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is one of the largest opportunities for disruption in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!
About the Go-to-Market Team
The Go-to-Market team at Whatnot is responsible for the expansion of our category suite and the continued growth of sellers and buyers on the platform. As a Senior Marketing Manager, you’ll own marketing strategy and buyer acquisition and build a healthy demand in your product category.
Role
- Own an up-and-coming marketing function and drive the growth and engagement of sellers and buyers on the Whatnot platform.
- Test strategies and tactics to build the fashion playbook at Whatnot including leading attention grabbing stunts and campaigns.
- Create awareness and growth impact with creative campaigns through leveraging multiple channels including social, influencer, content, events, and lifecycle.
- Lead strategy and execution of public relations and earned media efforts.
- Set the seasonal marketing calendar and define long-term strategies for delivering revenue growth and increasing brand awareness.
- Craft brand voice, message, and aesthetic for Whatnot’s fashion verticals’ marketing
- Lead the @whatnotwear social accounts, including owning platform-by-platform strategy, content creation, and content planning.
- Decide total fashion influencer strategy and work closely with the partnerships team to source leads, prioritize, contact, and onboard influencers.
- Create, lead, and execute all cross-category events, including digital-only activations, major brand, creator, or seller partnerships, and in-person events
You Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.
As our first Marketing Manager – Fashion, you should have 6+ years of experience in marketing with a focus on creating and owning creative brand stunts and campaigns that drive outsized impact in developing awareness and acquisition, plus:
- Brand and content experience with proven results at a high growth start-up or fashion company
- An especially strong marketing strategist with the ability to tenaciously prioritize and implement the most impactful efforts and initiatives.
- An excellent creative mind that will think out of the box to build compelling, exciting, and surprising approaches to driving interest and engagement in the Whatnot platform.
- A strong analytical problem solver that can use data to guide decision making while still leaning into your marketing intuition.
- Strong project manager who can excellently manage the execution of complex campaigns and brand moments.
- Experience marketing through multiple channels including social, influencer, content, events, and life cycle.
- Been a top performer wherever you have worked.
- Comfort working extraordinarily fast in an ambiguous work environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform.
- Passion for creator communities, existing product categories on Whatnot, and/or new verticals that are uniquely suited for live e-commerce.
- Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces communities.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and stock options
- Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
- Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
- Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
- Work From Home Support
- Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
- $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
- Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
- Care benefits
- $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
- $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
- $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Quality Program Manager, Customer Experience
at Whatnot
Remote – North America
Whatnot
Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work. You can read our principles here.
Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.
Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 120+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely.
Opportunity Size
The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is one of the largest opportunities for disruption in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!
About the Marketplace Operations Team
The Marketplace Operations Team is the engine that enables us to deliver an amazing experience to our customers. We deliver extraordinary support to our sellers and buyers, ensure the trust & safety of the platform, optimize our fulfillment logistics, and drive continuous improvement in everything we do.
Role
The Quality Program Manager, Customer Experience will be the first member of our quality team within Marketplace Operations. You will be tasked with helping us define and build our quality programs, establish a team of QA specialists, define our critical metrics, and drive RCA and continuous improvement routines. This is an exciting opportunity to join and build something from the ground up.
- Build and develop a team of QAs, providing support, coaching, and instill a collaborative and performance-driven culture
- Establish systems, metrics and measurements to enable a data-driven quality framework and advise the strategy of Quality programs
- Analyze systemic problems impacting process health and drive root cause analysis (RCA) to advise quality/process improvement initiatives for CSAT and QA performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Support, Trust & Safety, Outsourcing, Data Analytics) to identify, assess, and resolve customer issues in our product and support experiences
- Responsible for providing feedback and analysis on product, policy, and process updates, and identifying trends and areas of improvement
- Apply problem solving techniques such as, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, control charts, and design of experiment to correct and prevent process quality issues
You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.
- Bachelor’s degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years experience in building and leading quality assurance programs
- 2+ years experience in a high-tech fast-paced environment
- Extensive hands-on experience with quality principles and practices including Problem Solving Tools (8D, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, control charts, and DOE), Process Audits and Quality Management Systems
- Experience in establishing Quality metrics/feedback systems for continuous improvement
- Proven experience establishing relationships with peers and senior stakeholders and collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple locations
- Track record of operating independently and delivering results, embracing ambiguity, demonstrating creativity, and performing in a highly organized manner
- Experience thinking analytically and strategically about issues and influencing team members, leadership and individual contributors at all levels
- Experience creating and delivering presentations to a variety of team members including senior-level leadership
Nice to Have
- Quality Assurance certification (ASQ, etc.)
- Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt)
- Experience working in a large, global tech company or other fast-paced environments
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and stock options
- Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
- Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
- Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
- Work From Home Support
- Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
- $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
- Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
- Care benefits
- $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
- $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
- $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: BC, 3D Character Modeler, Senior
Location: Vancouver BC CA
Job description
3D Senior Character Modeler
This position is based in Vancouver. All applicants must reside in the United States or British Columbia/Ontario if applying within Canada.
Zoic Studios is an Award winning VFX company made up of accomplished artists and producers who understand story, process and relationships. Partnership, integrity and enthusiasm are our key founding principles. We have three locations, Los Angeles, New York City and Vancouver, Canada. Some of our recent credits and works include, Sweet Tooth, Legends of Tomorrow, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Superman & Lois and Stargirl.
“Visual Evolution” is our mission; we invest in constantly improving our technological and studio processes so that our artists can focus on being creative even in the lightning fast paced world of visual effects. We apply these principles to our work on some of the most VFX intensive film and television projects out there. We like a challenge. Do you?
Our Vancouver location is currently seeking a 3D Senior Character Modeler to join our Character Development team.
The Senior Character Modeler reports to the Concept & Build Supervisor.
Responsibilities:
- Model/texture/shade/sculpt high quality hero creatures and characters assets
- Take point on character/creature design and development under the direction of Supervisors as needed
- Collaborate with rigging, animation, and CFX to create production ready assets
- Set up initial groom and cloth template
- Create posed and lit turn tables
- Work within the colour and lighting pipeline
- Ensure downstream pipeline needs are considered and assets are optimized for rendering
- Work to address notes
- Work to ensure internal and external deadlines and deliveries are met with budgeted hours
- Share knowledge and techniques with team members to improve overall team skills and asset quality.
- Apply secondary skillsets in other areas when waiting for character/creature assignment.
- Mentor other artists including juniors.
Qualifications:
- 5 yrs. minimum experience creating high resolution organic models.
- Strong knowledge of realistic anatomy of both bipeds and quadrupeds.
- Proficiency in Maya, ZBrush, Mudbox.
- Proficiency in Substance Painter and/or Mari
- Solid re-topologizing and UV skills a must.
- Photorealistic texturing experience
- Experience with photo-real VFX production work.
- Strong understanding of hair grooming methodologies.
- Excellent English communication skills both written & verbal.
- Strong attention to detail and follow through.
- Positive attitude, hard worker, flexible schedule for deliveries.
- Ability to communicate creative ideas fluidly
- Pro-active, highly motivated with a solid work ethic.
- Team player
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Ability to make decisions in a timely manner.
- Ability to keep up with fast pace and meet tight deadlines.
- Up-to-date reel showcasing required skill set.
Nice to have:
- Marvelous Designer
- Yeti
- Hard surface modeling experience
- Knowledge of V-ray
- Knowledge of UE4/5
Additional information
- Candidates MUST be located in the United States, British Columbia or Ontario. This is a remote (work from home) position.
- Zoic does not cover relocation costs.
- This job description contains the basic requirements for the position and is NOT intended to be a complete list of responsibilities; other duties may be assigned.
- Due to the volume of applications we receive across our different openings we regret that only those selected to interview will be contact.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Director, Product Design – Core Product (Remote)
UNITED STATES /
DESIGN /
FULL-TIME
About Us
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
About the Role
The Athletic has changed the way sports fans follow their favorite teams and leagues. Our product design team works at the intersection of our engineering, design, and data teams, as well as The Athletic’s Newsroom, the largest in sports media. Our team strives to craft sports experiences that blend technology with world class sports journalism.
As a hands-on design director who isn’t afraid to roll up her sleeves, you will set the design vision and standards across all parts of our product. You will be the go-to thought partner across our Growth, Audience and Engagement workstreams. You will be responsible for enabling product design managers and ICs to do the best work of their careers.
This is an exciting opportunity to have a major impact on all of the products that we ship and how our studio functions in order to ship them.
Responsibilities
- Lead and help hire a team of product designers (managers/ICs) tasked with creating world class user experiences delivered through our mobile app and website.
- Evolve and nurture our product design system.
- Establish yourself as a thought leader across the organization, actively contributing to product strategy and roadmap.
- Present design concepts and solutions that align cross-functional partners, company executives, and external stakeholders.
- Communicate the progress and outcome of your work to your teammates and partners.
- Implement processes and best practices which increase team efficiency and effectiveness.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant product design experience at a consumer company (media, sports, or subscription business is a big plus).
- 5+ years of managing a product design team.
- Experience shipping innovative interactive user experiences.
- Experience inspiring, influencing, aligning and collaborating with cross-functional teams and executives.
- Technical and business fluency. You know how to break down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope).
- Strong visual and interactive design sensibility, with a mastery of the field’s history and trends.
- Enthusiasm for The Athletic and sports.
- Ability to think at a high level about product and feature strategy but also act with speed and precision to actualize projects.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Data Scientist, Growth (Remote)
UNITED STATES / CANADA /
DATA AND ANALYTICS /
FULL-TIME
About Us
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
About the Role
We are looking for a data scientist who will bring and develop a deep understanding of user growth, user segmentation, paid marketing optimization, and LTV predictions to help us accelerate the growth of our subscription business and make our best-in-class product even better. In this role, you will work closely with our data, product, marketing, and engineering teams to develop advanced models that help us understand our business, optimize and automate our workflows, and help our product make smarter, more informed recommendations. As a member of our small data science team, your work will have a significant impact on our business strategy and how our subscribers use our product.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term business goals, including subscriber retention and offer revenue.
- Train machine learning and data mining algorithms to solve problems across several teams.
- Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job.
- Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what marketing and user data are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis.
- Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
- Guide complex experiments.
- Cultivate an outstanding analytics environment.
- Evangelize and expand the impact of data science.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of experience as a data scientist with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data.
- Strong working knowledge of a scripting language like R or Python.
- Fluency in SQL.
- Knowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modeling.
- Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and prioritize high-impact work.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationships.
- Can explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem.
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other data workflow scheduling platforms.
- Prior experience working with web-based subscription user data.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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