by Ronald Barron | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Product Manager, Forecast
Location: Remote; New York City; or State College, PA
AccuWeather will consider remote candidates in the following US States: CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MN, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, and WY
Who We Need & What You’ll Do
AccuWeather is looking for a Senior Product Manager to revolutionize our forecast systems and products powering its consumer and business verticals. Weather forecast data and the systems that manage it are at the core of AccuWeather’s mission to save lives and protect property. This role is central to AccuWeather’s continued leadership in delivering superior accuracy and hyperlocal forecasts to the millions of users who rely on AccuWeather products. Weather touches everyone’s lives; from what you wear, your commute, the ability to perform your work or keeping yourself safe – the Senior Product Manager has the opportunity to build our next generation systems that create forecast products delivered to all AccuWeather users and clients.
The Senior Product Manager will partner with Weather Operations, Engineering, Design (UX/UI), Research & Analytics, and Marketing teams to identify the core strategy for our forecast products.
To be successful, you’ll be fluent in design thinking and research, empathetic in understanding user needs, quick to understand opportunity and trade-offs, and creative in crafting and testing hypotheses. You will report to the Director of Product, Core Weather Systems.
If you have a passion for science, technology, and leveraging big data, as well as an outstanding track record, this is the role for you.
Who We Are
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania; a severe weather center in Wichita, Kansas; and offices in New York City and elsewhere around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their activities and get more out of their day through innovative digital media properties, such as AccuWeather.com and mobile, as well as AccuWeather For Business (AFB), radio, television, newspapers, digital out of home, the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel and AccuWeather NOW streaming service. Additionally, AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites.
Job Responsibilities
- Define, articulate and champion a vision for forecast products and systems.
- Define crystal clear, measurable and realistic KPIs for short and long-term results; be comfortable operating in the data and using data to substantiate arguments or positions
- Produce clear requirements for the development of forecast products and systems; PRD would be used by multiple teams involved in a product launch (Design, Development, Analytics, etc..)
- Interact directly with our Forecasting Operations team, and have the ability to understand and discuss meteorological technical requirements in support of both internal systems and the client-facing products.
- Optimize for engagement with clear strategies to improve metrics like increased visitation, higher satisfaction and deeper engagement with content offerings
- Manage multiple operations and technology teams to deliver the product as designed; both front-end (e.g. web/apps) as well as back-end tech (e.g. API/locations/databases)
- Manage the development sprints, prioritize product enhancements, while simultaneously crushing technical debt
- Lead ceremonies with stakeholders
- Work hand-in-hand with business development and customers to understand how forecast products support their ecosystem and goals
- Maintain exceptional relationships with key business stakeholders through communication, collaboration and evangelism
Maintain a deep understanding of consumer behaviors, the competitive landscape and technology trends to inform the strategies for the mobile products
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences.
- 5+ years’ experience in product management & strategy; equivalent combination of education and experience
- Must have experience interacting with numerical forecast models, data science and machine learning.
- Demonstrated business acumen and client-facing experience is a must
- Experience working within the Scrum framework and familiarity with cutting edge product management tools
- Ability to write detailed JIRA tickets in order to help developers understand the work that is needed
- Understanding of how you are to translate complex datasets into intuitive product experiences
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively with teams of all levels and backgrounds problems.
- Highly creative, with ability to work within practical boundaries
- Flexibility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment
- AccuWeather will consider remote candidates in the following US States: CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MN, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, and WY
More About AccuWeather
AccuWeather’s innovation-first promise has led to the development of many award-winning and propriety features that are available free to the public, including AccuWeather MinuteCast Minute by Minute forecasts with Superior Accuracy , the exclusive AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, and AccuWeather RealImpact Scale for Hurricanes, among many other revolutionary products for the greater safety, convenience and comfort of our users. Further, AccuWeather serves more than half of the Fortune 500 and thousands of other businesses in the U.S. and globally.
Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the father of modern commercial meteorology. Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named the most accurate man in weather by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEO is the Law poster here and its supplement here. The pay transparency policy is available here.
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Project Manager, Brand Design
Location: Remote (US Only)
WHO WE ARE
We’re building a best-in-class cross-disciplinary design team at Vox Media, from our Product team that builds the best platform for digital publishing in the industry, to our Brand team that works across a suite of powerhouse editorial networks, to our Revenue team that designs performant ad products and partners with our sales team and sponsors. At Vox Media, you can be part of a remote friendly culture with people in New York, DC, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, and quite a few cities in between. Our jobs are well compensated and come with excellent and progressive benefits including flexible hours, generous paid parental leave, and trans-inclusive healthcare.
Vox Media’s internal brand design team are caretakers of eighteen powerful digital brands as well as products and lines of business. Our Brand Design team is responsible for launching and growing our brands by creating strong identity systems that can withstand the test of time. Our portfolio features influential and respected editorial properties including Vox, New York Magazine, NowThis, The Verge, The Cut, PopSugar, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Thrillist, Polygon, The Dodo, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street and Recode. Off-platform, the Vox Media Podcast Network offers one of the largest collections of popular podcasts, and Vox Media Studios produces and distributes the award-winning nonfiction shows. Powered by innovative technology that scales quality, the Chorus publishing platform and Concert advertising marketplace answer the always-changing needs of modern audiences, creators and marketers.
We’re looking for a seasoned project manager with experience working with media, journalism, advertising, events and/or with pop culture brands. You thrive in fast-paced changing environments. You are a great collaborator, sensitive to partner and stakeholder needs, and comfortable working in teams, both individually and in partnership with internal and external creative talent. As senior project manager, you will help us execute on this work in the most productive and efficient ways. Ideal candidates will be passionate about media and design. This position will report to the Senior Manager, Design Operations.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- You’ll facilitate the team’s understanding of priorities, identify milestones connecting similar workstreams, manage risk, streamline communications, articulate standards for tools and processes, align schedules, and ensure the team has the people and resources it needs.
- Along with your Design Leaders, you’ll be responsible to make sure delivered work is on brief, within scope, within budget and conforms with our quality standards, company and team values. You’ll report to the Senior Manager, Design Operations.
- You’ll empower the team to do its best work by removing daily blockers and helping them get answers to any questions.
- Keep the team on track by understanding and tracking deadlines and gathering clear requirements for each project.
- Help the team work productively by making sure workload is balanced for all team members, and everyone knows what they’re supposed to work on next.
- Be a design representative with editorial, marketing and product to advocate for good process and communication. You’ll build relationships with stakeholders and become a trusted voice of the design team.
- You’ll handle the logistics of relationships with external parties, such as contractors or vendors.
WHO YOU ARE
- 5-7 years experience in design project management, preferably from an agency, brand, media or marketing background.
- Experience creating processes for the smooth and efficient workflows for brand, marketing, experiential and digital product projects.
- Ability to create clarity within complex and sometimes ambiguous work environments and a comfort in adapting to rapidly changing circumstances.
- Able to manage multiple tracks of work at once, balancing both short-term and long-term projects simultaneously.
- Able to manage client relationships with poise and professionalism.
- A proven track record of solid written and verbal communication, organizational and leadership experience.
- You have worked with designers and have a strong understanding of design thinking and process and design team culture; as well as, an appreciation for design practice and process to appropriately advocate for design when other members of the team aren’t there.
- A high standard with respect to design that doesn’t prioritize expediency over quality rather balances the two according to business priorities.
- You have opinions about the best way to organize work effectively.
- You’re a listener. You can empathize with a team and with stakeholders.
- Power user of project management software (Monday.com, Slack, Asana, AirTable, Wrike, etc.) to keep all workstreams aligned and informed.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This job is remote/in office/flex. We’re dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.
WHY VOX MEDIA?
WHAT WE OFFER
This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
VP, Product Design
REMOTE
PRODUCT & ENGINEERING
ABOUT REAL VISION
Real Vision helps people understand the complex world of finance, business, and the global economy with real in-depth analysis by real experts through the power of its community.
The company is on a mission to democratize the very best financial intelligence for all and become the one place where everyone lives their financial lives.
This enhanced platform will offer members different learning journeys that put them in control of their finances. Members will be able to watch videos, listen to podcasts, monitor market prices, analyze markets and economies, do technical analysis, create watch lists, read and publish research, monitor their portfolios, execute trades across both Tradfi and Crypto, and contribute to a thriving hive mind community.
To help lead this growth, Real Vision is looking for a VP of Product Design to help us build a world-class product design org that makes our platforms and apps feel like magic.
Reporting to the Chief Experience Officer, you’ll partner with cross-functional leaders and guide product design teams to shape what our members want, need, and are ready for at specific points in their financial journeys. You’ll also work closely with the Head of Creative and our creative studio that is responsible for brand identity to ensure everything we design conveys a consistent brand experience.
Your track record of putting communities and people at the center of everything has contributed to thriving human-centered cultures that make amazing consumer-facing products. Inspiring others to think big – really big — to imagine what’s possible while zooming into the details gets you up every morning.
What You Will Do
Experience in these critical areas will set you up for success in this role.
Product Thinking
- Partner with product and insights leadership to develop a solid understanding of our community through a mix of qual & quant research
- Partner with product and insights leadership to build better processes for developing even deeper customer understanding (e.g., dashboards, research reports, etc.)
- Help turn strategy into product — participating in and often facilitating jam sessions to go from insights to ideas
- Play a hands-on role when needed to create mock-ups and prototypes that help visualize how we go from ideas to action
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Form effective partnerships with product, data & insights, engineering, marketing, revenue, and content leadership — holding each other accountable and driving alignment
- Collaborate with these leaders to develop healthy, inclusive cross-functional teams that trust one another
- Help these teams understand how their work ladders-up to company-level strategic goals
- Provide clear updates to the business on behalf of teams as needed
People Management
- Lead a matrixed design org of 10+ people across IA, UX, and UI
- Recruit and onboard talent as we grow
- Improve our processes for attracting high-quality, diverse candidates
- Provide continuous candid feedback to designers on their performance
- Identify and nurture future design leaders within Real Vision
Design Execution
- Evolve our processes & principles to work better for our current stage of design maturity
- Partner with product leadership (SVP of Engineering, SVP of Product Strategy, VP of Product, VP of Consumer Insights) to drive executional alignment on our roadmap
- Provide feedback on prioritization, roadmapping, and scoping
- Help lead decisions around quality/effort tradeoffs
- Ensure design capacity is factored into roadmap decisions
- Build a network of freelancers, agencies, etc., and processes to scale design quickly when needed
- Support and/or lead concept design for new features — contributing directly when necessary
- Develop a consistent, on-brand design system in partnership with Head of Creative
- Guide executional design work
- Provide clear, effective feedback through written feedback, design crits, and 1:1 working sessions
- Help reinforce a culture where we ship quickly and often to help make better decisions
Who You Are
- You have managed design teams/orgs for 10+ years
- You have designed personalized digital experiences for different personas and their respective user journeys
- You have shipped digital products with a mix of features developed (a.) in-house and (b.) by 3rd-parties (i.e., lots of integration experience)
- You have worked across a diverse ecosystem of websites (desktop, mobile), native mobile apps (iOS, Android), OTT apps (AppleTV, AndroidTV, etc.), in-vehicle apps (CarPlay, Android Auto), and complex desktop apps (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
- You have been inside companies or agencies where speed, agility, and constantly shipping features mattered
- You have startup and/or early growth stage experience
- You have worked with diverse cross-functional groups that go beyond typical agile software teams
- You are familiar with agile product development processes… and understand when to deviate from what’s prescribed based on what makes sense for the business
- You are wired to find solutions, take action, and get concepts out in the wild
- You embrace and educate others on product design best practices
- You believe in designing mobile-first and progressively enhancing from there
- You have a growth mindset
- You lead with positive energy
- You can juggle multiple things at once in stride
- You communicate ideas concisely and clearly
- You are passionate about finance and crypto and enjoy going down those rabbit holes
- Ideally, you are (or have been) a Real Vision subscriber or member
- You have a strong portfolio that shows how you’ve made complex digital products dead simple to use
What We Offer
- Real Vision is 100% remote
- Competitive salary
- Equity grants
- 100% covered health, dental, vision for the individual employee (with family coverage at a heavily reduced rate)
- Favorable 401K
- 20 days PTO per year (4 weeks), US holidays and 5 sick days
- Growth opportunities in a collaborative, authentic, passionate culture
- Real Vision All Access membership
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager, Product Design
Location: Chicago or Remote
Product Experience | Chicago, IL or Remote – US
This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Our agreement with employees
DocuSign is committed to building trust and making the world more agree-able for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At DocuSign, everything is equal. We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.
The team
Our Product Experience team – Design, Information, and Insights – focuses on our customers and their business needs. We contribute from the concept all the way to the building of world-class product experiences by partnering with Product Managers, Program Managers, Software Engineers and other cross-functional teams. Together, we are a team of craftspeople who aim to make the complex look easy. We employ insights, pixels, and words to solve big problems and make delightful experiences.
This position
We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to join our growing Product Experience design team. You’ll manage and mentor a team of designers working on our Real Estate and Digital Notary products. You’ll partner with engineering, research, and product management teams to ensure that solutions are user-centric and technically feasible. You’ll champion forward-thinking. practical, needle-moving design.
This position is a people manager role reporting to the Director of Product Design and is designated Flex.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product management, engineering, user research, sales and marketing to define a metrics-informed vision and product roadmap
- Research new UX and design products and technologies that allow your team to collaborate more effectively internally and across disciplines
- Manage and mentor a team of UX designers
- Contribute to the larger design team culture
- Support the team with hands-on design work
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of experience leading UX product design teams
- 8+ years of designing consumer and/or enterprise experiences
- Bachelor’s degree in a UX-related or software product development field of study
Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience managing and mentoring individual contributor designers
- Experience leading product design in an agile/scrum software development environment
- Hands-on experience with UX design and prototyping tools
- Specialization in interaction design, visual design and design thinking, with experience playing a role in prototyping and user research
- Experience leveraging data and analytics to drive design decisions for B2B and/or B2C products
- Experience facilitating design thinking workshops with cross functional teams
- Deep thinker and natural communicator who can tell compelling stories that inspire action
- Experience collaborating with teams across different geographic locations
- Portfolio of work inspired by user research demonstrating product design strategy, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, articulation of design rationale, strong communication and storytelling skills
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for Colorado individuals only: Colorado base salary range: $130,800 – $184,800 and eligible for bonus, equity and benefits at https://www.docusign.com/company/benefits.
Vaccination requirement
DocuSign may require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination to visit a DocuSign office, to meet with potential or actual customers or business partners, or for other business-related purposes, in accordance with local law. Please note that DocuSign has contracts with different governments globally which may require compliance with local and federal laws.
About us
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. And we help save the world’s forests and embrace environmental sustainability.
It’s important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. DocuSign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.
Accommodations
DocuSign provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including if you have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Designer
San Francisco, California, United States | Design | Full-time | Fully remote
Common Sense (commonsensemedia.org) is a nonprofit organization that gives kids, families, and schools the tools to make informed choices about media and technology.
Families know us for our independent, age-based reviews of movies, TV shows, books, games, and apps. Teachers use our free curriculum and edtech reviews to plan lessons and integrate technology into their teaching practice.
At our core, we are a children’s advocacy group. We work alongside people and organizations who care about kids as much as we do. Together with our partners, we advocate for laws and policies that help families thrive.
We’re looking for a skilled, human-centric Senior Product Designer (responsive web and app design) to bring the Common Sense vision and brand to life through exceptional digital experiences for our diverse audience of tens of millions of parents, caregivers, teachers, and kids. You are a skilled designer able to manage and inspire more junior designers. At Common Sense cohesive, accessible, and intuitive design is central to our mission of making the digital world a better place for all kids.
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-time, exempt
REPORTS TO: VP of Design & Marketing
LOCATION: San Francisco or remote
Please note: If this role allows for remote work, we will consider applicants for employment in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, NC, NE, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, and WA.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
You will collaborate closely with engineers, visual designers, UX researchers, copywriters, marketers, and product managers. Your work will touch on every aspect of our website, from brainstorming the next feature to delivering design specs before launch, as well as:
- Influence the long-term design strategy and product vision for our websites and apps.
- Inspire collaboration among the design team, creating and delivering exceptional design for user interfaces and experience across our digital products.
- Manage and mentor more junior product designers to practice user-centric design, systems thinking, and rational design processes to ensure our digital experiences are best in class.
- Ensure our product design work is held to a high degree of excellence and rigor with respect to our brand standards and design principles.
- Partner with product, engineering, data, and research to ensure projects are well-defined, high-impact, and successfully executed.
- Effectively balance user and business needs, and guide products toward solutions that are intuitive for our community and deliver successful outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with design leadership to refine our design vision and improve our tools and operations.
- Stay informed of emerging tech trends and circulate that learning among the product and creative teams.
- Own and evolve our design system, and contribute to our brand expression.
- Work with the VP of Design & Marketing and Product Managers to prioritize projects, align resources, ensure efficiencies, and measure results.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
- 5+ years of experience designing digital products that have shipped to the public.
- 2+ years of professional experience managing designers.
- A portfolio that demonstrates your web and app design expertise, and stories backed by data that outlines the impact of your work.
- Proven experience with eCommerce, purchase paths, and transactional product design.
- Experience with iterative prototyping and testing, and dual-track agile design/development.
- A drive to collaborate cross-functionally toward successful outcomes.
- Deeply detail-oriented, but able to recognize when and how to think big-picture.
- Knowledge and application of user-centered-design / human-centered-design methodologies.
- Expertise in standard tools of the trade (Sketch, InVision, Figma, etc.) and able to learn new tools quickly.
- Basic knowledge of CSS and HTML.
- A passion for your craft, and a desire to work in a mission-driven creative environment.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- The chance to work with a great team of talented, passionate developers and product people who have worked together for a long time and love what they’re doing.
- Competitive health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and a matching 401(k).
- An organization that offers work-life balance.
- The opportunity to really make a difference in the lives of kids and families!
Common Sense values the diversity of its employees and is an equal opportunity employer.
For more information on our values, please visit our statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Common Sense will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. However, job offers are made on the condition that the applicant subsequently passes a criminal background check. If the background check indicates a prior criminal conviction, we will conduct an individualized assessment to determine whether the conviction should result in a denial of employment.
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