by Ronald Barron | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Visual Designer
Location: New York City, New York
We are…
A fast-growing content marketing agency that combines journalism, data, and design to create content that resonates with audiences. We get results by engaging customers with content that matters instead of always trying to sell. We work with Fortune 500 clients, helping develop content programs from a handful of blog posts or videos to full-blown branded publications. This role is fully remote and Message Lab will accept applicants from across the U.S. Unfortunately, at this time we are not accepting candidates outside of the United States.
Message Lab is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to join our growing Creative Department. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator who values being part of a team. You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, exercising your expertise on design principles, and proposing a variety of executions for the best way to tell a story. You care about the details, the pixels, hex codes, file formats, and the grid. You geek out over motion design, data viz, illustration and interactivity. Most importantly, you believe in the power of combining design with the written word to move people.
Your primary responsibility will be to find the best way to visually bring stories to life. You will be working with our creative team to ideate and execute concepts. These concepts could be in the form of animation, illustrations, data visualization, video, or photography.
The Senior Visual Designer will report to the Head of Creative, who is located in NYC. This position is 100% remote, but we’d prefer your home office be located within NYC for occasional in-person meetings and collaboration.
You Must Have…
- 5+ years of design experience (preferably agency or editorial) and a solid understanding of design principles and key tools.
- Experience in concept and design for storytelling
- Experience in branding, visual identity, and design systems
- A strong understanding of the web design process, from sitemaps to wireframes to full visual design, and an understanding of design systems
- An online or PDF portfolio submitted for consideration that shows forward-leaning design skills and a cutting-edge aesthetic.
- Strong conceptual thinking skills. Designers at Message Lab are a part of the initial creative process, not just responsible for executing teammates’ ideas.
- Strong ability to prepare, present, and defend creative concepts and work to clients.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills. You will work both autonomously and as part of a team and should excel at leading projects from start to finish both on your own and while working with other designers.
- Strong time management skills. Message Lab is a high-performing and dynamic environment; you should be adept at prioritizing multiple competing priorities and exercising good judgment regarding client deliverables and deadlines.
- Solid Technical Skills: You’ll need to demonstrate a high level of proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Google Slides and a strong understanding of file types and optimization for the web (jpgs vs. svgs vs. pngs).
- You’ll get bonus points if you know Indesign, Sketch, Principle, or After Effects, or have expertise with data visualization.
What You Can Expect As A Member Of The Team:
- Group health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and paid time off
- A competitive salary commensurate with experience
- A benefits package including health care, paid vacation, and more
- A flexible work from home policy
- A growing team that’s motivated to create high quality, industry-leading work
- A fun environment that includes lots of laughing, outings, and camaraderie
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior or Staff Frontend Engineer – React (100% Remote)
Americas /
Engineering /
Full-time or Part-time
About Us
At Close, we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we’re leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals (faster). Since our founding in 2013, we’ve grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of ~55 high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.
Our app’s frontend is a single-page JavaScript web app mostly written in React (originally built with Backbone.js). We bundle with Webpack and target only modern browsers. We test with Jest and React Testing Library. Our UI updates in near real-time and is written in LESS/CSS (with flexbox and grid layout) using CSS modules and takes advantage of fun technologies like Websockets and WebRTC. We house our design system in Storybook.
We care about performance (e.g. route-based code splitting), maintainability, and testability of our frontend code. We sweat the UI/UX details and work collaboratively with the Product team throughout the design process. This means diving into lo-fi wireframes, and communicating continuously when those ideas are brought to life using Figma and code.
Our frontend app is built on top of our REST API & GraphQL endpoints. Our backend tech stack consists of Python/Flask, MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. We run our services in Docker on AWS.
We love open sourcing our code and ideas on our GitHub and on The Making of Close, our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering blog. Check our projects such as react-custom-scroller, use-infinite-scroll, use-abortable-effect, and smart-tooltip-delay or insights from our day-to-day work on such as Highlights From a Complex Downshift.js Refactor, A Case Study in”Reactizing” a Complex Backbone View, and Finding the cause of a memory leak in Jest tests.
About You
We’re looking for an experienced full-time (or part-time) Frontend Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, and launch major user-facing features.
You should have senior level experience (~5 years) building modern frontend applications in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with at least 3 years of that experience using React.
You should have significant experience designing, debugging, and optimizing frontend applications to make them fast and reliable. You have significant experience with REST APIs and thoroughly understand HTTP requests. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase.
You should have great product sense and be able to think through user experience issues before diving into the code, and you exhibit a love for great UI.
You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you’re supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.
Note: this role requires you to be located in an Americas time zone. If you’re not located in one of these time zones, check out our other posting here.
We are open to hiring mid, senior and staff level engineers for this role.
Bonus points if you have…
- Experience implementing real-time (e.g. websockets, polling, etc.) web apps
- Experience working with GraphQL endpoints
- An eye for design and experience with Figma, Sketch, Abstract, Photoshop, or similar
- Led small project teams building and launching features
- Contributed open source code (core or plugins) for a popular frontend framework such as React, Vue, or Angular
- Built B2B SaaS products
- Experience with sales or sales tools
Come help us with projects like…
- Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features
- Working with Twilio’s API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features
- Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data
- Improving real-time collaboration user experience
- Expanding our frontend GraphQL usage
- Extending our React component library
Why work with us?
- Culture video
- 100% remote company (we believe in trust and autonomy)
- Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
- Annual team retreats
- Quarterly virtual summits
- 5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break
- 2 additional PTO days every year with the company
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Co-working stipend
- Revenue Share (after 1 year)
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents)
- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
- Dependent care FSA (US residents)
- Contributor to Stripe’s climate initiative
- Our story and team
At Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practice a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Work/life harmony is an important part of our business – we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you).
We come from 16 countries located in 5 of the 7 continents — looking at you Antarctica and Australia 😉 .. We’re a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our global community.
Our team is growing in more ways than one – we’ve recently launched 17 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is Build a house you want to live in. We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our people and help our customers become more successful.
Our application process was designed to promote equitable and unbiased hiring practices. We ask a small series of questions that are similar to what would be asked in the first interview. This helps us learn more about you right from the start so please be sure to answer each question thoughtfully. Each application will receive two screens by two different reviewers. Regardless of fit, you will hear back from us letting you know if we’ll be moving forward.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Associate Design Director, Brand Studio
Remote – US; Remote – Canada
Company Description
Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that’s transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. From our headquarters in San Francisco to eight dedicated Studios and a worldwide team of employees who choose where they work best, our Virtual First approach is leading the way into the future of work.
Team Description
Our Research & Design team crafts delightful experiences that make people’s lives easier. We’re a close-knit, collaborative group, guided by a highly iterative user-centered design process. Combining research, data, and thoughtful critique, we’re discovering needs and solving fundamental problems that impact work and life for millions of people around the world.
Role Description
We are seeking an Associate Design Director with a sophisticated design approach to help elevate our visual identity and brand in our products. As a product design role, you will both design direct our brand within the product and also find untapped opportunities in the product for thoughtful brand expression. You’ll lead a unique team that will bridge product design and brand design through visual craft, education and by creating scalable design processes that help express our brand into the Dropbox products. Your role will be closely partnered with the Dropbox Interface Guidelines (DIG) design systems team and will report into the executive creative director leading the Brand Studio. The design systems team has 3-5 product designers; this role with be the brand & visual design voice in the room. It’s a pivotal role in maintaining our visual identity system guidelines in our products and critiquing design work with an eye for visual design, brand strategy and systems. Through pro-active collaboration with strategists, writers, designers and engineers, you will build creative ways to tell the Dropbox story.
Responsibilities
- Elevate the visual design of our product and thoughtfully integrate the expression of our brand
- Comprehensively understand the Visual Identity System and Dropbox Interface Guidelines (DIG), and be able to identify areas for growth, refinement, consolidation or inconsistency.
- Act as a representative of brand in product teams, and a representative of product in brand team conversations.
- Ability to think end to end, ensuring design decisions in our product are in alignment with the rest of the customers experience outside of the product.
- Work collaboratively with brand and product design teams, critiquing and reviewing work during office hours, and building relationships across the design org.
- Provide internal education, training, new tooling, resources and ways for both brand and product teams to be more efficient and collaborative.
- Strong ability to write guidelines; coach and educate from those guidelines.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of relevant experience working in-house.
- Fluency in Figma and Figma tooling
- A strong design portfolio showcasing web, digital, interactive, systems work.
- Excellent visual design and typography skills.
- Expert coaching and mentoring other designers on visual design.
- Able to independently drive multiple projects at a time, meet tight deadlines, and push projects further than expected.
- Pro-active and can push through ambiguity or challenge to give teams clear direction
- Effectively communicate ideas and strategic rationale.
- Engage in brainstorming sessions and constructive design critiques.
- Embrace an iterative design process and be receptive to feedback.
- Foster strong working relationships with team members and cross-functional partners.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Experience working on and contributing to design systems teams is a plus.
- Experience with motion and prototyping is a plus.
Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).
Benefits and Perks
- Generous company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
- 401k + company match
- Market competitive total compensation package
- Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
- 11 company paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
- Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Product Designer
REMOTE, USA
DESIGN
FULL-TIME
Poll Everywhere is looking for an end-to-end Product Designer to help us redesign our application with our newly updated design system. You’ll be the second member of a growing design team. We’re currently transitioning from a collection of Single Page Applications to a Ruby on Rails application that uses Hotwire to rethink how modern real-time web applications work. As part of this, we have an amazing opportunity to redesign, reevaluate, and refocus our core application workflows to improve our customer’s experiences and solve problems. We are finishing the last components of a new design system based on Google material.io and are ready to improve the user experience.
We have wide-ranging product and UX challenges for our design team as we turn our consumer-based application toward an enterprise B2B focus. We need to redesign our workflows for scale and collaboration with updated information hierarchy and user permissions. Design at Poll Everywhere is highly cross-collaborative in nature. Our designers are embedded into our product teams. You can expect to work cross-functionally with Product Managers on product strategy, engineers on development and accessibility, product marketing for user interviews, and the QA team to maintain a high bar for quality. You’ll participate in each stage of the project lifecycle including planning, research, execution, documentation, and following up with success metrics.
Poll Everywhere is looking forward to a refreshed mission to make presentations more inclusive. We believe that having our product in use at more of the 17 billion meetings a year in the F1000 would change those organizations through the inclusion of more voices. Our platform enables presenters to create interactive questions, word clouds, discussions, and competitions that their audience can respond to using any device. Founded in 2008, we now support millions of users worldwide from educational institutions to household companies such as Google, AT&T, and Target.
Objectives
- Modernize all workflows by updating them to new material design based components
- Re-evaluate workflows for UX improvements for our ideal customer profile
- Reimagine how Poll Everywhere can integrate within tools (such as MS Teams, Zoom, Slack) that our ICPs use
- Help drive Poll Everywhere to be fully WCAG level AA accessibility compliant
- Delight audience members with beautiful data visualizations and dynamic response interactions
What you’ll do
- Solicit, build, socialize and test highly effective, attractive user-focused interfaces across various use cases including responsive web layouts, desktop applications, and data visualizations.
- Solve new and existing challenges related to usability, user flow, and information architecture with close attention to detail and a foundation in relevant experience, research, and systematic, logical thinking.
- Show humility in seeking feedback, balanced with enough grit to advocate for the people who use our product.
- Maintain and contribute to Poll Everywhere Design System
- Refine and iterate your designs through a balance of data and gut.
- Bring your work to life with Figma, the Poll Everywhere design system, user testing tools, and modern prototyping tools.
Our zero mystery interview philosophy
- No mystery, no surprises, no hidden criteria! We know how nerve-wracking interviews can be and we want to set you up for success by clearly outlining the skills we want you to be ready to showcase throughout our interview process.
- 3+ years of experience designing web application products
- Comfortable working (and potentially leading) an iterative & collaborative design process with engineers and PMs
- Experience working with and contributing to a design system
- Proficiency in Figma
- A portfolio that demonstrates experience building and shipping product changes to customers
From us to you!
- $150/month internet & personal cell phone reimbursement
- Monthly coffee and or tea subscription
- $1,000 annual self-development budget + 2 additional days of PTO
- $500 work from home stipend to get you set up for 2022 ($200 annual WFH stipend for all PollEvians after their first year)
- Once we are able to safely reunite as an entire company, we will resume our biannual company retreats and quarterly visits for remote employees.
Our users come from all kinds of communities, and so do PollEvians. We want to work with great people from a wide variety of backgrounds who put a lot of care and pride into their work. We’re committed to providing you with opportunities to learn, and we’re looking to hire people with good judgment.
If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications or check off all the boxes, you should still seriously consider applying. An important part of our interview process is understanding why this position and our mission particularly resonated with you.
Application Process:
Keep applications brief; we want small resumes with relevant experience. Principals only, please. We aren’t using contingency staffing agencies at the moment. Poll Everywhere is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Note from FlexJobs Staff: Please note income information is provided for Colorado residents only, and the employer is open to candidates from other areas. Please inquire with the employer.
Title: Senior Director, Digital & Product Strategy (work from home)
Location: Washington, DC, United States
Full Time
The work location for this exciting opportunity is virtual. The selected candidate will work 100% remotely from home and can be located anywhere in the United States working East coast hours.
About the job & team:
The American Red Cross is looking for a Senior Director, Digital & Product Strategy to join the Innovation team. The Innovation team operates like a startup within the American Red Cross focusing on leveraging technology and data to improve mission delivery. https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/innovation.html
This person will play a vital role in driving Innovation at the American Red Cross. This role will be responsible for three distinct functional areas:
1. Digital strategy: The leader playing this role will drive digital strategy discussions, define the digital strategy for discreet areas, and identify new Innovation opportunities. Qualification of opportunities will involve doing user studies, creating business cases, and defining the potential. In this area, the person will play the role of an internal consultant and work with different stakeholders to understand the problem statement, define the digital strategy for solving the problem, and document high-level requirements and high-level wireframes for the technology solution.
2. Product strategy and management: Leading a team of resources to define the user experience, detailed product requirements, detailed process flows, and other product requirements-related artifacts. These artifacts will be used by the developers and testers to build the product.
3. Innovation Pipeline Management & Communications: This leader will manage the Innovation pipeline by qualifying new opportunities and driving the intake process. This role will also track and report on Innovation metrics and own strategic communications for the Innovation team in the following categories – overall Innovation, product-specific communication, and Innovation insights.
We are looking for an out-of-the-box thinker who can help revolutionize the way we are delivering our mission using technology and data. This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver our mission more effectively. Some of the solutions built might be the first of their kind in the industry.
We are looking for someone with a management consulting background to identify business opportunities that can be addressed using technology, define the desired business capabilities for the identified opportunity, define the future state business processes, high-level wireframes and develop the business case.
The ideal candidate will be someone who has worked in multiple industries with a blend of expertise ranging from business problem definition, high-level user experience definition, high-level user story definition, and financial benefit modeling for the opportunity.
The individual in this role must be able to function effectively with a high degree of independence and minimal direct supervision.
What you will be doing:
- Define the digital strategy for specific business areas and problem statements
- Conduct user interviews, facilitate design thinking workshops and user testing of products to capture requirements for new products
- Build high level financial models to calculate business cases for projects
- Own the Innovation project pipeline and intake process
- Drive strategic communications regarding the Innovation function and product-related communications.
- Own the process of tracking and reporting on Innovation metrics.
- Lead the team to create business capability maps, detailed process flows, requirements and user stories for specific opportunities
- Lead the team to define wireframes and user experience design for digital products
- Visit various American Red Cross sites to understand the business model and operations. Compare with industry best practices and identify opportunities for Innovation
- Partner with business teams across all business units to define opportunities that can be solved using technology and data
What we need from you:
- At least 10+ years of experience with 5+ years of experience with digital products
- Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related discipline
- Must have – Consulting experience with big four or other top tier management consulting firms
- Experience driving change in large organizations
- Ability to define business capabilities for digital products
- Experience with creating high-level wireframes and high-level user experience design
- Experience with design thinking, design sprint, empathy workshops and other processes for driving product innovation
- Experience with creating detailed current state and future state process flows
- Ability to create financial models for project business cases
- Experience with business analysis and documentation of product requirements for digital technology initiatives
- Constantly willing to push boundaries and overcome obstacles
- Strong communication skills and ability to engage with executives
What’s in it for you:
For those candidates located in Colorado or Connecticut, the average annual salary range for this position is $185K +/- based on experience. We do not offer an annual bonus for this role. Note that the American Red Cross sets salary ranges aligned to a specific geographic location in which the job or employee resides. The stated salary range in this posting is an average and may not be reflective of your individual circumstances.
Our comprehensive benefits help you in balancing home and work, retirement, getting healthy and more. With our resources and perks, you have amazing possibilities at the American Red Cross to advance and learn.
Stay Healthy: Medical, Dental, Vision Plans
Paid Family Leave: 12 weeks paid at 80%
Relax with Time Away: PTO + Holidays
Save for your Future: 401K with up to 4% Match
Employee Assistance: 24/7 Mental Health Resources
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and Recognition: 1 year + 5 year
Career Development: Pay for Performance, Ongoing Education
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