by Ronald Barron | Feb 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Fanatics
Company Overview
Fanatics is building the leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Leveraging these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as the global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings across the sports ecosystem.
The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, a transformative company that is building a new model for the hobby and giving collectors an end-to-end collectibles experience; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Additional ventures that will build out Fanatics’ footprint across the broader digital sports landscape will be rolled out soon. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.
As a market leader with more than 8,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.
About the Team
Fanatics is first and foremost a technology company. We are powered by cutting-edge tech created by our small agile teams using the latest tools and technologies under our highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded leadership. As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, we challenge ourselves by improving our new fully responsive NodeJS cloud commerce platform, Elasticsearch engine, and deep data science capabilities while building the best-in-class retail manufacturing and supply chain technologies. Our tech teams work together to revolutionize data science and engineering initiatives, provide highly scalable real-time and streaming platforms, and create secure e-commerce and in-stadium fan experience products. Our own e-commerce platform transacts in over 190 countries, 17 languages, and 14 currencies. Our motto is “#GSDâ€â€”get stuff done—and we do just that. If you want to be at the nexus of sports, commerce, and technology, come be a part of our industry-leading team here at Fanatics Tech.
Fanatics is searching for a Senior Information Security Engineer with significant experience in network, system, and cloud security. This position will be responsible for advising teams on the proper design and implementation of applications and systems in cloud and on-premise environments. This role will also assess design and implementation proposals, evaluate application and system vulnerabilities, monitor environments for security violations, mentor the Security Operations Center team on incident management and digital forensics, and contribute to the selection and implementation of security tools and processes.
Our team members are given a great deal of autonomy in the pursuit of keeping Fanatics secure and a successful candidate will demonstrate strong communication skills and is expected to be comfortable and effective working independently and as part of a larger, highly distributed team. We’re looking specifically for folks who place an emphasis on usable security. Fanatics is a fast-growing company and our security program needs to be able to keep pace with that growth while not disrupting innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats
- Design and implementation of enterprise-class security solutions to protect Fanatics and our customers
- Create solutions that balance business needs with company-specific and industry-related requirements and regulations.
- Identifying security-related deficiencies in existing and proposed architectures
- Regularly triage cyber security incidents post-enrichment and respond to events as part of the incident response process
- Automate and integrate workflows between SIEM platforms and on-premise and cloud infrastructure using IaC
- Consult with teams throughout the company around the implementation of security best practices
- Mentoring team members across the security, networking, and system groups with regards to security architecture and fundamental security concepts.
Skills/Certifications Required:
- A minimum 8 years in Information Technology and 5 years of Information Security experience.
- A minimum of 3 years supporting a technically diverse Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in the following areas: cloud security (AWS is required, Azure/GCP is a plus), network segmentation, firewalls
- Demonstrated ability to consult with teams across the organization regarding the integration of security requirements best practices into their workflows and services
- Demonstrated experience in developing enterprise-level security solutions and taking ownership of the implementation of those solutions
- Experience conducting vulnerability scans in on-premise and cloud environments, and managing the tracking and remediation of findings.
- Advanced networking skills, including experience with WAN, Wireless, Firewall, VPN, Proxy and Intrusion Prevention technologies
- Expert level experiencing with scripting automation using Python & Bash. PowerShell experience is a plus
- Experience with security assessment tools for on-premise and cloud environments including vulnerability scanners, encryption and key management software and hardware, logging and alerting systems.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
- Ability to present findings and summaries of issues to senior management
Experience with and knowledge of:
- Designing secure architectures in accordance with relevant regulatory controls (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO-27001/2, etc.)
- Implementing security solutions in a forward-thinking and user-focused manner. This includes delivering iterative improvements in consultation with the larger Information Security team and other operational support teams
- Enterprise-level 24×7 operational support experience
- Knowledge of web service development and deployment, with a specific focus on microservice-based architectures
- Identity and access management (IAM) concepts and the ability to scale those concepts to an enterprise level.
General skills include:
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Strong leadership, project and team-building skills, including the ability to lead teams and drive projects and initiatives in multiple departments
- Demonstrated ability to identify risks associated with business processes, operations, information security programs and technology projects
- Exceptional communication skills with diverse audiences; the ability to be the enterprise security subject matter expert who can explain technical topics to those without a technical background
Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.
Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS/APPLICANTS: In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Informationâ€). The categories of Personal Information that we collect include your name, government issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future contract positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is seeking Research Engineers to support its mission of building the world’s most secure and flexible decentralized oracle technologies. Research Engineers will work directly with top domain experts in applied cryptography, mechanism design (cryptoeconomics), distributed systems, and other disciplines to identify and solve key research challenges and build production solutions that keep Chainlink at the forefront of oracle system deployment and fuel the success of the smart contract ecosystem.
Your Impact
- Working with Chainlink core engineering to identify short- and long-term research challenges critical to the company’s success and to transition innovations from Chainlink Labs into production.
- Working with research scientists and technical advisors to study, invent, and build cutting-edge oracle technologies for the benefit of the company and community.
- Staying abreast of the evolution of relevant technology ecosystems and participating in relevant technical communities for more effective application development and to guide research toward practical and impactful work.
Required Qualifications:
- B.S. in computer science or equivalent professional experience along with coursework in algorithms and data structures and discrete math.
- Familiarity with academic process and ability to engage with existing literature on relevant research topics, e.g. by performing literature searches and comprehending papers in a wider context.
- Professional software development experience is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced computer science or related degree, coursework in applied and theoretical cryptography, mechanism design, distributed systems, or related fields.
- Familiarity with Go or Rust.
- Broad knowledge of blockchain technologies and familiarity specifically with smart contracts.
Our Stack
- We use Go, Typescript, Solidity, Python, LATEX, git, and Linux/Unix.
Smart contracts are on track to revolutionize how all agreements work, through an entirely new system of technologically enforced contract guarantees. Chainlink enables next-generation smart contracts that can be written about any/all events in the real world, the details of our approach can be found in our whitepaper. We are well recognized for providing highly secure and reliable blockchain connectivity to the world’s largest enterprises such as Google, Oracle, SWIFT, and many more.
Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer
Smart contracts are on track to revolutionize how all agreements work, through an entirely new system of technologically enforced contract guarantees. Chainlink enables next-generation smart contracts that can be written about any/all events in the real world, the details of our approach can be found in our whitepaper. We are well recognized for providing highly secure and reliable blockchain connectivity to the world’s largest enterprises such as Google, Oracle, SWIFT, and many more.
This role is location agnostic anywhere in the world, but we ask that you overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).
We are a fully distributed team and have the tools and benefits to support you in your remote work environment.
Chainlink Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: AT&T
We are transforming our business, ensuring we are serving customers first! The need to constantly improve the customer experience is a growing demand and we re looking for someone who can generate actionable insights that lead to platform development to deliver optimal customer experiences.
As a Lead Product Management & Development Manager, you drive collaborative work efforts to create the perfect customer experience symphony. The position will play a key role in outlining and achieving how customers perceive the company while driving higher customer satisfaction, NPS, customer retention, and new business growth. This role will work with the Transformation team that is shaping the future of the AT&T Wireless and Broadband products by ensuring a unified user experience that will simplify the offerings and achieve the best customer experience and service possible.
As a seasoned product professional, you understand industry trends, new and emerging product technologies, and applications. You will collaborate across analytics and design teams to determine the best customer experience for our consumer wireless customers in the areas of Account Management, Billing, Payments, Fraud, Credit and Collections. A successful candidate will be able to effectively articulate the opportunities, the impact to the business and customer, and be able to gain support in cross multi-discipline business teams to influence changes on policies and working with technology teams to articulate the vision and ensure proper delivery.
Preferred location is Dallas, TX. Other domestic U.S. locations will be considered.
Components of this role include:
- Research, design, plan, develop and evaluate new Wireless Billing and Account Management features by translating and documenting customer requirements for product design
- Analyze customer needs, identify priorities for new products features or services and enhancements
- Partner with business, technology and UX teams to design a product that will meet the needs of the business with minimal investment
- Create product roadmaps and project plans
- Will develop business case and product analysis reports to support new product feature considerations and growth. This process may include all or part of the following steps – product research and discovery, vetting, business case development, negotiation of terms, and product launch ownership/support
- Responsible for multi-year product planning, looking to industry and competitive dynamics, standards and emerging technologies that will shape consumer demand and experience
- Identify, monitor, and analyze internal and external factors to reposition, modify features and identify new product solutions
- Support product planning and customer journey mapping
- Analyze customer needs, identify priorities for new products or services and enhancements
- Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to align objectives and delivery
- Create new enhancements or applications in anticipation of or in response to, market, competitor, or regulatory influences
- Translate new technologies and market requirements into product design
- Establish reporting metrics and reporting to assess Wireless Billing, Payments and Account Management features and financial performance
- Provide readouts to leadership level regarding products and plans as assigned
Qualifications:
- 6+ years product management experience in consumer new product development
- Strong outreach and collaboration skills
- Expertise in translating business problems into solutions
- Experience in the Product Development process
- Experience in Competitive Analysis, Customer Experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in executing projects from ideation to completion
- Strong analytic and fact-based decision-making skills
- A product evangelist comfortable with conveying the value of new and emerging products, technologies, or applications to senior-level management and across a diverse product team
- Proven ability to successfully partner with other organizations that include technology, network, and device teams
- Experience in any one of these areas Account Management, Billing, Payments, Fraud, Credit and Collections highly desired, but not required
- Must be proficient using Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
- Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, or related field of study preferred
- MBA desired
Ready to join our team? Apply today!
Our Lead Product Management & Development earn between $115,600 – $215,800 yearly. Not to mention all of the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. From health insurance to tuition reimbursement and paid time off to discounts on products and services just to name a few. There is a lot to be excited about around here.
This is a work-from-home position that can be located anywhere in the United States.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: HubSpot
As a Technical Project Manager at HubSpot, you will have the autonomy to provide project management leadership and expertise to enable business teams to meet business objectives. HubSpot is an extremely fast growing and dynamic environment and to keep pace, we are continuously evaluating and improving our integrations and systems landscape to support our overall employee technology.
In this role, you’ll be working closely with business stakeholders to play a critical role in planning and executing high-impact org-wide initiatives. You will build strong relationships with business leaders across the organization as a trusted technology partner. As part of our Employee Technology team, you will also be responsible for driving cross-functional projects that demand great communication skills, principled thinking, a high bar for stakeholder management, and impactful change management.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Develop detailed project schedules, resource plans, status reports, and influence the effectiveness of the team that integrates multiple functions/disciplines.
- Ensure the highest level of effective communication with the core project team and the extended community of interest for the project (executives, steering committees, various stakeholder groups, etc.).
- Implement processes to manage and communicate risks associated with competing priorities and change
- Lead team meetings, develop agendas, ensure follow-up is actionable and track progress of tasks
- Serve as an anchor and champion for creating a culture of successful project management
- Continually look to improve the project management process to accommodate rapidly changing business needs.
- Proactively identify and mitigate project risks
- Bring forth solutions to meet timelines when at risk
We are looking for people who:
- Are passionate about collaboration and effective communication across the business
- Are proactive self-starters who can understand business challenges, identify requirements, and resolve issues
- Are proactive self-starters who can understand business challenges, identify requirements, and resolve issues
- Have a strong understanding of agile processes (eg., Scrum, Kanban, etc)
- Are comfortable with balancing rapidly-changing priorities, deliverables and timelines
- Experience with Project Management frameworks (e.g., PMBOK) and Agile, Waterfall, SDLC methodologies for managing SaaS platform projects
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply we’d love to hear from you.
Important COVID-19 Guidance (For candidates applying to roles in the United States):
Per HubSpot’s policy all employees who wish to work @office or @flex or to visit an office in-person must be fully-vaccinated. At this time, @remote employees are not required to be vaccinated.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Favor
We are looking for a Marketplace Insights Sr. Analyst to join our Business Analytics team. Data is at the center of everything Favor does. The appetite for reporting and analysis grows each day as we expand our geographic footprint throughout Texas and introduce new programs, platforms, products and features to our community of customers, runners and merchant partners.
As a Marketplace Insights Analyst on the Business Analytics team you will leverage first- and third-party data to inform a best-in-class marketplace strategy that provides great delivery experiences for our Customers and great earnings opportunities for our Runners, while also supporting our Merchant partners. You will work closely with our Marketing & Growth team to define acquisition and incentive tactics, and also with our Support teams to identify, monitor and mitigate poor Customer & Runner experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Lead discussions to define and drive cross-functional alignment around the KPIs that define strong service on the Customer side as well as strong earnings potential on the Runner side.
- Develop and maintain a suite of self-service reporting that identifies actionable service opportunities for Customers and actionable earnings opportunities for Runners.
- Work closely with the broader Marketing organization to inform acquisition and promotion tactics to help the company hit monthly order count and revenue goals while protecting the service experience.
- Identify effective and cost-efficient methods for retaining, stretching and shaping our supply of Runners to meet growing demand volume in 100+ cities across Texas, in partnership with CRM, Acquisition, Ops, Support and Product & Eng teams.
- Identify areas of poor service and poor earnings, and advise on strategies to address through a combination of financial incentives, marketplace rule & boundary changes, Customer- and Runner-facing feature development, CRM and social comms, among other tactics.
- Grow the collective Business Analytics team knowledge base through process documentation and technical mentorship.
Skills & Qualifications:
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
- 2+ years experience working in an analytical role, preferably focused on sales, merchandising, pricing, operations and / or content analysis.
- Experience building descriptive and predictive models.
- Experience with business intelligence software, such as Looker, Tableau, or Domo.
- Experience with client-side analytics, like Google Analytics and Firebase.
- Intermediate to advanced SQL skills, preferably with large datasets.
- Analysis fanatic, with proficiency in multiple tools and scripting languages – e.g. Excel, Python, R.
- Familiarity with statistical concepts and A/B test design.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, in particular in a presentation setting.
Ideal Candidate:
- Detail-oriented — You ensure accuracy and consistency of reporting and analysis through data cleansing, transformation and ongoing stewardship. You think 2 steps ahead to identify potential roadblocks and have contingency plans to address them.
- Narrative-oriented — You connect changes in top-level metrics to the underlying drivers and create compelling visualizations to drive home key findings. You communicate results effectively to audiences at all levels of the organization.
- Action-oriented — You are always up for a challenge and view reporting and analysis as an opportunity to recommend tactics and strategies that make the business better. You are open to feedback in the interest of delivering continually better output and growing as a professional.
- Teamwork-oriented — You know how and when to effectively engage with your stakeholders and your teammates. You view yourself as a partner in the decision-making process and build trust through goal alignment, process transparency and world-class output.
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