by Ronald Barron | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: SAP
What We Offer
Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!
Purpose and Objectives
SAP Design is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers. We care deeply about the people who use our products. The SAP Design team plays an integral part in gathering insights about our customers’ attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to inspire and inform our design. We collaborate closely with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them and for SAP’s businesses.
The SAP Creative Studio works across the entire business to deliver innovative experiences at scale across all touchpoints. As the Principal Designer, Creative Studio, you will be a thought leader for the entire studio of UX designers, visual designers, writers, design PMs, and researchers. You will set a high bar for user experience and creative.
You will be a good fit for this role if you have an established track record of thought leadership and design experience across both UX and creative, you are a strong advocate for design, you partner well with other disciplines to deliver impact, you are data-driven, and most importantly customer-obsessed. It’s also important for the person in this role to understand and appreciate how the Studio needs to scale operationally as well as creatively.
Role Responsibilities
- Explore, invent, and evolve the creative work that builds the core of our product DNA for various aspects of our product delivery including core componentry elements, illustration, iconography, typography, and product color use.
- Develop and maintain the SAP Design Product Expression styles. Responsible for creating visual guidance across design elements. Maintain Product Expression guidelines and educate broader team on brand expression through product.
- Grow an expanding insights and research capability that serve not only design efforts, but also partners with the broader SAP Design team that leverages customer insights for decision-making and experimentation.
- Oversee the continued evolution of a web design library of navigation headers, templates, and components, leveraged across SAP to drive consistency in Product Expression and user experience.
- Using design thinking, help drive thought leadership and work across disciplines to define new user experiences that are innovative, solve real customer problems, and have impact on the business.
- Leverage strong depth of knowledge in various design, UX, mobile, video, motion design, and web technologies to create engaging and compelling customer experiences.
- Build strong relationships across disciplines and stakeholders.
- Ensure that all experiences meet high accessibility standards, and most importantly, that all experiences are designed to be inclusive and representative of our expansive, diverse audiences.
Work Experience and Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in design, user experience management, and/or digital transformation
- Demonstrated ability to deliver new products, services, or web services at a global scale
- Experience driving digital transformation projects and programs
- Ability to handle complex design problems and have a proven ability to create customer-focused solutions
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: U.Group
About U.Group
- U.Group is an advanced technology and creative design company radically focused on using customer-centric innovation to create new opportunities in the public and private sectors.
- Working collaboratively out of offices in Arlington, VA, and in the heart of the action at client sites—U.Group delivers best-in-class digital services, powerful data platforms, augmented reality solutions, integrated marketing strategies, bundled services, and more. To learn more, visit www.U.Group.
Role Summary
- As a UI Designer at U.Group, you are a core component of website and product design teams.
- You are creative, resourceful, and driven. You know how to create a brand, and what it takes to translate that brand to a digital experience.
- You formulate deep, empathetic connections to client motivations and objectives, and know intuitively how to translate that understanding into the inspiration that drives the creative direction.
- You are a fantastic listener and collaborator and are adept at synthesizing research, strategy, and technical specifications into pixel-perfect, human-centered designs that inspire clients, and help them achieve their goals.
Key Objectives
Objective 1: Work openly and collaboratively with your project teams
- Participate in project planning, brainstorm and working sessions with your project teams and clients, contributing to a collaborative atmosphere with an open exchange of ideas
- Draw from your UX and graphic design expertise to drive the creative direction, synthesizing your ideas with quantitative and qualitative insights from your team members into award-worthy design directions
- Embrace feedback from more senior designers working in tandem with you on engagements to raise the caliber of your work
- Share your work early and often, being open to feedback and inspiration from your content strategy, UX and development peers, while providing constructive feedback on their work in turn
- Champion accessible and inclusive visual design practices on all your project engagements, not just when it’s contracted
Objective 2: Deliver best-in-class designs for commercial and government clients
- Create compelling design concepts and deliverables, from quick and iterative wireframes to pixel-perfect, build-ready comps and prototypes, complete with interaction states
- Innovate within technical constraints, partnering with product owners, engineers, and technical architects to create inventive, yet practical technical solutions
- Demonstrate a refined design sensibility in your work, with strong typography, composition, and illustration skills
- Present your ideas to clients with poise, defending your decisions with clear rationale while accepting criticism with grace
- Own your designs from concept to completion, maintaining a sense of accountability along with your strategy and development peers for the quality of your team’s execution
Objective 3: Contribute to the continued success of the UI/Front-end design practice area at U.Group
- Contribute to internal initiatives to mature U.Group design standards and practices
- Expand U.Group’s thought leadership by sharing your insight and design expertise on U.Group’s blog, or at industry events and trainings
- Guide and be guided; mentor those under your supervision to help them flourish in their roles, while embracing the guidance of senior team members to refine your craft
- Be an awesome teammate; step in to pick someone up who needs support, or would benefit from your perspective
Specialized Experience
- Proficiency designing and prototyping tools like Figma and asset creation with Adobe CS tools
- Familiarity with common web design systems, the United States Web Design System is a significant plus
- Proficient understanding of accessibility and 508 compliance
- Experience working within a creative agency
- Bonus points if you have a background in website development (frontend or backend or both), animation, and/or video production
- College degree or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Industrial/Product Design, Architecture, or Fine Arts
- You have a portfolio of high-caliber, client-facing creative work that you can call your own
Life at U.Group
We encourage our colleagues to lead balanced lives. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flexible spending, 15 days paid time off, and paid holidays. We also offer:
- Education reimbursement program
- Parental Leave Policy
- Professional Development Program
- 401(k) with Company Match
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Brafton Inc.
Description
This is a remote position and is open to candidates in any US state. Boston and Chicago candidates will have the option to work in one of our offices in the future.
Overview
- Brafton is searching for a UI/UX Designer to work with our design and development teams on both internal software development and client-facing website development projects.
- This role reports into the Design Director. He or she also collaborates closely with Brafton’s Chief Technology Officer when working on Brafton’s proprietary platforms and technologies.
Internal UX & UI Work (Brafton’s Platforms & Tech)
- As part of Brafton’s push to produce a Content Marketing SaaS product we are adding UX/UI designer to our in-house team (so as not to denigrate past or current work).
- The UI/UX Designer’s responsibility will encompass the design and mocking-up of initially smaller designed elements of our existing platform, with a view to developing a consistent internal style guide for all major aspects of our software’s interaction.
Client-Facing UX & UI Work
- In addition, the UI/UX Design contractor collaborates on work on our clients’ sites and projects.
- Along with other stakeholders, this role will ensure the timely and quality production of UX design wireframes and mockups for mobile and desktop.
- Confident project ideation and consultancy on client-facing calls is a must. Complete working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required as well as other Adobe software.
- Ideal candidates will be able to maintain high design standards, provide excellent customer service, complete desk research, work on daily deadlines, and has excellent typography skills. Knowledge of CSS, HTML is required.
We need a candidate with the following skills:
- Exceptional design and creative skills.
- The ability to work with both design and functional restrictions to help produce attractive, user-friendly, and intuitive interfaces.
- Familiarity with the design differences of an ‘app’ versus a ‘website’.
- Ability to translate researched information into visually stimulating and intellectually engaging typography, illustration, and infographics.
- Experience in designing the interaction / UX portion of an application interface.
- Comfort with the constraints and requirements of a ‘responsive’ design that automatically adjusts for varying device and window sizes.
- Someone who enjoys and understands the dynamics of modern digital products and has a strong perspective on best practices for optimizing customer experiences.
- Familiarity with appropriate design tools for mocking up responsive design UI/UX, ie Illustration, Adobe XD etc
- An eye for visual experimentation, and presentation of differing application elements and their effectiveness as far as ease-of-use, intuition, and screen-space optimization are concerned
- Someone who can absorb and follow the “Material Design” guidelines for UI/UX
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
Responsibilities:
- Creating custom UX mockups/wireframes using Adobe Illustrator.
- Transitioning easily between multiple topics and aesthetics.
- Internal UX & UI Work:
- Creating mock-ups of individual design elements of our platform products.
- Helping produce consistent rules and guidelines for the use of all common design elements across apps, ie headings, dates, sub-titles, etc.
- Managing an over-arching design style guide for our applications, to keep the rules simple and documented.
- Developing and mocking up the full architecture of our client-facing SaaS product, as a platform for internal experimentation and discussion around functionality and form.
Client-Facing UX & UI Work:
- Participating in client-facing planning calls for UX & UI projects.
- Executing on client-facing UX & UI work (creating custom wireframes and high-impact mock-ups).
- Ensuring timely delivery of client UX wireframes and mockups per the assigned delivery date.
- Incorporating feedback and updates to completed client-facing UX projects.
Qualifications/Requirements :
- Experience dealing directly with clients
- Well-organized and able to work consistently on recurring projects
- Proficiency using the Adobe Creative Suite, with an emphasis on InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
- Strong conceptual thinker
- Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design or related field
- Advanced courses in Typography
- Strong layout and color application
- Online Portfolio
This is a 100% remote working role, so location is not important. You would work with managers in both Boston and London, however you’ll be able to operate day to day in your local time zone, but on occasion be able to adjust your schedule to cover meetings or calls with staff and clients in Australia or the UK.
As such you must be setup to operate effectively from your own work-space and be comfortable with pure remote / home-based working. Brafton’s core business is heavily remote focused – and was so well before the COVID-19 pandemic, as such the business is extremely agile and well adapted to such working practices.
Benefits Include: Health, Dental, Vision, Colonial Life, 401k with Match, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, in-office perks and more!
To learn more about Brafton, Check out our Careers Page!
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY | E-VERIFY: Brafton is an Equal Opportunity employer. In addition to federal law requirements, Brafton complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Zynga
Lifecycle Marketing Specialist
- The Lifecycle Marketing Specialist is responsible for the day-to-day, hands-on execution of CRM activities, focused on email, push notification, and other CRM channels in support of company and business unit objectives for our new game.
- This includes ownership of the setup, maintenance, copy, art and reporting. This position requires a collaborative professional who is highly executional and creative who can work in a fast-paced environment of operating live games.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Coordinate creation of briefs, copy, art, text/HTML templates, target segmentation, tests, etc.
- Generate weekly, monthly campaign performance reports, identify drivers, and make recommendations for improvement
- Develop positive relationships with cross-functional partners (studio, tech, engineering, marketing, creative, etc.).
- Flawlessly execute tests and tactics that increase player health and lifetime value.
- Embrace established processes and find opportunities to improve efficiency of role.
- Ensure the highest standards, employ best-practices and foster accountability.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- 1+ years experience in CRM or Lifecycle Marketing roles (B2C only)
- Hands on experience with HTML, SQL, and Content Management Systems like Braze/Leanplum/Moengage
- Must have experience in warming up new IPs and monitoring domain reputation
- Demonstrated success in deploying effective marketing communications at scale
- Inquisitive action-biased mind, appropriately focused on customer and business critical metrics
- Self-starter with ability to thrive under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Effective producer of high-quality work with a desire for increasing responsibility
- Proven ability to learn technology quickly
- Versatile, flexible and trainable
- Able to effectively balance and prioritize multiple tasks
- Strong communication, copywriting, organizational and project management skills
- Attention to detail
- Team-first attitude
- Passion for games
**Remote work from an alternate location could be considered**
HIRING UPDATE: The safety of our candidates and team members is our top priority. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our workforce transitioned to working from home, with all interviewing and onboarding being conducted virtually until further notice.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome job-seekers, players, employees, and partners from all backgrounds to join us!
We will consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at AccommodationRequest@zynga.com to request an accommodation associated with your application for an open position.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Cornershop Creative
Join the Cornershop team!
- We are seeking an awesome, U.S.-based WordPress developer to join our 20+ distributed team.
- The core responsibility for this position will be building and styling WordPress-based websites, without using plugins or premium themes.
- We are looking for a great developer with demonstrable WordPress core skills and experience.
- This position will be responsible for interpreting loose client requirements and turning them into beautiful websites by creating optimized PHP, JS, and CSS code. Strong React skills are also needed to create custom Gutenberg blocks.
- Our ideal candidate is a hard-working, curious self-starter comfortable working independently with little supervision, but also able to work as part of a team that includes developers and non-developers.
- Since we’re a permanently distributed shop (not just during the pandemic), you’ll get to work from home! Cool, right?
Desired Skills/Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of PHP, MySQL, and JS
- Strong knowledge of HTML5 markup and CSS, especially cross-browser compatibility
- Understanding of the WordPress theme layer: template files and hierarchy, hooks, WP_Query, WP REST API, and so on. Experience creating or writing a plugin a PLUS
- Experience building custom blocks in Gutenberg
- Experience with WooCommerce a PLUS
- Strong knowledge of SEO best practices and WCAG 2.1 guidelines
- Experience with CSS preprocessors & libraries (particularly SASS) and git version control
- Understanding of basic JavaScript, particularly jQuery and/or the Node.js ecosystem
- Familiarity with current (and evolving) best practices in front-end dev regarding semantics, performance, cross-browser consistency, accessibility, speed optimization, etc.
- Wireframe, UI experience and excellent web design skills not required but a PLUS
- Ability to laugh at our stupid jokes (and the occasional good one)
- Familiarity with command line tools like ssh, git, gulp and wp-cli
- Won’t lose your s#!% if you occasionally get feedback like “can we make the logo bigger?†or “change the padding by 1px,†which may happen despite our best efforts
- Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment and work across multiple clients (we keep pretty busy!)
- Ability to “put yourself in someone else’s shoes†to consider the client’s (and client’s users’) needs
- Being passionate about progressive causes
- Cornershop Creative is an award-winning online services agency committed to listening carefully to our non-profit and small business clients and helping them achieve their goals.
- Our designs are beautiful, and our websites are creative and innovative.
Salary: Approximately $60,000
Competitive benefits include:
- 100% medical coverage on platinum level plan
- Dental and vision insurance options
- 401K with employer matching
- Work from home!
- 100% monthly internet reimbursement
- Generous and flexible PTO package
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