by Ronald Barron | Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Limeade
About us:
Limeade is an employee experience software company on a mission to transform work into a source of positivity, energy, humanity, and purpose. Founded in 2006, Limeade is a pioneer in the HR technology industry and is consistently recognized for its own award-winning culture. Today, Limeade solutions are used in approximately 100 countries around the globe. We help every employee know their company cares – and deliver people and business results that matter. Limeade partners with its customers to transform the overall employee experience by helping to improve employee well-being, engagement, and sense of inclusion – in addition to reducing the risk of unwanted turnover and burnout. To learn more, visit www.limeade.com (AXS listing: LME)
About the job:
- Limeade is looking for a world-class designer of delightful, engaging user-centric experiences. Your portfolio is testament to your empathy for users, your ability to balance the simple with the fun and robust, your good taste and your visual design sensibilities.
- You should be comfortable iterating fast and communicating your ideas to visually oriented, informed product management and engineering teams. You should be able to listen and communicate clearly to get buy in. You should love brainstorming, prototyping and welcome user research. You should view collaboration with other designers, users and all company colleagues as instrumental for doing great work.
- You are curious. Not afraid to be wrong or ask tough questions. You have the potential to become a strong design leader.
- You will work within the structure of the Agile Development process, based on Scrum and UX best practices. We perform rapid, iterative, incremental design, thinking about our products and experiences holistically. Bonus points for interest in well-being or health improvement.
Responsibilities:
- See product features from the vision phase through mockups and implementation.
- Brainstorm and collaborate with an informed, visually oriented product development team.
- Knowledgeable and confident participation in UX Design meetings.
- Comfortable working with and developing personas and scenarios.
- Create wireframes, design iterations and prototypes.
- Participate in and/or facilitate/lead Customer/Partner UX meetings.
- Participate in scrum meetings.
- Evaluate and flesh out product UX specs prior to implementation.
- Work directly with the Director of UX, other designers, researchers. product managers and a collaborative R&D team.
Requirements:
- Ability to demonstrate our values in an on-going and consistent way.
- 2-5 years of UX/UI design.
- Mastery of design process and use of visual design apps (Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, Figma, Mural etc.).
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Open-minded and able to incorporate constructive feedback.
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Limeade provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status regarding public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Limeade will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Illuminate Education
Illuminate Education partners with K-12 educators to equip them with data to serve the whole child and reach new levels of student performance. Our solution brings together holistic data and collaborative tools and puts them in the hands of educators. This is an opportunity to join a team that is passionate about improving the lives of teachers and students. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Illuminate supports over 17 million students and 5200 schools and districts across all 50 states.
Illuminate is seeking a talented UI/UX Designer to specialize in one or more of our assessment products. Our ideal candidate will have strong design skills and a passion for making complicated workflows simple and easy to understand. Must be able to work with multiple project teams simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. If you are passionate about working on customer-facing products that have real-life impact and are ready to contribute your knowledge, expand your talents, learn, and innovate with us, we are looking for you!
About the Opportunity
Position Overview
As a UI/UX designer, you’ll be joining our UX Team while working closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other teams to drive and lead incredible user experiences across our products for K-12 students and educators.
You’ll be responsible for researching, designing, and prototyping new user experiences based on product and customer requirements. Deliverables include both low fidelity and high fidelity mockups, basic prototypes (clickables), wireframes, and design specifications.
You should possess exceptional user experience and visual design skills, as well as user-centered design principles. You must have an affinity for exceptional software product usability, complex data visualization, visual consistency, and detail. You must be able to grasp and distill highly complex issues and translate them into clean, focused, understandable solutions while working in a fast paced, ever-changing, and deadline-driven environment. And overall, you should be passionate about resolving user pain points and delivering amazing user experiences through empathy and great design.
Key Responsibilities
- Become an expert in Illuminate’s assessment products, while building expertise on the other core Illuminate products with an eye for integration and collaboration.
- Be an active member of the UX Team, contributing to our design processes, tools, and norms.
- Work with our other designers to leverage our design system, utilizing and creating reusable components and patterns across our products.
- Gather user requirements and aggregate user needs into designs.
- Conduct user research to validate user needs and feedback through focus groups, surveys, customer journey mapping exercises, usability tests, and related activities.
- Prepare and present initial designs to internal teams and key stakeholders and rapidly iterate based on internal and external feedback, discussions, and data.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in design, HCI, computer science, psychology, or related field.
- 5 years experience designing interactive experiences from discovery to execution in a web-based software environment and the ability to share prior design work examples.
- Strong expertise in common design software tools such as Figma (preferred) or Sketch.
- Demonstrable data visualization skills translating large and complex data into highly consumable and intuitive workflows.
- Experience with working within constraints and understanding the right tradeoffs to make, and the confidence in executing on decisions.
- Current on the latest responsive web design techniques for desktop and mobile design.
- Working knowledge of HTML and CSS and familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue, React, etc.) is a plus.
- Knowledge and/or experience with web accessibility standards.
- Excellent written, interpersonal, and presentation communication skills.
- A readiness to proactively drive change and improvement across cross-functional teams
- A passion for solving problems for educators and students
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for educators and students in a web-based software environment or ability to share examples of design work that center around an educator persona.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Greenhouse Software
We believe in the power of hiring. Because the potential for people to do something outstanding has everything to do with being in the right role, on the right team, at the right time. That’s where Greenhouse comes in from recruiting to on-boarding, we make software to help every company be great at hiring.
Greenhouse is looking for a Senior Interactive Designer to join our team!
Our Brand and Creative function is growing to meet the needs of our fast-growing and internationally expanding business. As a member of the team, you will have the ability to focus on interactive and digital design within our established brand identity elevating our digital presence further. You’ll be working closely with Marketing and our Customer-facing teams to improve customer experiences, improve website usability and performance, and produce interactive content.
Who will love this job
- A storyteller you can turn complex ideas into simple, visually impactful experiences
- A practical creative you can conceptualize solutions that align with the goals of the business
- A champion of feedback you give and receive feedback graciously; and know that feedback allows the team to grow and do their best work
- A doer you get things done and you love working in a dynamic environment; we move quickly, and we need a teammate who will too
What you’ll do
- Own the Greenhouse digital style guide
- Be a master of our site design system, working within it and also improving it as needed
- Help solve complex UI problems on our marketing and support websites
- Successfully support various marketing, customer and sales initiatives with digital/web design
- Continue to push how the Greenhouse brand is experienced on the web
You should have
- Senior-level experience in fast-paced studio/agency or in-house team environments
- A portfolio showing best in class, professional interactive design work
- Expert user of Figma
- Expert ability to create a web/digital experience from brief to UX plan to UI design
- Demonstrated ability to design for multiple screens
- Experience in SaaS, strongly preferred
- Familiarity with HTML/CSS, preferred
- Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d be a great fit for this role in your cover letter
For all our employees, we offer a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, mental health resources, financial wellness benefits, and a fully paid parental leave program. For US-based employees, we offer flexible vacation, commuter benefits and a 401(k) plan, and for Dublin-based employees we offer 25 days’ vacation and a pension plan.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Starburst Data
We’re on a mission to free our customers to see the invisible and achieve the impossible. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Today more than 150 leading organizations trust us to make better decisions faster.
Though Starburst has achieved a unicorn status and raised $164M in venture funding from top investors, we were founded in a rather unusual way with customers and revenue from the very beginning! We operate globally in 10 countries and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars!
About the role
Starburst is seeking a Senior Product and User Experience Designer to join our UX team to help make an impact in the lives of our customers through customer research, user data, and iterative prototyping to deliver amazing designs. As a product designer you will collaborate with product managers, engineers, customer-facing engineers, and customers on the requirements, feature design, and development for the entire user experience at Starburst.
Responsibilities:
- Ownership in various areas such as product design and user experience at Starburst including our SaaS product Starburst Galaxy, documentation, and onboarding
- Deep dive with Starburst stakeholders to understand the users; define, maintain, and evolve user personas, product vision, and UX strategy
- Collaborate with product managers, field team, support team, engineers, and customers for input to the product experience
- Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity designs for user interfaces
- Ideate and lead internal sessions to develop user-focused solutions for functionality requests, user pain points, and new feature ideas
- Learn the market, customers, and competitive landscape
- Contribute to a central design system for reference by the Product and Engineering teams
- Collaborate with teams globally across multiple time zones and operate in an Agile development environment
- Develop and administer usability testing and user research; identify patterns to incorporate into product roadmap
Requirements:
- 7+ years experience in user experience and product design
- Strong UX skills including UX strategy, IA, wireframing, and research
- Strong UI and visual design skills
- Experience leading ideation, design thinking, or design sprint-type review sessions with stakeholders and internal teams
- Experience with design and prototyping tools (including Figma)
- The ability to work independently in a remote capacity, as well as within a team environment
- An online portfolio of recent work
Preferred Experience:
- Basic Javascript, HTML, and CSS skills
- Experience with Open Source
- Product design experience with SaaS
- Experience with one of of AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience with technical documentation and working with Documentation, Marketing, and Engineering teams.
- Domain knowledge of data warehousing, data lakes, and big data technologies
Benefits
At Starburst, we’re constantly striving towards building a place where people come first by creating an environment of transparency, honesty, and respect. We take care of our global workforce by making sure employees enjoy competitive salaries and attractive stock grants, remote-friendly work options, access to quality and affordable insurance, and flexible and generous paid time off to start a family, travel, or just relax!
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Description
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you ll do important work that supports a powerful mission. With revenues of $25 billion and a track record of stability and consistent growth, we’re uniquely able to provide our teams the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world of science, technology, and engineering.
Location/Division: San Jose, CA or Remote from the United States/ Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division
How will you make an impact?
You will work in the fast-growing world of Biomedical Instrumentation and Biomedical Software Engineering and contribute significantly to the development of the cloud-based Next generation of Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry data systems from the ground up. We are looking to hire individuals with experience in web front-end development using modern cloud and micro frontend-based architectures, and those who can help us design the next generation of user experience.
How will you get here?
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or related field, graduate degree preferred.
What will you do?
- Participate in planning, UI design, development, and the delivery of web-based micro front ends and microservices.
- The position will act as a User Interface applications technical anchor, contribute to the technical vision with the development team, and help the team to turn it into reality.
- You will be responsible for the delivery of web applications and web components, deployable on various cloud and on-premises deployment models.
- This is a hands-on development role, where you will be spending the majority of your time on designing, coding, unit, and integration testing.
- Mentor and support team members on technology, technical approach, project execution.
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years experience developing commercial software with a demonstrated increase in project responsibilities.
- Strong experience and knowledge of Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, SPA frameworks (Vue or React or Angular). The interview will include significant coding examples using these technologies.
- Good experience with C# .NET with experience writing microservices in the .NET core environment.
- Deep understanding and experience in API design (using RESTful), including versioning, isolation, documenting for internal and external (commercial) using API documentation frameworks (e.g. Apiary, Swagger)
- Working knowledge of GITOPS, GIT, and Kubernetes based DevOps pipeline
- Proven Experience with AWS API and concepts, Azure or GCP
- Experience with databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
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