by Ronald Barron | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Upwork
Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We help connect companies large and small with top independent talent from around the world. Simply put, our mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives.
Every year, more than $2 billion of work is done through Upwork by skilled independent professionals who want the freedom of working anytime, anywhere.
The Search & Recommendations team matches talent to opportunities and businesses to talent with the world’s most comprehensive understanding of what makes for successful work. This is powered by our knowledge graph, which goes beyond skills and past work experience; it has the potential to match people to the most personally and financially rewarding opportunities where they can get a leg up in their careers.
The Data Standardization team is building the most extensive knowledge graph of work. Our entities go beyond jobs, titles, skills, and companies into the different types of work and professionals, ranging from individuals to teams.
In this role, you’ll work closely with our ontology, data science, design, analyst, and engineering teams to build experiences that enable talent and hiring managers to easily express their capabilities and needs while also enabling teams throughout Upwork to further leverage the power of search and data science through personalization, recommendations, and experience design.
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation, metrics, and user experience for search and recommendations. This includes the core search experiences in Upwork’s marketplace for both hiring managers and talent, as well as a number of related experiences that further the selection of talent and job opportunities.
- Lead the data standardization team and strategy. This includes the PMs and ontologists responsible for the entire ontology used across Upwork’s marketplace.
- Lead and develop your team of PMs in the art of product management and the science of highly performant, delightful search experiences.
- You’ll deeply understand and seek key trends in the broader landscape and the specific needs and mentalities of customers on both sides of the marketplace.
- Lead and partner with other product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, analyst, ontologists, and product marketers to to execute cross-product and cross-functional initiatives.
- Drive proven results and new insights through continuous quantitative tests across the Upwork ecosystem.
What it takes to catch our eye:
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading highly performant search and recommendation teams
- Experience shipping high quality search and recommendation user experiences: You know how to build simple but effective experiences for complex products and/or data rich platforms
- Experience partnering or ideally leading taxonomy, ontology, or standardization efforts
- A consistent track record of understanding customer needs and working across a variety of functional teams.
- Excellent communication skills: You have a strong executive presence for collaborating with customers, peers, colleagues, and executives. You can distill differing philosophies and approaches down to the essence and corral partners toward alignment. You can succinctly articulate goals, progress, and priorities in written, verbal, and presentation formats.
- Passion for Upwork and a deep appreciation of Upwork’s mission and impact.
- An understanding of ontology, taxonomy, and data models to hold your own during discussions with technical team members.
Come change how the world works.
At Upwork, you’ll shape talent solutions for how the world works today. We are a remote-first organization working together to create exciting remote work opportunities for a global community of professionals. While we have physical offices in San Francisco and Chicago, currently we also support hiring of corporate full-time employees in 15 states in the United States. Please speak with a member of our recruitment team to determine whether you are located in a state in which we are hiring corporate full-time employees.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: TriNet
Job Description
TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR functions to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance, and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and workers’ compensation insurance.
TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you’re passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients’ business success with extraordinary HR
JOB SUMMARY/OVERVIEW
The Manager FP&A Systems reports within the Corporate FP&A team and is responsible for providing application support for TriNet’s financial planning reporting and analysis tools. The person in this position has in-depth knowledge of Hyperion Enterprise Planning, Anaplan, and Tableau. The role is being hired as remote and collaborates with the FP&A team and tech support. This role will also support or lead other critical automation and analysis initiatives including building predictive operational models within Anaplan and reports and dashboards within Tableau.
The Manager FP&A also provides regular support as needed to other Finance-related processes, such as month-end close, post-acquisition finance integration, and other special projects. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr Manager, Corporate FP&A.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as liaison and provide systems support to FP&A and ERP project teams
- Be the Anaplan Solution Architect and Model Builder
- Drive the project track responsible for migrating the FP&A planning cubes from Hyperion to Anaplan.
- Prepare systems for department budget loads and update forecast parameters and business rules
- Design reports and dashboards within financial applications
- Test and troubleshoot FP&A systems and new enhancements to ensure reliability
- Conduct training of FP&A and other personnel on FP&A systems
- Actively support ongoing improvement of TriNet’s financial, planning, and business intelligence systems
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis projects and report preparation as identified by the management team
- Other projects and responsibilities may be added at the manager’s discretion
JOB REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Technology and/or Business Administration
Training Requirements (licenses, programs, or certificates):
- Hyperion, Essbase, Anaplan and/or Tableau
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience supporting technical applications within Financial Planning and Analysis or like experience
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Advanced Hyperion, Essbase, Oracle EPM, Anaplan, and Tableau skills
- The highest standards of accuracy and precision, highly organized!
- Articulate with good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to think creatively, highly driven, and self-motivated
- Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity
- A demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a diverse workplace
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
WORK ENVIRONMENT/OTHER INFORMATION (Travel required, physical requirements, on-call schedules, etc.)
- Travel not required
- Overtime as required during peak periods (up to 25 hours per month)
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position may be performed remotely anywhere within the United States, except the role may not be performed in Colorado or Connecticut.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Iterable
Iterable is a cross-channel platform that powers unified customer experiences and empowers marketers to improve on every interaction taking place throughout the customer journey. With Iterable, brands create individualized marketing touchpoints that earn engagement, solidify trust and galvanize loyal consumer-brand relationships.
Developed for the enterprise, Iterable is built from modern technologies that transform cloud, partner and tool-specific data into integrated, personalized engagements. No matter the audience size or degree of campaign sophistication, Iterable empowers brands to implement where it matters most creating experiences and promoting connections with over 2 billion people world-wide. Leading brands, like Zillow, DoorDash, Calm, Madison Reed, and Box, choose Iterable to power excellent customer experiences throughout the entire lifecycle.
Iterable’s momentum grows daily and there has never been a more exciting time to join the team! We’ve been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work – SF for the past four years, one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado for the past two years, and were named as one of Colorado’s Best Paying Companies! We’ve also been listed on Wealthfront’s Career Launching Companies List for the past two years, rank sixth on the list of Top 25 Companies Where Women Want to Work and hold a top 20 spot among the SaaS 100.
We have a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Denver, and London, and remote employees located all over the world. As we scale, we continue to live by our core four, founding values – Trust, Growth Mindset, Balance, and Humility. To understand the Iterable story, and learn more about our mission, explore our Culture and About Us page.
About the role/team:
We are hiring a Mobile Channel Product Manager to join the Creation and Channels Experience team. The channels conversations occur on are at the heart of our user experience. The Product Team works with our Design and Engineering Teams and lives by user empathy every day. You will work with our teams and directly with our customers to help determine and prioritize product features that have a high impact on Iterable’s business. You will have ownership over a broad product portfolio and associated roadmap, delivering delightful and creative experiences to our customers. This PM role has a large Mobile focus but will touch on other areas of strategic ownership. As a PM, you will dive deep, becoming an expert and driving our Push (mobile and web) and SMS strategy forward. You will oversee strategic mobile integrations, branch into new channels, and develop cross channel features. This is an essential role with the need for a PM to be technically experienced and dive deep with Engineering, CS, and our Solutions team.
You are comfortable around APIs and SDKs, and are also passionate about usability and love to work with design on the user experience and how customers work with our product. It’s important that you want to help Iterable and our customers grow and succeed. You’ll report to the Director of Product, Creation & Channel Experiences.
One of our core values is growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you, please apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.
In this role you’ll get to:
- Contribute to the success of our channels and help us grow and expand channels
- Be the internal “voice of the customer”
- Work with Customer Success, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and other PMs to ship products
- Understand customer personas and use cases to establish product requirements and roll out new features and enhancements
- Build use cases and determine product requirements to roll out new features and enhancements
- Provide ongoing documentation of customer demands and product functionality
- Research industry trends to identify new product features and opportunities
We are looking for people who have:
- Experience working on a B2B SaaS product
- Excel at solving complex technical problems and partnering with engineering to translate customer needs
- Delivered intuitive UI experiences
- Delivered valuable and usable APIs and/or SDKs
- Experience working with agile Engineering teams and tools like Jira
- Experience with user testing and data analysis
- Experience driving decisions based on business and technical data
- Experience working in a shifting environment
Bonus points:
- Familiarity with user growth and engagement strategies
- Experience using data analysis tools (e.g. SQL, Excel, Looker) to bring insights
- Prior work experience in B2B and B2C markets
Perks & Benefits:
- Paid parental leave
- Great compensation packages, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
- Balance Day (First Friday off every month)
- Fertility & Adoption Assistance
- Paid Sabbatical
- Flexible PTO
- Daily lunch allowance
- Monthly Employee Wellness allowance
- Quarterly Professional Development allowance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Complete laptop workstation
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: H&R Block
What you’ll do…
At H&R Block, your contributions will go far beyond any job description. When you join our team, you’ll add to the momentum of a forward-thinking company – one that defined an industry and is now leading its transformation.
You will work as a member of the Machine Learning Lab where expert data scientists and lifelong learners will feel at home and thrive. This team produces impactful results while gaining and creating knowledge along the way. Our purpose is to build persistent data-science models with a production focus for H&R Block.
Data Scientist: Works as a team member to integrate and build meaningful solutions from multiple data sources. Serves as an internal consultant in identifying opportunities to improve decision-making and client experience through the application of AI / ML.
- Consult with internal clients to understand proposed projects. Conduct appropriate analyses to estimate project impacts.
- Design, develop, implement, and continuously improve various production models.
- Deploy and iterate models via CI/CD.
- Identify and anticipate requirements to support current and future modeling efforts.
- Apply appropriate techniques to develop models that support H&R Block clients and business partners.
- Track and improve model performance
- Other duties as assigned
What you’ll bring to the team…
- Advanced degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Operations Research, or other related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Hands-on model development, statistical methodologies, or quantitative analysis experience.
- Experience working with big data, big data platforms & architectures.
- Expertise in Python or R.
- Demonstrated background in developing and monitoring fully productionalized ML solutions.
- Proficient in the application of frequently used ML algorithms.
- Ability to use a systematic approach in solving problems through analysis and evaluation of alternative solutions.
- Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse workgroup.
It would be even better if you also had…
- Expertise in data architectures & data modeling, APIs, and leveraging big data through distributed computing.
- Extreme expertise in a specific analytical technique (e.g., NLP, deep / reinforcement learning).
- Experience working with real-time or near real-time data.
- Understanding software development principles, a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Stage 4 Solutions
We are looking for a Graphic Designer for a global B2B high-tech company. This role will develop and design the aesthetics, visual design and/or layout of product artwork, component design, marketing materials, and packaging to enhance product image.
This is a 12 month (extensions likely), 40 hours per week role. Remote in the US.
This is a w-2 role as a Stage 4 Solutions’ employee. Health benefits and 401K offered.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with project teams to plan, analyze, organize and execute assigned projects. Diagnoses, by meeting with employees, consultants and/or vendors, to assess the effectiveness of product imagery and presentation needs. Manages relationships with external sources relating to design issues.
- Leads information gathering with marketing, sales and other departments to support company-wide creative objectives. Provides creative leadership on issues relevant to technical graphic design. Works with product managers and others as necessary to gain an understanding of technical issues.
- Designing and producing images and layouts that communicate an idea or concept
- Creating and editing layouts using PowerPoint, InDesign, Word, Photoshop, or Illustrator
- Communicating, coordinating, and collaborating with instructional designers, copyeditors, and course developers
Requirements:
- 5+ years of proven graphic designing experience.
- Solid proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat.
- Experience with building courseware, PowerPoint presentations, and InDesign/Word docs based on storyboards and templates.
- Requires knowledge of industry-relevant multimedia software.
- Degree in Graphics Design, Fine Arts, Digital Media (or similar), preferred
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