by Ronald Barron | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
As a Content Designer on McAfee’s consumer CXD team, you will need to be the voice that guides our users through that most important of goals – protecting themselves and their families. Your ability to clarify what users must do and your skill in writing clear and engaging direction matters
Company Overview
McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.
About the role
- Perform stakeholder interviews to identify and understand user needs and business objectives
- Engage early with Product Designers, Product Owners to co-create a story and vision of an easy to use, intuitive, engaging, and relevant experience
- Write and provide editorial support across a product flow and across all parts of the customer journey
- Collaborate with user researchers to identify the key points of frustration or confusion for users and propose solutions; suggest content options for testing
- Be able to debate the interplay between interaction, words, and visuals, comment, making it easy for the user to achieve a goal
- Be a team player – as part of the Content Design team, learn from each other, review each other’s work and create a consistent and powerful McAfee voice
About you
- Passionate about great storytelling in words, pictures, and what lies in the white space between
- When you look at interfaces, you automatically start identifying strengths, weaknesses, gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities
- Advocate for the user by designing and utilizing content tests and analytics data
- Demonstrated ability to maintain content styles and standards while adapting your writing to different audiences and personas
- A collaborative mindset, open to both giving and getting feedback
- Excellent organization skills and ability to juggle the demands of collaborating with a diverse stakeholder group while meeting deadlines. Able to prioritize
- Some flexibility to work hours that accommodate team members in other time zones
- A strong portfolio of your content design, preferably including Mobile/Desktop UI
Company Benefits and Perks:
We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.
- Pension and Retirement Plans
- Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Support for Community Involvement
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
About the Role
The Design team is the creative force responsible for the Evernote user experience and interface, from sign-up to creating the thousandth note. We work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to define and deliver delightful experiences that enhance people’s lives at work and at play.
As a Product Designer focused on the Capture experience, you will solve the problem of helping people get raw information and ideas out of their minds and out of the world and into Evernote. This includes design for the heart of Evernote, the editing experience, the integration of Calendars, as well as the popular cross-platform Web Clipper product. You’ll directly impact the experience of our mobile and desktop products, evolving existing features and defining transformative new concepts. You’ll also contribute to the global design language, helping to deliver a more coherent experience to tens of millions of users all over the world.
What you will do
- Be a thoughtful voice for our users. Constantly thinking about new and improved use cases and features that will appeal to our users
- Create high level user stories, prototypes, design mockups, specs, and production assets
- Provide and solicit actionable feedback to designers and product work partners to solve problems and move designs forward
- Define innovative user interactions that result in improved user engagement and productivity
- Drive a high level of visual fidelity across products.
- Be nimble. You will be working to define requirements while simultaneously designing for those requirements.
Requirements and Skills
- Experience designing engaging user experiences for web and native apps and familiarity with related design patterns ( i.e. Android [Material Design] and/or iOS [Human Interface Guidelines] )
- Eagerness to take initiative and ownership of projects
- A strong sense of visual/UI design and typography
- Ability to prototype designs in lo-fidelity and hi-fidelity as required
- Ability to define a POV on how design solutions achieve user and business goals; excellent presentation and communication skills
- Experience working closely with other designers, product managers/marketers and developers
- Proven track-record for shipping high quality experiences
- A complete portfolio featuring examples of product design outcomes
- Experience with Figma strongly preferred, but not required
- B.A./B.S. in design, HCI, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of relevant product experience
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
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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by Ronald Barron | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
$ 70,000.00 – 100,000.00 (US Dollar)
About the job Web Designer (B2B)
Blarney Ventures (BV) is an investment holding company with four tech-enabled professional service firms within the portfolio. We are seeking a Web Designer with B2B experience to help revamp our digital presence, including our five websites and corresponding digital assets. This position will contribute to a variety of digital and branding projects, including website design, landing page design, and digital collateral development. This is the perfect opportunity for an entrepreneurial designer that wants to make an impact across an entire portfolio of brands. The ideal candidate will be capable of leading a productive design process from ideation through to publication, and must be able to effectively project manage web projects and ensure on time and on budget delivery.
Essential Functions:
- Lead the design component of five or more websites
- Work with stakeholders to help achieve brand vision across the portfolio
- Liaise with development resources to ensure proper development of websites on the HubSpot CMS
- Develop and implement the process for planning, executing, and delivering our website projects
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in B2B web design and user experience
- Experience HubSpot CMS is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with CSS, HTML, APIs, and other programming languages
- Passion for user experience and digital layout
- Strong understanding of responsive design systems
- Effective problem solver
- Process-driven professional that’s not afraid to roll their sleeves up
- Strong communicator and team player
Package Details
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Work From Home
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
GoDaddy is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work with us to build and maintain our next-generation eCommerce platform in the EMEA region. You will work with several multi-national development teams to help them get their services live and to maintain/grow the platform.
Location
This is position can be based remotely across the East Coast.
What you’ll get to do…
- Implementing new infrastructure components and deploying them in a distributed environment
- Resolving any issues that may arise on the platform
- Working with development teams to deploy new projects from CI/CD to live
- Always looking for ways to optimize the platform and make it more resilient
- Work on migrating the existing infrastructure to AWS
- Mentor junior members of the team
- Assist, where possible, in migrating legacy systems onto the platform
Your experience should include…
- 3+ years experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift
- 3+ years of Linux administration skills, we primarily use CentOS
- 3+ years strong scripting skills (bash, python, etc.)
- 3+ years Experience in using Ansible to manage infrastructure
- Good understanding of CI/CD concepts and version control systems
- Hands-on SQL systems, primarily MySQL
- Experience in building/working with distributed infrastructure and systems
- Good understanding of Networks and firewalls
- Strong alignment to the good security practice
- The ability to work independently and effectively under pressure
You might also have…
- 3+ years Experience with AWS
- Experience with virtualization systems, primarily KVM
Location: ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL
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