Senior Manager, Product Design

by Ronald Barron | Feb 5, 2025 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Senior Manager, Product Design

Location: Remote US

Type: Full-time

Workplace: Remote

Description

Who We Are

Murmuration is a nonprofit organization that amplifies the power of civic engagement by providing data, digital tools, and research-driven insights to community-focused organizations so that together we can create an America where everyone can lead healthy, free, and dignified lives.

Every day, people are trying to shape our future for the better. Fighting for water that’s safe to drink. Schools that serve students equitably. Gun laws that make sense. And rallying people who care like we do. And yet too often the skillful organizers working to mobilize communities lack access to technology that could supercharge their efforts. Knocking on every door instead of knowing which will open most easily. And going up against outside interests that have half the heart, but twice the tools.

In communities across America, Murmuration’s partners are leveraging our data, tools, and insights to help thousands of organizers orchestrate millions of individual people to do big things together. Demand big things together. To create the world they want. Together.

About the Position

As the Senior Manager, Product Design leading the design and user research efforts for Murmuration’s SaaS platform, you’ll work with a talented team to develop the tools that help our partners drive impact in their communities.

You’ll manage, mentor, and coach a team of designers to design delightful and powerful experiences. You’ll lead the development of scalable design systems and operations and drive our user research strategy, ensuring that the voice of our partners is present at every stage of product development. Ultimately, you’ll have helped build the most effective and intuitive platform for advocacy and political organizing.

You’ll join our team of Product Managers and Product Designers developing a family of products across web and mobile – all focused on helping our partners increase civic engagement and create a more equitable future with greater opportunity for everyone.

Note: At Murmuration, we are committed to becoming an even more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. To this end, all staff members are expected to actively participate in DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging) programming.

Job Level: M4

What You’ll Do

Effectively and empathetically lead a team of designers and user researcher(s), balancing capacity across active product initiatives;
Make difficult prioritization judgment calls, leveraging 80-20 thinking to help the team stay laser-focused on the most critical initiatives;

Determine necessary levels of fidelity and points of diminishing returns, being willing to alternately push the team toward rigor or scrappiness based on the situation at-hand;
Develop and iterate on Murmuration’s design strategy to integrate multiple product lines into a unified platform through user experience design;
Supervise and support Murmuration’s user research strategy and execution, ensuring the “voice of the partner” is incorporated at every point in our product development cycle;

Oversee the iterative development of design systems that will stand the test of time, helping us level up our design operations and best practices;
Provide coaching and hands-on-Figma feedback to each designer, ensuring that the standards of user interface and user experience design remain high (and rising);
Collaborate with engineering and product management leadership to develop and iterate on research and development processes that balance speed and rigor;

Streamline and evolve design operations, implementing tools, processes, and workflows that empower the design team to work efficiently while fostering creativity and collaboration across Product and Engineering teams;
Collaborate with designers and user research on each product vertical to ensure that we’re keeping the big picture in mind; the external eye that sees the forest, less distracted by the trees; and
Mentor and empower team members to help them reach their career goals, identifying opportunities to tailor responsibilities, assignments, and training to the areas where each individual is most interested in learning and growing.

Requirements

8+ years of advanced expertise in product design fundamentals, including visual design, UI design, interaction design, prototyping and information architecture;
6+ years of demonstrable experience in designing complex, live, technical products on teams using Agile software development methodologies;
A strong understanding of desktop and mobile design principles, including best practices and inclusive design that consider the holistic user experience;

A strong commitment to user-centric decision making, welcoming both qualitative user research and quantitative data gauging the impact of our products in order to enrich the iterative design process;
Expertise with industry-standard design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Jira, and Miro (or equivalent);
A bias for action and an entrepreneurial mindset: the ability to thrive working in fast-paced climates (e.g., startup or similar);

Experience coaching and mentoring designers with the desire to grow further as a design leader and people manager;
An ability to distill priorities in the midst of valid, competing perspectives – and guide a team to focus and think creatively about how to provide development teams what they need;
Experience implementing and iterating on a complex brand in product design; and

A passion for civic engagement and equitability.

Nice to Haves

Experience with CRMs, political or advocacy campaigns, and/or civic organizing products;
Experience with analytics tools such as Pendo, Mixpanel, Fullstory, Google Analytics, or similar;
Experience with data visualization;
Experience developing visual identity and branding; and/or
Familiarity in behavioral science or analytics (RCTs/experiment design, etc.)

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Staff Software Engineer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 5, 2025 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Staff Software Engineer – IntelliScript (Remote)

Location: Brookfield United States

Job Description:

Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance clients. We’re a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.

Candidates who have their pick of jobs are drawn to IntelliScript’s entrepreneurial and collaborative culture of innovation, excellence, exceptional customer service, balance, and transparency. Every single person has a voice in our company, and we challenge each other to push the outer limits of our full, diverse potential. And we’ve shown sustained growth that ensures you’ll have room to grow your skillset, responsibilities, and career.

Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our website to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact, and sustainability.

What this position entails

IntelliScript’s Information Technology has been a key part of our success and is critical to our future. In this position, you will have responsibility for shaping the ongoing development and enhancement of IntelliScript’s industry-leading software.

You will be asked to assume duties that include back-end development of our extensible clinical data interoperability platform. You will be expected to anticipate when team efforts cross product boundaries and provide guidance when work may add value to the enterprise.

You will also work closely with the development team on front-end technological research and architecture decisions. This role is expected to analyze and provide recommendations to help guide UI development practices and procedures, as well as help define standards and provide guidance on new UI development.

What you’ll be doing

Software development responsibilities, combined with partnership among business teams
Help develop and implement best practices in our integration product
Develop prototypes to evaluate new technologies and consider architectural approaches

Participate in technical design process and code reviews
Bring innovation and ideas to help the team grow and thrive
Mentor and train developers in software development technologies and patterns
Help design standardizations and structure of current and future development projects

Build scalable solutions and infrastructure

What we need

10+ years of experience developing high quality software
Advanced proficiency with Java, Python, SOAP, RESTful Web Services, MySQL, and AWS</li>
Exposure to security standards such as mTLS, SAML, OAuth 2.0, and JWT
Experience with design patterns that use microservices and dependency injection

Strong understanding of integrating software systems
Ability to ramp up quickly on both new and existing technologies
Excellent technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills
Excellent collaborative skills, with strong written and verbal communication
Self-motivated team player who can run with a project and is willing to pitch in as needed

What you bring to the table

Proactive and positive approach to solving problems, and correcting issues

Facilitate collaboration among team members
Demonstrated “let’s find a way to do it” attitude – no task is too big or too small, always willing to pitch in and help someone else
Professional when interacting with clients and colleagues
Detail oriented
Welcomes increased responsibility over time
Loves to learn, takes every opportunity they’re given to develop knowledge and skills
Adapts to an established process, able to move projects along in a timeframe

Wish list

Continued education and/or advanced degree(s)
Experience in environments subject to HIPAA and/or PCI regulations
AWS Certifications
Exposure to Java technologies such as Spring Boot, Hibernate, Gradle, and Liquibase
Experience with React front-end development
Experience with development in Docker containers

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Senior Frontend Developer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 5, 2025 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Senior Frontend Developer

Location: Northbrook United States

Job Description:

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making-and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Front End Developer.

The Senior Front End Web Developer will work with the eCommerce team to implement customer-facing solutions using React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to improve the online shopping experience of Crate and Barrel and CB2 customers. This position requires strong proficiency in UI development as well as close collaboration and communication with Design / UX and product management business stakeholders. Projects primarily are on our customer facing websites.

This role is an Individual Contributor position which can be worked fully remote.

A day in the life as a Senior Front End Developer…

Designing, developing, and implementing solutions using React, HTML, CSS, and Javascript as your tools

Working with Brand Teams, Product teams, QA, Analytics and stakeholders to understand and communicate progress
Conceiving and building responsive and adaptive solutions for website applications
Working on an Agile team to estimate, develop, test, deploy, and maintain, while collaborating with team members on eCom roadmap and backlog, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective

Participating in technical design meetings with other developers and assisting in defining the front end web architecture, code reviews, and unit testing
Adhering to pattern-libraries, style guides, site documentation, SDLC
Coordinating with the front-end development team to ensure adherence to best practices
Optimizing website speed / performance and enhancing SEO

What you’ll bring to the table…

Demonstrated ability building websites using HTML/CSS/Javascript for 5+ years
Excellent knowledge of CSS and Javascript coding best practices
Ability to build responsive, cross-browser, highly-performant, and accessibility compliant applications (ie WCAG)

Knowledge using script framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Node.js)
Proficiency in using built-in browser tools like Chrome Developer Tools
Experience working with testing and personalization tools (e.g. Optimizely and/or Adobe Target experience is a plus).
Experience with bundlers like WebPack
Strong communication skills

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

Experience working with JavaScript, Bootstrap or Foundation along with working with CSS preprocessors (LESS or SASS) or CSS Modules / Styled Components

Experience with JIRA preferred
Retail experience preferred
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, or Visual Communication desired or relatable experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Minimum of 5 years of Front End UI development experience

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Messaging Designer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 4, 2025 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Messaging Designer

Job Category: Marketing

Full-Time
Remote
LocationsRemote West | West
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Remote, USARemote Central
Remote, USARemote Mountain
United States

Job Details

Description

McClatchy Media is seeking a Messaging Designer to play an important role in shaping the visual and messaging strategies that engage our audiences across diverse platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our audience campaigns align with our brand goals and adjust to platform-specific nuances. Your creativity and strategic thinking will be key in communicating with our audiences.

Key Responsibilities:

Help define and drive messaging content strategy across multiple product spaces and teams, ensuring cohesive and effective communication.

Design, coordinate and develop visuals for diverse platforms, including websites, mobile apps, and social media platforms, ensuring consistency and brand alignment and timely and efficient delivery.
Write and customize brand messages to resonate with the interests and preferences of target audiences, enhancing engagement and brand loyalty.
Partner with various departments to ensure messaging systems align with organizational goals.

Prototype design decisions in varying degrees of fidelity, solving complex problems, and testing solutions with customers to ensure effectiveness, then iterating.
Create and manage templates to streamline the production of messaging campaigns, enhancing efficiency and consistency.
Stay up-to-date with design trends, tools, and technologies, incorporating them into design practices to maintain a competitive edge.

Regularly communicate updates with team members and stakeholders through McClatchy Media’s various comms channels (gmail, Slack, gchat)
Create and maintain documentation, including roadmaps and user guides.
Monitor and analyze messaging campaign metrics, including open rates, click-through rates, and conversions, to optimize future campaigns.

Required Skills & Experience:

5+ years of experience in communication design, preferably within a marketing or digital media environment.

Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in visual design and brand communication.
Writes clearly, concisely, and on brand
Proficient in HTML and CSS
Position is full-time, remote

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working in a media company, or a newsroom.
Familiarity with digital product platforms and technologies.
In-depth experience with messaging tools (McClatchy Media currently uses Braze).
Experience working with cross-functional and remote teams.
Experience in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
Experience in coding for various email clients
Able to create responsive designs
Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite programs (Photoshop and Illustrator)

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Technical Program Product Manager III

by Ronald Barron | Feb 4, 2025 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Technical Program Product Manager III

Location: United States

Job Description:

Job ID: 25-07069

Pay rate range – $85/hr. to $90/hr. on W2

100% Remote

seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive forward Analytics

You will develop innovative, robust, and automatic solutions to solve the data challenges in AWS Marketing.

You will own and drive the Analytics roadmap, partnering closely with data engineers, BAs, BIEs, Scientists, and SDEs.

5+ years of technical product or program management experience

Experience working on Analytics and Data projects, working closely working closely with Business Analysts, BIEs, DEs

3+ years of software development or Analytics experience preferred

5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering team experience

Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes,and coordinating release schedules

5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, and quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

Day to Day

Support analytics team

Core Tech PM

Running Scrums

Addressing tickets

Partner with a team who

Someone who will be managing intakes

How to distribute the workload

Exp working with BI Eng. or data analyst

Scrum certification will be good to have but not mandator

About the Role
Title: Technical Program Product Manager III

Location: United States

Job Description:

Job ID: 25-07069