by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
VP, Engineering
United States
Engineering – Engineering /
Full-Time Exempt /
Remote
WHO WE ARE
SQUIRE is the leading business management system designed for the needs of barbers, shop owners, and their communities. We believe the pursuit of artistry and autonomy should not be restricted by the complexities of running a business. With SQUIRE, we provide custom-branded tools, resources, and guidance to help barbers of all stages and experience levels attract and retain more customers, efficiently manage their shop operations, and increase their revenue.
Founded in 2015, SQUIRE is trusted by barbers in 4,000+ shops in more than a thousand cities around the globe. From streamlined booking and opening new shops to real-time earning dashboards and building lasting customer relationships, SQUIRE supports shop owners in seamlessly bridging the gap between their personal craft and business goals. SQUIRE enables barbers everywhere to unlock their full potential both as artists and as entrepreneurs.
For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the SQUIRE app from the App or Play Store.
SUMMARY
The Vice President of Engineering will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our technology and product development. This individual will be responsible for shaping the technical vision, strategy, and execution of our engineering department while driving innovation and ensuring scalability, performance, and customer satisfaction. The VP of Engineering will collaborate closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
REPORTS TO
Chief Product & Technology Officer
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties and responsibilities outlined above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned from time to time based on business needs.
- Develop, articulate, and drive the execution of a comprehensive technical roadmap that supports SQUIRE’s strategic goals, incorporating feedback from cross-functional stakeholders to ensure engineering efforts remain laser-focused on delivering customer value and driving market differentiation
- Provide regular status updates and strategic recommendations to the executive leadership team, anticipating challenges and identifying opportunities for innovation or competitive advantage
- Lead and manage a diverse engineering team, including offshore and nearshore teams of developers working with React, React Native, Node.js and other modern technologies
- Lead the engineering team in delivering scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions that meet current and future business needs
- Direct initiatives for the modernization of legacy systems and accelerate the delivery of new product capabilities
- Establish and enforce best practices in software development, architecture, and operational excellence
- Implement generative AI to accelerate development of code
- Ensure that the technical and payments architecture supports scalability, performance, and reliability as SQUIRE grows
- Work closely with the Director, Product Management and Director, Product Design to ensure seamless integration of technical capabilities with product vision and user experience
- Collaborate with Product Leaders to define clear acceptance criteria, delivery timelines, and post-launch success metrics
- Collaborate with leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to understand evolving customer requirements and market shifts; offer technical insights that help refine go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and customer onboarding
- Establish a high-performance engineering culture rooted in curiosity, continuous improvement, and open communication
- Mentor and guide engineering managers and technical leaders, enhancing team productivity, engagement, and performance
- Develop formal career pathways, rotation programs, and succession plans to nurture future leaders.
REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven success as a senior engineering leader, with 15+ years of progressive experience, including 8 years or more leading large engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale initiatives with a focus on speed and agility without compromising quality
- A track record of building and scaling consumer-facing products that deliver exceptional user experiences, especially on mobile devices
- Deep expertise in modern engineering practices, including cloud infrastructure, microservices, and scalable system design
- Strong technical foundation, with deep knowledge of modern full-stack development practices, architectures, and tools, including JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Node.js, React.js) and mobile development frameworks (React Native)
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to lead through periods of change and a track record of building and nurturing high-performing, inclusive teams
- Ecommerce, FinTech or Payments experience preferred
- B2C or B2B2C experience preferred
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Agile Business Analyst
Job Description:
Responsibilities for this Position
Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ193662
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Functional Experts
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, User Experience (UX), Writing User Stories
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented candidate to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO) in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all U.S. district and appellate courts’ staff members and external stakeholders. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.
The Business Analyst will execute the following responsibilities:
- Elicit and capture business requirements in an Agile software development environment (including but not limited to consulting with product owners, customers, key stakeholders, or end users).
- Document and manage acceptance criteria, business rules, requirement documents, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Work closely with Product Owners to prioritize user stories, perform user research, user centered design and usability testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Utilize UI/UX and Human Centered Design (HCD) concepts to design and implement technical solutions that meets business needs.
- Decompose Epics into detailed functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Participate in the development, testing and refinement of Project Backlog Stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners.
- Facilitating the team in developing acceptance criteria for user stories and demonstrate product demos to the client.
- Document standard operating procedures (SOP) and maintaining the release information radiator for the team.
- Develop process flow, wireframes, high and low fidelity mockups, and dependency diagrams to show dependencies between user stories, visualize the flow of work, and identify bottlenecks and critical paths.
- Support the testing team to ensure the system is aligned with the vision of the business teams.
- Review and maintain documentation for distribution, including project and process documentation, instructional materials, user guides, training manuals, and online content in content authoring tools (i.e., RoboHelp).
- Support and conduct user interviews, group workshops, and surveys as required to develop detailed functional and technical requirements.
- Conduct business process analysis, workflow analysis, and business process re-engineering.
- Provide technical assistance and guidance through performing gap analyses, workflow analysis, Analysis of Alternative (AoA) studies, business process modeling, wireframes, and storyboards.
- Deliver technical briefings and hosting meetings to diverse audiences.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 5+ years of experience (or master’s degree plus 4+ years) in supporting the product owner and agile team, eliciting business needs, maintaining user stories in the backlog, writing, and maintaining technical documentation, modeling business processes and system requirements, architecture, and data.
- Experience with at least one enterprise software development project within the past three years.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments, processes, and practices.
- Experience assisting with testing, by writing acceptance criteria and confirming test cases result.
- Experience with producing relevant and current requirements, sizing user stories correctly, and removing roadblocks prior to sprints starts.
- Ability to handle a fast-paced Agile software development environment.
- Experience using Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Ability to develop & decompose Epics, Features, and User Stories.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and be effective at communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong problem-solving capacity in a highly visible and mission critical environment.
- Strong articulation, listening, and communication skills required for interaction with diverse audiences and self-forming teams.
- Adaptable ability to perform independently and within a team.
- Energetic, goal oriented, detailed oriented, proactive, innovative, hardworking, and patient.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Understanding of database design, SQL Techniques, and perform database queries.
- Experience in Adobe XD, Visio, Figma and usability testing tools.
- Knowledge of user experience (UX) and Human centered design (HCD) processes and methodology.
- Experience with Interaction Design, interaction modeling, and mental modeling.
- Creating user scenarios, user flow, low fidelity, and high-fidelity wireframes.
- Skills in wireframing and/or prototyping tools and methodologies.
- Experience on UX strategy, user researcher, user interviews, surveys, and usability study. Builds personas, user journey map, empathy maps.
- Experience on UX analysis to conduct competitive analysis, market assessments and heuristic evaluations.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Channel Sales Engineer
United States – Remote
Job Summary
Channel Sales Sales Engineer
Job Description
Ready for an opportunity to make a substantial impact with a disruptive tech company while building your pre-sales career? Rubrik, Inc. has an amazing product, a supercharged team and the financial backing of Lightspeed Ventures, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures. Bottom line, if you have limitless drive and like to win, we want to talk to you!
Rubrik is looking for a Channel Sales Engineer to cover key regional and national partners in the central US. As a Sales Engineer you are accountable for regional revenue goals by driving innovative technical programs and overseeing day-to-day account-level activities. You will be responsible for evangelizing, positioning, and architecting the industry’s first hyper-converged hybrid cloud data management platform for a mix of mid-market and small business customers throughout your region.
About the position:
- Provides technical leadership and direction to customers and internal staff in the development of fully integrated technology solutions in support of pre-sales activities in the assigned market.
- Assists in the analysis, design and development of fully integrated technology solutions.
- Demonstrates technical leadership and subject matter expertise on Rubrik’s products, distributed architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the SAN product space.
- Acts as technical expert and consultant to develop and propose solutions that meet the technology and business requirements of assigned customers.
- Makes technical and sales presentations and demonstrations to our channel partners’ and customers’ technical staff and senior management.
- Serves as a trusted technology advisor to customers and serves as an internal resource on technical issues or specific business applications within an assigned market segment.
- Successfully builds relationships with the account team, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives and engages and leverages corporate resources, abilities, budgets and personnel as appropriate.
- Leads technical sales calls
- Qualifies sales opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding.
About you:
- 2+ years of sales engineering experience preferably in a software or data center environment.
- Driven – need for success, highly energetic with a strong hands-on, “can do” approach.
- The successful candidate must have a fundamental breadth of technical knowledge in cloud data management, backup and disaster recovery and data analytics.
- Entrepreneurial – willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful, “get it done” attitude
- Strives in moving in a fast-paced environment; including handling multiple calls/demos per day with immediate follow up.
- A high level of business acumen and experience working with Cx0 level personnel, bringing technology solutions to solve business challenges.
- Smart, adaptable and open-minded
- Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Survey Research Project Manager – Remote
Location: Eden Prairie MN US
Job Description:
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Optum Value and Evidence Solutions (VES) is a leading provider of health economics and outcomes research and consulting to help customers realize the full potential of their brands. As an international organization that counts among its customers most of the top 20 biopharmaceutical companies in the world, Optum VES has a world-class reputation in consulting, econometrics, and outcomes research. We are seeking high-energy, driven team members who thrive in a fast-paced environment. We offer access to some of the largest secondary data assets available for outcomes research and the resources of our parent company to drive unique data and research opportunities.
We are seeking a skilled Survey Research Project Manager to join our team and support Primary Data Collection studies with pharmaceutical customers. This role involves leading project teams, managing timelines and budgets, developing survey instruments and chart abstraction forms, managing vendors, and managing contracts for studies that are designed to improve patient outcomes. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, skilled at building relationships and experienced at succeeding in a matrixed organization.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Plan, organize and manage all aspects of assigned clinical and non-clinical research activities on behalf of Optum Life Sciences
- Lead and manage the efforts and performance of all project team members and vendors to execute all project activities according to project milestones and timelines in a manner consistent with the Optum Life Sciences and project-specific processes
- Assist in ensuring project implementation per the study contract and client expectations
- Develop, maintain and communicate project timelines and status reports with external clients, internal project team members, key functional departments, vendors, and external consultants
- Lead development and ensure quality assurance of study deliverables from project inception to completion, including site feasibility reports, study protocols, data collection instruments (e.g. survey instruments, case report forms, chart abstraction forms), chart abstraction manuals, training materials, Institutional Review Board and Privacy Board submissions, investigator and subject recruitment materials, data analysis, and final reports
- Lead and execute assigned project activities including vendor selection, contracting and management, regulatory submissions, and data management
- Provide input into site recruitment, selection, contracting, and management
- Schedule, attend, and take notes for client meetings. Assist project director with meeting materials and meeting follow-up as needed
- Proactively help the project director to anticipate, recognize, and resolve client needs
- Schedule and take notes for internal team meetings. Co-lead meetings with project director and prepare meeting materials and meeting follow-up as needed
- Track, report, and manage invoicing and revenue for assigned projects. Perform budget and resource forecasting to ensure project goals are achieved according to client and Optum Life Sciences expectations
- Contribute methodological and technical expertise in the design, implementation, analysis and reporting of prospective research studies
- Contribute to proposal teams to develop competitive proposals that can be delivered to meet timeline, quality and financial expectations of Optum Life Sciences and prospective clients
- Act as primary contact for study team members, key functional departments and vendors for project questions. Function as liaison between external clients and Optum Life Sciences. Serve as back up or stand-in for next level of management when required
- Provide project support, performance management, and career development guidance to direct reports (if applicable)
- Identify, lead and contribute to the development of standard operating procedures, training, and infrastructure activities for Optum Life Sciences
- Maintain communication with Business Development to discuss contract amendments and changes to the scope of work for assigned projects
- Anticipate, recognize and resolve issues. Recognize the need to seek assistance or inform senior management of specific issues
- Function appropriately and effectively within the matrix management system to assure project priorities and functional line considerations are aligned
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years relevant project management experience
- Demonstrated experience in project management tasks (e.g., work plans, financial budgets, timelines, status reports, issue management, resource and personnel management)
- Experience working on a team across multiple functional areas (e.g., work with quality assurance, data management, legal, Institutional Review Boards, Privacy Boards, finance)
- Experience with study database design, implementation, and maintenance
- Solid knowledge of observational research design and methodology. Knowledge of Human Subjects Protection, Good Clinical Practice/ICH Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook)
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead project teams
- Demonstrated success in meeting project time, quality and financial targets in matrix organizations
- Proven excellent communication, relationship building and interpersonal skills
- Proven excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask
- Proven established ability to work both independently and as part of a cross-functional team
- Ability to travel (little to no travel)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or related certification
- Experience in clinical or non-clinical research involving primary data collection
- Experience managing 3rd party data collection vendors
- Experience with MS Project and/or Project Management programs (e.g. Workday, Smartsheet)
- Experience with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Library Project Manager
Full-Time
About BDI
The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying the groundwork for longer-term to bridge the divides we face as a nation.
We do this by 1) producing action-oriented and responsive research to fill existing gaps and empower local leaders; 2) enabling cross-sector collaboration, so individuals and organizations are better prepared to mitigate risk and respond to crisis when it does arise; and 3) helping to drive the policy and community response. Over the past four years, BDI played an essential role in supporting a wide range of actors preparing for and responding to political violence and democratic crisis. Our data, analysis, and tools continue to help a diverse coalition of national and local decision-makers better target their interventions. BDI is based at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), co-hosted by the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC).
Position Overview
BDI is launching and maintaining Political Violence Data and Analysis Libraries — for internal staff, partners, and external users — to provide a centralized, accessible hub for political violence and conflict data and analysis in the US. These libraries will streamline access to critical resources, help identify emerging trends and data gaps, and support the broader mitigation ecosystem. The libraries will provide centralized and searchable repositories of datasets, reports, and analysis products. The public library will be launched in 2025 and will be embedded on the BDI website.
We are seeking a highly motivated Library Project Manager to lead this initiative. As the primary steward of the library, you will manage its design, organization, and ongoing operations while serving as a key resource for BDI staff, partners, and stakeholders. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape a resource that will advance critical efforts to address political violence. Your work will create a dynamic service hub, ensuring increased access to data and analysis to help the entire violence mitigation ecosystem get ahead of and respond to risk.
The Library Project Manager will be a member of the BDI Research Team – currently a ten-person team working across multiple projects including Understanding Threats and Harassment Against Local Officials, Building and Modeling Structures for Early Warning, and Political Violence Data and Analysis Library. This role will lead the library portfolio and will report to the Deputy Research Director.
This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 1-year term position with a possibility of extension. Work must be performed within the United States and is fully remote.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Library Development and Management
- Design, organize, and maintain the digital library infrastructure using platforms such as Google Sites and Drive.
- Oversee the launch of the public library. This includes managing project timelines, developing and overseeing reporting mechanisms, monitoring and evaluating progress, and aligning resources.
- Regularly update resources, maintain documentation, and ensure user accessibility.
- Identify and fill gaps in data and analysis products to enhance the library’s utility via active engagement with the broader data ecosystem, including BDI partners.
External Engagement, Partnership Management, and Information Requests
- Serve as the primary point of contact for information requests, providing real-time support to deliver custom analysis and quick, accurate answers to pressing questions and concerns from community partners by managing BDI partnerships.
- Provide training sessions, user guides, and support to help stakeholders effectively navigate library resources.
- Collaborate with civil society organizations, policymakers, and researchers to align the library with their needs.
Research and Data Management
- Develop and help task reports, presentations, policy memos, and other action-oriented research products in collaboration with the rest of the BDI research team. This includes collaborating on pitch-decks and other strategic organizational documents on behalf of senior team members.
- Facilitate the production of rapid-response memos and issue briefs to help stakeholders act on key developments by managing tasking and following up on short-term, time-sensitive projects, rapid-response requests, and special issues.
- Identify emerging trends, gaps, and alternative analysis methods in collaboration with the research team, by performing and facilitating data and research validation.
Project Management and Team Leadership
- Develop workflows and manage timelines for library-related projects.
- Supervise direct reports, delegating tasks and providing feedback, as needed.
- Monitor library usage metrics and identify opportunities for system improvements.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field
- 5+ years of experience in research, policy, community engagement, or related role
- Strong project management experience, including developing workflows, managing timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams
- Experience managing digital libraries, information systems, or data pipelines
- Research experience focused on the U.S. political violence landscape, especially in identifying relevant conflict trends and early warning indicators
- Familiarity with ACLED or other political violence data sources and their methodologies
- Familiarity with working with quantitative data sources and interpreting methodologies, taxonomies, etc.
- Proficiency in data analysis, including the ability to manage, analyze, and visualize data using tools and platforms
- Ability to think strategically and creatively around quantitative and qualitative data, including identifying new/emerging trends, gaps, and alternative analysis methods
- Excellent writing abilities, especially experience writing policy-focused memos, recommendations, or reports
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and engage external partners from diverse backgrounds and in a remote work setting
- Interest in and commitment to supporting civil society efforts to address political violence in the U.S., including working with partner organizations across diverse political affiliations, geographies, and sectors
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, including proactivity and agility in response to potential early warning indicators
Preferred
- Master’s degree in a relevant field
- Experience translating research into actionable recommendations for policy or practitioner audiences.
- Knowledge of data analytics for monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
- Experience working on a remote team, including familiarity with relevant work tools (e.g. Slack, Zoom, Asana, etc.)
- Experience using Tableau and R for data management and analysis
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