by Ronald Barron | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Lead UX Designer
Remote US
Full time
Job Description
I. About the Position| Major goals and objectives.
Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith has more than 40 iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. We are building engaging experiences that excite users and amplify the voices of our brands.
We are looking for a User Experience Design Lead to help drive and define the transactional experience and feature set across our portfolio of sites that meet users’ needs and our business goals. In this role, you will craft simple, functional, and elegant experience design solutions based on a deep and empathetic understanding of our users’ needs. Someone who can build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives while simultaneously and vigorously championing the user experience.
In-office Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Birmingham, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Seattle, the expectation is to work from the office three times per month.
As a UX Lead at Dotdash Meredith, you will be responsible for conducting user research, translating business requirements into concrete ideas, and delivering documented design files to engineering teams. You will own the design of our products and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience.
To be successful in this role, we’d expect you to:
- Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users.
- Utilize the design thinking process to achieve business goals and produce user-friendly design solutions.
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate user needs and business requirements into design deliverables such as journey maps, user flows, wireframes, and mockups.
- Build interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
- Cultivate internal knowledge around the design system and the content management system
- Develop and maintain detailed design patterns that scale across several product teams and world-class brands.
- Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
- Help lead our efforts to build accessible digital products (A11y and WCAG), building awareness, and accountability across the rest of our product organization.
II. About the Positions Contributions
Weight %
Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results
50%
User Experience Design
- Use business requirements, qualitative research insights, and quantitative metrics to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications.
30%
Collaborate with Editorial, Design, and Product teams
- Collaborate with UX research operations team on user research studies to validate assumptions, test designs, and understand user data.
- Understand the needs of the business and present design solutions to build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders.
- Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details.
20%
Process Management
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and the broader UX & Design Team to develop and implement process improvements and best practices.
100%
III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience
Experience:
- 1-3 years leading projects, 5-10 years as a UX Designer
Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong user experience skills including user interviews, usability testing, and interaction design.
- Experience designing, planning, and building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Familiarity with atomic design methodology and an interest in the challenges that come with building and maintaining design systems.
- Expertise in UX software such as Figma, Miro, UserZoom, etc.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design, testing methodologies, usability best practices, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus.
- Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the country
- A strong portfolio of work showcasing user-centered design skills and processes.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Creative Designer, Creative Design
ID2024-5760
Category
Global Marketing
Position Type
Full-Time
Country
United States
What you’ll love about this job
- Fully Remote
- Cross Functional Team
- Room for Growth
This is Energizer Holdings, Inc.
Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization – we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
Position Summary
The Designer, Creative Design role will support our mission through the development, design, and execution of digital, printed permanent and promotional merchandising solutions, as well as retail specific assets for our multi branded portfolio that drives brand preference whilst aligning with global brand and product strategies and priorities to drive growth and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Global and area team collaboration
- Brand and Marketing asset execution
- Creates digital, social, print ready displays, in-store signage, tradeshow, and promotional graphics in line with Global and Retailer-specific guidelines
- Coordinates with Project Managers, Lead Designer, Shopper Marketing, Activation and Category Teams to ensure timely execution of retailer initiatives
- Understand, embrace, and execute brand treatment, priority initiatives and communication with emphasis in providing support from development to execution with heavy focus on retail display, in-store merchandising and signage, and promotional materials
- Responsible for the execution of brand and product assets as assigned
- Brand and product print assets include but are not limited to: retailer-specific display graphics, signage, concept mock-ups, digital renders, key visuals, large format tradeshow graphics, banners, and promotional materials
- Digital creative asset development includes but are not limited to: social media ads, paid search ads, native and digital display (static & dynamic)
- Responsible for leading the timely and precise creation of designs from concept through final delivery of print ready mechanical files based on supplied specifications for several types of print production
- Prioritize requests appropriately and manage daily workflow effectively
- Organizing assets, shepherding/traffic to stakeholders, executing asset deployment
- Review files to ensure adherence to established standards before release or delivery
- Collaborate and work closely with other design specialists including but not limited to: lead designers, project managers, production managers, industrial designers, illustrators, retouchers, photographers, etc.
- May also be assigned additional duties as needed
- CPG background preferred
- Design experience with emphasis on in-store merchandising
- Design experience with emphasis on digital with an understanding of best practices
- Strong photo retouching skills
- Experience with a Digital Asset Management system
- Experience with a Project Management system
- Experience with 3D rendering tools a plus
- Experience with motion graphics a plus
- Experience with AI image creation a plus
What we are looking for
- 4-year degree required in Visual Design, Graphic Design, or related field, or equivalent combination of experience and instruction
- High Fluency in Adobe CS (Illustrator & Photoshop a MUST)
- A strong portfolio demonstrating successful delivery and experience designing cross medium aligned with brand guidelines, showcasing excellent design sensibilities such as attention to detail, color, layout, and type hierarchy
- Creative concept skills, category/product research, brainstorming
- Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver on brand
- Understanding of dieline creation, typography, color palettes and processes
- Knowledge of printing processes and technologies and how it affects different substrate materials
- Understanding of print-ready file setup according to supplier specifications
- In-depth understanding and mastery of the print production, pre-press file preparation, and color management processes
- Experience with large-format file creation and image conversion for large scale printing
- Capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously, adhering to tight deadlines
- Strong attention to detail, organization skills, and follow-up abilities
- Proactive and self-directed, capable of taking initiative
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across all professional levels
- Team player mindset, committed to maximizing team and department performance with positive attitude
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Location: Westminster United States
Job Description:
Product Manager
US – Remote (Trimble Pay) USA
Job Description
Your Title: Product Manager
Job Location: Fully remote
Our Department: Trimble Pay
Trimble Pay, A Trimble company is searching for the right person to join our team as a Product Manager. Trimble Pay is changing the way contractors pay and get paid in the $1.2 trillion US construction market. In this role you will be responsible for researching, building, launching, and improving features for our product that service thousands of users every week. Your goal will be to leverage our products to drive customer growth while maintaining an exceptional experience for our current customers in our products.
The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is passionate about understanding and solving customer problems through creative and simplistic software solutions. Strong product management skills and the ability to quickly learn how information and capital flows in the construction industry is a must. Lastly, you need the ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively across departments to deliver exceptional products to our current and future customers.
What You Will Do:
- Work with Trimble Pay leadership team to understand business priorities to refine product strategy and inform roadmap prioritization
- Deeply understand and build empathy for our customers and users by working closely with them to understand their business processes, workflows and associated pain points
- Gather requirements, conduct business analysis and prioritize requirements for current feature enhancements and new feature opportunities within Trimble Pay’s product
- Write detailed requirements and user stories to communicate expected functionality with the development and QA teams
- Create prototype designs to ensure we deliver high quality user experiences for current and new features
- Work alongside our Engineering Team to drive the development of initiatives, clearly defining and communicating prioritization and the tactical plan
- Act as the primary point of contact to the Engineering Team as it relates to your product initiatives to ensure features are understood, questions are answered, and quality is maintained throughout the feature development and launch lifecycle
- Groom backlog, actively participate in sprint planning sessions, and proactively monitor progress throughout engineering sprints to ensure work is progressing on schedule
- Coordinate with the Customer Success and Support Teams to identify potential product defects and execute on customer enhancement requests
- Establish and ensure adherence to a clear process for prioritization and delivery, and improve the process over time based on feedback from stakeholders
- Work cross functionally with Success, Support, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure new features are promoted, adopted, and internal team members are trained on the value of new features
- Track adoption and usage of new and existing features to continuously improve upon product experience and functionality
- Work with other Trimble product teams and external partners to create best-in-class integrations to add value for customers
What Skills & Experience You Should Bring:
- 5+ years experience in product management, with B2B SaaS Experience
- Direct experience with Agile product development processes, including SCRUM or other Sprint-based development processes
- The ability to write quality user stories and acceptance criteria are key skills needed
- Experience creating prototype designs and user flows within brand standards
- Experience working cross functionally with engineering, design, and QA
- Strong data analysis capability and a proven track record of leveraging data to drive decisions
- Experience with middleware\iPaaS integration solutions to assist in messaging and mapping across data models
- Technical experience working in B2B integrations using a variety of technologies such as APIs
- Self starter- ability to dive into complex projects and to figure out solutions to unexpected problems with minimal oversight
- Continual learner – always looking to learn and grow in knowledge on technical and industry specific topics
- Customer-centric – ability to deeply understand customer pain points, and translate them into opportunities that provide measurable value
- Strong collaborator – great written and verbal communication skills and stakeholder management are a must for this role
- Team centric – excellent ability to align cross-functional teams to collaborate and deliver on an operating plan
- Business-minded – innate understanding of how your work impacts the business as a whole and moves us towards our objectives
- Experience using tools such as: Jira, Figma, and Pendo is a plus
- A plus, but not required: construction finance and/or invoicing and payment software experience
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Information Security Analyst
Location:
US-Remote | US-VA-Arlington | US-DC | US-NC-Chapel Hill | US-IL-Chicago | US-MA-Waltham
Category
Security Engineering
Job Description:
Overview
Work for a first-class institution that is innovative, multi-dimensional, and dynamic by joining AIR as a Senior Information Security Analyst.
We hire talented and forward-thinking professionals to build our cross-functional teams and support our clients in solving complex problems. Our people—problem-solvers, changemakers, and creative thinkers—are experts in their craft who rise to meet today’s challenges.
The Senior Information Security Analyst will play an integral role in delivering on some of the most meaningful projects in communities across the United States and the world. You’ll collaborate with our teams of motivated and passionate visionaries, where your input will be valued and your contributions vital to our success.
AIR’s Information Security Office is seeking a motivated Senior Information Security Analyst to join the Information Security team. In this role, you will be part of the security team responsible for coordinating, planning, and organizing information security activities throughout the institution. We are seeking a security professional with practical experience in all phases of security assessment and authorization, particularly in federal agency work. You will perform internal audits of a full range of information security controls and help AIR maintain compliance with both internal and external security requirements. You will lead continuous monitoring compliance and third-party risk management activities to maintain an effective security posture, safeguard AIR’s information technology assets, and ensure alignment with relevant compliance frameworks. If you are excited to be part of a winning team and want to roll up your sleeves and work on leading-edge information security work, this role is for you. This position reports to the Head of Information Security.
Periodic travel will be required to attend in-person events and meetings, attend industry conferences, meet with clients, and visit AIR offices, etc. based on business needs.
We value the experiences of every member of our institution, from entry level to executive. As part of our collaborative, learning-oriented team, you’ll be encouraged to grow in your career, develop additional skills, and progress professionally.
About AIR:
Established in 1946, with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, AIR is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance to solve some of the most urgent challenges in the U.S. and around the world. We advance evidence in the areas of education, health, the workforce, human services, and international development to create a better, more equitable world.
AIR’s commitment to diversity goes beyond legal compliance to its full integration in our strategy, operations, and work environment. At AIR, we define diversity broadly, considering everyone’s unique life and community experiences. We believe that embracing diverse perspectives, abilities/disabilities, racial/ethnic and cultural backgrounds, styles, ages, genders, gender identities and expressions, education backgrounds, and life stories drives innovation and employee engagement.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities for the position include:
Essential job functions include but are not limited to-
- Execute internal controls assessments for AIR web applications, secure data enclaves, general support systems, and other key systems to support internal and external client security requirements.
- Perform continuous monitoring activities to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
- Assist with the development and maintenance of security authorization package deliverables that include the system security plan, risk assessment, contingency plan, configuration management, system design, and privacy impact threshold/assessment documents.
- Perform and support third-party risk assessments and risk monitoring activities, including vetting new software and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases.
- Oversee the remediation of findings utilizing standard Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) processes resulting from both internal and external security controls assessment, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing.
- Support annual contingency plan and incident response testing for AIR’s federal agency work.
- Analyze and respond to vulnerability and application assessment reports.
- Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Education, Knowledge, and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience in information security.
- The qualified candidate must be a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or have at least 5 years of equivalent system auditing experience.
- At least 2 years of experience with assessing cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google).
- At least 5 years of relevant experience with NIST Special Publications 800-53 and 800-171.
- The candidate should be able to obtain a Level 6C Security clearance (Public Trust Position).
- Proven expertise in security best practices and hands-on experience in implementing IT security systems, processes, and procedures.
- Extensive knowledge of native cloud security and compliance capabilities and frameworks.
- Proven knowledge of emerging technology trends, including AI governance and risk management.
Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical internal clients, understanding their needs and requirements.
- Strong communication skills to seamlessly collaborate with technical teams, security/risk stakeholders, and individuals at all levels and from diverse backgrounds in a virtual work environment.
- Exhibited ability to work well independently, and collaboratively as needed, while prioritizing multiple objectives and projects to consistently meet established timelines.
- Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to read, analyze and leverage security logs and other diagnostic evidence related to quality control.
- Proficient in utilizing standard Microsoft 365 tools, including OneDrive, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Web Designer
About Remote
Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!
The position
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Web Designer, joining our Brand Design team.
Requirements
- Related experience in web design. Experience working in-house for a single brand is not required but is considered a plus.
- A solid understanding of design iteration with a willingness to experiment, evaluate, and learn.
- A strong portfolio showcasing a good grasp of simplicity, typography, and interactions.
- Ability to support and help maintain our Design System, working collaboratively with other Brand designers.
- A kind, empathetic, and patient demeanor.
- Someone who enjoys collaborating with others and solving problems together.
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Experience working remotely is not required but considered a plus.
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to improving the overall user experience by designing intuitive interfaces.
- Collect feedback from users and stakeholders to make informed design improvements.
- Assist in identifying needs for each design phase.
- Collaborate on design-related topics for the Remote website.
- Design with an understanding of how a CMS tool functions.
- Produce pages and assets for our website, participating actively in all project phases from design through implementation to ensure requirements are met.
- Design interactive flows and engagement pieces of content, focusing on creating user-friendly and functional designs.
- Help organize and address the needs, challenges, and requests from other teams.
- Support the improvement of existing design solutions and contribute to the evolution of our brand language.
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