by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
YouTube Content Strategist
Remote • Full Time • Experienced
Reports to: Content Marketing Director
Location: 100% remote, USA-based only
Company Summary
Publishing.com empowers individuals from all walks of life to generate meaningful income streams through book publishing. As a leading online education platform, we specialize in guiding our students through the processes of writing, publishing, and selling books and audiobooks on major platforms like Amazon and Audible. We are thrilled to announce that Publishing.com has been recognized as the 19th fastest-growing private company in America for 2023, according to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list. Over the past two years, we’ve experienced an incredible 30% year-over-year growth and expanded our team by 500%. Recently, we hit a major milestone by helping 60,000+ students through our programs.
Our mission is to become the premier destination for all publishing-related needs. In line with this vision, we are excited to announce the launch of our latest innovation, Publishing.ai, a software designed to revolutionize the publishing industry further. This year marks a significant milestone in our journey toward achieving our goal, as we continue to expand our offerings and support our community of publishers.
About The Role
Publishing.com seeks a highly skilled and experienced full-time YouTube Content Strategist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of experience managing and growing YouTube channels. They will also have a proven track record of managing YouTube channels, developing content strategies, and driving measurable growth for the business. This role is pivotal in our mission to educate, inspire, and connect with a wider audience of authors, providing them with valuable content on self-publishing and more.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a comprehensive long-form video content strategy for YouTube that aligns with company goals and audience interests and, ultimately, drives sales
- Work closely with the video editors, content creators, and subject matter experts to produce high-quality, engaging, and educational video content
- Create concepts and new video ideas regularly to maximize channel growth and reach target key performance indicators
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the YouTube channel, including video uploads, SEO optimization, audience engagement, and performance analysis
- Be available to facilitate and help direct remote recordings with on-camera talent and ensure they are set up with the appropriate equipment and technology
- Collaborate with the marketing, content, and design teams to create video content that supports our self-publishing courses, brand initiatives, and community growth
- Work with a team of content writers to develop video scripts
- Partner with video editors to create short-form video content that can be shared across other channels for promotion (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube shorts)
- Conduct keyword research and implement best practices for YouTube SEO to maximize video discoverability and reach
- Optimize video titles, descriptions, tags, and thumbnails to improve discoverability on YouTube and conduct routine audits to update based on changing search trends
- Monitor and analyze channel performance, providing regular reports and insights to optimize content and improve audience retention and growth
- Stay updated on YouTube trends, algorithm changes, and video content best practices to keep the channel competitive and innovative
- Update channel branding based as needed to remain consistent, including cover images, logos, video intros/outros
- Partner with the Community Manager, Social Media to engage with subscribers, respond to comments, and foster an online community
Requirements
- Minimum five years of experience managing and growing YouTube channels
- Proven experience in driving channel growth, increasing viewership, and improving audience engagement through data-driven strategies
- Deep understanding of YouTube SEO and platform algorithms
- Experience in analyzing and interpreting YouTube data to make strategic recommendations
- Experience in managing projects from start to finish, working with timelines, talent, and production teams to make sure every deadline is hit and every piece of content is polished
- Experience in developing and executing content calendars and marketing strategies for video platforms
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with various teams
- Creative mindset with a passion for storytelling, education, and video production
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Product Designer
Remote • Full Time • Experienced
Company Summary
Publishing.com empowers individuals from all walks of life to generate meaningful income streams through book publishing. As a leading online education platform, we specialize in guiding our students through the processes of writing, publishing, and selling books and audiobooks on major platforms like Amazon and Audible. We are thrilled to announce that Publishing.com has been recognized as the 19th fastest-growing private company in America for 2023, according to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list. Over the past two years, we’ve experienced an incredible 30% year-over-year growth and expanded our team by 500%. Recently, we hit a major milestone by helping 60,000+ students through our programs.
Our mission is to become the premier destination for all publishing-related needs. In line with this vision, we are excited to announce the launch of our latest innovation, Publishing.ai, a software designed to revolutionize the publishing industry further. This year marks a significant milestone in our journey toward achieving our goal, as we continue to expand our offerings and support our community of publishers.
About The Role
Publishing.com is seeking a Senior Product Designer to build the future of our software, Publishing.ai. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team of product designers, product managers and engineers to design, build and ship a revolutionary tool in the self-publishing space.
Publishing.ai aims to become the one-stop shop for everything self-publishing related. What would have traditionally taken months and thousands of dollars to do using existing tools, you are able to do within the matter of hours using our software. Imagine being able to write a full length book in less than 24 hours. Over the next three years, we have plans to incorporate all the other functions of self publishing as part of our product offerings: this includes, book cover creation, image generation, book formatting, sales analytics, language translations, audiobook creation and more! We are looking for a strong senior product designer to join our team and bring this vision to life.
We’re looking for someone who is comfortable (and thrives) leading the end-to-end design process. Someone who loves Design and ships beautiful product experiences, putting the customer experience at the forefront of their mind. You understand the complexities of combining AI + great UX and are excited about the future of generative AI unlocks. You are meticulous about details, make data-backed design decisions, and most importantly love shipping fast.
In this role, You will be collaborating with senior stakeholders to ship features that align with business goals, and deliver on an amazing customer experience. This is a unique opportunity to influence the direction of a cutting-edge AI-driven product from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Designing simple and intuitive user experiences that skillfully integrate the complexities of generative AI, ensuring it enhances and supports the overall design. You should be great at making complex things simple.
- Thinking through user flows and planning how they will integrate into the rest of the platform, ensuring a seamless and cohesive user experience.
- Owning and building the UX strategy with a holistic approach, applying best practices that impact the entire product, including the development and maintenance of design systems.
- Translating well-thought-out UX into polished, high-fidelity designs that reflect the high standards of visual and interaction design, making our product comparable to leading platforms like Canva, Notion, and Slack.
- Crafting intuitive interactions while balancing attention to detail with a strategic view of scalability, ensuring polished, adaptable, and user-centered designs.
- Leveraging in-depth user research initiatives to uncover user needs, behaviors, and opportunities, and validating design solutions through qualitative and quantitative testing.
- Collaborating closely with Product Managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure high-quality implementations across web and mobile experiences (mobile will be 0-1).
- Clearly communicating design rationale through documentation, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Establishing, maintaining, and operating a design system that ensures consistency and cohesion across all projects.
- Continuously enhancing and improving the UX design strategy based on industry trends, feedback, and experimentation.
- Rapid ideation of multiple design concepts and prototypes to explore different solutions.
- Spearhead and document design team processes that allow the team to operate more efficiently and effectively across all stages of the product design lifecycle
- Collaborating with developers to reach high-quality implementations across the web and mobile experiences.
- Measuring the success of your decisions with the team and iterating when needed.
What We Expect From You
- Continually enhance and improve the UX design strategy from start to finish, ensuring designs meet user, technical, and business requirements.
- Every design decision is intentional and informed by data and qualitative user feedback.
- You know when it’s time to move fast or slow down, balancing between fast scrappy designs and meticulous planning.
- You are detail-oriented and care about consistent, clean designs that align with the overall product strategy.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in UX design and generative AI, particularly those that drive product-led growth.
- You validate your designs with user testing and incorporate feedback effectively.
- Iterate and drive experimentation through design, using user feedback to continuously improve the product.
- Give and receive regular feedback in design critiques to improve product and web experiences.
- You are an excellent communicator who can clearly articulate design concepts, strategies, and feedback to all stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of design experience as a product designer, ideally with B2C software with a freemium to paid product model.
- Experience owning the design process of a product from discovery, to lo-fi, mid-fi and high-fi.
- Preference to candidates that have built/ designed AI products.
- Ideally, you also have experience designing mobile apps / mobile experiences, especially 0-1.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to design experiences that connect users to product value and meet high standards of polish and interaction design.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, adapting to changing priorities while maintaining the quality of your work.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially when working with cross-functional teams in a remote environment.
- No ego and someone who always strives to learn more.
- Strong experience with Figma and other design tools.
- Experience with usability testing tools.
- Experience working in a fully remote team environment and participating in all scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, planning meetings, and refinement sessions.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Head of Product
- Remote
- Full Time
- Product Development
- Senior Manager/Supervisor
This is a remote position
AAPC is looking for an innovative, driven leader with a track record of success in product development and management.
This role will establish and lead a newly created division at AAPC, responsible for driving the overall product strategy and management of a diverse product portfolio while actively engaging in product development processes, demonstrating a hands-on approach to managing product strategy, development, and execution.
The new division will centralize product management responsibilities that have traditionally been distributed across multiple departments within the company. Its leader will be accountable for unifying these efforts under a singular vision, ensuring alignment within the organization and delivering best-in-class solutions that create tremendous value to AAPC’s broad range of customers—from individual healthcare professionals to multinational organizations. The ideal candidate is a player/coach, who will work directly alongside their team to ensure initiatives are carried through to completion, without hesitation to contribute at any level of detail required.
AAPC’s products encompass a wide spectrum of offerings – from membership, education, and certification to physical products, SaaS, and professional services. The ideal candidate will have a comparably broad background of product experience spanning D2C/B2C/B2B, coupled with a successful history of scaling an expansive span of products across various roles, organization types, and geographies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establishing a New Product Division:
- Lead the formation of a dedicated product division, consolidating and streamlining product-related responsibilities that have historically been managed by various other departments.
- Develop a cohesive product vision that integrates marketing, IT/engineering, sales, operations, and industry SME expertise to better serve AAPC’s customers and meet market needs.
- Ensure smooth transitions and collaboration with other departments to clarify ownership of product lifecycle activities.
- Work within current organizational structure initially, ensuring this new division is accretive in value and not dilutive or disruptive to process, platform, people, project, and/or product improvement.
- Product Strategy & Ownership:
- Create and oversee the execution of a comprehensive product strategy that supports AAPC’s mission and aligns with AAPC’s overall financial goals and objectives.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle— from ideation and launch to post-launch growth, maturity, saturation, decline, and either revival or grave —working closely with all relevant teams to ensure cohesive delivery.
- Manage a diverse portfolio of products across different roles, organization types, and global markets, ensuring products are scalable, adaptable, and meet localized needs.
- Create and manage product roadmaps, timelines, and budgets to ensure timely and successful product launches.
- Thrive in an environment where active contribution to both high-level strategy and the day-to-day work of the product team is needed.
- Balance visionary leadership with tactical execution, leading by example and diving into the details when needed to ensure product success.
- Innovation & Market-Driven Product Development:
- Leverage market research, competitive analysis, and customer insights to guide the product roadmap, focusing on both immediate opportunities and long-term innovation.
- Encourage product innovation by exploring emerging technologies and digital transformation trends (e.g., AI, machine learning, RPA, mobile apps) that can enhance user experience and product value.
- Identify opportunities to innovate in product delivery by leveraging customer feedback, market research, and emerging trends.
- Lead the development of data-driven products, including exposing AAPC’s data via API for customers and partners, creating new revenue streams and driving industry leadership in healthcare data solutions.
- Drive the development of self-service tools and features that empower customers to independently manage, configure, and optimize their use of AAPC’s SaaS products, ensuring scalability and enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Ensure that product offerings continually evolve to meet the dynamic needs of healthcare professionals and organizations, adapting to industry shifts and new regulatory requirements. Monitor and analyze product performance and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement based.
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration & Integration:
- Foster close collaboration with other teams to ensure a unified vision, cross-functional solutions, go-to-market strategies, and optimal customer engagement and experience.
- For example, partner with the subject matter experts within and outside the organization to capture Voice of the Customer, ideation and vision, and product definition and requirements; with the Marketing team on market studies, business cases, and go-to-market strategy; with the IT team to ensure technical feasibility and proper platform development, with Operations to manage product logistics for physical and digital deliverables, and with Finance on budgeting and ROI analysis.
- Product Leadership & Team Development:
- Build and mentor a high-performing product team, bringing together individuals with expertise spanning technical development, content, marketing, sales, and operations to create a cohesive and efficient product operation.
- Foster a data-driven culture within the product division, utilizing analytics to measure product performance and inform strategic decisions.
- Act as a change agent within the organization, driving alignment around product-centric goals and breaking down silos between departments.
- Financial & Performance Oversight:
- Manage product-related budgets and resource allocation, ensuring efficient use of company resources while maximizing product profitability.
- Collaborate with Finance to develop pricing strategies, revenue forecasts, and cost management processes
- Establish key performance metrics to monitor the success of products post-launch and make data-informed adjustments to maximize market impact.
- Work closely with the finance team to create product forecasts and effectively manage the P&L across product lines.
- User Centered Product Design:
- Build products that put the customer first, utilizing user feedback, testing, and market insights to continuously improve offerings.
- Ensure seamless product experiences across various touchpoints, from digital tools to physical resources, and work with customer support teams to provide exceptional post-launch service.
Qualifications:
- Successful history of accomplishing the requirements of the position (as listed above)
- Proven experience in leading product management, preferably within healthcare and/or educational industries.
- Expertise in managing cross-functional teams and working across departments as a central hub.
- Strong understanding of membership-based organizations, subscription products, educational content delivery, certification programs, professional services, and SaaS solutions. Background in at least two of these categories required.
- Experience overseeing a broad product portfolio across multiple markets and geographies.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational change management skills.
- Track record of rolling up sleeves and being deeply involved in the practical aspects of product management and development – showing equal comfort with delegating AND doing the work.
Ideal Candidate Characteristics:
- A strategic visionary with the ability to centralize product-related responsibilities, aligning diverse teams and stakeholders under a unified product vision.
- Must be comfortable and experienced leading technology.
- A strong advocate for data-driven decision-making and a hands-on leader capable of breaking down organizational silos to deliver cohesive, market-responsive products.
- Deep empathy for customer needs and a passion for driving innovation that enhances the professional experience of healthcare providers, payers, and vendors.
- Adaptable, with the ability to lead AAPC through a period of significant transformation.
- This role represents a key opportunity to reshape how AAPC brings products to market, ensuring that all offerings—from certification programs to healthcare tools—are developed with strategic intent, customer focus, and operational efficiency.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: IT Services Consultant – Department of State Consular Affairs
Location: USA MD Home Office (MDHOME)
Job Description:
We are GDIT – the people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the United States. The breadth of our portfolio and scale of our company ensures your access to new challenges and expanded roles as our business and mission-impact grows. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that’s important. We think. We act. We deliver. This team includes an exciting portfolio of programs comprised of building and supporting technical solutions to foster customer mission success – from service delivery to large-scale supply chains, mission support, cloud, AI/ML, cyber security, data analytics and more.
Our work depends on an IT Services Leader to build strategy, provide operational excellence, and help position GDIT as a strategic partner with the Department of State Consular Affairs (CA) Bureau. As an IT Services Leader, you will promote GDIT’s brand awareness and position GDIT as a strategic delivery partner. The ideal candidate has relationships with key CA decision makers in the DOS organization as well as experience successfully managing major programs. You will help the CA meet emerging mission needs, provide leadership and foster a high performing team environment, help GDIT continue to grow and expand the portfolio.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Interface with CA to align GDIT capabilities and strengths to meet mission needs
- Develop and leverage relationships with key decision makers and influencers
- Strengthen alignment of GDIT organizational capabilities to client needs
- Participate in all phases of the capture and growth life-cycle, providing the “voice of the customer”, including reviews and proposal and content development
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to obtain up to a Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, 10+ years of leadership experience
- Candidates must have in-depth leadership experience supporting programs at CA
- Proven experience driving culture change and leading a dynamic mission-focused teams
- Strong strategic development and implementation experience, directing large teams
- Experience with federal proposal processes, delivery and execution
- Proven aptitude for teaching, coaching and mentoring
- Local to the DC metro area and ability to travel to customer sites, as needed, is required
DESIRED CERTIFICATIONS:
- Project Management Institute, Project Management Professional (PMP)
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Machine Learning Engineer
- Remote • Full Time • Experienced
- Location: 100% remote, US or Canada only
Company Summary
Publishing.com empowers individuals from all walks of life to generate meaningful income streams through book publishing. As a leading online education platform, we specialize in guiding our students through the processes of writing, publishing, and selling books and audiobooks on major platforms like Amazon and Audible. We are thrilled to announce that Publishing.com has been recognized as the 19th fastest-growing private company in America for 2023, according to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list. Over the past two years, we’ve experienced an incredible 30% year-over-year growth and expanded our team by 500%. Recently, we hit a major milestone by helping 60,000+ students through our programs.
Our mission is to become the premier destination for all publishing-related needs. In line with this vision, we are excited to announce the launch of our latest innovation, Publishing.ai, a software designed to revolutionize the publishing industry further. This year marks a significant milestone in our journey toward achieving our goal, as we continue to expand our offerings and support our community of publishers.
Who You Are
You are a builder! You are a strong analytical problem solver! You are easy to talk to. You are opinionated, but you also keep an open mind. Not only do you have a strong sense of ownership, but you thrive on it. You can work independently and in a team. You love working in a fast-paced environment. You have high technical standards but know when to be scrappy: you are goal-oriented and prioritize getting results. You stay up-to-date with the most recent advancements in the AI and ML field. You love reading papers as much as you love implementing them.
And you have a great attitude!
As an early technical hire, you will have the opportunity to make important contributions to various aspects of one of the most ambitious generative AI projects around. Depending on your skills and interests, you will work on a number of different things.
Responsibilities
- Build evaluation and fine tuning pipelines
- Propose, design, and implement data annotation pipelines for generative AI
- Collaborate with software and data engineers by participating in design reviews and code reviews
- Devise Natural Language Understanding (NLU algorithms using deep learning, classic machine learning, and other approaches)
- Collaborate with the product team to propose metrics for evaluating ML models and pipelines
- Conduct scientific experiments to evaluate models and pipelines
- Design and implement scalable solutions to improve the performance of generative pipelines (using prompt optimization, RLHF, etc)
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional Machine Learning Engineering experience with recent emphasis on NLU/NLP
- Strong ML, DL, and NLU fundamentals, including hands-on experience with generative AI, model evaluation, chain-of-thought, and other established and emerging techniques
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with Git
- Experience engineering, evaluating, and optimizing prompts
- Experience conducting literature reviews and implementing state-of-the-art research papers
- Experience with annotation tools for NLU applications
- Experience building scalable, user-facing NLU applications
- Experience working with product and software engineering teams, including cross-functional teams of software engineers and product managers
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, along with a strong sense of ownership
- Experience with agile software development and project management
Preferred Skills
- Experience with various MLOps tools and technologies
- Experience with Cloud Computing
- Interest in SaaS, digital marketing, publishing, and education industries
- Experience leading technical teams
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