by Ronald Barron | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Product Designer (Remote)
Location: Chicago United States
Job Description:
The League is the newest addition to the Match Group portfolio . The League was created for ambitious, career-focused singles looking for a long-term relationship. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our products – it’s the foundation of every team we hire.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join The League team. This is an opportunity to join a lean team working to make a real impact in one of the most vital and personal aspects of people’s lives. We’re a tight-knit design team, with a focus on individual responsibility and rapid development. Our ideal candidate is collaborative, creative, and a critical thinker who can articulate ideas. You will have the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional team members and will rely heavily on both qualitative and quantitative data to make informed decisions.
You’re right for this role if you excel in an autonomous environment and take full ownership of your work. You can translate high-level requirements and create beautiful and functional designs. It’s important that you can work within differing design scenarios, i.e. creative direction, brainstorming, product architecture, information design, critiques, graphic design, and production-related tasks. You have a passion for digital media and have a pulse on what is relevant in culture, design, and technology, and will challenge the status quo. You are curious about and active on the most popular and emerging platforms.
You’ll work in a squad owning your projects with mobile developers under the guidance of our Head of Design and Head of Product. You’ll create engaging, user-friendly interfaces that drive user satisfaction and retention. Familiarity with Figma is a must as well as strong problem-solving skills and a user-centered mindset, with the ability to think critically and adapt to evolving requirements.
We are flexible and offer remote or hybrid working models as options to accommodate our team. Match Group is headquartered in Dallas, TX with offices in LA, Palo Alto, and New York.
How you’ll make an impact:
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- Collaborate with the Head of Design to design visually stunning and functional user interfaces for the mobile app, ensuring consistency with the brand’s guidelines and style
- Iterate on designs based on feedback from the Head of Design and Head of Product, user feedback, testing results, and stakeholder input to continuously enhance the app’s usability and appeal
- Being our go-to designer and champion for interaction design on the platform
- Direct developers to implement your designs to spec including QA and feedback
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems and style guides to ensure consistency across the app and future design projects
- Owning, creating and maintaining a components library on Figma for the app
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and interactive mockups to visualize and test design concepts and user flows
- Brainstorm and drive new creative development and ways to attract new users
- Collaborate with the marketing team to create and execute product marketing such as email marketing, user education and other communications
- Help drive UX research, discovery and user education initiatives
- Problem-solve design issues effectively and in a timely manner
We could be a Match if:
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- You have 5+ years of experience with mobile UI/UX design and some experience in other areas of graphic design
- You have proficiency with industry-standard design tools and software (Figma, Jira and Adobe Creative Suite)
- You have superb visual design skills and a strong online portfolio showcasing breadth of work
- Strong understanding of native mobile design principles, user experience best practices, and responsive design
- You have interaction design and animation experience
- You have a strong sense for current design trends and emerging social platforms
- You have the ability to take an abstract idea and build out to completion
- You have an eagle-eye attention-to-detail when it comes to crafting designs
- You have strong communication skills and are receptive to constructive external feedback on design
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Head of Design (UX/UI)
Remote
Development
United States
Description
At Jiffy, we’re revolutionizing the digital infrastructure for crafters by enhancing their physical and digital value chains. Our platform is designed to elevate the crafter economy, minimizing friction so that crafters can focus on their passion—creating. As we expand from our origins in t-shirts to a diverse range of projects and products, we’re looking for a visionary Head of UX to unify our design approach and drive exceptional user experiences across our growing portfolio.
As the Head of UX, you will be pivotal in shaping the strategic direction and execution of our global design efforts. You’ll oversee all design aspects for our product and brand surfaces, ensuring consistency and innovation as we introduce new products and features. This role requires both strategic oversight and hands-on involvement, blending leadership with individual contribution. You will be responsible for building a cohesive design vision, establishing effective systems and processes, and mentoring a talented team of designers.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement the UX strategy to align with Jiffy’s vision and business goals.
- Create and maintain a unified design language across all products and services to ensure a consistent and compelling brand presence.
- Lead the UX team in developing and executing high-quality, user-centered designs.
- Drive design innovation by creating and refining concepts, ensuring they meet user needs and business objectives.
- Mentor, manage, and support a growing team of designers, fostering their professional development and ensuring high performance.
- Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to integrate UX best practices into product development.
- Collaborate with the marketing and branding teams to drive brand awareness and enhance customer engagement through effective design solutions.
- Oversee user research and usability testing to gather insights and inform design decisions.
- Utilize data and feedback to continuously improve user experience and drive business growth.
- Develop and implement design processes and standards to ensure efficient and effective execution.
- Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a 0-1 environment, with a proven track record of leading and managing a design team.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with product teams, including engineers and product managers, to develop user-centered solutions.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.
- Strong understanding of interaction design, visual design, design thinking, and UX principles.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- An outstanding portfolio showcasing sophisticated conceptual thinking, strong visual design, and process work including sketches, mood boards, and other preliminary design artifacts.
- Experience applying design principles to growth strategies, including email communications, marketing websites, and customer retention efforts.
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to translate business objectives into impactful design solutions.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Partner Solution Architect
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
We’re looking for a dedicated Senior Partner Solution Architect at Fivetran. You will be responsible for educating our partners on how to successfully install and implement all versions of Fivetran – SaaS, on-premise (HVR) and hybrid (HD) – and when called for, to supervise those.
While sitting on the Professional Services team, you will work closely with the Fivetran Partner Organization and serve as the services delivery subject matter expert both within the FPO and out to our partners.
You will prioritize and evaluate partner “readiness” both to start training as well as upon completion. You’ll be responsible for working with the professional services, partner, and enablement teams to define training requirements, facilitate a process and produce enablement curriculum and resources that fulfill those requirements and can be standardized for repeatability and scale. You’ll also bring to the partners best-practice advice and guidance based both on Fivetran and other partner execution and success.
Finally, you will not be working alone; your role will encompass interactions not only with partner stakeholders but also with a wide range of internal stakeholders across Professional Services, Customer Support Engineers, Partner Sales Engineers, Enablement, and FPO. Therefore, you should be comfortable collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders triaging on a wide range of topics.
This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland or Denver offices or remote in the US.
Technologies You’ll Use
- Fivetran
- HVR
- Fivetran Hybrid Deployment
- OnPremise and cloud databases, including:
- SAP HANA</li>
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM Db2
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- OnPremise and cloud data warehouses, including::
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Redshift
- Databricks
- Operating systems, including:
- AWS, GCP or Azure environments and services
What You’ll Do
- Get hands-on with installation of all types (application, database, file, and event) of Fivetran connectors, which will include:
- Preparing environments for replication, which may involve SQL scripting or command-line operations to enable full transaction logging, archiving/backup and table analysis/preparation
- Configuring high volume database connectors through a mix of UIs and command-line operations
- Work with customer and partner teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues during implementation, which will include:
- Data validation
- Performance analysis
- Database and environment tuning
- Enable customer and partner teams to adopt and take ownership of Fivetran’s HVR connectors through training and documentation
Skills We’re Looking For
- A breadth of experience in the data integration and data replication space
- Experience in a broad range of database, data warehouse and operating systems
- Advanced command-line knowledge, including scripting with the command-line
- Advanced knowledge of networking approaches, including SSH tunneling and VPNs
- Advanced logical and analytical abilities to help solve problems and provide optimisations to databases, data warehouses, environments & networking approaches
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to effectively collaborate with customers and cross-functional internal stakeholders
- Resourceful, self-motivated and able to successfully complete multiple competing projects under tight deadlines for a range of customers
- Strong prioritization and organizational skills
Optional Bonus Skills
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Salesforce and Rest APIs
- Experience with Data Lakes such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft ADLS2
- Knowledge of mainframe systems
- Knowledge of HVR
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Data Manager
Location: United States
Job Description:
The Data Manager 2 supports all aspects of configuration control, data management, and deficiency reporting. The Data Manager 2 work assignments are varied and frequently require interpretation and independent determination of the appropriate courses of action.
Leveraging cutting-edge cloud and data tools, the Data Manager 2 designs the data infrastructure for Humana’s Specialty Network area. This role involves planning, designing, and deploying enterprise data strategies into a long-term data model solution. This includes performing analyses of data and data source characteristics, acquiring/ restructuring/storing data, monitoring data pipelines and ensuring the use of the latest tools for scalability and cost effectiveness. The Data Manager 2 works independently for requirements gathering and technical support and requires excellent customer service skills. You will have the opportunity to future-proof your skills by accessing Humana’s vast array of technologies and education opportunities.
Responsibilities for Data Manager 2:
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Azure cloud technologies.
- Develop automated scripts for data extraction, conditioning, and transformation of large data sets.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Support ad-hoc data analysis requests by quickly understanding requirements and mapping to data attributes. Deliver ad-hoc data reports based on client reporting specifications.
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
- 5 years experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
- 5 years experience with programming to develop and code ETL
- 2 years experience in Data Warehousing projects and understanding of implementation of dimensional modelling concepts such as Fact and Dimension tables
Preferred Qualifications
- 1 year experience in Azure Synapse Analytics or Databricks
- 1 year of prior experience in healthcare
- 1 year of Data Governance experience
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Associate Writer, Credit Cards | The Points Guy
Remote
The Points Guy is looking for an Associate Credit Card Writer who will update, edit and refine our evergreen editorial articles and credit card marketplace pages to maximize revenue and enhance TPG’s search presence. This role requires excellent organizational and time management skills, a willingness to take on long-term projects, and precise attention to detail. This person will collaborate closely with both our SEO and editorial teams to maintain an efficient calendar for refreshing our evergreen and high-performing posts, and will take on the work of updating them with guidance from more senior members of both departments as well as the compliance team.
The ideal candidate for this position is someone with a familiarity with SEO best practices as well as strong writing and editing skills. They should enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic environment where hard work and initiative are valued and rewarded.
What You’ll Do:
- Write updates for our high-performing posts and transactional credit card pages on either regular basis, as well as when new, limited-time offers occur.
- Edit and fact-check posts and transactional pages thoroughly.
- Stay up-to-date on the most current credit card offers in the marketplace.
- Coordinate with the editorial team to highlight new card offers, benefits, and terms to include in content refreshes.
- Usher posts through the content production and compliance processes to final publication.
- Attend collaboration meetings and report to SEO and editorial contacts on a weekly basis.
- Pinpoint opportunities to streamline our content refresh process.
What We’re Looking For:
- A team player who enjoys collaborating with others to solve problems, improve processes, and better meet the needs of the TPG reader.
- A strong communicator who can clearly and succinctly communicate deadlines, deliverables, and opportunities for improvement in a cross-functional work environment.
- A highly organized individual with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to prioritize their workload according to changing needs.
- A fast learner who is willing to invest time and energy into learning about rewards credit cards and corresponding loyalty programs.
- A development driver of yourself and others that displays the ability to seek and implement feedback for continuous growth.
- Strong research and writing skills with the ability to edit and rewrite on a deadline.
- Foundational understanding of SEO best practices and ability to work closely with team members to optimize editorial content.
- Good grasp of The Points Guy voice and style and the ability to enhance it on the posts for which you are responsible.
- Familiarity with AP style and using content style guides.
- Working knowledge of WordPress and HTML preferred.
- Prior personal or professional experience with credit cards and travel is a plus.
- An overwhelming desire to HAVE FUN while educating and informing TPG’s audience about all things travel.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
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