by Ronald Barron | Sep 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: UX Researcher (Mid-Level)
Location: Washington United States
Job Description:
When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.
Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
Turnitin is a pioneer in education technology with its roots in academic integrity, delivering flexible assessment solutions to higher education institutions, high schools, and graduate programs. With the broadest and deepest applications of AI for education, Turnitin is building innovative new products for the next decade of education. We are seeking an experienced researcher to help us increase our velocity to deliver knowledge, products, and capabilities to help educational institutions empower student outcomes with academic integrity. As a UX Researcher, you will be responsible for planning and executing end-to-end research projects. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering partners as well as the cross-functional UX team.
To succeed in this role, you must have a solid foundation in research practices and can tie insights to tangible business results. You thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Our environment requires discernment in research approaches, understanding when to prioritize speed for timely insights and when to apply thorough rigor to ensure depth and accuracy.
A day in the life:
The UX Researcher will be working with each team member as well as product and engineering stakeholders on a day-to-day basis. The researcher will also spend time designing, planning, and conducting user research, translating findings into actionable insight to guide product development and iteration. They will work closely with the UX Research team, where every work day is full of fun, engagement, and building meaningful connections with each other.
Key Responsibilities:
- Independently spearhead both small-scale and mid-sized research projects
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to clarify and define research objectives
- Equip designers, product managers, and other stakeholders with insights into user needs
- Contribute to streamlining and enhancing the operational efficiency of the research team
- Identify and employ the optimal channels for disseminating research findings
- Plan and actively engage in participatory workshops
- Champion and advocate for best practices in UX research across the organization
- Present and communicate research insights to key decision-makers and stakeholders
- Continuously seek feedback on research endeavors and actively provide feedback to peers
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, human-computer interaction (HCI) or equivalent professional experience.
- Knowledge and skills equivalent to 2-5 years of industry experience in UX research or related field (such as UX design and market research)
- Proven expertise in collaborating with diverse, cross-functional product teams
- Demonstrated ability to transform research insights into actionable product improvements
- A strong research portfolio that demonstrates multiple methods and approaches to research along with the tangible outcomes and impact of the work
Desirable
- Prior experience conducting research specifically within the education sector
- Experience researching AI-related topics
- Proficiency in presenting complex data in a clear and compelling manner
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, with a knack for building relationships and influencing cross-functional teams
- Proven track record of collaborating effectively in a diverse team environment
- Proficiency in quantitative research methodologies, with the ability to analyze data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights for informed decision-making
- Experience conducting user research for products or services that cater to diverse user personas within the same product ecosystem
Personal Attributes:
Essential
- Focused Prioritization – Skillfully managing multiple tasks, identifying and concentrating on key deliverables, even when faced with competing demands.
- Curiosity – Has a growth mindset and leads with questions vs. assumptions. Unleashes creativity and possibility by actively seeking new experiences, information, and knowledge; embraces challenge, takes risks, learns fast and welcomes change.
- Articulate Communication – Possesses an outstanding aptitude for both written and verbal communication, with an innate ability to present ideas clearly and persuasively.
- Accountability – Holds oneself responsible for required actions, and ensures that team members/colleagues/peers also own responsibility for their designated tasks while meeting collective team and company goals. All in service of creating a high performing environment.
- Collaboration & Influencing – Effectively communicates and cooperates with peers, partners, leaders & customers to achieve outcomes. Builds relationships and fosters an environment wherein people can naturally work together for the good of the company and our customers.
- Diversity & Inclusivity – Encourages and celebrates diversity at every level within the organization. Understanding that many cultures, traditions, beliefs, languages, thoughts and lifestyles are prevalent in both the workforce as well as the customer populations, and are respected without judgment. Works to create an environment of belonging.
- Resourcefulness – Possesses a mindset of abundance and redefines what’s possible; creates and advances ways of achieving results in new or difficult situations either by appropriating additional resources, or by doing more with less.
- Adaptability – The ability to encounter unexpected obstacles with flexibility, recalibrating strategies based on emerging challenges, ensuring a consistent focus on primary objectives.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
UI Engineer (L4), Content Engineering
USA – Remote
Job Requisition ID
JR29062
Teams
Engineering
Work Type
Remote
Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
The Role
We need your help to build the technologies that allow us to scale our efforts across the globe, and do so effectively and efficiently!
Your Day-to-Day:
- Work cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch UIs that operationalize our workflows at scale.
- Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.
- Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.
- Regularly learn and influence new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.
- Participate in our on-call rotation and lead the incident reviews.
- Effectively communicate complex technical issues and solutions to stakeholders
- Collaborate on engineering tasks, prioritize effectively with minimal guidance, and communicate progress clearly to the team.
- Live company values, actively engage in team discussions and provide mentorship while holding the team accountable for collective standards
You will enjoy working with us if you:
- Passionate and opinionated about UI Engineering and specific technologies to it, can make, influence, and inform architectural decisions while effectively farming for dissent.
- Are adept at building enterprise applications with HTML/JavaScript/TypeScript/CSS. We currently build our user experiences with React, GraphQL, and several more libraries and frameworks depending on the product.
- Are curious to work with the Hawkins Design System, adopting reusable components as part of the product and contributing to their implementation.
- Have a strong sense of ownership, independence, bias towards action, and inclination for collaboration. We live by our values, learn more about our unique culture here.
- Are able to recognize, communicate, address and lead the technical improvements as part of the roadmap
- Are passionate about web performance, observability and developer experience tools.
- Are comfortable with the technical design of UI applications and can inform the vision of fellow UI and BE colleagues.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Detection Engineer (1st Shift)
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Category: Detection Engineering
Job Description:
Who We Are
Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber threats. We’re a cyber security company who protects, supports and empowers organizations to make better security decisions so they can focus on their mission without fear of cyber threats.
The combination of our market-defining technology and expertise prevents breaches every day and sets a new standard for partnership in the industry. We’re united in our commitment to customers and grounded in our values, which earned us a place on the Forbes Best Start-up Employers 2022 list. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk.
What We Believe In
– Do what’s right for the customer
– Be kind and authentic
– Deliver great quality
– Be relentless
Challenges You Will Solve
The Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) continues to push the boundaries of threat detection and response with a unique combination of operations, threat research, and engineering in tight integration with the development team that designs our analysis platform and the Red Canary Threat Detection Engine.
The security landscape is always shifting and introducing new adversaries. The Red Canary CIRT operates 24/7 to track down threats using the entirety of our customer’s data and deliver fast and practical detections to our customers.
This is not a role where you are encouraged to passively accept the current state. At Red Canary, you are empowered to actively look for opportunities to automate repetitive and tedious tasks. We let the automation framework handle the mundane tasks, so that you can remain focused on solving complex and critical problems for our customers.
What You’ll Do
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- Use Red Canary’s detection platform to analyze EDR telemetry, alerts, and log sources across several detection domains (Endpoint, Identity, SIEM, Cloud/SaaS, etc.)
- Publish threats for customers using concisely-written communication while effectively conveying key and important indicators
- Detector Development: Research coverage opportunities then create new detectors, and tune existing ones.
- Improve the CIRT workflow through orchestration & automation
- Provide mentorship to your peers and communicate effectively with others for efficient cross-team collaboration
What You’ll Bring
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- Analysis experience and proficiency in one or more of the following functional areas: Endpoint (MDR), Cloud/SaaS, Identity, Email, SIEM
- Proven experience with automation and orchestration to effectively handle an extreme volume of telemetry and logs in a timely and efficient manner
- Strong written communication skills, and abilities to work in a team-centric environment
- Strong analytical thought-process and critical thinking skills to translate disparate activity into the realm of threat analysis
- Open-source intelligence research skills used in a fast-paced operational environment, and the ability to apply those findings within the analytical workflow to identify threats
- Experience leveraging Mitre ATT&CK framework, and familiarity with other alternative attack frameworks and threat models
- Familiarity with backend data structures used for security analysis (JSON, YAML, etc.)
- Experience using query languages and understanding syntax across EDR or other security platforms (SQL, K, Lucene, etc.)
- Experience creating and tuning detectors/rules using commonly known tools such as YARA, SIGMA, Snort, Splunk, Elastic, etc.
Bonus Points
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- You enjoy impacting the Infosec community through writing blogs, participating in webinars, and presenting at conference talks
- Experience using version control software for the deployment of detectors, rules, or other automations (GitHub, CircleCi, etc)
- Previous Red Team experience
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Radiant Logic SME | REMOTE
Location Remote
Description
Dignari is a forward-thinking, human-centered, emerging technology and analytics company that builds solutions to transform business. We’re a woman owned company where diversity is applauded and success is celebrated.
We are seeking a Radiant Logic SME to support our growing portfolio of programs. In this role, you will work as the technical lead and subject matter expert for a federal government system using Radiant Logic solutions as the core technology.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect, design, install, integrate, configure, and deploy ICAM solution capabilities using Radiant Logic solutions.
- Support program goals and objectives leveraging expert Radiant Logic experience and skills.
- Integrate Radiant Logic with other third-party software, such as SailPoint and other government systems relying on data from the system.
- Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams.
- Performs highly specialized and technical tasks associated with the most current and cutting-edge technologies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
- 10+ years in technology roles with a focus on ICAM, agile software development, or digital transformation projects. Prior leadership experience in a similar capacity is essential.
- Must hold current Radiant Logic certifications including RadiantOne Federated Identity Directory (FID), Master User Records, Global Synchronization, and Identity Correlation and Synchronization (ICS).
- Experience integrating Radiant logic into hybrid multi-cloud operating environments.
- Experience with integrating Radiant Logic with other third-party software, such as SailPoint and other government systems relying on data from the system.
- Experience and expertise in integrating ICAM data sources (including but not limited to Active Directory, LDAP, PKI, PAM) into a virtual directory service (VDS),
- Experience and expertise with scaling VDS to support a large volume of concurrent users/applications
- Expertise with implementing redundancy and automated failover capabilities.
- Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams.
- Performs highly specialized and technical tasks associated with the most current and cutting-edge technologies.
- Coordinates with program management and customer to ensure the problems have been properly defined and the solutions satisfy customer needs.
- Communicates with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
- Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.
- Developing documentation on new or existing systems.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects from conception to launch.
- A track record of taking initiative and being resourceful to accomplish ambitious goals.
- Effective organizational skills and ability to juggle many competing priorities.
- Ability to establish and maintain client relationships with internal and external clients.
- Roll-up your sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small and a collaborative, low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Integrated Agency Operations Manager
Location: National US – Remote
Job Description:
GENERAL SUMMARY
Based in Los Angeles, Trailer Park Group is a full-service agency specializing in content creation and entertainment marketing. By combining storytelling expertise with large-scale production resources, Trailer Park is uniquely positioned to make, market, and distribute content for its diverse client portfolio of top entertainment studios and major brands. With content creation at the center, we support our clients with strategy, creative and the latest in digital services
Mutiny is Trailer Park Group’s integrated creative agency focused solely on the Gaming space, anchored by deep audience insights, integrated creative thinking, and proprietary data and strategy—all backed by Trailer Park Group’s premium content production resources on a global scale.
ABOUT OUR AGENCY OPERATIONS ROLE
Mutiny is searching for an Operations Manager to join our team. You will partner closely with both Mutiny & Trailer Park Group to ensure daily operations of the agency are running smoothly and regularly improved upon. You will be in charge of supporting the team through your constant problem-solving and proactive planning skills. You don’t see obstacles, you see opportunities.
IMMEDIATE CALLOUTS ABOUT THE JOB
- CANDIDATES MUST LIVE IN PACIFIC COAST TIME ZONE
- Candidate must have experience in operations and resource management in a creative marketing agency environment
- Experience optimizing agency allocations and team member utilization
- Understanding of licensing and secure workflow best practices
- Candidates in commutable distance to Hollywood, California will be prioritized.
- A love for all things gaming would be great!
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Serve as a first-line escalation point to resolve low-to-medium internal operational conflicts and autonomously resolve
- Implement and manage tools and technologies that enhance operational efficiency. This may include project management software, collaboration tools, and other technologies that streamline agency processes
- Coordinate weekly resource meetings, ensure up-to-date resource management data are maintained and processes followed
- Lead weekly meetings with TPG IT, ensuring up-to-date agenda based on MUTINY needs (hardware, software, resources, etc.)
- Monitor workload to prevent underutilization or overextension while empowering and facilitating teams to communicate and collaborate to optimize allocations
- Match team members’ skills with project requirements and foster skill development; be a career builder
- In partnership with our in-house talent acquisition team, manage the end-to-end freelance process, inclusive of:
- Financial management
- Rate management
- Onboarding/ offboarding
- Help facilitate the onboarding of new hires ensuring every employee gets ingrained in the Mutiny culture while also providing them the tools they need to succeed in their role
- Run recurring and ad hoc research and data analysis to help bring actionable transparency that will improve margins
- Support recurring and ad hoc internal projects related but not exclusive to event planning, marketing, PR, facility/space management, data maintenance, etc.
- Collaborate with project managers to oversee and support project workflows. Ensure that projects adhere to timelines, budgets, and quality standards
- Develop, implement, and optimize operational processes to enhance efficiency and productivity within the agency. This includes creating workflows, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and guidelines
- Collaborate with finance and resource management teams to monitor project budgets. Ensure that projects are financially viable and align with the agency’s financial goals
- Lead with empathy but follow with operational rigor
WHAT YOU WILL NEED (QUALIFICATIONS)
- 5+ years of relevant work experience preferred
- Ad agency experience required – must have experience hiring freelance talent in creative roles capacity
- Experience placing freelance creative talent in a marketing agency environment
- Solid understanding of the digital/advertising project lifecycle and the roles of the various team members and subject areas in an agency
- Experience with process mapping
- Able to handle multiple projects under tight deadlines; organized, detail-oriented, and friendly
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and suggest solutions to short and long-term challenges
- Must be able to successfully prioritize multiple projects
- Strong relationship management, influencing, and conflict resolution skills
- Excellent organizational and planning skills, as well as being a strong communicator, both written and verbal
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