by Ronald Barron | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Mandatory Licensing Supervising Associate
Location: TN-Memphis, Dallas
Other locations: Anywhere in Country
Salary: Competitive
Date: Aug 28, 2024
Requisition ID: 1535037
Job Description:
At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.
The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.
EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.
The Ethics, Compliance and Risk Management (ECRM) Mandatory Licensing team supports our people in managing the risks that arise related to mandatory licensing requirements within the firm. We work closely with all parts of the organization to identify, manage and monitor risk, providing coordinated advice and assistance.
The opportunity
Mandatory Licensing Compliance is seeking a Supervising Associate to support and manage the various requirements surrounding licensing compliance. The Supervising Associate will have a deep understanding of the firm’s certification policies and the compliance framework to support our professionals with obtaining required licensure or renewing timely. This role is responsible for providing research and analysis across one or more mandatory license type and is responsible for interpreting service line policies, determining required actions to standard and non-standard situations and making recommendations based on firm guidance, professional standards and acquired experience. Other responsibilities include 1) analyzing issues; 2) performing quality control review of processes; and 3) producing deliverables to document the diligence with which tasks were performed, as the work product for these individuals is subject to review and scrutiny by outside regulators. This position will interact with executive level personnel and assists colleagues to learn new jobs/tasks and to integrate into the team. The Supervising Associate will execute compliance programs (with oversight) to mitigate risks to the firm, including supporting the training and knowledge sharing with other team members.
Your key responsibilities
- Understand and apply knowledge of key requirements of service line policy and regulator requirements
- Applies knowledge and understanding of firm’s processes, resources and tools to effectively support functional teams and customers
- Proposes suggestions and solutions for improvement and/or develops new approaches or deliverables by leveraging ECRM experience and existing ECRM processes
- Facilitates and strongly drives the process to completion by following up on requests and assisting EY personnel with licensing questions
- Participate in meetings with service line/area leadership, general counsel’s office (“GCO”) and Ethics & Compliance
- Understand and apply the firm’s policy requirements and regulatory requirements to respond to EY personnel
- Performs internal and external research, referencing existing policies and knowledge to assist with review, assessment and resolution of incidents and provides recommendation to meet compliance, including customer inquiry
- Demonstrates positive attitude by contributing energy and new ideas to team efforts and meetings, including process improvements for continued execution against strategic priorities, enhance efficiency and identify trends
- Proactively notify appropriate EY individual of, and be alert for, any identified issues with quality, confidentiality or risk
- Performs duties and responsibilities with limited supervision
- Solve complex problems (e.g. partnering with professionals to remediate licensing issues with licensing authorities)
- Asks clarifying questions to fully understand customer, peer and leadership expectations, to effectively support the business
- Provides excellent customer service to internal stakeholders
- Independently answers complex, non-routine questions from clients.
- Escalates and partners with the team to resolve concerns, outlining action taken and proposed solution, as applicable
- Reconciles information obtained from research and communicates findings, parameters and proposes next steps to leadership
- Documents work processes and findings in appropriate work programs
- Formulate answers to client questions
- Use analytical and project management methodology and tools
- Learn and apply the firm structure, business strategies, and people of the firm
- Build and leverage a network of contacts within Ethics & Compliance and across the firm
- Plan and organize own work and keeps others informed of status and activities
- Produces work of high quality that is timely, accurate, complete and clear
- Manages tasks and activities in a timely manner, supports colleagues to meet their deadlines and is responsible for specific outcomes.
- Manages client relationships so that expectations are met or exceeded by advising what to expect and by when and through educating them and listening to their needs.
- Reviews and analyzes reports to identify variances or trends that should be brought to the attention of management
- Maintains and expands current knowledge of field and communicates new developments and resulting impacts to clients and team members.
- Through regular interaction, develops relationships and builds a network of people within ECRM and across the firm.
- Takes a lead role in resolving uncertainties among peers and in contributing to build a cohesive team.
- Position works independently with minimal feedback to conduct necessary research or client outreach. Position is expected to interface with executive leaders and must be able to demonstrate knowledge of ECRM operations and communicate processes, identifying and providing solutions for mitigating risk associated with Independence initiatives.
- Assists in the training of junior ECRM team members to familiarize them with firm processes and policies and to enable these members to handle more complex issues.
Skills and attributes for success
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (verbal and written), and collaboration skills, ability to interface with personnel at all levels directly or in virtual setting, communicate with appropriate frequency
- Highly skilled attention to detail and self-assurance of quality of work performed or reviewed
- Will reference existing policies, however, due to frequency of unique situations will need to research issues and through situation specific inquiries, propose solutions to issues.
- Expected to escalate matters and/or sensitive transactions requiring more experienced individuals to respond or process.
- Follows established procedures to complete tasks; however, must be able to communicate effectively with clients on various compliance or independence issues
- Proactive sharing of knowledge and suggestions with colleagues to enhance their professional development
- Anticipate and proactively respond and assist colleagues with adjusting to change
- Effective management of conflicting priorities, organization of workflow, and teaming with colleagues to accomplish tasks and balance workloads
- Develop and demonstrate solid working knowledge of firm structure, service lines, key personnel and organizational policies and procedures
- Ability to apply protocols and structured procedures independently
- Professional maturity and ability to manage confidentiality
- Strong multi-tasking, organizational and time management skills
- Independent decision-making skills based on established guidelines to respond to or process escalated matters or sensitive transactions
- Require the breadth, depth of knowledge and experience to appropriately determine when to escalate issues that require additional review in order to obtain the correct answer or solution
- Adapt to change and analyze all available data for continuous improvement; experiment with potential solutions; view the unfamiliar as a challenge
- Dedication to meeting customer requirements and expectations; establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, gain trust and respect
- Position will exercise judgement in how to accomplish objectives of requests; designated projects; or parts of projects
- Works independently with supervision, however, is responsible for planning and organizing own work and for providing regular status updates
- Expected to be prepared to interface with EY personnel at all levels and must be able to demonstrate knowledge of area of operations and communicate processes, identifying issues, and providing solutions for mitigating risk
To qualify you must have
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, etc.)
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Research skills using internal and external data sources
- Previous experience with risk management, either through education or employment
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Amazon eCommerce Manager (Remote)
Location: Bogota CO
Category: Operations
Job Description:
Amazon eCommerce Manager
FluentPet creates the tools and community for catalyzing two-way communication between humans and the animals we live with. Using cognitive science-based research and insights, we work with humans and their animal learners to create a new shared language that will improve both of their lives. Our research and engagement with the community let us constantly iterate and improve the FluentPet HexTile System. This allows us to continue expanding the scope of what we understand is possible when communicating with other species.
Job Overview: We are seeking an experienced and strategic Amazon eCommerce Manager to oversee and optimize our Amazon storefront. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing Amazon eCommerce operations, driving sales growth, and implementing strategies to improve product visibility and performance. This role requires strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of Amazon’s platform, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals. The position is remote, but the candidate must be available to work during California business hours.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute strategies to drive sales and optimize the performance of our Amazon storefront.
- Manage day-to-day operations of our Amazon accounts, including product listings, inventory management, pricing strategies, and promotions.
- Conduct keyword research and implement SEO best practices to improve product visibility and rankings on Amazon.
- Monitor and analyze performance metrics (e.g., sales data, conversion rates, customer reviews) to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with the marketing team to create and manage Amazon advertising campaigns (e.g., Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands) to increase product visibility and drive traffic.
- Manage relationships with Amazon, including handling any issues related to listings, orders, and account health.
- Develop and implement strategies to improve product reviews and ratings, addressing any customer feedback or concerns promptly.
- Stay updated on Amazon’s policies, guidelines, and best practices to ensure compliance and capitalize on new features or opportunities.
- Work closely with product development and supply chain teams to ensure inventory levels align with sales forecasts and manage any issues related to stockouts or overstocking.
- Create and present regular reports on Amazon performance, including insights and recommendations for optimization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, eCommerce, or a related field.
- 3 to 5 years of experience managing Amazon eCommerce operations, with a proven track record of driving sales and optimizing performance.
- Strong understanding of Amazon’s platform, including SEO, PPC advertising, and Amazon’s algorithm.
- Proficiency with Amazon Seller Central and other eCommerce tools and analytics platforms.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with Amazon advertising tools and strategies is a plus.
- Knowledge of the pet industry and FluentPet’s products is a plus.
- Must be available to work during California business hours.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Principal Engineer, Core Platform
Location: United States
Job Description:
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
“The front page of the internet,” Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities.
Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. From pets to parenting, skincare to stocks, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
The Core Platform team facilitates millions of API requests responsible for powering the Consumer, ML, Ads, Safety surfaces for Reddit.
What you’ll do
- Own the design & evolution of our Core Systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Reddit
- Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our Core Platform to improve Developer Velocity and Reddit growth
- Define best practices and establish them as defaults for developers across the company.
- Be the go-to person for developers on complex problems in backend service development within the data space.
- Lead technically minded peers on your journey.
What we expect from you
- Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
- 10+ years of Software Development experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP). Expert in at least two programming languages.
- Experience in influencing larger (500+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices
- Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves developer’s lives while also seamlessly supporting scale and reliability
- Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Animation Manager, Metaverse Art
Remote, US
The Meta Reality Labs – Metaverse Art, Animation group brings together world-class experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications, and we are looking for a leader in art management. As an Animation Manager within Metaverse Arts Animation group, you will coordinate and drive the animation teams involvement and engagement with cross-functional groups within the Metaverse org and across the Family of Apps. Coming into this role, you will build strong executive relationships and partnerships across multiple internal cross-functional groups including product, engineering, design, and more. You will oversee the creation of quality content, help our avatars be loved and used by billions of users. And most importantly, you will continue to grow our multidisciplinary and diverse animation team.
Animation Manager, Metaverse Art Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of Animators and Animation Leads Drive progress at the people and project-facing levels by supporting team growth and prioritization, nurturing culture and building new partnerships.
- Become a trusted strategic partner to product stakeholders and executive leadership by communicating and demonstrating the value of art and animation, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value.
- Effectively influence key partner leaders to gain alignment in prioritization, resourcing, and budgeting.
- Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineer & Art Leads to define the art pipelines and components, scope and goals for key features within our various projects
- Support managers, technical leaders, and the creative vision by communicating with executive leadership, and championing the teams needs to build a world-leading avatar system.
- Provide thought-leadership in establishing, implementing, and improving direction, goals, and processes for executing both near and long term vision.
- Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short term and long term, as well as team strengths and motivation.
- Build a diverse and an inclusive environment across the team, model inclusive behaviors
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ yrs developing and shipping character-based products in a game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environment.
- Demonstrated experience to manage the development, maintenance and documentation of 3D art and animation pipelines and vendor based asset creation
- Experience driving changes in operational processes and aligning teams to a strategic vision by solving conflicts and misalignments.
- Demonstrated experience to recruit, nurture, and grow talent
- Experience with roadmapping, budget management, and financial/performance tracking
- Interest for supporting ICs and other managers to produce a collaborative environment, where individuals bring in their best to produce effective results.
- Proven communication, presentation and diplomatic skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience shipping products & leading teams in the AR/VR industry
- Motion Graphics experience
- An understanding and knowledge of procedural animation systems
- Hands on experience in Unreal, Unity, or other real-time applications
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Art Manager
Remote, US
BigBox VR, the team behind POPULATION: ONE, is seeking an Art Manager who can help build the next generation of Virtual Reality games. We are looking for a strong communicator who loves the iterative creative and technical process. This person will have the desire to understand a product holistically and can contribute creatively, knowing when to be pragmatic and when to be blue sky. This person will make product strategy trade-offs that align with business objectives while embracing teamwork, as well as solve problems independently. An ideal candidate has hands-on experience as an artist in a game studio, is familiar with game development, engines, tools and best practices, and is capable of managing and supporting a team of highly-skilled artists.
Art Manager Responsibilities
- Art Team Coach:
- Provide specific feedback, balance positive and negative feedback, and have regular one-on-one meetings
- Results-Oriented Execution:
- Focus on helping the team achieve their goals by removing obstacles and being a resource
- Work with the team to manage day-to-day tasks and communications
- Work closely with the teams leadership to set high-level goals and direction for our projects and ensure execution is successful
- Evaluate and implement improvements to the art content pipeline, process, and tools
- Effective Communication:
- Engage in active listening, share information transparently, and encourage open dialogue
- Coordinate with all disciplines to schedule and track key work development
- Have a clear vision and strategy for the team:
- Set clear goals, provide direction, and ensure the team understands how their work fits into the larger picture
- Support career development and discuss performance:
- Help team members with their career paths, provide growth opportunities, and have regular performance discussions
- Work closely with the artists to understand the challenges the team faces and provide informed guidance based on experience and best practices
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years experience leading an internal art team
- Experience leading multiple titles from concept through launch as an Art Lead or IC
- Demonstrated experience with Maya (or, 3D Studio Max), Photoshop, Perforce, ZBrush, and Unity or similar game engine
- Results-oriented, empathetic coach and mentor with a track record of growing artists skills and bringing out their best work
- Experience to communicate art direction and feedback in an effective, constructive, and efficient manner
- Demonstrated understanding of art production, process, pipelines and tools across related disciplines
- Experience to work strategically or tactically. Knows when to delegate and isnt afraid to roll up sleeves and work in the details to drive the best outcome
- Effective team leader with a positive and motivating point of view to inspire and focus the team to deliver visually stunning work
- Experience working with outsourcing partners across different locations and time zones
- Expertise adapting to various communication and work styles
- Demonstrated history of working well with cross-functional teams and organizations
- Leverage art experience and skills to steer team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building content for live service and free-to-play product
- Connected with current and emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies for Art production
- Experience on full development cycles in AAA
- Interest for VR and AR
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