by Ronald Barron | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior UX Researcher
Remote US
Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.
While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.
We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.
Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!
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About this Job
User Experience is the function that applies principles and techniques of discovery, research, design, and content strategy to define the experience a user has in a product.
As a Sr. UX Researcher, you will be overseeing research initiatives, using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methodologies to help identify and solve wider challenges for the Paylocity user groups within Product Development organization.
You will partner with teams in UX Design, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to better understand customer needs, wants and motivations. You are a storyteller, have a diverse set of research skills, a driver of change, open to new possibilities, impact oriented, and a great culture fit. This role will report to the Sr. Director of UX Research.
Responsibilities
- Defines and creates comprehensive research plan for a product by planning, recruitment, execution, analysis, and with deep knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies that drive strategic findings and actionable recommendations.
- Outlines research needs and potential areas that require investigation, preemptively recognizing problem areas that warrant further research with your cross-functional partners and leadership.
- Exhibits advanced negotiation skills, adeptly communicating and facilitating trade-off in planning research to come to consensus on approach and outcomes with among stakeholders.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the company’s business and delivers insights and recommendations that align with the business goals and objectives.
- Drives research-driven insights via iterative evaluative research to reduce uncertainty for conditions that may impact future initiatives supporting a
product partners, and creates well-formed user experience goals, signals, metrics, and criteria for product.
- Communicates projects effectively to team and stakeholders, by exploring ways to effectively storytelling through writing, presentations, and conversations that build consensus and persuade action based on findings presented to partners.
- Leverages consistently tools, templates, and other guidelines for team members to capture their assumptions and express them as testable hypotheses.
- Organizes and presents research insights and recommendations with guidance to project teams to collaborate and drive outcomes.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in human computer Interaction (HCI) in Human Cognition, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or related field degree required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a field unrelated to UX will be considered if accompanied
by 5-7 years of hands-on experience in a UX product development setting.
- Must be able to leverage measurable criteria for research across product suite.
- Has robust design thinking and critical problem-solving facilitation for research.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating previous work experience and deliverables, that illustrates how research informed decision-making, highlighting deliverables, process, artifacts, and your ability.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in all aspects of the research process (study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting) with ability to prioritize multiple requests successfully leveraging multiple methods.
Soft Skills
- Lead communication and facilitation to stakeholders within business
- Relentlessly curious about tech and market trends, able to adapt accordingly.
- Seeks opportunities to receive guidance from others and applies feedback.
- Ability to build strong relationships in a highly collaborative environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: UI/UX Director
Location: Remote/Flexible – USA or Canada
Job Description:
Crystal Dynamics is constantly seeking the best gaming talent worldwide to add to our 30-plus year legacy of game development creating new and iconic franchises. We are committed to making great games with great people and living the dream while doing it.
Benefits for our regular full-time positions include, but are not limited to, a competitive regional salary, 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options, professional development reimbursement, flexible hybrid on-site/off-site work opportunities, 12 company paid holidays, plus additional paid days in December when the studio is closed for holiday break, and the ability to accrue additional paid time-off.
Crystal Dynamics is looking for a UI/UX Director to lead and elevate our user experience and interface design across all projects. This key leadership role will be responsible for defining and driving the overall UI/UX strategy, ensuring that all user-facing aspects of our games meet the highest standards of design, usability, and visual fidelity. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across multiple projects to create seamless and engaging experiences that align with the company’s strategic objectives.
As a UI/UX Director, you will:
- Collaborate with Creative Directors and senior leadership to establish and implement a unified UI/UX vision across all projects.
- Lead the design and development of intuitive, user-centered interfaces and experiences that resonate with our players.
- Oversee the creation and refinement of UI/UX design systems, ensuring consistency and quality across all game interfaces.
- Mentor and guide the entire UI/UX team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Act as the bridge between design, engineering, art and production teams to ensure cohesive execution of the UI/UX vision.
- Conduct regular reviews and usability tests to ensure that the final product meets our high standards of functionality and aesthetic quality.
- Work with the Director of Central Development to manage resource allocation and budget for a central UI/UX team, aligning with project scope and timelines.
To be considered for this role, we require the following:
- Proven experience as a Director, Lead, or other Leadership role within UI/UX design or art in the gaming industry, contributing to high-quality UI/UX.
- Extensive experience with game UI/UX for console or PC titles, including in-engine prototyping.
- Strong understanding of design processes, principles, and best practices, with a focus on user-centered design.
- Proficiency in advanced design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch) and their integration into game engines like Unreal Engine.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and foster collaboration across departments.
- A portfolio showcasing your leadership in creating and implementing UI/UX designs that drive user engagement. (If you directed others, then we would be looking for details on high quality work you directed others creation/implementation of UI/UX).
Preference will be given to candidates who have:
- Experience with Unreal Engine
- Shipped AAA titles in UI/UX role.
- A strong artistic background in areas such as illustration, animation, or visual design.
- Experience in scripting or fundamental markup languages.
It’ll be a bonus if you also have:
- A deep understanding of emerging trends and technologies in UI/UX and their application in gaming.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Salesforce Security Administrator
Location: United States
Job Description:
At Morgan & Morgan, the work we do matters. For millions of Americans, we’re their last line of defense against insurance companies, large corporations or defective goods. From attorneys to client support staff, creative marketing to operations teams, every member of our firm has a key role to play in the winning fight for consumer rights. Our over 3,000 employees are all united by one mission: For the People.
Summary
At Morgan & Morgan, we’re constantly challenging people’s idea of what an injury law firm can be. We are in a unique position as the largest injury firm in the world to continuously deliver a delightful and consistent client experience for people facing the greatest challenge of their lives.
We are on a mission to transform how legal services are delivered by leveraging technology and automation. We build products and experiences for Morgan & Morgan’s clients, employees, and partners. From tools that make it easier for clients to start their case, using AI to process documents intelligently, bringing transparency to our clients in an opaque industry, we do it all.
Responsibilities
- Architect & implement security framework for org wide defaults, sharing rules, role hierarchy, profiles, permission sets, etc based on best practices.
- Utilize Shield for encryption and monitoring of user activity in system.
- Manage and maintain Salesforce platform, including user setup, data management, and system customization.
- Partner with product and IT security teams to execute on security roadmap.
- Partner with Engineering team to build any custom apex sharing into system.
- Design and implement data archival strategies.
- Implement automation in Salesforce using Flows.
- Develop and maintain documentation for Salesforce processes and procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements.
- Provide training and support for users on Salesforce platform and automation processes.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience as a Salesforce Security Administrator or 3+ years of experience as a Salesforce Administrator.
- Proficiency with Salesforce Shield for event monitoring and encryption.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices and ability to implement them.
- Subject Matter Expert for security related architecture based on requirements & policies set by CISO.
- Experience with Salesforce automation, including flows and other automation tools.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Salesforce certification(s) such as Identity & Access Management Architect, Sharing & Visibility Architect, Data Architect.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Technical Architect – Remote
Location: Plano, TX, US
Department: Digital Engineering Staff Engineer
Job Description:
Req ID: 294559
NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
We are currently seeking a to join our Technical Archtiect to join our team remotely in the United States.
Effective systems design is key to keeping projects on track long term. Through your effective design efforts, we will deliver complete and effective solutions. In addition, your expertise will help us during the pre-sales phase to make sure we have the best possible chance of winning new business. Finally, your guidance will help less experienced developers grow in their development skills resulting in an overall better team.
Once You Are Here, You Will:
- Partner with and become a knowledge expert across the organization to solve complex business problems, and form and test hypotheses using a wide array of skills
- Provide a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and determining the platform and products underpinning technology components based on those needs
- Architect platform and product solutions that align with NTT DATA engineering or delivery capabilities, which include but are not limited to: DevOps, Full Stack (.NET or Java), Front-End Frameworks (React, Vue, React-Native, Angular, etc.), AI and Data Analytics, Security
- Assess and recommend cloud provider services (AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.)
- Gather and review business (use case / user experience) objectives and interpretation into technical requirements
- Evaluate and recommend technical products (SaaS Solutions, Cloud Provider Services) and communication of best practices for those tools and activities to improve effectiveness and quality
- Identify delivery risk due to integration and definition of technical architecture or spikes, backlog to mitigate such risks
- Define and prioritize product non-functional requirements
- Capture and communicate investment costs (one-time, ongoing) for technology products and services
- Organize tasks and resources to complete work and meet deadlines according to established departmental procedures.
- Collaborate closely with NTT DATA practice area leadership during strategy and consulting engagements
- Assist developers in application architecture and resolving technical issues with integration architecture or operations architecture
- Align with team DevOps leadership on technology and tools for delivery
- Provide delivery support in the design, deployment of the product/solution architecture
- Engage and collaborate with client Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Review Boards and Delivery Organizations to align technology recommendations to enterprise standards
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience designing large scale platforms and products that contain a variety of technology products in integration architecture, development architecture, execution architecture (infrastructure, application, data) and operations architecture
- 5+ years experience with a modern programming languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, and/or .NET
- 5+ years experience working in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in database technologies and information/data architecture
- Experience working in public cloud environments like AWS and understanding tools/techniques for data ingestion and analytics such as Glue, Kinesis, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, Postgres
- Experience in DevOps, using continuous integration and continuous development (we use Jenkins, Nexus, Git), automation of testing data and transformations, and cloud-native designs and tools, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience with decoupled architectures, realtime or near-realtime event/data streaming, enterprise integration and common messaging patterns, as well as workflow management technologies such as Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban, Luigi, etc.
- Experience implementing monitoring, quality assurance, data validation processes in a relational and big data environment (metrics-driven reliability and performance)
- BS or MS degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, physics, math, engineering, or economics. Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for the minimum education requirement
- Ability to constructively resolve conflict, manage expectations for competing priorities, and drive towards business goals; providing leadership in product delivery teams
- Deep understanding in one domain that aligns to NTT DATA practice areas (Front-End Design, [LJ1]DevOps (DevSecOps), Security, .NET, Java, Operations, Cloud Services, etc.)
- Ability to interpret business requirements to formulate technical solutions and to decide among competing technical solutions
- Broad experience in executing technology recommendations across the landscape of platform and services (infrastructure, development and test, application, data, security, operations)
- Expertise in security best practices, especially in a cloud or hybrid setting, including data access controls and tools, auditing, encryption/securing data at rest and in transit, privacy/anonymization constraints, etc.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies
Ideal Mindset:
- Lifelong Learner. You are always seeking to improve your technical and nontechnical skills.
- Servant leader and Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
- Communicator. You know how to communicate your design ideas to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, prioritizing critical information and leaving out extraneous details.
- Partner. You understand the transformation journey of clients in terms of their strategic objectives, business service offerings, and how IT investments support them.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Software Engineer, Structure
Location: U.S. Remote
Job Description:
At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. It’s the web, made better.
We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Structure group in our mission to enable Webflow customer’s to design and build powerful websites. Visually. In this role, you’ll be a key member of our Structure team which is responsible for how Webflow renders and models site data including HTML Elements and Components. You’ll build new Element and Component capabilities and support our full-stack internal renderer frameworks.
About the role
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada, Europe)
- Full-time
- Exempt
- Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager
- The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We’ve structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.
- United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States
- Zone A: $158,000 – $218,000
- Zone B: $149,000 – $205,000
- Zone C: $139,000 – $192,000
- Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you’ll.
- Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that enable our ambitious visual development goals
- Build, document, and test production code that impacts all Webflow customers
- Participate in all engineering activities including technical designing and implementation, testing and validation, releasing new capabilities, incident response, and interviewing
- Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of people
- Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team
In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we’ll help you incorporate them into your role.
About you
You’ll thrive as a Senior Fullstack Engineer if you.
- Have 5+ years of experience shipping features and products, with a focus on web frameworks and products
- Have an innate interest in the Web Platform, visual development, building software frameworks, and the intersection of building platforms that enable customers
- Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team
- Are comfortable building up a mental model of a product and architecture through reading code and debugging existing software
- Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
- Deeply understand data design and modeling
- Are familiar with Node.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, framework development, component development, and server-rendering complex React applications at scale
- Have consistently communicated trade-offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements
- Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment
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