by Ronald Barron | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Presentation Designer for Executive Communications(Work From Home)
locations
Work From Home, USA
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R20055669
Job Family
Corporate Development, Strategy and Sustainability
About Us
At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.
Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.
Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information, visitwww.transamerica.com.
Who We Are
Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. Were a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamericas dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building Americas leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services.
What We Do
Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology).
Job Description Summary
Work in alignment with senior leadership to ensure strategic business priorities are identified, prioritized and executed
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Create and deliver strategic presentations, story boards, etc. tailored for specific audiences.
- Define and establish strategic planning processes, plans, priorities, capabilities, measures of success, etc.
- Develop and/or maintain strategic roadmap and assigned strategic dashboards/tracking mechanisms.
- Manage the timing of inputs/outputs that drive strategic project prioritization.
- Identify integrations across the organization that impact the group.
- Coordinate with strategic planning contacts across the organization (including the PMO as a key stakeholder) to develop and execute a holistic strategic planning process.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with supported groups and project teams.
- Serve as the escalation point to resolve conflicts on priorities, goals, strategies, resources and key initiatives.
Qualifications
- Presentation skills to create and deliver information to a wide audience.
- Bachelors degree in a business-related field or equivalent experience.
- Eight years of strategic planning experience in a similar environment or in a planning/consultant role.
- Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization to guide in strategic planning fundamentals and plan execution.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to plan strategy, tactics and perform root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with project management tools, lifecycles, etc.
- Proficiency using MS Office tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in a relevant field.
- Insurance/financial services experience.
- Supervisory/management experience.
- Understanding of LEAN Six Sigma methodology.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Technical Designer- Contract/Temporary
Location: Renton, Washington, US, 98056
Department: Game Design
Job Description:
At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!
Are you passionate about building social experiences with a mixture of tactical gameplay and shared storytelling?
We’re seeking an analytical, hardworking, and engaging Technical Game Designer (Contract/Temporary) who specializes in Unreal Engine to join our team building the future of Dungeons & Dragons’ digital play experience! This role is will be part of the digital design team, collaborating with artists, engineers, and other designers to rapidly create and iterate game experiences that allow players to interact with their world, battle evil doers, and connect with each other. Applicants should be enthusiastic about building player-facing gameplay and ready to immerse themselves in the work of digitizing the world’s greatest role-playing game.
What You’ll Do:
- Master the Arcane: Collaborate with game leadership on sophisticated systems, ensuring the best technical practices in Unreal are being followed by all content creators.
- Lead the Way: Own your work from initial design documentation to implementation of blueprint logic. Help others understand how these systems work and why we are building them.
- Min-max Systems: Work with engineers and artists to ensure designs can be easily implemented and iterated on or reworked, while managing performance within memory and CPU constraints.
- Explore Dungeons: Build up and maintain detailed documentation for all owned features, leaving no pathways unexplored.
- Fire up the Forge: Build content to exercise systems and contribute design horsepower to the construction of various content creation tools.
- Join the Party: Regularly play the game, providing constructive feedback and suggestions to other members of the team.
What You’ll Bring:
- 2+ released and reviewable games in Unreal with gameplay programming or equivalent experience.
- Proven track record as a game designer in a professional capacity.
- Deep knowledge of gameplay logic and Unreal blueprints. Familiarity with data structures and general programming concepts.
- Strong analytical skills and a love for efficient problem solving.
- Positive, direct, collaborative communication to improve our shared vision.
- Flexible, adaptable approach with a constant appetite for new knowledge and experiences.
- Self-sufficient and self-motivated, able to manage a feature from start to finish but also know when to ask for mentorship or help.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Dungeons & Dragons / TTRPG design and a drive to keep updated with the latest trends in the industry.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Creative Designer
at Splash (View all jobs)
Anywhere in the United States
Splash’s mission is to develop the most innovative event technology on the planet to help marketers reach and engage their target audiences. From simplifying event asset creation to capturing attendee insights and measuring event impact, Splash enables marketers to efficiently scale event programs and connect event-driven engagement to business results. More than half of the Fortune 500 use Splash to streamline event marketing execution and optimize performance.
What we’re looking for
Splash is looking for a designer to join our Creative team who loves the challenge of transforming ideas into stunning visual experiences to help bring people together. The Creative Designer role works with our customers to conceptualize, design and deliver web themes and other creative services using the Splash Content Management System in adherence with our clients’ brand guidelines and unique requirements. In a collaborative discovery process, the Creative Designer implements innovative event programming and design solutions that align with customers’ business goals. The Creative Designer role requires a high-level experience and understanding of design principles: hierarchy, typography, color, sizing, layout, and accessibility standards, as well as CSS and JavaScript.
Because the Creative Designer position encompasses many responsibilities and opportunities for growth, we are looking for versatile candidates with experience in both design and development.
In this role, you’ll get to…
- Work closely with our customers to:
- Maintain a professional and collaborative relationship with Splash customers for each assigned project
- Collaborate with the Splash Creative Team Lead to manage, design, and execute the building of event themes (webpage, email templates, forms, sharecards, virtual event pages, sessions pages, confirmations) for our broad and varied client base
- Innovate on best practices and building standards, and assure brand consistency across multiple projects and brands
- Coordinate across Creative, Professional Services, Product, and Development teams to achieve high quality results
- Facilitate training sessions for our customers on Splash Design best practices (format and script provided)
- Use creative problem solving skills to develop detailed processes which assist the creation of comprehensive design solutions that bring people together, engage, delight, and inspire
- Manage and track simultaneous projects and tasks effectively and deliver assignments on time
- Communicate effectively and consistently with stakeholders on project development
Qualifications:
- Experience
- 4+ years experience as a designer
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, web design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience taking ownership of complex projects and producing successful outcomes
- Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Excellent problem-solving ability
- Detail and deadline-driven
- Experience interfacing directly with clients and excellent written communication skills
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills
- Naturally team-oriented with a mission-first attitude
- Hands-on Splash experience a major plus
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Cloud Automation Engineer (Remote)
Location: CO-Denver
Job Description: **Overview**
GovCIO is currently hiring for a Cloud Automation Engineer. This position will be a fully remote position located within the United States.
**Responsibilities**
This is a hands-on software engineer position to define, build, test and deploy high-quality platform capabilities & features that will support reusability, perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible. Apply system thinking and solve complex technology challenges of enterprise level, support decentralized & distributed systems and provide platform services for other delivery teams. Key job responsibilities.
+ System Design and Analyze: Analyze business requirements and specifications to design automation and integrated systems that meet the operational needs
+ Design and develop IT infrastructure Automation solutions using scripting languages i.e., Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST, YAML, and JSON etc.
+ In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of multiple infrastructure automation tools and technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Azure Resource Manager, and Terraform.
+ Working experience of DevOps tools, GIT, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, etc.
+ Integrate Automation solutions with other IT tools and platforms.
+ Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to build and manage infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable way.
+ Monitor and maintain automation scripts to ensure they are running smoothly and efficiently.
+ Develop and implement best practices for automation development and operation.
+ Stay up to date on the latest trends and technologies in IT infrastructure automation.
+ Collaborate with other IT teams, developers, and stakeholders to understand their needs and develop effective automation solutions.
+ Document your work and share your knowledge with others.
+ Decentralized Computing: Subject matter expert to ensure platform decentralized infrastructure deployment capabilities are operational & continuously improved. Provide expert consultancy on infrastructure setup and networking during platform deployment & implementation.
+ Automation: Collaborate with & provide guidelines to agile delivery teams to develop and maintain automation patterns & implementing CI/CD pipelines
+ Built-in Quality: Ensure quality is built into daily artifacts check-ins instead of inspected later. Support collective ownership, adhere to standards and processes, continually improve product quality through refactoring, reducing technical debts and meet compliance & IT security audits.
+ Platform Adoption: Ensure the platform capabilities & services are our end-users’ preferred choice by focusing on understanding/anticipating technical needs, usability, ease of onboarding, increasing productivity and time-to-market.
+ Ecosystem Interoperability: Ensure the platform capabilities & services can be easily interconnected with other partner platforms for network effect, scalability and combining individual digital services into comprehensive end-to-end patient journey offerings.
**Qualifications**
**Required Skills and Experience:**
+ Bachelor’s Degree or above in Computer Science or related field with 10 years experience.
+ 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, building, and deploying into decentralized clusters/nodes, hybrid (Cloud & Edge) deployments and a developer portals/services or APIs
+ Infrastructure automation (Cloudformation, Terraform)
+ Containerization (Rancher, Docker, K8S, Harbor, Helm Charts)
+ CI/CD frameworks and tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible)
**Preferred Skills and Experience:**
+ A postgraduate qualification (e.g. MSc; or higher degree qualification in a relevant area) would be desirable
+ Strong hands-on experience supporting CI/CD development and production pipelines at large scale
+ Strong skills with a programming language using modular, reusable code methodologies
+ Agile development methodology
+ Ability to operate successfully in an unstructured, fluid environment – comfortable ‘taking a position’ with imperfect or incomplete information
**Clearance Required:** Ability to obtain and maintain a suitability/public trust clearance.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Product Designer, Webflow Optimize
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 are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the team building Webflow’s optimization product suite. This designer will craft user workflows that include A/B testing, personalized sites targeting particular audiences, and AI optimizations that automate it all. As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll drive discovery, research, and ideation, as well as partner closely with engineering and product management to plan and execute on exciting new product experiences in Webflow.
About the role
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exempt
- 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.
- This role will be reporting to the Director of Product Design
As a Senior Product Designer, you will:
- Design exceptional end-to-end customer experiences based on qualitative and quantitative data to drive customer and business outcomes
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to explore complex problem spaces and identify potential solutions
- Regularly engage with customers to develop a thorough understanding of their needs and pain points
- Proactively collaborate with other teams to untangle complex technical and user experience dependencies
- Deliver high-quality designs and specs to clearly communicate product design requirements for engineers
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 here if you:
- Have experience driving execution for complex enterprise products, with preference for experience in designing any of the following: marketing software, designer/developer tooling, or analytics products.
- Are a strong systems thinker
- Champion customer insights in your process
- Demonstrate a history of shipping features with a high bar for craft
- Communicate, design, and document thoughtfully with specific audiences in mind
- Build effective partnerships with engineering, product and other cross functional partners
- Proactively seek out and consider feedback gracefully in order to continuously integrate, improve, and iterate your work and skills
- Have a bias towards action working on complex products at a high growth, scaling company.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Research shows that you may still be considered for a role if you meet just half of the requirements.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Obsess over customer experience. We deeply understand what we’re building and who we’re building for and serving. We define the leading edge of what’s possible in our industry and deliver the future for our customers
- Move with heartfelt urgency. We have a healthy relationship with impatience, channeling it thoughtfully to show up better and faster for our customers and for each other. Time is the most limited thing we have, and we make the most of every moment
- Say the hard thing with care. Our best work often comes from intelligent debate, critique, and even difficult conversations. We speak our minds and don’t sugarcoat things – and we do so with respect, maturity, and care
- Make your mark. We seek out new and unique ways to create meaningful impact, and we champion the same from our colleagues. We work as a team to get the job done, and we go out of our way to celebrate and reward those going above and beyond for our customers and our teammates
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