by Ronald Barron | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Psychometrician
Location: US Remote
Job Description:
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their educations and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome.
We are seeking a highly skilled, motivated, and passionate Psychometrician to join our innovative assessment team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the development, analysis, and validation of educational assessments ranging from formative to predictive in nature. As a Psychometrician, you will ensure our assessments are high-quality, fair, reliable, and valid, contributing to the advancement of educational measurement and research.
What you will be doing
- Data Analysis and Validation:
- Conduct statistical analyses to evaluate the reliability, validity, and fairness of assessments (maintain item pValues, field testing items, etc.)
- Perform item analysis, differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, and other psychometric evaluations.
- Evaluate criterion, proficiency predictive validity evidence and provide actionable insights for internal stakeholders to ensure student performance on assessments predicts performance and proficiency levels on high-stakes assessments.
- Evaluate consequential validity evidence to provide insights to internal and external stakeholders.
- Evaluate p validity evidence and provide actionable insights for internal stakeholders to ensure student performance on assessments predicts performance on high-stakes assessments.
- Analyze test data to generate reports and provide actionable insights for internal and external stakeholders.
- Research and Methodology:
- Conduct validity studies in partnership with the Research team for specific districts/institutions and markets.
- Stay current on advancements in psychometric methods and educational measurement as well as state assessment requirements, suggesting new and revised assessment methodologies.
- Partner with Research and Products to contribute to scholarly publications and/or conference proposals.
- Partner with product managers and team to inform assessment strategy
- Technical Documentation:
- Prepare technical reports and documentation detailing psychometric analyses, methodologies, and findings.
- Ensure clear communication of complex statistical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Quality Assurance:
- Participate in quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy and integrity of assessment data and results.
- Collaborate with software developers to implement and refine automated scoring and analysis systems.
- Training and Support:
- Provide training and support to internal teams and external partners on psychometric principles and best practices.
- Assist in the development of training materials and resources.
What you will need to know/have
- A doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) in Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Quantitative Psychology, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in psychometrics, educational measurement, or a related field, preferably within an educational assessment company or academic setting.
- Experience with item response theory (IRT), classical test theory (CTT), and other psychometric models.
- Proficiency in statistical software and programming languages (e.g., Python, R, Stata).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, time management and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
- Ability to translate complex technical and psychometrics research and statistical information into team-facing and user-facing results, actionable plans, and recommendations.
- A passion for education and a drive to improve assessment materials and experiences for educators and learners
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Site Reliability Engineer III
Location: United States
Job Description:
Too many people in the U.S. continue to be left behind by traditional financial services institutions. At Stash, an investing app with more than 2 million active subscribers, were on a mission to address that reality by empowering people to invest and build better lives. Were turning money into a source of hope and opportunity and giving our customers the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future.
Its an exciting time to be a Stasher! Bolstered by a new slate of world-class leaders and a fresh round of financing, were headed into our next phase of growth with momentum. Weve implemented product enhancements that make it easier for individuals to start their financial journey with us, and operational changes to help us deliver for and support our customers with optimal speed, rigor, and transparency. Also in the past year, Stash launched its groundbreaking back-end infrastructure, Stash Core, allowing the company to exceed 70% in gross margin as it marches towards profitability.
Our team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for building a reliable, scalable, and performant cloud infrastructure and tools to power the Stash experience.
Weve had tremendous growth over the past 2 years and to support these initiatives, Stash will be expanding our team that supports our cloud infrastructure. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be working to build out and scale our infrastructure platform and processes that are the bedrock of Stash.
What youll do:
- Architect, design, and implement infrastructure services on AWS involving network infrastructure, load balancers, and containerized workloads, as well as application performance monitoring and logging.
- Lead operational health, maintenance, optimization, and security initiatives at our cloud environment.
- Coordinate with Engineers, SRE, Backend Engineers, and product teams to support end-to-end delivery of software components from inception to production.
What were looking for:
- Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in building and deploying Internet services and APIs.
- Experience with AWS and handling applications under high network load.
- Experience managing containerized workloads.
- Experience in configuring and deploying Nginx reverse proxies and load balancers.
- Experience in monitoring production workloads.
- Comprehensive understanding of networking and application protocols (TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP/S, TLS, SSH, etc.)
- A data-driven decision maker who’s willing to take risks, fail quickly, and iterate rapidly.
- A creative problem solver with a passion for testing, debugging, and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
Gold Stars:
- Experience working with Terraform (or Terraform Enterprise)
- Familiarity with microservice-based architecture
- Proficiency with AWS EKS and K8
- Experience with scripting languages such as Go and Python
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Content Strategist (Temporary – Remote, select U.S. states)
Location: #LI-Remote
Type: Seasonal (Full-Time), W-2
Workplace: remote
Category: Marketing & Communications
Job Description:
We are looking for a temporary Content Strategist to support and optimize our digital marketing strategies, completing a series of special projects over a 10 to 12 week timeframe.
Coforma is looking for a self-starter who can work cross-functionally as part of a remote Marketing and Communications team to execute key digital strategy projects during a 10 to 12 week timeframe. The ideal candidate is passionate about the power of storytelling to connect audiences with the work and experiences of a values-driven small business, and enjoys putting effective digital marketing and communications strategies into action.
In this role, your passion for technical detail, knowledge of digital marketing approaches, tools, and trends, along with your desire to contribute your expertise in a collaborative team setting will enable improved delivery of our core digital strategies and help us better reach our target audiences. During the course of your work with us, youll implement SEO plans and insights for our website and blog content, help our Marketing team migrate old content to a new blog platform, lead optimization efforts and strategy shifts, track and report on metrics and insights, and coordinate campaigns designed to achieve targeted results and drive brand awareness.
You possess strong foundational knowledge and skills in creating and optimizing digital content across a range of platforms and tools, with experience in content management for websites, digital media campaign coordination, SEO strategy and execution, digital advertising, and tracking performance across digital strategies and platforms. Reporting to the VP of Marketing, youll collaborate closely with our team to ensure our digital content strategies align with our audiences needs and business goals.
$65.00 per hour
To honor our company-wide equitable pay system, the posted hourly rate is non-negotiable.
The job posting for this role will close by 5:00pm PT on Thursday, June 13th, 2024.
The desired start date for this role is early-to-mid June 2024.
This is a US-based remote position open to applicants in the states listed below.
Note: to ensure we remain compliant with all state, county, and local employment and tax regulations, applicants must currently reside in one of the following states to be considered for employment with Coforma. This list will be updated periodically as our PeopleOps team works to open up hiring in additional states.
-Arizona
-California
-District of Columbia
-Florida
-Georgia
-Idaho
-Illinois
-Maine
-Maryland
-Massachusetts
-Montana
-Nevada
-New Jersey
-New York
-North Carolina
-Oregon
-Tennessee
-Texas
-Virginia
-Washington
-Wisconsin
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
- Implement SEO recommendations for existing Coforma website pages
- Implement SEO recommendations for our case study pages
- Migrate old blog content for new blog launch
- Update SEO for existing blog content
- Develop a new SEO plan for our new blog strategy and content plan
- Gather, report on, and analyze metrics, supporting our Marketing team in developing its quarterly report
- Help implement our single channel optimization plan for our LinkedIn business page
- Support and optimize Coformas multi-channel digital marketing and communications strategies and campaigns while collaborating with a more senior member of the team
- Understand and leverage SEO best practices and tools to optimize Coformas web properties and digital content, collaborating with the MarComms team on strategy
- Report on the progress and success of strategies by compiling key metrics from our digital platforms (including LinkedIn and our websites)
- Manage Coformas paid digital advertising within a set budget and in line with approved strategies, reporting progress, and metrics
- Accurately track and assess progress on your assigned work, making adjustments as needed
- Report risks, successes, progress, backlog, and failures in a timely, clear, and efficient manner
- Model and promote a highly collaborative, responsible, and ethical culture through your individual actions
- Contribute to internal projects and initiatives, supporting the Marketing departments objectives as requested
Who You Are (Requirements)
- 4+ years of professional work experience
- At least 2 years of experience as a digital media professional
- At least 2 years of experience executing digital media campaigns with a focus on storytelling
- Experience working with creative and technical stakeholders and team members
- Experience with content management systems (CMS)
- Experience with Google Analytics and/or G4
- Experience with SEO best practices and strategies, as well as related software (SEMRush, Yoast, or similar)
- Experience with digital advertising, including Google Ad Words and LinkedIn
- Experience with content governance workflows and related technologies
- Working knowledge of content platforms and software including Adobe, SEMRush, Canva, Monday.com (or similar), Meltwater (or similar), and Yoast
- Experience managing milestones, dependencies, communications, and stakeholder expectations
- Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail
- Ability to communicate clearly in writing and orally (whether verbally or through assistive technologies/aids)
- Strong competency in situational awareness, situational leadership, and conflict mitigation and resolution
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- Digital marketing certification a plus
- Experience with and/or willingness to learn how AI technology bolsters content and how to ethically leverage it to optimize your and the teams work
- 2+ years experience working on a remote team or remote freelancing
- Demonstrated experience crafting and/or optimizing quality dynamic content across multiple platforms in the government contracting, civic tech, digital services, or IT space
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, flexible, innovative, and attentive to detail
- Experience with link tracking technologies and approaches
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior UX Researcher, Ads
Location: Remote – 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 73+ million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you’d like.
Team Description:
As a Senior UX Researcher, you will join a high-impact Ads team that’s working on some of the most important initiatives at the company! You will drive the understanding of advertiser behavior, motivations and experiences across Reddit, partnering with our product and design teams to further understand our advertisers and how we can amplify their experiences on the platform. You’ll investigate user behavior and user needs using both qualitative methods (including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, journey mapping) and quantitative methods (including survey research) by designing and conducting foundational and evaluative research to guide executive decision-making. The ideal candidate will be able to combine their quantitative and qualitative skills to better understand advertiser behavior and motivations, drive product strategy and improve the overall advertiser experience across Reddit.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute on quantitative research, including surveys and behavioral data analysis
- Prioritize and conduct research that varies in approach, scale, scope, timeframe and methodologies across multiple work streams, making sure to work on the right project at the right time.
- Select and communicate the appropriate method or mix of data collection methods (ranging from usability testing, diary studies, semi-structured interviews, participatory workshops, surveys, and everything in between) to answer questions for product teams and our broader company.
- Extract meaning from qualitative and survey data sets through appropriate analyses, including the creation and application of qualitative codebooks, developing code, running models, and employing a range of statistical methods.
- Craft video summaries of interviews and experiences of users to illustrate findings with user voices.
- Build strong relationships as a strategic partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Sales and Data Analytics by proactively communicating and sharing research findings.
- Develop research programs that achieve business and product impact.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of industry experience
- 3+ years researching advertiser behavior.
- Understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different quantitative research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.
- Detail-oriented and ability to work fairly independently on a variety of tasks.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work quickly to turn around high-quality research insights; can prioritize time between multiple projects, and be flexible, adapting to changing schedules and different projects.
- Experience working in ambiguity and complex cross-functional collaborations.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior WordPress Developer
Remote
About Hone
Hone is an online medical clinic at the forefront of transforming healthcare and enhancing longevity. We use cutting-edge scientific advancements to empower men (and soon women) to take control of their health and unlock their full potential. Our people are the heart of everything we do and drive our success. We approach every project through our brand values:
- Fight for the customer
- Collaborate selflessly
- Communicate candidly, clearly and kindly
- Practice calculated risk-taking
- Maximize joy & gratitude
- Execute ruthlessly
Hone has been fully virtual from day one and will continue to be a remote-first employer.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate is a motivated multi-tasker who is invested in work that is fulfilling and impactful. They embrace change and tackle challenges with enthusiasm. They have an all-in disposition towards work, understanding that we are a fast-paced, high-growth organization with evolving priorities. They can excel at both independent tasks and collaborative work, leading with clear and candid communication. They exhibit humble leadershipthe ability to drive initiatives forward while remaining excited about continuous learning and development opportunities. They feel strongly about being part of a team that advocates for people to live longer and better lives.
The Role
Hone is looking for aSenior WordPress Developerto join our team. In this role, you will report to the Senior Director of Software Development. We are seeking a talented and experienced developer who will play a key role in developing and maintaining honehealth.com using WordPress, ensuring optimal performance, and incorporating industry-leading SEO strategies.
Primary Responsibilities
Key responsibilities for this role include (but are not limited to) the following:
- WordPress Development:
- Lead the development of WordPress websites, ensuring functionality, responsiveness, and a seamless user experience.
- Build and maintain custom themes, blocks, templates, and plugins to help meet our business requirements.
- Enhance website functionality by integrating with third-party APIs and services.
- Performance Optimization:
- Optimize website speed, performance, and overall user experience.
- Implement caching mechanisms and other performance-enhancing techniques.
- SEO Strategy Implementation:
- Implement SEO best practices throughout the website to increase organic traffic and search engine rankings.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical SEO issues affecting website performance in search engine results.
- Hosting and Security
- Deploy and manage WordPress instances in Microsoft Azure (or a similar cloud service), optimizing for performance and scalability.
- Ensure the security and stability of WordPress sites.
- Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, content creators, and marketing specialists, to align website development with overall business goals.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
Qualifications
In order to qualify for this role, candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Proven experience as a WordPress Developer with a strong portfolio of successful projects.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL.
- Proficient in custom theme and plugin development.
- Experience with optimizing WordPress sites and PHP servers for high traffic.
- Familiarity with CDN services and configurations (e.g., Azure Front Door, Cloudflare).
- In-depth knowledge of SEO best practices, including on-page and off-page optimization.
- Expertise in Google indexability, search console, and resolving technical SEO issues.
- A solid understanding of UX/UI best practices for websites.
- Experience with hosting (e.g., Azure, WP Engine, etc) and server management.
- Familiarity with web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) and SEO tools (e.g., SEMrush, Moz).
- Proficient in version control (Git).
- Experience with essential plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast, and Gravity Forms.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and adhere to deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and quality.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, frequently changing environment.
- Creative problem-solving skills with a results-driven mindset.
- Can quickly learn new technology systems and communication tools.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
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