by Ronald Barron | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Director of Web and Organic Strategy
Remote
Marketing
Full time
Description
As the Director of Web & Organic Strategy, reporting to the VP of Performance Marketing, you are responsible for enhancing the online visibility and search engine ranking of our website and our programs, serving as the SEO subject matter expert. You will play a key role in developing our student base, evolving our brand, and enhancing the user experience. As a key team member within marketing, you will ensure alignment with the companys business objectives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and advocate for the importance of SEO across the organization.
Benefits
Who is American College of Education
Founded in 2005, American College of Education continues to be a leader in professional development through our online programs. The mission of ACE is to deliver high-quality, affordable and accessible online programs grounded in evidence-based content and relevant application. Our graduates are prepared to serve, lead and achieve personal and professional goals in diverse, evolving communities. As a socially conscious institution, were dedicated to making a positive impact and inspiring our students to do the same.
ACE is a premier organization that is continually recognized for its commitment to social responsibility. In 2016, ACE became aCertified B Corporation. As a socially conscious institution, we believe we have a responsibility to our students, alumni, employees, local communities, and society. We strive to make an impact in the world that goes well beyond our bottom line.
Who You Are
You are passionate about helping students achieve their educational goals.You thrive in a competitiveand collaborativeteam environment.You are comfortable working remotely and have experience collaborating with others in a virtual environment. You possess a strong attention to detail.
As the Director of Web & Organic Strategy, reporting to the VP of Performance Marketing, you are responsible for enhancing the online visibility and search engine ranking of our website and our programs, serving as the SEO subject matter expert. You will play a key role in developing our student base, evolving our brand, and enhancing the user experience. As a key team member within marketing, you will ensure alignment with the companys business objectives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and advocate for the importance of SEO across the organization.
Compensation
ACE is committed to paying a competitive wage while staying true to our mission of maintaining high quality, affordable programs for our students. The starting salary range for this position is $155,000 plus all full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus. Offers vary depending on education, prior experience, and expertise being applied to the role.
What We Look for in the Ideal Candidate
- Demonstrates self-reliance by meeting/exceeding workflow needs.
- Demonstratespositiveattitude and motivation, concern for students, teamwork, and excellent time management skills.
- Follows established processes as outlined by organization and leadership.
- Completes assigned duties based on daily business needs and individual skill set.
- Consistently produces a high volume of quality work.
- Capable, and adapts as needed, to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and with other department personnel.
- Must support and embrace the Colleges B Corp mission to improve the people and communities we serve through our civic engagement initiatives.
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- Must be “self-motivated” as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions and a team-player.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Builds and maintains student satisfaction.
- Recognizes and anticipates student needs.
Day to Day Responsibilities
In this role you will wear different hats, but your skills will be especially essential in thefollowingareas:
- Execute and refine an SEO-centered digital marketing strategy to expand reach and reduce acquisition costs.
- Lead the organic marketing team, including in-house and external agencies, and develop an SEO-focused group.
- Partner with marketing leaders to align marketing with organizational goals.
- Enhance team skills through ongoing training and professional development.
- Perform regular SEO audits and optimize content for better search results.
- Analyze data to inform strategic decisions and report insights to senior management.
- Innovate and implement cost-saving technologies in marketing practices.
- Maintain brand guidelines across all owned marketing channels.
- Monitor digital performance metrics and provide regular reports to leadership.
- Craft and update lead generation strategies based on market analysis.
- Oversee the website’s overall functionality, ensuring optimal performance and user experience.
- Internal owner for all internal website change requests, coordinating with the Director of Marketing Operations and ACE departments to prioritize and implement changes.
- Establish and enforce guidelines for website updates to maintain consistency and quality across all content.
- Manage the website’s technical and content updates with agency partners and in-house staff, ensuring they align with strategic business objectives.
- Evaluate and approve proposed changes from various departments, ensuring they meet established SEO and brand standards.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- 10+ years of digital performance marketing experience, preferably in higher education.
- 5+ years experience selecting and/or managing external digital and/or marketing agencies or managing specialized in-house teams.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in Marketing, Business, or related field. Masters preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in generating profitable growth in a highly competitive industry, education experience preferred.
- Proven ability to lead and manage high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to improve business processes.
- Strong experience consolidating and leveraging technology to lower costs.
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by Ronald Barron | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Mid-Level Full Stack API Engineer
Job FunctionEngineering
LocationUnited States
Workplace TypeRemote
Travel5%
Job ID14549
At Jack Henry, we deliver technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members.Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments. We hope youll join us. We cant do it without you.
We are seeking a talented full stack (React UI and C# .Net) engineerwith 5+ years of experience joining our team to develop a leading edge, modernized smart digital payment solutions. This position participates in the technical team to enhance our smart digital payment platform, and work with other teams to design implementations of new products and enhancements with system performance focus. Responsible for all phases of the development cycle: problem root cause analysis, technical design of solutions, prototype, code development, testing, release to QA and production.
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Oversee the timely, effective, and quality delivery of software into production.
- Define or refine standards for the UI UX design, and development processes.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, operations, and management to provide technical direction in requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Actively participate in pair/mob programming sessions.
- Performs continuous refactoring to ensure clean code in each sprint.
- Analyze, maintain, and improve scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Provide full stack technical/engineering support for new and existing applications from code delivery until the retirement of the application.
- Commit to doing whatever it takes to ensure quality product delivery. including test case reviews, test case writing, manual testing, performance testing and test automation, as needed.
- Collaboratively works with team to create test automation to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Performs release validation testing and beta support for projects.
- Takes part in daily stand-up meetings in an Agile development methodology.
- Continually seeks to improve technical and product knowledge through both self-learning as well as group learning opportunities.
- Perform Test Driven Development and unit test creation.
- Adhere to documented departmental and corporate standards.
- Collaboratively works with customer support team to resolve or diagnose defects.
- May perform other job duties as assigned.
What you’ll need to have:
- Bachelors and/or Masters degree in business, software engineering, or computer science
- Minimum of 8 years of technical experience in software development with 5+ years of full stack software development experience using React, C#/.Net and SQL.
- Understand relational database design and experience in writing efficient SQL.
- Proficient experience in C#/.Net, SQL, React and Redux front-end frameworks.
- Extended experience in APIs, front-end frameworks, React.js, Typescript, JSON, Yarn, Webpack, Javascript, CSS, UI UX design and development, and Agile delivery.
- Experience in Front end unit and integrations tests in Jest, react testing library and cypress.
- Experience in Git and hosted CI/CD services like github/bitbucket/azure devops
- Understand REST API best practice, and capable to design, develop and implement REST API endpoints using C#/.Net and SQL.
What would be nice for you to have:
- Has broad expertise or unique knowledge in payment, banking, credit union, and financial applications.
- Substantial experience with AWS services
- Superior knowledge of the following areas:
- Technical knowledge in software development methodologies
- Domain and industry knowledge
- All phases of the development cycle including concept, technical design, prototype, code development, testing, release to QA and implementation
- Business issues as they impact overall project plans
- Able to demonstrate in-depth experience in the following skills:
- Software design and implementation
- Analysis and design at multiple-project/multiple environment level
- Research, analysis and problem resolution
- Communication and interpersonal
- Organizational and time management
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by Ronald Barron | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Manager, User Research
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. Its the web, made better.
Were looking for a Senior Manager of UX Research to help us lead the UXR function to identify the future direction(s) for Webflows product and execute against that strategy with heavy customer engagement.
About the role
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent (Choose one)
- 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 candidates 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: [$226,100- $314,300]
- Zone B: [$212,600 – $295,500]
- Zone C: [$199,00 – $276,600]
- Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
- [CAD 257,300 – CAD 357,650]
- 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.
- Reporting to Head of Data & Insights
As a Senior Manager of User Research, youll
- Advocate for customers by effectively communicating the importance of user research as well as synthesizing and communicating insights from across the organization to drive decision making and strategy
- Establish the mission, vision, culture, and strategy for UX research that both inspires researchers to do impactful work while aligning with the needs of collaborators
- Collaborate with other functional leaders to plan, resource, and prioritize efforts, identify and address misalignments and escalations, and ensure customer-centric insights influence product strategy and roadmap decisions
- Contribute to hiring, nurturing, and retaining UX researchers. This includes fostering an inclusive team environment, refining career pathways, setting ambitious team goals and project objectives, offering mentorship through personalized coaching and feedback sessions, and much more
- Scale research by establishing and iterating on best practices, processes, methodologies, and tools for conducting user research
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
Youll thrive as a Senior Manager of User Research if you have:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in UX research, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
- Experience leading UX research initiatives to uncover unmet needs, inspire solutions, and inform product strategy and roadmaps for both 0 -> 1 opportunities and existing products
- Deep expertise in qualitative, quantitative, generative, and evaluative research methods, as well as how to operationalize research techniques and tools to drive self-service for product managers and designers
- Bias towards actions and ensure research is translated into recommendations that are distributed to relevant teams and across the organization.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights and recommendations
- Excellent communication and storytelling abilities, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders
- Experience working in an Agile development environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing talent
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by Ronald Barron | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Automation Tester
Location: AZ-Phoenix; US Remote
JobDescription:
GovCIO is currently hiring for a Automation/QA Tester to support the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to support two critical initiativesaimed at modernizing and upgrading core document management systems including IBM FileNet and integrating new document management technologies such as IBM DataCap, Microsoft Dyanmics, and Sharepoint. The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of experience in testing and quality assurance, with a strong background in testing MS Dynamics and Java/Oracle-based applications. Additionally, experience in test case development, automation using tools like Selenium, and familiarity with Agile methodologies, DevOps pipeline, and QA frameworks is essential. This position will be a fully remote position.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and develop comprehensive test plans and test cases in ADO.
- Execute manual and automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of MS Dynamics and Java/Oracle-based applications.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium in ADO, ensuring efficient test execution and coverage.
- Conduct regression testing, performance testing, and security testing to identify and address any issues or defects.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews, ensuring alignment with project timelines and objectives.
- Work closely with developers and stakeholders to identify and resolve defects, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software.
- Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous testing throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide regular status updates and reports on testing progress, issues, and risks to project stakeholders.
- Support the entire software development lifecycle, including testing, implementation, and maintenance, while upholding high software quality standards.
- Support change management as needed to help PBGC employees adapt to new technologies and application updates.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s with 8+ years (or commensurate experience) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5-8 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, with a focus on MS Dynamics and Java/Oracle-based applications.
- Proficiency in test case development, execution, and automation using tools like Selenium in ADO.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with testing document management systems, such as FileNet and SharePoint.
- Knowledge of Azure Cloud services and testing in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with other automation tools and frameworks, such as Cucumber and JUnit.
- Certification in software testing (e.g., ISTQB Certified Tester).
- Experience working in government or federal agency projects.
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by Ronald Barron | May 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Virtualization, VDI Administrator
Location: Remote in the United States
Type: Managed Services
Category: MS Client
Job Description:
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
AHEAD is searching for a Virtualization/VDI/Citrix Administrator to be a part of our Managed Services team. Candidates are eager to learn, customer focused, an effective communicator, self-initiating and can perform most tasks without direct oversight. Our Virtualization Administrator is a valued member of the Managed Services Technical Operations Team responsible for incident management, service request management, and change management virtualization support for all Managed Services customers. This position will report to and receive direction from the Manager, Technical Operations.
Responsibilities
- Provides Tier-2 technical support to clients
- Administer, maintain, and support a variety of complex client Horizon/Citrix environments
- Identify, analyze, and resolve problems on a variety of VDI platforms
- Handles day-to-day VMware vSphere operational tasks including but not limited to:
- Performance analysis of overall system health
- Disk and Network management, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Apply software updates and deploy new systems
- Troubleshooting performance or configuration issues on virtualization platform hardware
- Perform root cause analysis for issues / provide workarounds to ensure business continuity
- Troubleshooting performance or configuration issues on VDI platform hardware
- Utilizes a variety of technology tools and procedures to respond and resolve internal and external customer issues
- Ensure that all incident tickets, change records and service requests are fully documented, planned, resolved, and/or executed on time and per the customer’s expectations and within the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Create and maintain client technical documentation
- Communicate, internally and externally, the status of the incident ticket/service request directly with the customer or broadcast to a larger audience as defined per SLA
- Work with the Manager of Technical Operations to understand client business needs, identify solutions, and provide strategic recommendations
- Ensure that clients’ infrastructure is healthy, stable, documented, and configured with accepted technical best practices
- Manage incident/task workflow, prioritize requests, and maintain transparent communication.
- Manage and exceed client expectations
- Complete yearly training plan objectives and relevant certifications
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3+ years of related experience with VMware and vCenter required
- Experience with virtualization platform hardware such as Nutanix, Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS is required
- Minimum of 3+ years of related experience with VMware Horizon VDI and Citrix XenApp
- Managed Services or Consulting experience is a plus
- Experience with performance monitoring tools – LogicMonitor, SolarWinds, Control Up, etc.
- Ability to effectively interact with all levels of business via phone, written communication, and in-person
- Team collaboration, responsiveness, ability to multi-task
- Strong sense of urgency, ability to set priorities and perform the job with little guidance
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain collaborative and positive working relationships at all levels
- Reporting skills critical
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
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