by Ronald Barron | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Sr. Production Project Manager
Job ID30492
LocationRemote
The Senior Production Project Managerfunctions as a primary interface for clients both internal and/or external. The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for managing the daily activities of the project and developing project plans in support of the clients strategy and isultimately responsible for keepingthe pace and timing of the deliverables at the pace needed to deliver on-time, on-spec assignments as needed by the internal client.The Project Manager also maintains positive relations and has accountability for ensuring work performed is accurate and timely.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with team members to acquire all project information required to perform work.
- Participate in client strategy, planning and concept meetings as required
- Assigns work to meet identified schedules and priorities
- Scheduling, tracking, and knowing status of all jobs in production at all time
- Prioritize and delegate tasks to internal creative team to achieve client expectations
- Effectively allocates resources within the team or on shift as required to accomplish assigned tasks
- Effectively communicates information to all stakeholders
- Must have strong project management skills, ability to think strategically and manage multiple priorities, anticipate demands, coordinate stringent deadlines and properly estimate time for work
- Track team members hours logged to ensure hours are being logged consistently and then tracked to understand ensure client budgets are being met
- Uphold and enforce established processes and procedures to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work, while looking for opportunity to improve process and workflow
- Establish a strong understanding of our clients products and their positioning in the marketplace
- Coordinate multiple tasks and communicate with any necessary team members
- Share with the off-shore creative team the clients business directives
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis
Education:Bachelors degree in marketing, business, communications, graphic design or equivalent work experience
Experience:3+ years of experience in in project management and experience in creative production
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:N/A
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Understanding of the creative and production process
- Ability to maintain effective ongoing discussions and relationships
- Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse off-shore creative teams
- Strong organizational skills and excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- Strong problem-solving skills to troubleshoot questions and concerns
- Proactive and disciplined time management approach
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and working knowledge of design softwares and terminology
- Experience in multi-channel marketing is a plus
- Basic understanding of business accounting; experience with standard software programs such as Microsoft Excel, Word
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Product Owner (Remote)
United States
MN – Minneapolis
WI – Appleton
time type
Full time
job requisition id
REQ-38230
We exist to help people achieve financial clarity. At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all theyve been given.
At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our clients. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want todayand tomorrow.
Job Summary
The Voice of Client Listening Senior Product Owner works on a cross-functional team to facilitate implementation and scaling of Thrivents Voice of Client Listening product. The VOC listening product sits inside the larger capability of Enterprise Client Experience, which also includes two business teams. As such, while the Senior Product Owner is primarily responsible for direction-setting, discovery and prioritization associated with the VOC Listening product, the role is truly a cross-functional one as it involves aligning and collaborating across all three teams and broadly across the enterprise to enable execution and fulfillment against VOC Listening strategic imperatives in tandem with the broader strategic mandate of the Enterprise Client Experience capability.
To do so, the VOC Listening Senior Product Owner articulates, translates, and executes the Enterprise Client Experience capability leaderships long-term strategy and vision through tactical strategies and solutions to drive necessary business outcomes. This requires the right alignment and regular, transparent communication to ensure both roles deliver on their goals. Additionally, the VOC Listening Senior Product Owner works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members to rapidly deliver solutions that are key to the VOC Listening products scale, quality, and utility for the enterprise.
**We are open to candidates working remotely anywhere across the United States.
Job Responsibilities and Duties
- Works as a key team member on a cross-functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the enterprise.
- Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivents priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction. Leans into the work of developing and socializing the product strategy with senior leaders across the company.
- Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
- Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
- Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed. Coaches team members on effective product management and agile techniques to help mature the abilities of the entire team.
- Facilitates efforts across other product teams to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, in an effort to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization.
- As a functional leader of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings.
- Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
- Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis.
- Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
- Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organizations direction (Product/Agile/DevOps).
- Models Thrivents leadership competencies courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
- Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivents trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.
Job Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- 5-7 years relevant business experience.
- Understand fundamentals of iterative development and implementation of new, enterprise-wide capabilities.
- Expertise in the principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
- High level of organization and attention to detail.
- Passion for and understanding of Voice of Client implementation and enterprise application.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
Preferred:
- Certified Product Owner or similar certification.
- Prior experience in Voice of Customer enterprise implementation.
- Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies for complex or large-scope products.
- Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices.
- Expert in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
- Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
- Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives.
- Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote – USA
About GlossGenius
GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.
Over 70,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.
About the Role
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to join GlossGenius as one of the first Senior Site Reliability Engineer as part of the Platform Engineering team. Platform Engineering is the backbone of our technical infrastructure at GlossGenius, with a dual focus on elevating the developer experience and ensuring the reliability of our production environment. In essence, Platform Engineering is about creating an environment where developers thrive, armed with powerful tools, while also ensuring the robustness and scalability of the infrastructure that underpins our digital ventures.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining reliable, secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure and applications that empower over 70,000 Service Professionals to run their businesses. You will drive operational excellence while scaling our AWS footprint and fostering close collaboration with product and engineering teams.
You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Platform, and can be based remotely anywhere in the United States, Canada, or hybrid in our NYC Office.
What Youll Do
- Working with Product and Engineering peers to support an infrastructure platform that is reliable, scalable, secure and reduces manual toil
- Help GlossGenius scale its AWS cloud footprint, contributing to the technical direction
- Build tools to help engineers quickly identify problems, wherever they occur in the stack
- Drive and shape incident management practices across engineering
- Improve and augment the monitoring and alerting platform, and act as an SME for other teams wishing to have better visibility into their services
- Spread SRE culture throughout GlossGenius
- Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to ensure optimal application performance and scalability to build highly resilient systems
- Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action
What Were Looking For
- 4+ years of experience working with cloud technologies in Production Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps equivalent roles
- Demonstrated experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), having designed, built, and maintained cloud platforms that run production-grade services and traffic
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code principles and development
- Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, HTTP, and firewalls
- Experience building and maintaining cloud-first monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure that supports 24/7 enterprise platforms
- Participating in on-call rotations
- Experience with container technology using Docker and Kubernetes
- The ability to write high-quality code in a high-level programming language (e.g. Typescript, Ruby, Python)
- Experience executing projects from start to finish and are outcome-oriented
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Regional Transportation Manager
(Remote)
Location: Remote Pennsylvania United States of America
JobDescription:
At Pitney Bowes, we do the right thing, the right way. As a member of our team, you can too.
We have amazing people who are the driving force, the inspiration and foundation of our company. Our thriving culture can be broken down into four components: Client. Team. Win. Innovate.
We actively look for prospects who:
• Are passionate about client success.
• Enjoy collaborating with others.
• Strive to exceed expectations.
• Move boldly in the quest for superior and best in market solutions.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Regional Transportation Manager for each of our four U.S. regions. Candidates can be located anywhere in the continental United States. Preference for each position will be given to candidates residing in the same region. Our regions are: East, West, Central, and Central Logistics Center.
You are:
A strategic thinker skilled in transportation solutions for operational efficiency and improved customer satisfaction. Adept in data analysis, you drive performance and cost-saving initiatives. Your strong analytical and communication skills enable you to effectively collaborate with teams. Agile and forward-looking, you embrace change and foster continuous improvement within your area of responsibility.
You will:
- Formulate and execute the overarching transportation strategy for the region, driving regional cost-saving measures and devising comprehensive sourcing plans.
- Strategically oversee transportation activities across multiple locations, ensuring reliable service, adherence to KPIs, optimal equipment utilization, and achievement of financial targets.
- Maintain responsibility for regional financial outcomes, managing the transportation budget to maximize EBIT.
- Lead cross-functional teams in delivering reliable service, focusing on routing optimization, equipment utilization, and the development of a comprehensive sourcing strategy.
- Monitor network KPIs, employing insights to guide regional improvements and inform strategic decision-making.
- Provide technical feedback and implement corrective action plans based on performance metrics to drive improvements.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives, fostering a culture of efficiency and lean operations across the region.
- Conduct regular operational and financial performance reviews with General Managers (GMs) and Regional Vice Presidents (RVPs), ensuring transparency and proactive issue resolution.
- Spearhead cost reduction efforts and implement initiatives that support strategic company objectives and enhance customer and employee satisfaction.
- Develop high-performing teams, aligning staffing levels with operational demands.
- Direct Area Transportation Specialists, ensuring their effective leadership and oversight of daily operational tasks.
- Work closely with local leadership, including site GMs, to maintain compliance and safety standards.
- Collaborate with the Director of Network Design to identify and mitigate operational risks.
- Coordinate with the Director of Outsource Freight and regional carriers to manage costs, enhance service quality, and ensure efficient transportation planning.
As a Regional Transportation Manager, you have:
- Proven experience (minimum 5 years) in a transportation leadership role, managing complex logistics operations across multiple locations.
- A bachelor’s degree in business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related field; a master’s degree or advanced logistics certifications preferred.
- Strong financial acumen, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and maximizing earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT).
- Demonstrated ability to formulate and execute strategic transportation initiatives, with a track record of achieving cost savings and performance KPIs.
- Exceptional leadership skills, capable of developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent analytical and decision-making skills, using data-driven insights for strategic planning and continuous improvement efforts.
- Proficiency in transportation management systems (TMS), telematics, and relevant software.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in creating compelling visual presentations for leadership that convey complex data and strategic plans effectively.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategies and performance metrics to leadership, as well as to foster a collaborative working environment.
- Experience in vendor management, including negotiating contracts and overseeing carrier performance to enhance service quality and cost efficiency.
- Commitment to safety standards and risk mitigation.
- The agility and willingness to respond to change, driving innovation, and operational excellence.
- Ability to travel about 25-50% of time.
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Web Designer
at PetDesk
Remote
About this Role:
We are in search of an adept Web Designer to refine clients’ websites before their official launch, utilizing their expertise in WordPress and adherence to design best practices. This position offers the flexibility of remote work, providing the opportunity to shape impactful digital experiences. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and possesses a keen attention to detail.
Apply if youre excited to:
- Thoroughly review client notes and requests, implementing their feedback with meticulous detail
- Utilize creativity, SEO knowledge, and web best practices to update websites effectively
- Proactively communicate with Implementation and Web teams to address customer needs promptly
- Demonstrate a commitment to exceeding customer expectations and taking ownership of their requests
About You:
- You have 2 years of web design experience, encompassing front-end technologies and platforms such as HTML5, CSS3, and WordPress
- Proficiency in SEO principles
- You are a self-starter and quick learner
- Excellent multitasking skills and the ability to prioritize time effectively are among your strengths
- Nice-to-have skills include familiarity with Salesforce, Divi Theme, Canva, Google Platform, Photoshop, and Illustrator
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