by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Freelance Associate Director, Visual Design
Location: US
JobDescription:
VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.
The Associate Director, Design will be responsible for creating outstanding visual stories to keep users engaged throughout their digital experience. They will establish art direction and design for complex and dynamic experiences across multiple channels and devices.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct conceptual exploration, establish direction and design solutions, and ensure successful implementation of that direction through production.
- Help establish art direction of projects.
- Lead the design of scalable, flexible design systems that are optimized for a range of devices.
- Champion usability, accessibility, and mobile-friendly best practices.
- Preemptively identify problems and propose solutions.
- Assist with keeping deliverables and schedules aligned on a given project.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in Brand Design/Digital Branding and UI Design principles.
- Illustration ability (to create Line, Flat, Isometric, Montage, Geometric Abstraction, etc.)
- Experience designing complex and dynamic experiences across multiple digital channels for various devices and corporate Platform Systems.
- Advanced skills with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Craft, and Zeplin.
- Understand how information architecture and schematics translate into design.
- Exceptionally skilled in Design Branding and User Interfacing.
- Ability to organize information, prioritize, have attention to detail, and accurately follow procedures.
- Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently in team environments.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sr. UX Designer
Location: Remote
JobDescription:
ABOUT US
OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible. OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We’re on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.
OUR TEAM
At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.
To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.
OLIPOP is looking for a Sr. Digital Designer. This will be an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team and work to define the future at OLIPOP. You’ll work to ensure the best possible experience across all of our digital channels. You are curious, collaborative, enjoy solving business and technology problems, are solutions oriented and positive, have an eye for design and execute to pixel perfection.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partner with our in-house omnichannel and marketing teams to design digital experiences and wireframes for our digital platforms including drinkolipop.com, Amazon and email
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define design requirements for new or enhanced digital experiences
- Support User Acceptance Testings of implemented designs
- Identify, address and strategize solutions around impacting the customer journey and website performance (CRO)
- Establish and maintain a consistent UX and visual standard and brand identity across all OLIPOP digital entities
- Work cross functionally with the omnichannel team, designers, copywriters, web developers and marketing to build a best in class digital experience for OLIPOP customers
- Design and build landing pages in Figma and Shogun
- Design visually stunning email templates and visual assets for email marketing campaigns
- Build and implement email designs within email marketing platforms, such as Klaviyo
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of digital experience focused on eCommerce
- 5+ years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, animations and transitions a plus
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
- Extensive experience designing email templates within brand guidelines and knowledge of email channel best practices
- Experience with Shopify and Klaviyo a plus
- A strong digital portfolio showcasing your style and strengths across multiple digital touch points
- Strong understanding of current and emerging digital technologies
- Knowledge of best practices, including web accessibility, prototyping
- Strong organizational and communication skills, along with acute attention to detail
- Ability to present and pitch designs to executives
- Familiarity with the OLIPOP brand, consumer, and aesthetic – especially as we continue to evolve
- Experience working in startup/growth environment also a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Network Engineer III
locations
Anoka Corporate Headquarters
Remote
time type
Full time
The person filling this role will be working as a Senior Network Engineer, supporting the Vista Outdoor network infrastructure. They will take a lead role in planning, deploying, and supporting networking equipment. They will also take part in the day to day operations of the network team, including but not limited to handling service tickets, working with venders, and performing network maintenance.
This position reports to the IT Manager, Networking and is based out of our office in Anoka, MN. Also open to remote.
As the Network Engineer III, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Maintain the health of Vista Outdoor’s network
- Work trouble tickets/service requests
- Plan and implement changes
- Work with networking venders
- Mentor junior network engineers
- Interface with plant and office employees
- Network design & deployment
- Participate in regular on-call rotation
You have:
- Extensive knowledge of networking concepts in an enterprise network
- Networking School, vendor certification (CCNP preferred), or equivalent work experience
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Advanced Network troubleshooting skills
- 6+ years of networking experience
- Network Design Experience
- SD-WAN and MPLS experience
- OSPF and BGP Experience
- VoIP and Collaboration experience a plus
You might also have:
- Experience with Viptela SD-WAN
- Experience with Webex Voice and Contact Center
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sr. Technical Program Manager, Core & Ads
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
JobDescription:
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
Pinterest Technical Program Managers deliver critical & strategic outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries.
This role is within Product & Engineering orgs, which builds delightful frontend features and surfaces for Pinners / Advertisers as well as innovative backend engines that enhance and personalize those experiences. You will step into a crossfunctional leadership position alongside Engineering and Product Management leads, identifying areas that can be optimized, removing blockers, and implementing solutions to unlock velocity of projects and programs that directly impact top-line company metrics
What you’ll do:
- Proactively identify and drive key strategic programs and workstreams
- Translate strategic ideas into execution plans, and be accountable to drive them to completion
- Drive complex technical decisions across multiple teams
- Be a thought leader to your crossfunctional stakeholders by influencing the product roadmap during annual planning
- Work cross functionally with engineering, product, design, data analytics, and product marketing to turn ambiguous opportunities into actionable outcomes
- Define new processes from ground up to streamline collaboration between stakeholders
- Influence teams and build relationships with key stakeholders across disciplines and organizations
- Build effective and transparent communication channels to adaptively communicate schedules, priorities, status and risk to various functional stakeholders at all levels of the company
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as a technical program manager, or related experience
- Entrepreneurial spirit with strong leadership, who can develop and lead a new initiative from the ground up and thrive in ambiguity
- Passion for execution and getting things done
- Solid technical background and ability to quickly understand technical designs, challenges and risks. Experience breaking down complex problems and driving decision making
- Strong analytical abilities, able to create & monitor metrics, proactively identify growth opportunities & incidents
- Strong written, verbal communication skills and comfort in communicating nuanced, and often technical, concepts to internal stakeholders or external partners
- Ability to influence teams & drive alignment among multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in creating and driving efficient processes at scale
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Frontend Developer at Cro Metrics
Remote
The Frontend Developer/Engineer
We are seeking a Frontend Developer/Engineer to fill the specialized role of Experiment Engineer. An Experiment Engineer manufactures HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript code to run on top of client websites that alter the experience of the site in an effort to improve the conversion rates of key performance metrics. They are comfortable working across a variety of different front-end frameworks and libraries as well as APIs. They must also be comfortable working to validate concepts by choosing the cheapest route to MVP versus over-engineering any particular task. They are familiar with CRO platforms such as Optimizely, Convert, VWO, and Google Optimize.
Responsibilities include:
Develops efficient and robust experimentation code using HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript which is injected on top of existing client sites via experimentation software such as Optimizely, Convert, and VWO.
Engages as a technical consultant, providing web development expertise and insights, on internal and client-facing video calls.
Communicates thoroughly and sets clear expectations with Project Managers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and clients.
Offers ideas and provides feedback to help grow and scale Cro Metrics as a business.
Qualifications & Experience:
This is a high communication role, and while no specific experience is required, you must be capable of learning new technical concepts quickly, regularly, and be able to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
2+ years of experience writing HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript in a professional environment.
Critical thinking — You can analyze a problem, craft a solution, and love iterating on your own processes. Every experiment is unique and has a different set of challenges so we often find ourselves in uncharted waters.
Attention to detail — You have high attention to visual detail, can interpret specifications, can communicate detailed instructions, and leave no edge case unattended.
Updates internal documentation to help ensure site caveats and learnings are available and disseminated to peers.
Proficiency with Google Suite (Gmail, calendars, spreadsheets, etc).
Nice-to-haves:
Experience with A/B/n tests or with leading testing platforms such as Optimizely, Convert, VWO, etc.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Zoom.
- Experience or knowledge of Typescript
Has worked professionally in eCommerce or web development, especially modern frameworks (Shopify, WordPress, etc.) and libraries (React, Angular, etc).
Computer Science degree or professional experience in back-end development.
Experience working fully remotely.
Knowledge of User Experience concepts.
Knowledge of Agile concepts.
Agency experience.
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