by Ronald Barron | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
VP, FP&A
NYC Or Remote
Finance + Accounting Finance /
Full-Time
/ Remote
As Olo’s VP, FP&A, reporting to the CFO, you will oversee the organization’s budgeting, forecasting, and cross-functional finance support. You will work closely with Olo’s executive team, business unit leaders, department heads, and key stakeholders to develop and implement short- and long-term financial models and strategies that align with the company’s strategic and financial objectives. In addition, you will provide valuable analytical insights and decision-making support to facilitate the achievement of our financial targets and drive overall business performance. To be successful in his role, you’ll need a broad strategic mindset, innate curiosity, executive presence, and strong financial planning process and systems experience.
You can work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or at Olo’s headquarters in NYC.
Key Areas of Focus
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Oversee Olo’s budgeting and forecasting process, for both long-term and short-term planning timeframes
- Work closely with the executive team, business unit leaders and various department-level budget owners in establishing and monitoring various budget and forecast decisions that align with company goals and objectives
- Drive accountability through the annual budgeting and forecast process by coordinating with budget owners to set financial targets, measuring progress, and proposing alternative solutions when necessary
- Implement scenario planning practices into overall planning processes, surfacing risks and opportunities to business and financial objectives
- Prepare accurate weekly and monthly KPI and financial reports along with variance analyses
- Oversee board-level FP&A reporting deliverables including budgets, forecasts, pacing, variance analysis
Operations; Systems and Processes
- Improve upon various FP&A processes by streamlining existing processes and leveraging automation where possible with existing financial planning tools, including Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Looker, and others
- Integrate various upstream systems into existing FP&A systems as a means to drive leverage, timeliness, and accuracy within the organization’s financial planning processes
Ad Hoc Analysis & Business Insights
- Develop and maintain various key performance indicators (KPI) and financial models to support decision-making and proactive business management
- Act as business thought leader in analyzing various performance metrics, industry data, and financial information to drive business insights
- Advise senior leaders on financial matters offering data-driven recommendations for operational efficiency and desired business outcomes
Cross-functional Support
- Assist the Strategy & Ops team in financial aspects relating to the company OKR process and ad hoc strategic analysis
- Support the Go-to-Market organization in pricing, packaging, deal analysis, and productivity planning
- Assist the Business Development and Corporate Development teams with ad hoc analysis related to new business ventures, renewal of existing relationships, and potential M&A.
- Collaborate with the Investor Relations team with items related to the quarterly earnings process, such as variance commentary, guidance, and messaging.
- Provide support to the People & Culture organization on compensation, benefits, and equity planning.
Team Leadership & Development
- Develop a team of FP&A professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring to foster a high-performing and motivated team
What We’ll Expect From You
- 12-15+ years of related experience with high exposure to executive leadership
- Experience with SaaS and fintech business models, preferably at a public company
- Demonstrated success in consistently producing timely and highly predictable financial models
- Innate curiosity to understand overall business and industry trends, and use these insights to devise ad hoc analysis to surface business risks and opportunities
- Strategic mindset with a track record of providing valuable insights and driving financial improvements across a business
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial concepts in a simplified way to leaders
- Strong multitasking skills with the ability to work on multiple, concurrent projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Experience project managing and implementing financial reporting systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- CFA preferred
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Manager
US Remote
Product /
Full-time
/ Remote
Product Managers at Exygy are focused on the planning and execution of successful product strategy, discovery, prototyping, validation, and building work for projects with different clients. In this role, you will be focusing on delivering and growing Bloom, a one-stop-shop platform for all affordable housing-related needs, an in-house product that we implement in partnership with different jurisdictions across the US. You will work with the Bloom team and our clients to identify needs, define and prioritize areas of focus, and execute different digital solutions. You’ll facilitate and manage a cross-functional team – consisting of Exygy team members (other Product Managers, designers, researchers, housing experts, and engineers), client team members, and contracted partners – to deliver different solutions for our housing-related portfolio of products.
The Product Manager role at Exygy is a dual role: 70% product management and 30% project management. You may manage digital solutions (features or new product areas) for different jurisdictions at any given time depending on the scope and scale of our different engagements. For example, Exygy is expanding its Bloom work across California and into other regions in America. We expect that the person in this role may play a critical role in addressing different product challenges and opportunities of implementing and scaling our housing product across multiple counties/cities.
You thrive in extracting key motivations and requirements across team members and stakeholders in order to create and prioritize solutions that solve user problems. Your focus on high standards will help you execute Agile processes to support delivery from kickoff, launch, and through product growth. Your communication and creative problem-solving will help anticipate blockers and navigate the day-to-day while your understanding of digital products will help you advocate for high-quality strategy, design, and engineering work. Your ability to balance multiple, dynamic projects that range in size will help our team maximize capacity. Finally, your leadership and people skills coupled with your attention to details will help guide projects to success.
Responsibilities
- Lead the product visioning alongside clients, that’s supported by user-centered discovery, and effectively champion it to the project team.
- Define project success and lead a multidisciplinary team toward successful execution using a comprehensive project plan, tools, and artifacts.
- Serve as the main project point of contact for clients, bringing along key stakeholders, guiding swift decision-making, and ensuring client happiness throughout the engagement.
- Shepherd clients through the product strategy and development life cycle by clearly articulating the process and how the workstreams fit together to achieve the product outcomes.
- Facilitate the strategy, design, and engineering processes when needed. For example, you may support one of our designers in running a user test or you may lead the discovery, ideation, and validation process of new feature sets for specific clients.
- Anticipate, navigate, and facilitate creative solutions to project hurdles and risks, including managing scope. Ensure high-quality work that is on time and budget, manage the project budget and scope, client reporting, invoicing, and staff allocation.
- Support business development calls with leads.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years as a product manager (or equivalent) working within client contexts to execute on design and technology projects, either at a consulting firm, full-service digital agency, or similar environment and role.
- Human and equity-centered design approach to the work and the ability to balance user needs with client business constraints.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as facilitative leadership skills. Ability to empathize with, influence, and motivate individuals. Ability to stay calm and responsive under pressure, managing change fluidly.
- Detail-oriented, with excellent management and organization skills. Able to keep track of many moving parts while smoothly adapting to new information or disruptions to the plan.
- Experience implementing Agile methodologies in complex organizations. Ability to facilitate requirements from multiple stakeholders and prioritize them into a detailed feature backlog.
- Experience managing stakeholders and projects for large, complex organizations. Ideally, previous experience as the Product Manager on a government digital product and experience leading large content management projects in Drupal and/or WordPress.
- Creative, entrepreneurial mindset. Enjoys making sense of ambiguity and a willingness to learn new skills, processes, and tools on the fly, constantly thinking about what can be improved.
- Commitment to the betterment of humanity. Passionate about designing and developing world-class products that make communities healthier and more resilient.
Nice to Have
- 3-5+ years working within client contexts to execute on design and technology projects, either at a consulting firm, full-service digital agency, or similar environment and role.
- Previous experience as the Product Manager on a government, civic tech or social impact digital product.
- A previous role in some portion of the product strategy, design, and engineering process. For example, a previous life as a: design researcher, UX/UI designer, content strategist, product marketer, front end or back end engineer, metrics lead, QA tester, etc.
- Ability to understand and analyze high level factors that influence product decisions, including market size and dynamics, revenue opportunities, business models, and the competitive landscape.
- Experience with digital metrics and analytics, defining KPIs, tracking conversion funnels, and extracting insight from data.
- Experience with building or growing SaaS products.
- A passion for housing and public policy issues.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Web Content Manager (remote)
United States
Remote
Full Time
Appfire is an enterprise collaboration software company that enables teams to plan and deliver their best work. Since launching in 2005 as one of the original Atlassian ecosystem partners, Appfire has built a portfolio of top-selling apps for more than 30,000 customers including 55% of Fortune 500 companies. As a product-led company, Appfire identifies gaps in industries serving developers and client support teams and then builds solutions that drive productivity and efficiency.
Appfire continues to grow exponentially, with teams spanning 20+ countries. We are financially strong, continuously meeting or exceeding revenue targets, and we invest heavily in strengthening the foundation of our organization. Being philanthropic is integral to operating our business, so we donate 1% of employee time, product, profit, and equity as part of our Pledge 1% commitment.
Come join our team!
Job Purpose and Overview
As a web content manager, you’ll ensure all necessary content is included on a website and is laid out in a way that suits the user. You’ll also keep everything up to date and accurate. The content you’ll manage can include web pages, images, videos, blog posts, guest articles, reviews and occasionally social media and marketing copy. You’ll be an expert in your organization’s content management system (CMS) and will produce user guides and deliver training, as well as work with the CMS developers and internal IT staff to ensure the system has been configured to meet the needs of the organization.
What You Will Do
- Manage your company CMS, working with developers and editors to ensure it’s meeting the needs of your organization
- Conduct content audits to identify gaps and redundancies in the site content
- Create and implement content schedules for people to produce or update content
- Produce maps and visualizations of the site to help staff understand the structure and function of the website
- Source, commission and sometimes edit images and videos
- Develop policies relating to your organization’s web content, such as a house style
- Analyze analytics data to learn how users interact with your site
- Survey users and hold focus groups to learn about how they view your site
- Train staff in writing and producing content for the web
- Occasionally update HTML and CSS on your site
- Stay knowledgeable about your site’s subject area.
What We Would Like To See
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects at once
- Location within Eastern Time Zone or a willingness to work EST hours on a daily basis
- Experience with one or more CMS
- Strategic, and able to oversee large projects and coordinate the work of others
- An excellent writer and editor, with good spelling and grammar and the ability to adapt to house styles
- Able to research, collate and summarize information from different sources
- Logical and analytical, with an ability to spot patterns, gaps and repetitions in web content
- Able to communicate confidently and clearly with a variety of stakeholders
- Technically minded, with an understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies
- Knowledgeable about the website’s users and industry
- Willing to stay up to date with developments in your subject area and in developments in the digital world
- Experience with Figma (preferred)
- Experience using Strapi CMS (preferred)
- Any HTML/CSS/JS experience a bonus (preferred)
- Experience with Atlassian tooling, such as Trello, Jira, and Confluence (preferred)
- Remote working experience (preferred)
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA, US; Remote, US
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 is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms. Continued success depends on the machine-learning systems, which crunch thousands of signals in a few hundred milliseconds, to identify the most relevant ads to show to pinners. You’ll join a talented team with high impact, which designs high-performance and efficient ML systems, in order to power the most critical and revenue-generating models at Pinterest.
What you’ll do:
- Make significant contribution to build next generation model inference and feature serving systems for Pinterest ads which powers 100x bigger models.
- Opportunities to use cutting edge ML technologies including GPU and LLMs to empower 100x bigger models in next 3 years.
- Tons of ambiguous problems and you will be tasked with building 0 to 1 solutions for all of them.
What we’re looking for:
- BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience in leading the design of large scale & production ML infra systems.
- Deep knowledge with at least one state-of-art programming language (Java, C++, Python).
- Deep knowledge with building distributed systems or recommendation infrastructure.
- Strong communicator and collaborative team player.
- [Preferred] Hands-on experience with at least one modeling framework (Pytorch or Tensorflow).
- [Preferred] Hands-on experience with model / hardware accelerator libraries (Cuda, Quantization).
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
UI UX Design Manager
locations
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Minneapolis – Nicollet Mall
Rogers, AR
Remote – USA
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R-80049
Our ambition is toenabledemocratization of data, information and insightsasa completelyagileorganizationthat buildsfantastic careersfor our peopleand is accountablefor delivering great workthat maximizesimpactand delivers growth.
This Data & Analytics function endeavours to create clear accountability for all aspects of Data Strategy, Data Management, Information Management, Analytics, and Insights. We would be accountable for impact of solutions, maintaining market relevance and minimising unnecessary overlaps in analytics products, ensuring simplicity and that our solutions better meet the needs of our users.
We have four key operating principles: One team | Connected to the business | Deploying with pace and discipline | Designing for experience
Our vision is to make Unileverdata intelligent,partnering with the business to powerkey decisions withdata, advanced analytics and AItoaccelerategrowth. Our 5 strategies to achieve this are:
Accelerate & simplify access to relevant data, information and insights
Build in-house, leading-edge data, information, insights & analytics capability
Lead the data & insights culture and careers to empower employees across Unilever
Rapidly embed analytics products, solutions and services to drive growth
Advance Information Automation at Scale
Who You Are and What You’ll Do
The UI / UX Design Manager is responsible for leading UX design work on all solution requirements across North America D&A. The role will be accountable for ensuring UX design components of proposals are completed in a timely fashion and contributing towards cost & time estimates for solution delivery. The UX lead will be accountable for detailed UX reviews of solutions delivered by third-parties to ensure compliance with designs.
- Design customer-first products and solutions ready to be built, tested and developed further to meet the needs of users
- Pushing the usability and market success of new and current interactive digital products, enabling us to fulfil our ambitious business objectives
- Creating wireframes, low/hi fidelity prototypes and visual designs that effectively communicate the product vision and user experience
- Running and managing ideation, brainstorming, user interviews and stakeholder workshops to experiment with different designs and validate assumptions
- Conducting research and analysis to understand user needs and behaviour
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- Bachelors Degree with 4+ years of relevant experience including Mastery of the interactive Development Process – Thorough knowledge and experience planning, documenting and leading interactive analytics products (Web, Mobile App, Intranet, Web App). Immersed in UX best practices.
- 5+ years of experience as a UX PM/Lead, Information Architect or related user experience position. Demonstrable experience with information architecture for websites and apps.
- Become a zealous user advocate Work to become an expert in the field of user experience design and people-centred digital products.
- Communicate externally and internally Facilitate internal team communication, bridging the gap between visual design, functional development, and content. Communicate the value of these disciplines to internal clients.
- A Designer’s Eye Must be able to translate complex concepts and interactions into visually coherent wireframes or prototypes. This is a strongly creative position.
- Passion Strong affinity for the digital lifestyle and zealous drive to make interactive technology better for real people.
- Client Interaction – An outgoing personality and ability to interact excellently with clients.
- Writing You must be able to write clearly, concisely and quickly. You must be able to create succinct requirements documentation for interactive projects.
- Forever Learning – Relentless desire to learn and leverage the latest Web technologies.
- Detail-oriented You must be highly organized to be an excellent Information Architect.
- Creativity – Possess problem-solving skills, an investigative mentality and a proactive nature.
- Independence – The ability to make things happen with limited direction. Excellent proactive attitude, take-charge personality and can-do demeanour.
- Stewardship – Be committed to delivering solutions on time and within budget.
- Personal Organization – Ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
- Tracked record of Conceiving, Planning and Leading the development of high-end, effective digital products. Create or assist with information architecture and UX design for complex interactive projects.
Desirable:
- Define digital strategies. Produce app maps, wireframes, prototypes and UX requirements documentation.
- Proficiency/expertise in: InDesign | Axure RP | Figma | JIRA | Other Interactive Prototyping Tools
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