by Ronald Barron | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote – United States
JR009846
At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.
We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose.
Honesty, Reliability, Collaboration, Curiosity, Passion
About the role and what you’ll be doing:
As the Senior Graphic Designer, you will play a crucial role in crafting compelling visuals that drive results across all marketing channels. You will also play a pivotal role in shaping Ensono’s visual identity, translating complex ideas into captivating designs that resonate with audiences and achieve marketing goals.
Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize, design, and produce professional and polished graphic materials that align with the company’s brand, aesthetic, and marketing strategy.
- Manage the creative service desk, ensuring effective and efficient handling of design requests from various departments including sales, delivery, and executive leadership.
- Establish and maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project timelines, deliverables, and expectations.
- Utilize the latest AI design tools and technology to streamline workflows, enhance creativity, and optimize design processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
- Create bold print and digital publications, demonstrating expertise in layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.
- Design compelling graphics and visual materials for events, including flyers, booth designs, and other promotional materials to enhance corporate presence at tradeshows and conferences.
- Refine and enhance existing PowerPoint presentations, elevating the visual narrative with a meticulous eye for detail and design aesthetics, while also creating custom graphics and templates that align with company branding and communication objectives.
- Collaborate with the marketing team to create visual materials for both print and digital campaigns, including dynamic digital ads, promotional materials, and social media content.
- Develop and oversee the production of animated videos, ensuring a cohesive brand narrative, and apply AI-based video editing tools to expedite the production process.
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and direction not only to junior designers but also to campaign managers and content creators, enabling them to draft basic design concepts and effectively communicate their ideas.
- Review and approve designs, artwork, photography, and graphics developed by other team members.
- Keep abreast of the latest design trends and techniques, with a particular focus on AI and machine learning advancements that can propel the design field forward.
- Work closely with external agencies, printers, and various vendors to ensure deadlines are met and material is of high quality, coordinating with AI-powered project management tools when applicable.
- Manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery within budgetary constraints.
- Oversee and contribute to the development of internal design processes, standards, and brand guidelines, integrating AI where appropriate to enhance design consistency and brand alignment.
- Regularly report on project status to upper management.
We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That’s why we’ve outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it’s important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or a related field.
- A minimum of 7 years of professional design experience, preferably in a senior role.
- Expert-level with the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience with Animaker or similar animation software.
- A strong portfolio showcasing a wide range of design skills, including both print and digital mediums.
- Exceptional creativity and innovation in graphic design with a keen eye for aesthetics and details.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of the latest design trends and the ability to apply them within a commercial context.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience leading a team or managing direct reports.
- Ability to receive constructive feedback and use it to improve the end product.
- High proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus due to collaboration with international teams in Europe.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a leadership role, building or managing a design team.
- Advanced knowledge of print production processes and techniques.
- Expertise in motion graphics and web design.
- Familiarity with UX/UI principles within B2B sector.
- Experience working in a cross-cultural environment with remote teams.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Product Designer II
Virtual
Req #195
At Watermark, we partner with institutions of higher education to improve student learning and institutional quality with proven, reliable, and user-friendly assessment management and e-portfolio solutions and supporting services. Watermark is a recognized leader in student assessment, portfolio and accreditation. We serve over 1,700 institutions and close to a million students across the country.
About Us
Watermark is a high-growth SaaS provider of assessment software for higher education institutions worldwide. Our global organization provides educational intelligence systems that help colleges and universities gain insights into student learning so they can improve the quality of educational programs, assess institutional effectiveness, and streamline the accreditation process. Watermark supports over 1,700 higher education institutions, including the majority of the top 200 U.S. News & World Report colleges. There is a reason we’ve won EdTech’s Overall Higher EdTech Solution of the Year! and we’re just getting started! Our phenomenal team of people is at the heart of everything we do join us to experience the Watermark Workplace difference firsthand.
About the Role
As a Product Designer, you are an integral part of our product team, tackling complex problems through the practice of human-centered design. Designers work to identify and account for often conflicting needs of diverse user groups within higher education, embracing the challenges of product innovation. We’re looking for a designer who is comfortable collaborating with team-members and across functions, someone who is used to providing frequent and clear communication, possesses a self-driven work ethic, and thrives in a collaborative environment where your teammates’ critiques are essential to your iterative process. This role is fully remote within the US.
Responsibilities of the Role
- Define user needs by leading/supporting research initiatives (such as interviews, focus groups, and client collaboration sessions) to create informed hypotheses that drive product direction alongside Product Managers.
- Effectively design solutions that balance user, product, and company goals at all levels of fidelity, including: user flows, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs leveraging and contributing to the Watermark Design System.
- Create informed design iterations, validating your work with data and real users.
- Incorporate feedback from team-wide critiques, shares impactful, constructive feedback for others.
- Design accessible and responsive solutions in order to deliver inclusive experiences for all users.
- Communicate effectively with product owners and engineers to ensure accurate implementation of user experience designs.
- Solve for edge-cases and make meaningful improvements to existing product experiences.
Required Skills & Experience
- Degree in HCI, Human Factors, Design, or a related discipline or 4+ years equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years working in a UX, IxD, product design or closely related role
- Fluency in exploratory research and usability studies; Ability to synthesize behavioral information into actionable insights
- Strong conceptualization and visual communication skills; Ability to distill abstract concepts into concrete design implications
- Proficiency in information architecture, multi-step flows, and interaction design
- Proficient knowledge of visual design principles
- Ability to produce high-fidelity interface designs using modern design tools
- Experience working within a design system, pattern library, or style guide
- Experience designing fully-responsive web applications and familiarity with browser technologies, including HTML, CSS and other modern front-end languages
- Demonstrated understanding of web accessibility, and how to design accessible applications
- Demonstrated ability to work in an Agile environment
- Strong time management and prioritization skills
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Technical Lead – Casting Tools
at Backstage
Remote USA
About Backstage
Backstage matches creative projects with the best talent. We help staff over 50,000 creative projects a year in film, television, commercials, branded content, theater, experiential marketing and more. At our core is a strong belief in breaking down barriers and providing direct access to the best talent in the creative industry. We’re a team of customer centric, analytical and creative problem solvers with a passion for helping our customers make amazing projects together.
Backstage Holdings’ mission is to empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. At our core is a strong belief in breaking down barriers and providing direct access to the best talent in the creative industry. We’re a team of customer centric, analytical and creative problem solvers with a passion for helping our customers make amazing projects together. Our mission: empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. Backstage provides solutions that manage the entire project lifecycle, including talent discovery and staffing, production, post production, and distribution. Our brands include Backstage, Coverfly, FilmFreeway, Final Draft, ShareGrid, Sonicbids, and Voice123. Visit our website for more information.
Backstage Holdings is part of Cast & Crew LLC, a family of individually innovative companies modernizing the ways in which content is created.
The Role:
We’re looking for a Tech Lead – Casting Tools at Backstage to lead a team of software engineers and be responsible for the delivery of high-quality software products. Our backend web team consists of eight engineers, and includes mid and senior level engineers, tech leads, and an engineering manager. This team is a part of Backstage’s larger product and engineering department, which numbers approximately thirty high-performance engineers, designers, product managers, analysts, and quality assurance resources. We value curiosity, trust, and impact, and we foster a culture of constant learning and improvement where teammates work together to accomplish user-focused initiatives. Our process is a modified Kanban process with the goal of delivering incremental value to the customer. Products are workshopped and then broken into milestones, with estimates driven by engineers, not managers. We uphold autonomy and trust our engineers to pick the best tools suited for their tasks, while working collaboratively towards mutual goals. In line with our goal to continue delivering value to the customer, we release multiple times a day, every day, and adhere to a robust QA and code review process before any code is released.
As our Tech Lead – Casting Tools, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to ensure that projects are delivered on time and meet business and customer requirements. In this role, you will also be responsible for building and maintaining a positive and collaborative team culture, as well as mentoring and developing team members to help them reach their full potential.
What You’ll Do:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time and meet business and customer requirements
- Act as a technical leader, providing guidance and direction to team members
- Mentor and develop team members to help them reach their full potential
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to drive technical and process improvements across the organization
- Review code for acceptance criteria, robustness, style, and maintainability
- Plan how and when to upgrade our infrastructure and toolset, and address technical debt in collaboration with other senior members of the engineering team
- Implement / maintain best practices to ensure platform uptime, stability, and responsiveness
- Actively contribute to the codebase, setting a high standard for code quality, scalability, and maintainability
What we’re looking for from you:
- Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public-facing web application
- Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team
- Advanced proficiency with Python and Django
- Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e., PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
- Experience with Elasticsearch a plus
- Experience in developing RESTful APIs
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
- Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
- Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
- Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
- Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with Javascript/React a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Product Manager
Location: Remote, USA
Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
As a Lead Product Manager in Banking and Money Movement, you will be responsible for owning the roadmap for at least one product line driving new product ideas from inception to launch; partnering with a dedicated engineering team to define technological design and scope; leading cross functional teams to build vendor relationships; implementing product operations and onboard clients; and leading client conversations with sales.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remote within the United States or from our Oakland, CA headquarters. We’d love for you to join us!
What You’ll Do
- Lead and inspire others with a product vision and roadmap
- Drive new product ideas from inception to launch
- Partner with a dedicated engineering lead to define technological design and scope including architecture, APIs, data models, migrations, and integrations.
- Writing and consulting on specs, managing design challenges, and taking the lead in promoting interoperability and scale.
- Partner with cross functional teams to build vendor relationships, implement product operations and onboard clients
- Investigate complex problems and design simple solutions for them.
- Analyze product usage and performance trends to inform product and business decisions
- Act as technical advisor to educate and evangelize feature(s) with customers via meetings, presentations and other forums
What We’re Looking For
- 6+ years of experience as a Product Manager working on shipping technically complex products and/or platforms.
- Strong fintech background with banking and money movement knowledge.
- Experience working directly with engineering teams with a clear understanding of their tradeoffs.
- Excellent technical acumen, curiosity, and familiarity with new technologies, APIs, programming languages, and databases.
- Deep customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution.
- A clear communicator, active listener, and cross-organizational relationship builder who can drive for results cross-functionally and influence others within the company.
- Define and translate a vision into detailed and actionable plans
- You have a bias towards action, are intellectually curious, execute efficiently, and are relentlessly resourceful.
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience building infrastructure, APIs, tooling within a growth-startup environment.
- STEM or business undergraduate. MBA, MS or equivalent a plus.
- Fintech experience is a plus.
- Experience building self-service products
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior UX Designer
Anywhere in the United States
Our growing User Experience Team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our efforts to bring a consumer-grade experience to Unanet’s enterprise platforms. This is an exceptional opportunity for growth, experimentation, and the challenge to create something truly remarkable for employees who use our software to complete their day-to-day work. All while having the support of an executive team that understands the importance of a user centered design processes.
What You’ll Do
Understand the industry and be the voice of the user for internal teams.
- Gain a deep familiarity with the industry, our business, competitors, customers, and the employees who use our software to complete their daily tasks.
- Work with the Director of User Experience and Principal UX Designer to work through research activities in our user research backlog.
- Engage our user research panel, Unanet First Look, as well as collaborate with our internal subject matter experts to understand and define the problems, personas, and experiences of the end users.
- Work with the Director of User Experience and Principal UX Designer to drive innovative UX product visions based on discoveries from your user research activities.
- Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, customers, and other stakeholders to introduce, iterate, and clarify requirements.
- Thoughtfully present research and discovery findings with internal teams to drive empathy for the end user and user-centered decisions.
Design complex enterprise software that solves real employee problems.
- Through both independent and collaborative design methods, create low and high-fidelity ideations of possible design solutions.
- Translate complex product requirements into simple, intuitive user flows.
- Take a data-driven approach to influence visual and interaction design decisions.
- Validate solutions, solve problems and meet user needs through usability testing.
- Present solutions with internal and external business stakeholders and gain buy-in through storytelling.
- Oversee the maintenance and application of visual design standards.
- Work with the Product Manager to define success metrics that drive desired business and UX outcomes.
Be a tireless advocate for exceptional user experiences.
- Explain ideas, designs, and best practices to successfully convince, motivate, and inspire stakeholders.
- Navigate conflict resolution within the teams as well as within projects and customer relationships.
- Drive overall UX maturity of the organization by coaching and collaborating with other UX designers on the team.
- Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis.
- Advocate for user-focused design, representing the voice of Unanet users throughout the design process.
Your First 90 Days
In your First 30 Days, your focus will be on understanding current products and users. You will utilize the learning platform, knowledge base, and marketing collateral for specific product training on both industry and the first product initiatives on which you will focus. You will meet with internal stakeholders to begin building those relationships and learn from their experience as well. You will work directly with the Director of User Experience to become familiar with our current processes including the user research backlog, research and design processes, and early adopter programs.
In Days 30 60, your focus will shift to the research and design of product initiatives and take on a user research backlog item. You will work with internal stakeholders on initial discovery then work closely with the Director of User Experience to plan and run your first user research session to understand user needs, pain points, and whether your proposed solution will solve their problems. You will engage with Product Managers to groom user stories, user flows, and high-fidelity concepts.
In Days 60 90, you will continue to refine and finalize concepts. You will update any current UX artifacts including user personas or competitive matrices based on your research findings. You will begin working on stories for other parts of the application and get more familiar with more teams. You will engage with two different development teams and Product Managers to groom user stories. You will assist development during regular scrum ceremonies by providing quick solutions to unblock their work. You will work with the Director of User Experience to start defining your career goals and path at Unanet.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of experience designing enterprise web and mobile applications.
- Direct experience across a range of intermediate design approaches and methodologies, from workshop facilitation, journey mapping, persona development, and similar activities.
- A proven track record of delivering simple, intuitive experiences for complex, data-heavy user problems and delivering strategic business value across multiple product channels.
- Must be adept at working in a matrix position where results must be achieved across various departments without line authority
- Experience with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
- Expertise with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma as well as developing and maintaining component libraries.
- Experience pivoting and navigating dynamic and changing situations.
Differentiators
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly articulate a problem space, sometimes in various ways to meet the needs of different stakeholders.
- Strong storytelling and data visualization skills.
- Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to balance multiple work streams across multiple teams and channels.
- Proactive, self-sufficient, and professional, with strong organizational and time management skills.
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