by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSOCIATE
Online Team Remote, United States
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time, and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Earthjustice is seeking a Social Media Associate to join its Communications team. This position is responsible for devising and executing the organization’s social media (SM) strategies. Major responsibilities include daily management and postings to key SM accounts, in particular, Twitter/X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Threads; including active SM engagement and monitoring of conversations with supporters and influencers; design of SM graphics and visuals; development of SM strategies to support the goals of Communications and other departments; tracking, analysis, and reporting of SM metrics, and experimentation and evaluation of new SM tools.
Responsibilities
Daily Management of Social Media Accounts (60%)
- Create daily social media content, process social media requests, and adapt rapid-fire communication tactics for organization’s social media channels, in particular Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
- Monitor breaking news and coordinate rapid responses on social media with Program Communications. Work on call after hours and weekends to provide guidance and create content for rapid response moments in cases of emergency.
- Work with Communications, Development, and Program staff to manage social media calendar, including coordination and scheduling of major advocacy campaigns.
- Engage with supporters on SM when warranted, including answering questions, driving comments, and guiding discussions.
Development of Social Media Strategies (30%)
- Participate in Creative team and Communication meetings to generate ideas for storytelling and content creation.
- Work with the Marketing team to research and build lists of influencers for outreach on major campaigns and initiatives.
- Work with the Digital Fundraising and Engagement team to implement organic and paid promotional strategies for major fundraising campaigns.
- Work with the Graphic Design team to create social media posting templates for production
- Work with the Program Comms team to implement paid promotional strategies for advocacy purposes.
- Work with Program Comms teams to map out distinct priorities and coalesce into a broader schedule/calendar.
- Monitor trends of peer organizations and general social media to look at environmental news trends, stylistic trends, and platform trends (especially as more platforms like Threads and Bluesky gain popularity).
Evaluation and Metrics (10%)
- Use data tools and platforms to identify and track key performance metrics.
- Compile reports on best-performing social media posts; make strategic recommendations to improve our program.
- Stay informed on the latest social media trends and share knowledge with wider Communications team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) with a major in communications, design, computer science, marketing, political science, or environmental studies preferred.
- Experience with marketing, communications, design and advocacy a plus.
- In-depth experience managing organizational social media accounts, especially Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Strong familiarity with other SM platforms, such as Reddit and Twitch.
- Strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability to plan and execute a variety of complicated projects. Strong attention to details a must.
- Excellent writing skills, especially in translating long-form narrative into shorter, impactful pieces of storytelling and script writing. Sense of humor, spontaneity, and creativity is a must.
- Strong command of visual design and typography, including strong photo selection and photo-editing skills; adept at Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere.
- Video editing and short form video shooting experience. On camera experience is a plus.
- Ability to work quickly and productively in a team and in an open work environment.
- Thorough command of Microsoft Office products, including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Contributes to the creation of a diverse, equitable and inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences.
- Demonstrates an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Freelance Graphic Designer
Remote
Contracted
Mid Level
WHO WE ARE
Prowess is a Seattle-based technology consulting firm that specializes in helping the largest enterprise technology companies define, manage and market their technology solutions and services. We take great pride in investing the time necessary to gain a deep understanding of our customers’ technology, their customers, and the stories and strategies they need to tell to be successful in the market. Our team of technology and marketing experts is immersed in the technology trends that affect our clients’ business, so we can add value at every stage of engagement to help them succeed.
WHO YOU ARE
Prowess Consulting is looking for a freelance Graphic Designer with exceptional skills when it comes to leadership, collaboration, teamwork, and flexibility. We like to build relationships with freelancers and invite them back for future projects. You are someone who takes a calm, independent approach to troubleshooting while developing and sharing innovative solutions when faced with a challenge or technical glitch. This individual is someone who will thrive in a team environment and can work independently on multiple projects simultaneously.
This is a contract role with variable work hours. This role can be worked remotely from anywhere in the United States however, there will need to be availability between the hours 8 AM until 5 PM Pacific. No third-party agencies, please.
***Please submit a portfolio or send work samples to recruiting@prowesscorp.com to be considered for this role.***
THE ROLE
- Present fresh ideas that push the boundaries of what “design” is defined as.
- Develop brand-appropriate graphic strategies and visual identity aesthetic executions that clearly communicate brand goals.
- Challenge conventional process and explore alternative creative ideas
- Responsible for conceptualizing and creating design deliverables that fit the needs of external clients.
- Present concepts to the Creative Director with confidence and quickly get up to speed on subject matter.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong understanding of fundamental design principles that affect typography, composition, color, use of space and hierarchy of information.
- Mastery in programs for advanced design development and program applications and efficiencies, which include Adobe Creative Suite and relevant software.
- Motion graphics a plus.
- A strong online portfolio showcasing your digital work is a must.
- Excellent teamwork, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience defining tone and visual language to establish a cohesive brand presentation across all deliverables.
- Experience multi-tasking, resolving competing priorities, and meeting project deadlines and budget constraints.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
- 10+ years of digital and/or print design experience, preferably in high-tech.
- B.A. degree in graphic design, interactive design, advertising, or another design-related program
- The hourly rate for this role will be $50-65 per hour as a 1099 contractor or $40-55 per hour as a W2 hourly employee
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Art Director
locations
USA Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R10357
Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.
Our Support teams work with multiple departments in a dynamic environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy, while offering the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of professionals. We work to comply with our company standards, exceed customer expectations and drive our Great Place to Work culture. Through the consistent delivery of quality services and understanding the needs of our business, we develop innovative improvements as we strive towards our company’s Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!
Credit Acceptance’s in-house creative team is responsible for producing exceptional concepts and inspiring content, and delivering results for the brand. We’re looking for a Senior Art Director to help us tell our story in new ways across a variety of B2B and B2C channels. You’re a big picture thinker who’s also adept at crafting captivating visuals with a keen eye for detail. You have a strong understanding of brand identity, how to extend design systems across a range of formats, and you have a POV on current design trends. You express yourself like a pro both when speaking and writing and can pitch a concept to stakeholders, explaining the reasons behind your visual choices.
Outcomes and Activities:
- Interpret and respond to creative briefs to formulate concepts for execution.
- Develop and direct effective visual solutions for communications and marketing channels, including email, direct mail, websites, social media posts, print and digital ads and assets, video scripts, and campaigns that align with the brand, messaging, and strategic goals.
- Collaborate with the Marketing and Creative teams, as well as with other stakeholders, to ideate and execute engaging visual solutions to meet objectives
- Live, breathe, and champion our new brand guidelines, as well as help to flesh them out as we learn where refinement is needed
- Communicate and present visual concepts effectively to peers and stakeholders
- Stay current with best practices in visual design across digital and traditional platforms
- Manage workload and schedules to meet deadlines
- Oversee the work of designers and freelancers and mentor them to meet their potential
Knowledge and Skills:
- An exceptional artistic vision with a natural ability to create visually compelling and impactful designs across a diverse range of mediums, including print, digital, social media, and video.
- Proficiency in conceptual thinking and translating ideas into innovative, original, and effective campaigns that push creative boundaries while staying true to the brand.
- The capacity to align your creative work with overarching marketing and branding strategies, ensuring that your work is not only imaginative but also effectively serves the desired goals.
- A proactive mindset to explore innovative design approaches and take calculated creative risks, pushing the boundaries of conventional design to deliver fresh and captivating visuals.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics and visual storytelling.
- Strong leadership skills to guide and inspire a team of designers, illustrators, and other creative professionals, fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth
- A willingness to receive and provide constructive feedback to continually refine and improve your work, fostering a collaborative and iterative creative process.
- The ability to adapt to changing project requirements, feedback, and priorities while maintaining a high level of creativity and quality.
- Passion for creativity, innovation, and using visual communications to drive possibility
- Team player who adds value with a solution-oriented mindset and an affinity for growth
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Advertising, or a related field, with a strong emphasis on design principles and execution or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5 years of art direction experience including a portfolio that demonstrates visual and concept development with an understanding of brand identity, consumer behavior, and design trends across multiple touchpoints
- A proven track record of creating visually stunning and impactful designs across various mediums, showcasing a deep understanding of layout, composition, color theory, typography, and visual hierarchy.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to articulate and present creative concepts effectively
- Expertise in industry-standard design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), as well as familiarity with other relevant tools for multimedia and interactive design
- Experience working on both B2B & B2C initiatives
- Experience ideating and designing for a variety of channels, including email, web, social, video, and direct mail.
- Experience with file management best practices and developing and/or maintaining a DAM system
- Experience managing and mentoring team members
Preferred:
- Mix of in-house and agency experience
- Familiarity with motion design and animation principles, enabling you to create dynamic and engaging visual content for video and interactive experiences
- Proficient knowledge of print production processes, including pre-press requirements, materials selection, and collaboration with print vendors to ensure high-quality final deliverables
- A basic understanding of UX/UI design principles to create designs that not only look great but also offer intuitive and user-friendly interactions
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Strategy and Operations Director- Cybersecurity
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.
We are looking for a Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Business Operations to support the strategic planning, execution, and growth of our security program. This role will be responsible for overseeing large-scale cross-functional security initiatives and goals and maintaining the cybersecurity strategy including resource management, financial planning, and forecasting strategic priorities to drive and ensure alignment and delivery across the organization. This role will also be responsible for cybersecurity services and brand management, security awareness, and enabling strategic risk-based decision-making through reporting scalable and sustainable operational metrics and KPIs. This role reports to the VP of Governance, Risk, & Compliance
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States or from our headquarters in Oakland, CA. We’d love for you to join us!
What You’ll Do
- Lead all cybersecurity-related strategic planning and reporting in conjunction with the CISO, Cybersecurity Leadership, and PMO
- Establish, measure, and communicate Key Performance Indicators and metrics via dashboards and scorecards to report the health, evolution, and effectiveness of the cybersecurity program
- Collaborate with the Cybersecurity Leadership team to develop, maintain, and drive execution of the Cybersecurity Program including long-range plans and associated roadmaps
- Led the organization’s resource management, financial planning, budget management, and vendor management activities in partnership with HR, Finance, and Legal
- Elevate cybersecurity awareness and culture through continuous training and effective service and brand management, ensuring that security is integrated into all aspects of Marqeta’s operations
What We’re Looking For
- A minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a Ph.D. with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience.
- Master’s or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 8-10 years of industry experience in Information Security, Technical Program, Project Management, or Risk Management
- Proven ability to develop structure, advance execution, and measure performance within various and complex projects, teams, and environment
- Strong working knowledge of Key Performance Indicators and security metrics
- Proven experience in financial planning and budget management
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to simplify key security messages and translate technical matters to non-technical audiences
- Experience driving the implementation of regulations and industry standards preferred (e.g. PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC2, SOX, NIST, GDPR, etc.)
- A strong bias toward action and ability to operate proactively and effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIPP, and CIPT are preferred but not required
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Solutions Engineer
Location: Remote – USA
We are looking for a passionate Solutions Engineer to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every developer can program the cloud.
As an early member of our Customer Experience team, you will assume immediate responsibilities in Enterprise service delivery engagements, embedding with the world’s most advanced cloud engineering teams, providing industry-leading technical guidance, and producing exemplary deliverables. We’re looking for a professional able to collaborate with customers and across the business to build out the processes, systems, and structures that will support Pulumi’s service delivery and growth. This is a customer-facing engineering role where your contributions to customer engagements will quickly establish and underpin reference architectures and cloud best practices. Our Customer Experience team is focused on helping Pulumi Enterprise and Born in the Cloud customers rapidly execute and optimize their usage of Pulumi across all of their cloud projects and teams.
Expect to be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with a world-class team of great people.
Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA. This role is remotely based. We are committed to our remote workforce and building a cohesive team.
In This Job You Will:
- Demonstrate curiosity, creativity, acumen and technical excellence as the lead Pulumi technical resource in complex cloud engineering projects at Pulumi customers.
- Write quality code Pulumi code deliverables that can be immediately consumed in production scale, business critical cloud operations.
- Learn and be responsible for deliverables and reference architectures spanning programming languages, infrastructure providers, and open source and commercial cloud services.
- Act as a trusted advisor and an extension of some of the most sophisticated cloud and platform engineering teams in the world.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert in a specific domain related to DevSecOps, cloud providers, development best practices and/or solutions architecture.
- Provide timely, responsive and collaborative engagement with your assigned accounts; coordinating with distributed teams to accomplish asynchronous objectives and tasks.
- Partner closely with Pulumi leadership to build repeatable engagement and delivery models that delight our customers and expand resources under management as we expand the team and our capabilities
- Close the loop between customers, product, and engineering teams, championing the product to the customer, and bringing their requirements to the roadmap.
- Be challenged, solve new problems, teach about our technologies, and figure out new, better ways to delight our customers.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Have:
- 8+ years of experience in complex software engineering or highly relatable functions involving scoping, prioritizing, and managing cloud architecture and engineering deliverables.
- 5+ years in a customer-facing role, including experience organizing and managing customer engagements, expectations, outcomes, and emotions both proactively and reactively.
- Deep familiarity with core web infrastructure, application modernization, and software development best practices, Open Source technologies, and public and private cloud platforms.
- Proficiency in using at least one Infrastructure-as-Code tool (eg. Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CDK), and should be comfortable authoring readable maintainable code in one or more of the following; Go (Strong preference) Python, TypeScript, Java.
- Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers.
- Drive to creatively influence revenue and pride in the growth of the business channels.
- Experience building positive professional relationships with developers and executives.
- Impeccable written, verbal, and in-person communication skills.
- Professionalism, attention to detail, and strong follow-up.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, charting a course, and driving to execute.
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