by Ronald Barron | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sponsorship & Partnership Enablement Specialist
Location: US-Remote
Company Description
At Higher Logic, engagement happens here. As the industry-leading, human-focused engagement platform we deliver powerful online communities and communication tools to organizations looking to build, retain, and grow their member or customer base. We’re obsessed with engagement and, with over 13 years of experience in the industry, we’ve got it down to a science. We are a global company with offices throughout the US, Canada, and Australia. We serve more than 3,000 customers, representing over 350,000 online communities with over 200 million users across 42 countries worldwide. Our team is a thriving community of authentic people with diverse experiences and perspectives. We are honest and genuine and believe that sharing ideas and feedback openly helps us to be successful. We believe that diversity and empathy bring us #AllTogether to make us stronger. We learn from failure and successes because both help us to grow and learn. We strive to understand the why behind our actions and bring our best selves to work every day.
JOB SUMMARY
The Sponsorship & Partnership Enablement Specialist plays a pivotal role at Higher Logic and the Higher Education User Group, ensuring that sponsorship programs are seamlessly executed. This position intertwines the essential tasks of managing sponsor relationships, administrative functions, and logistical operations. By ensuring a smooth sponsorship administration, this role directly impacts and supports our revenue objectives, emphasizing the significance of our sponsorship initiatives and the efficiency of our operations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES
Sponsorship Enablement:
- Assist in the execution of sponsorship initiatives by ensuring that deliverables, timelines, and commitments are met.
- Facilitate communication between the company and sponsors, ensuring both parties are well-informed and engaged.
- Coordinate and track sponsorship assets such as branded materials, logos, company description, sponsor event registration, sponsor session content and any promotional content.
- Support in the organization of events, promotions, and campaigns related to sponsorships.
- Help in onboarding new sponsors by providing them with necessary resources and information.
- Ensure that all sponsorship documentation, contracts, and agreements are properly archived and accessible.
Administrative Duties:
- Handle incoming and outgoing communication including emails, phone calls, social post and postal mail.
- Ensure that signed sponsorship agreements are relayed to the finance team, both to record revenue accurately and to initiate the invoicing and payment procedures by the accounting department.
- Schedule meetings, manage calendars, and send reminders for the Executive Director & Director of Partnerships.
- Support the team in the preparation of regular reports and presentations.
- Organize, store, and print company documents as required.
- Perform clerical duties such as data entry, minutes, and record keeping.
- Assist in other ad-hoc administrative tasks as needed.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, communication, or related field.
- Proven experience in communication or customer facing roles, with preference given to candidates with a background in sponsorship activation, event sponsorship, or event planning a plus.
- Solid organizational skills with the ability to multitask.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Tech-savvy with proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and an aptitude for quickly adapting to new software; familiar with event and sponsorship management technology.
- Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
- Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team
- Ability to travel to provide onsite customer support
- Bi-lingual speaking is a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Production Design Manager
(contractor)
locations
Remote – United States
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted Yesterday
job requisition id
Req_10666
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.
Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
Production Design Managers at Amplify thrive on complex problem-solving, lead multi-faceted initiatives, and motivate creative teams with little to no oversight to deliver high quality work. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s English Language Arts curriculum.
Amplify’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Design Director to ensure that designers are working as efficiently as possible to support ELA’s design requirements
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, curriculum and design to ensure a smooth product development process
- Work with designers and teams to ensure the best, most relevant processes and practices are employed and evolved as necessary
- Build, track and manage multiple competing schedules for design deliverables with thorough documentation
- Own the path of communication between identifying problems and solving them
- Roll up your sleeves and contribute as a production designer when necessary
- Manage workload across the team, work with design leadership to allocate design time to projects, ensuring deadlines are met and setting up team members for overall success
- Be an advocate for design needs and proactively seek buy-in from leadership and negotiate timelines with other project managers
- Improve design production pipeline and asset delivery processes
- Maintain design project status and communicate across the product and stakeholder team
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years experience managing print production processes and workflow
- Experience creating and managing project schedules and trackers to meet deadlines
- Experience in high volume and fast paced environments
- Experience with creating project tracking tools or using platforms such as Trello or Workfront
- Experience with file storage and organization
- Track record both as an individual contributor and as manager of a team
- Strong communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with visual design
- Experience with managing design teams
- Experience with using Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
- Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of literacy education
- Experience with in-house creative services, studio, non-profit, or museum operations
- A great collection of icebreakers
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior UX Content Strategist
8866
United States /
Products – Design Studio /
Fulltime
/ Remote
Extreme Networks Named to Computerworld’s 2023 List of Best Places to Work in IT!
Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before and with double digit growth year over year, no provider is better positioned to deliver better outcomes on scale, than Extreme.
We believe in “walking the walk” of our strong core values which enable us to successfully advance together. Diversity and Inclusion is a vital part of our values and beliefs, and we’re proud to foster an environment where every Extreme employee can thrive.
Come become part of something big with us! We are a global leader, with hubs in North America, South America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.
This position is fully remote and can sit anywhere within the United States.
We are a team of passionate, creative technologists, UX Designers, UX Writers, UX Researchers, UX Strategists, and experience innovators who will build and deliver technology-centric solutions that accelerate a customer-first experience. You will feel like you’re working in a “start-up” with the stability and knowledge of a leading technology company.
As a Senior UX Content Strategist you will play a pivotal role in shaping our digital presence by developing and implementing effective content strategies across various platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including UX designers, developers, and marketing professionals, to ensure a seamless user journey and optimize the overall user experience.
You will work across the organization with engineering and product partners to operationalize content production across the product lifecycle. You will also work closely with UX Design, User Research and Info Dev to create dedicated processes around content governance, standards, as well as help define a strategy for content distribution across all platforms and users. You will be part of a team of the Context Design Team pairing with taxonomists, content strategists and UX writers. A significant part of the role is UX Design advocacy and implementing processes that support a content-led product design methodology.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement UX writing best practices and processes, contributing to the overall enterprise digital content production strategy.
- Collaborate with UX designers to create micro-copy and UX writing for wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts that effectively communicate to the end user and help them complete the purpose of visit.
- Collaborate on user research and analysis to gain insights into user behaviors, needs, and pain points, and leverage these insights to inform UX content writing practices.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive content playbook that aligns with industry standards, including standards of accessibility and inclusivity. Ensure content strategy aligns to user mental models and creates a consistent message about our product offerings.
- Partner with content creators and subject matter experts to ensure accurate and consistent labeling, tagging, and categorization of content.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging practices in AI generated content, data taxonomies, and enterprise SaaS, and share insights and knowledge with the team.
- Be a leader with a vision to help advance Extreme’s experience strategy globally and challenge others to change and adopt modern experience methodologies.
- Strategize against the full life cycle of systems and applications by working collaboratively with other leaders across the customer experience, product management and software engineering teams to deliver improved experiences for our users while progressing toward valuable business outcomes.
- Present content requirement and governance recommendations with inputs from research initiatives and ideation by assisting in testing prototypes while providing valuable synthesis and recommendations to the key stakeholders and users at Extreme Networks.
- Contribute to the content and design systems, UX writing, taxonomy strategy, wireframes and prototypes for feedback and testing to drive adoptable outcomes.
- Lead content reviews to ensure the production of high-quality design artifacts and content requirements across the team.
- Educate partners like product management and engineering on design and content practices.
The Contribution:
- Collaborate with UX designers to create intuitive and engaging user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that effectively communicate content hierarchy and user interactions.
- Drive the creation and maintenance of content style guides, content governance frameworks, and content performance metrics to ensure consistency and effectiveness.
- Lead content optimization efforts through A/B testing, user feedback analysis, and data-driven decision making.
- Partner with Product Managers and/or design leadership on initiatives that impact all the Design, Research, and Writing —including resourcing strategies, tool optimization and education, and process improvements that help us scale and deliver outcomes-based roadmaps across the product organization.
- Identify critical issues across our internal and cross-functional landscape and execute operational and strategic initiatives.
- Establishing and improving content strategy and DesignOps to DevOps workflows and processes to ensure we deliver quality content with predictability at scale.
- Follow lean startup and pairing methods with UX Engineering to ensure what was designed and validated gets built.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s degree in Communication, English, Marketing, Journalism, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in digital content writing and strategy, with a strong focus on user experience (UI writing and micro-copy). Enterprise/SaaS product experience a plus.
- An understanding of digital content global standards, such as WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards for content and design.
- Proven track record of successfully executing content strategies across multiple digital platforms and channels, with measurable results.
- Proficiency in leveraging user research and analytics tools to inform content decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail and a strong editorial mindset.
- Strong project management and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and effectively collaborating with designers, developers, and marketers.
- Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing meaningful, and helpful content in complex digital products, with measurable improvements in user experience.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information organization, and findability best practices.
- Proficient in using information architecture and taxonomy tools, as well as wireframing and prototyping tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex requirements into intuitive and scalable information structures.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and influence stakeholders.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Content Strategist
at Smartsheet
Bellevue, WA, USA
The Smartsheet marketing team seeks an experienced Senior Content Strategist to join our Brand Studio. This role will be focused on managing the end-to-end, cross-functional strategy to grow and evolve our organic search content program – building content to drive traffic to our website and then move visitors through the buyer journey.
You know how to measure content performance throughout the marketing and sales funnel in order to drive efforts that deliver repeated business results. And you will lead and contribute to the development and optimization of SEO content and content-centered programs.
In this role you’ll leverage your knowledge of and experience with the content strategy process. From using performance data, competitive research, and cross-functional business goals and objectives to make strategic content and program recommendations, through to building an editorial calendar, managing multiple vendors, teams, and contractors to develop and launch the content, and monitoring and reporting on the performance to recommend optimizations that will have incremental impact.
You are familiar with the tech sector, and ideally also have experience with business-to-business (B2B) communications. You’re strategic, empathetic, and know how to get things done. You like problem-solving and are motivated to figure out new ways to help a rapidly-growing business achieve its objectives within an increasingly competitive landscape.
You will report to our Sr Manager, Content Strategy located in our Bellevue office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.
You Will:
- Lead organic SEO content-centered programs with an eye toward audience, buyer journey, international markets, and measurable impact
- Analyze content performance to identify trends and make recommendations for optimizations and new content creation
- Partner with stakeholders, and collaborate cross-functionally, to build content that achieves business objectives (e.g. Web / Digital, Demand Gen, Business Intelligence, Finance)
- Track key market trends and competition to create the necessary content to address a shifting landscape
- Transform strategy into execution, by leading multiple vendors, contractors, and cross-functional partners to develop SEO content that drives website traffic for key audiences and use cases
- Perform content gap analyses to determine what type of content is missing and what could be needed
- Create, adjust, and manage the editorial calendar for your program, and ensure it rolls into the greater Marketing calendar
- Track to and manage program budgets, and regularly report to the executives on program performance in order to maintain and/or increase budgets
- Produce written content on behalf of the Smartsheet brand that is consistent with our brand voice, style, and tone
You Have:
- 4+ years of experience in writing, content creation, and content planning
- 2+ years of experience in content marketing for enterprise B2B SaaS companies
- 2+ years content strategy and program management experience
- Experience managing contract writers and editors
- Familiarity with current SEO trends and writing for organic ranking
- Familiarity with digital customer experiences and the buyer’s journey
- Knowledge of keyword research tools, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing
- Experience using SEO tools, Google Analytics, Tableau
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with design, development, campaigns, product and product marketing, and sales teams
- Experience managing outside partners such as agencies, vendors, contractors
- Great planning, collaboration, and strategic thinking skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business marketing, communications, journalism, or other related field
- People management experience preferred, not required
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Creative Director
locations
Remote – TX
Remote – FL
Remote – DE
Remote – MI
Remote USA
Remote – OH
Remote – WV
Remote – VT
Remote – NC
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R9147
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Creative Director
We are looking for a Creative Director to join our Brand and Communications team within our Marketing department. In this role, the Creative Director will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our creative vision to position athenahealth as the most admired and considered brand in healthcare IT. This individual will lead a talented team of creatives (design, copy and video) and work closely with cross-functional partners to drive the development of impactful marketing campaigns and programs that resonate with both internal and external B2B audiences.
The ideal candidate will be a creative problem solver that possesses the ability to adapt to a fast-paced delivery model with a keen ability to balance budget, resource, and time constraints. As part of the Brand and Performance team, the Creative Director be responsible for helping us build and amplify our brand. You’ll help guide our agency partners and play a pivotal role in crafting and embedding our brand throughout all creative and experiences.
The Team:The Brand and Communications team is making athenahealth unignorable. We’re building and amplifying a category-breaking brand that influences what people think,feeland do. We establish athenahealth as a beacon of employment and work to cultivate a culture of creativity and a community of brand-builders in support of advancing our vision.
Job Responsibilities
- Build, inspire, empower and manage a team of talented designers, copywriters, and producers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Lead the production of brand, creative and marketing materials. With an eye for simplicity, bring your passion for category-breaking creative and ensure work is meeting the highest standards.
- Push creative boundaries to expand athena’s capabilities to transform complex information into simple, easy to understand experiences to support the brand and business across new and immersive mediums and activations.
- Player/coach leader, with the ability to roll up your sleeves and provide creative support for high-visibility projects. When team is at capacity, we expect you to lean-in and create.
- Manage and evolve the creative briefing process to improve efficiencies, alignment, and proper discovery.
- Manage and optimize a high volume and fast-paced delivery model, with an ability to balance creative excellence with operational requirements (resources, budget, and timing).
- Develop talent, manage and direct creative team, and provide oversight of all team assignments, working closely with marketing operations on bandwidth, resourcing, process creation and refinement, and capacity models.
Typical Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or a related discipline
- 15+ years of experience in a design role
- A minimum of 10 years in a leadership position
- Proven experiencemanaging, scaling, and optimizing high-functioning multi-disciplinary creative teams in a fast-paced environment
- Preferred candidates will be located in Central or Eastern time zones
- A strong portfolio showcasing prior work, (please make sure to include/submit this with your resume)
- Demonstrated knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Sketch or Figmaas well as the Microsoft Office Suite includingPowerPoint
- Ability to communicate effectivelyas a member of a highlycollaborativeteam of designers,developers, copywriters, andstakeholders
- Ability to impact and influence high-level stakeholders – persuasively and effectively building confidence in creative organization and our ideas, concepts, and new approaches to working – through both formal and informal channels of collaboration and connection.
- Ability to engage and inspire others around our brand and creative storytelling. Player/coach leader who is willing to roll up their sleeves when necessary
- Have superior ability to prioritize and simplify complex information into clear, compelling creative.
- Have experience leading creative development within complex industries.
- Be a manager and leader of people who have a demonstrated ability to lead and motivate resources in both direct and indirect reporting relationships.
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