by Ronald Barron | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: UX Designer and Researcher
Location: US Nationwide – Remote
time type: Full time
Job Description:
Job Description
The Mid to Senior level UX Designer and Researcher is responsible for informing product decisions through deep user insight and strategic research initiatives. With these insights, you will deliver seamless and accessible experiences for caregivers and K-12 students who are switching to online schools. As a strategic thinker, you’ll help lead high-impact projects that help caregivers understand virtual learning, choose and enroll in the right school, and transition to a new educational journey. Not only will you help shape our customer experience, but you will also ensure that it’s accessible to an inclusive, wide-ranging audience and integrates with a larger brand and product portfolio.
You’re a strong problem solver and a trailblazer and should feel comfortable designing with constraints and working with ambiguity. You’re both analytical and empathetic and are equally comfortable with research methods and creating designs that reflect those learnings. Along with peers in research, product, engineering, SEO, and CRO, you’ll contribute to a highly collaborative, low-ego, and fast-paced team culture.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- You have experience working with UX and UI designers, including providing constructive feedback, managing workload, and fostering growth.
- You approach your craft from the perspective of participatory and human-centric design, while appreciating real-world context and constraints.
- Your design expertise encompasses a strong flair for visual design, interaction design, design systems, prototyping, and information architecture.
- You are a strong storyteller when leading design reviews, able to advocate for your design decisions and how they contribute to a broader product strategy.
- You’ll support iterative testing of design solutions to ensure alignment with user needs
- Designing accessible and inclusive experiences is secondhand nature for you, beyond just WCAG compliancy.
- You’ll collaborate with UX researchers, product designers, product managers, and data analysts to define research objectives, plan studies, and execute research initiatives
- You’ll conduct foundational and evaluative research using qualitative methodologies such as usability testing, user interviews, surveys, card sorts, and more
- You know how to gather relevant qualitative insights to paint a richer story alongside quantitative data.
- You’ll communicate research findings through written reports, artifacts, and presentations tailored to researchers, stakeholders, designers, and other audiences
- You are comfortable balancing priorities and juggling ambiguous problem spaces along with more well-defined design challenges.
- You have a growth mindset and are always looking for ways to iterate and improve.
- You are resourceful, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast.
- You’re passionate about education and how it shapes people’s lives.
- This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- You have at least 3+ years of relevant experience shipping products with an in-house product team.
- You have proficiency in design software such as Figma to collaborate with UX designers and developers
- You can’t live without auto layout.
- You have familiarity with analytical software, including Heap, Tableau, Qualtrics to inform design decisions
- Ability to clear required background check
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states, D.C.
- This is a home-based position with the ability to travel to our corporate office (10% of the time)
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote, Continental U.S. United States
Job Description:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will collaborate closely with our Development and IT teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications. You will take ownership of setting and maintaining service-level objectives (SLOs), building robust monitoring and alerting, and continually improving our infrastructure and processes to maximize up time and deliver exceptional customer experience. This role operates at the intersection of development and operations, reinforcing best practices, automating solutions, and reducing toil across systems and platforms.
This is a full-time, salaried, remote position headquartered in Herndon, VA. Candidate must reside within the Continental U.S. Eastern or Central time zones highly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Ensure Reliability & Performance: Own the observability of our systems, ensuring they meet established service-level objectives (SLOs) and maintain high availability.
- Cloud & Container Orchestration: Deploy, configure, and manage resources on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), focusing on secure and scalable infrastructures.
- Infrastructure Automation & Tooling: Set up and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines; drive continuous improvements to reduce manual work and risks.
- Monitoring & Alerting: Develop and refine comprehensive monitoring solutions (performance, uptime, error rates, etc.) to detect issues early and minimize downtime.
- Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Participate in on-call rotations; manage incidents through resolution, investigate root causes, and create blameless postmortems to prevent recurrences.
- Collaboration with Development: Partner with development teams to design and release services that are production-ready from day one, emphasizing reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Security & Compliance: Integrate security best practices into system design and operations; maintain compliance with SOC 2 and other relevant standards.
- Performance & Capacity Planning: Continuously assess system performance and capacity; propose and implement improvements to meet current and future demands.
- Technical Evangelism: Contribute to cultivating a culture of reliability through training, documentation, and mentorship across the organization.
Requirements
- Education & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or relevant work experience
- A minimum of 5+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or similar role in an IT environment, required
- System Administration Expertise:
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Clusters, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, required
- Deep familiarity with Windows or Linux environments and .NET or PHP stack applications, including IIS/Apache, SQL Server/MySQL, etc.
- Strong understanding of networking, firewalls, intrusion detection, and security best practices
- CI/CD & Automation:
- Proven administrative experience with tools like GIT, TFS, Bitbucket, and Bamboo for Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment
- Knowledge of automation testing tools such as SonarQube, Selenium, or comparable technologies
- Observability & Monitoring:
- Experience with performance profiling, logging, metrics collection, and alerting tools
- Competence in debugging solutions across diverse environments
- Cloud & Microservices:
- Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and microservices-based architectures
- Security Acumen:
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, OAUTH, SAML, encryption (public/private key, symmetric, asymmetric), token validation, and SSO
- Familiarity with security strategies to optimize performance while maintaining compliance (e.g., SOC 2)
- On-Call Support:
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to system emergencies 24/7 when necessary
- Monthly weekend rotation for Production Patching
- Certifications (nice to have):
- A+, MCP, Dell certifications
- Microsoft Office expertise
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Director, Data Science
Req ID: JR105795
Job Description:
Req ID: JR105795
At ZoomInfo, we encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. We value your take charge, take initiative, get stuff done attitude and will help you unlock your growth potential. One great choice can change everything. Thrive with us at ZoomInfo.
Director of Data Science
Location: Waltham, MA or Bethesda, MD or United States (Remote)
About the Role:
We’re looking for a hands-on Director of Data Science to lead our growing team in building AI-powered solutions that drive our sales and marketing products. You’ll guide a team of 9-10 data scientists (growing to 15) across the US and Canada, working closely with ML engineers, product teams, and engineering leads to deploy scalable AI solutions.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead R&D efforts in data science and AI, focusing on recommendation systems, search, and information retrieval capabilities
- Guide the team in building and deploying production-ready models and data pipelines
- Work closely with product owners and engineering leads across multiple pods
- Present data science capabilities both internally and externally, including publishing papers
- Mentor and develop data science talent while growing the team
- Drive best practices for scalable AI/ML solutions
- Oversee the integration of unstructured data into various ML models
What You’ll Need:
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
- 5+ years industry experience in data science after degree completion
- 3+ years managing data science teams in product-focused environments
- Deep expertise in recommendation systems, NLP, and knowledge graphs
- Strong coding skills and hands-on technical leadership experience
- Track record of deploying complex ML and GenAI systems in production
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments
Technical Skills:
- Recommendation systems
- Natural Language Processing and Gen AI (Language understanding, topic and sentiment modeling, semantic search)
- Knowledge graphs
- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Why You’ll Love It:
- Work with unique, heterogeneous datasets
- Build LLM and AI models with direct revenue impact
- Lead innovative work in knowledge graph applications
- Join a fast-growing team focused on AI-driven solutions
- Shape the technical direction of key products
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Lead Product Designer
Location: US
Work Type: Remote
Time Type: Full time
Job Type: Employee
Job Description:
Tapcheck is on a mission to rewire the way America gets paid. We’re redefining access to earned wages, disbursements, and financial freedom for millions of working people. We believe in building products that are bold, intuitive, and deeply human. And we believe design is not decoration – it’s strategy, advocacy, and leadership.
We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer who can move mountains with pixels, principles, and product sense. Someone who brings first-principles thinking, taste backed by research, and a spine of steel when advocating for the user. This is a high-impact leadership role for a product designer who wants to ship brilliant experiences and move the metric that matters.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the design vision for core product areas, connecting business objectives to human needs with clarity and conviction
- Lead design reviews and present design solutions clearly to engineering, product management, and other stakeholders
- Drive design from zero-to-one blue sky initiatives to fast, iterative experiments that validate, learn, and deliver
- Advocate and be a bold voice for the user and the customer. Hold the business accountable to CSAT, NPS, and the lived experience of our product
- Lead end-to-end design processes from user research, conceptual sketches, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups for mobile and web applications
- Maintain design systems and component libraries that scale excellence across every team and surface
- Partner deeply with product, engineering, marketing, and support to shape and ship end-to-end experiences
What You’ll Bring:
- 8+ years of product design experience across mobile and web applications. Experience shipping products that influence business metrics
- Demonstrated experience in designing user-centric digital products, with a strong understanding of user research, interaction design, and usability principles. You combine data and gut with equal strength
- Fluency in Figma, plus experience creating and evolving scalable design systems
- A portfolio that shows both your taste and your thinking – we want to see how you solve problems, not just how you polish pixels
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality user experiences
- Comfort working in ambiguity, fast cycles, and high-stakes decisions. You think strategically, move fast, and sweat the details
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Software Enginer III, Health
Location: Emeryville United States
Job Description:
Who We Are
Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com
Our Ways of Working
Our team spans multiple time zones, but real connection drives great work. We embrace remote flexibility, but twice a year, we come together-once as a company, once by department. These offsites aren’t just meetings; they’re key moments to collaborate, build trust, and strengthen the relationships that make us successful. Showing up every day matters.
Our Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- AWS
- Sidekiq
- MySQL
- Redis
- Native iOS and Android
What the Role Is
Babylist is looking for a passionate Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Babylist Health team. Launched in October 2022, Babylist Health aims to provide a more user-friendly and transparent way for people to purchase a breast pump through insurance with incredible opportunities to broaden offerings for pregnancy, child, and new parent health in the future. This distributed team is responsible for scaling the technical systems and creating a user-friendly storefront that will support Babylist Health’s goals. You will also work on new strategic initiatives to expand the health offerings as we grow this business. As part of the team, you will lead business critical projects and you will make important decisions about how our systems grow and scale.
Who You Are
- A high-performing engineer with 5+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering end-to-end solutions that drive business growth
- Thrive in a rapidly growing environment and are excited to lead business-critical projects that unlock new capabilities
- A talented engineer with experience in Ruby on Rails and React, eager to further develop your craft and the quality of your work
- Possess a growth mindset, excellent communication skills, and a hunger to learn new things
- Experience in e-commerce, healthcare payments, or consumer applications is a plus but not required
- Able to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving
- Capable of strong execution, shaping and delivering small projects independently, and have good systems thinking
How You Will Make An Impact
- Collaborate closely with our Product team to create new features in health, including product education and comparison tools, automating user support flows, and expanding our offerings of goods and services via health insurance
- Independently execute on cycle-long projects that are shaped for you or shape and execute on couple-week-long projects
- Level-up the team by asking questions on PRs and providing insightful reviews
- Demonstrate strong systems thinking and curiosity, always looking for ways to improve how things are done
- Build systems to scale Babylist Health to $100M in revenue and beyond over the next 3 years
- Become a subject matter expert within our health services, defining how these services and features will grow and scale
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