by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Product Manager II
Location: Baltimore, MD or Remote
Fearless is looking for a Product Manager II to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).
What you’ll be doing:
We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.
The Product Manager II is the central team hub supporting strategic and tactical product activities. They are responsible for establishing and communicating the product’s long-term vision and strategy and how it supports and achieves the client’s goals and initiatives. They are responsible for creating and implementing production strategies that drive adoption, resource efficiency, and value delivery. This role closely aligns with the Product Owner’s and the client’s strategic plans. They conduct thorough problem identification, product planning, client expectation management, competitive analysis, user story creation, and backlog management. The PdM II consistently displays leadership and contributes to Fearless’s herd and product management practice.
Responsibilities and Contributions
Organizational and Leadership Role
- Guides the team, customer, and end users to build a product vision, roadmap, and strategy
- Aligns client stakeholders
- Translates roadmaps and visions into user stories and epics.
Functional Role
- Develops, communicates, and executes long-term product vision and strategy
- Creates the product roadmap to help clients formulate, prioritize, and implement short and long-term planning
- Manages the discovery phase to ensure proper problem identification validation
- Effectively manages stakeholder communication and ensures stakeholder requirements, business needs, and user needs are aligned
- Serves as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, identifying user personas, and acceptance criteria.
- Partners with clients to develop and monitor strategies for user adoption, cost savings, and informing product decisions
- Creates value propositions and partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Identifies and communicates risks, business opportunities, and dependencies to the client
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with the client, team members, and partner organizations
- Coaches and serves as a subject matter expert for client product owners.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies
Must-Have Skills
- Demonstrated experience as a product owner or product manager
- Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences
- Extensive knowledge of product ownership roles and a solid understanding of ownership gaps
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
Icing-on-the-Cake Skills
- Experience consulting in product management
- Product management experience in local, state, or federal government contracting and/or consulting
- Experience coaching and/or training internal and external audiences in product management best practices
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Engineering Manager, Orders
Location: Remote
Who we are
Recharge is the leader in powering physical subscriptions, making it one of the most important ecommerce engines. Recharge powers over 50M subscriptions worldwide and has processed more than 10B in transactions. More than 15K brands such as Verve Coffee Roasters, Bokksu, Who Gives A Crap, Billie, and Bite Toothpaste Bits rely on Recharge daily to grow their businesses and delight their customers.
Recharge’s mission is to enable brands and merchants to form strong, lasting relationships with their customers through recurring purchases. As merchants seek ways to drive more direct sales and distribution through their channels and move away from a reliance on traditional online marketing strategies, Recharge has made it possible to grow businesses with seamless, recurring customer transactions.
Bootstrapped until 2020, Recharge is valued at over 2.1B dollars and is a double unicorn with a total raise of 277M dollars. Join us as we work with our merchants to define the future of ecommerce.
Overview
The Orders team at Recharge is responsible for several services core to our business, including Order Generation & Syncing, Discounts, Shipping, and Taxes. Given the importance of these services, the Orders team is critical to the success of Recharge, our merchants, and their customers. Initiatives for this team are carefully selected and given the time, focus, and resources to ensure success in a predictable manner.
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to build, maintain, and improve these services. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for driving your team in planning and developing world-class features and working with individuals to grow in their careers. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with Staff & Principal Engineers in the Core Commerce organization to drive Engineering Initiatives. Additionally, you’ll work closely with your peers to collaborate on process improvements such as our Product Development Lifecycle, Engineering Onboarding, Planning & Estimations, and more.
Our Tech Stack: Python, Flask, GCP, Elasticsearch, Redis, SaaS, CloudSQL/MySQL, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, SignalFx, Sentry
What you’ll do
- Live by and champions all of our core values (#ownership, #empathy, #day-one, and #humility)
- Manage a first-class engineering team that will scale as the company and business grows, identifying and filling any team gaps
- Develop a team-oriented, supportive culture with a strong focus on creating a working environment that fosters collaboration, open communication, and delivering outcomes
- Be responsible for team output and hands-on day-to-day reviewing code
- Constantly improve team productivity, refine agile processes, and create methods to increase efficiency
- Investigate, analyze, and evangelize programming methodologies such as test-driven development
- Perform personnel management tasks for a team of developers, including performance reviews, compliance with company policies, mentoring, and helping plan career growth
- Train new software engineers on our best practices, standards, culture, and policies
- Collaborate with Product in setting roadmap and priorities to ensure deliverables are met as well as raising concerns identified early on
- Champion good habits (development techniques, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) within your team; improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Encourage active participation in all phases of the Product Development Lifecycle, and work with project management to remove impediments and provide visibility to stakeholders
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
- A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
- Willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls
- Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
- Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company
- Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects in a timely manner
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Track record of meeting schedules on time; clearly defining deliverables and timetables, with demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities in complex environments and manage teams to successful project completion
- Demonstrated ability as an effective mentor and coach who understands how to successfully integrate into a team of talented developers
- Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
Qualifications
- Typically, 7+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
- 4+ years experience managing high-performing agile development teams
- 3+ years prior experience programming in at least one OO language (Python preferred)
- 2+ years experience in cloud-native environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Prior e-commerce experience preferred
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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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