by Ronald Barron | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
User Experience Researcher
Location: Remote
The role:
- The User Experience Researcher will work with our users to better understand teachers’ and students’ interactions and behaviors on Newsela.
- You will conduct qualitative and quantitative research to inform and evaluate current and new features, products, and experiences.
- Additionally, you will evaluate the competitive landscape, existing customer journeys, and user goals to understand the needs of our users and inform product roadmap.
Why you’ll love this role:
- As a member of our growing Design team, you will have the opportunity to join a team that conducts UX research to understand how to improve the user experience of teachers, students, and admins.
- You will also gain exposure to collaborating with cross-functional teams, such as learning, and product marketing.
- You’ll also have the opportunity to share your research with different teams and evangelize the role of UX research.
- You will directly impact the design of a better user experience for our users, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide.
Why you’re a great fit:
- You have 5+ years of experience in testing experience and survey design, and you have proven knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and tools, with experience implementing them.
- You have demonstrated success in empathizing deeply with users and fiercely advocate from their perspective.
- You are able to leverage your collaboration with other researchers, designers, product managers, and marketing to ensure research you deliver is integrated into every aspect of the product and provides a holistic view of our users.
- You can synthesize multiple inputs (reporting data, metrics, qualitative, and quantitative insights) to arrive at recommendations that deliver user-focused outcomes for the team.
- You have experience integrating user research into product design practices.
- You also have exceptional communication and storytelling skills, constant attention to detail, a positive attitude, an open mind, and a passion for teamwork and collaboration.
- You have a portfolio of work samples focused on UX Research and Testing.
Base compensation range: $95,000 – $134,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience.
About Newsela:
One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels — from +100 of the best sources — that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.
Why you’ll love working at Newsela:
- Health & Wellness: Access to the world’s leading medical experts for healthcare (pets included!). Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul
- Work From Home: Almost all of our roles are fully remote – tech stipend included!
- Supporting ALL Families: Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself
- Time Off: Flexible PTO to recharge, including Sabbatical Leave
- Inclusive Experiences: Robust DEIB curriculum, Identity & Experience Groups (Affinity Groups + Employee Resource Group), Authentic & Transparent conversations with Executive Leadership Teams, and integration of DEIB lens across Talent lifecycle processes
- Professional Development: Holistic Learning & Development Programs that enable meaningful & inclusive experiences, programs that build future-focused competencies, cohort & community learning sessions that foster a sense of belonging, and individual development plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations to turn goals into reality.
- Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Quality Assurance Engineer Manager (Automation)
First Stop Health
Remote
Full Time
As our Quality Assurance Engineer Manager (Automation), you’ll be developing processes and managing our main QA projects including integrating our growing automation suite into our CD pipeline and automating accessibility and security testing, while contributing to our manual and automated test suite.
We employ technology that connects patients and physicians and fosters a patient experience that is unrivaled in the industry, and we seek a directed Quality Assurance Engineer Manager that will ensure our product continues to ship with high quality features. This role will report directly to the VP of Technology. Primary duties will include organizing and writing automated tests, developing strategies to test accessibility and security and incorporating our automated suite into our deployment pipeline. This role is on a growing team, where our process and methods are still being formed, so we’re looking for someone who is collaborative and can think strategically.
Job Requirements:
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- 6+ years working as a quality assurance engineer with at least 3 years of leadership experience preferred (this role will be player/coach)
- 3+ years experience writing automated tests and able to present a scalable solution for our automation needs
- 1+ year of experience working in Python
- Experience incorporating automated tests into a continuous delivery cycle
- Domain knowledge of WCAG guidelines
- Knowledge in multiple types of testing and how to best use each type to suit a project’s needs (E2E, Integration, UAT, Regression, etc.)
- Experience designing, and maintaining automated tests, executing REST API tests, Git (or other source control management equivalent)
- Ability to identify potential failures in software as well as the ability to track and report existing defects with precision and efficiency
- Experience using business requirements to define thorough manual test cases
Nice to Have’s:
- JIRA/Confluence/Zephyr experience
- Familiarity with Healthcare/Benefit space
- Comfort and/or experience in a fast-paced, growing environment
- Familiarity with accessibility tools like JAWS, ScreenReader, SiteImprove, etc.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Data Quality Analyst – Experian Health
Strong SQL experience, QA experience desired, 100% REMOTE (work anywhere in the US!)
- Employees can work remotely
- Full-time
- Department: Information Technology & Systems
- Role Type: Hybrid
- Employee Status: Regular
- Schedule: Full Time
- Shift: Day Shift
- Flexible Time Off: 20 Days
Company Description
At Experian Health, our employees have the opportunity to shape more than products – they shape the future of U.S. healthcare. Experian Health is a pioneer for innovations leading the way in revenue cycle management, identity management, patient engagement, and care management for hospitals, physician groups, labs, pharmacies and other risk-bearing entities. Our success relies on people who are given the freedom to imagine new frontiers in the rapidly changing healthcare space and push the boundaries of innovation. Help us realize our vision of applying data for good and changing the healthcare landscape for the better – for all of us.
Job Description
100% REMOTE (NOT HYBRID) – WORK ANYWHERE IN THE US
The primary responsibility of the Data Analyst will be to support application development leveraging strong SQL skills, knowledge of relational databases, and the skills to ensure custom coordination of benefit software, containing over 400 million rows of data, only allows accurate data to be loaded, and data integrity is maintained after bug fixes and enhancements.
This position will ensure this software is thoroughly tested from all angles focusing primarily on the backend by developing custom test plans and executing them using SQL, analyzing production data, and writing custom reports.
Job duties:
- Fully understand custom built Healthcare Medical Eligibility/Coordination of Benefits software solution. Understand the technical design and be able to traverse through and fully test the system using custom developed test plans using SQL
- Work collaboratively at ground level with senior level development staff to fully understand product requirements. Be willing to ask questions, push back as necessary, and ultimately ensure the new code meets stringent customer expectations
- Identify software defects, conduct research, develop plan for resolution, and engage appropriate internal resources as necessary
- Perform data analysis as needed on production data (400+ million rows of data)
- Collaborate with team members on, and provide peer review of, test plans, test cases, test data, and automation/tool enhancements.
- Work collaboratively with development team to make technical judgments based upon understanding of the business process and customer/user needs whereby a design change or modification should (or needs to be) changed.
- Support inquiries from client, operations, and customer support on content related questions and monitor areas for improvement.
- Design and document test cases to ensure optimal system performance with new code releases
- Utilize QA best practices
- Tests will be executed at the database level, using SQL
- Build automated tests using tools such as Selenium
- Operate load testing on Web Based Portal
- Run smoke tests and regression tests
- Prepare appropriate test data
- Communicate and document testing results in appropriate tool
- Maintain defect reporting and tracking
- Maintain current test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data.
- Availability for planned after hours deployments and unplanned issue resolution
- Planned deployments typically occur once a month on Thursday nights
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or other related field OR equivalent experience required
- At least 3 years combined prior business analyst, SQL programming, software QA, SQL data analysis
- Minimum 3 years of SQL usage in a professional setting
- Experience working as an analyst with large datasets (1+ million records) highly desired
- Experience with SDLC and iterative development processes, specifically Agile work processes highly desired
- Experience in working in a highly competitive team environment
- Strong SQL skills required (Data Analyst SQL skill set, not necessarily SQL programming)
- Focus on relational databases
- Business analyst knowledge is highly preferred
- QA knowledge is preferred. Willingness to be trained on QA fundamentals is required
- Coordination of Benefits, and/or Healthcare Revenue Cycle knowledge a plus
- Effective communication and relationship building skills
- Self-motivated, team player, but who can work independently
- Ability to adapt to an Agile/Scrum environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Problem-solving as part of a distributed team
- Time management and organizational skills
- Knowledge of the HIPAA transaction sets and requirements is desirable
- Become an expert on highly complex custom software – willingness to self-study and learn through trial and error required
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Website Strategist
(Remote Positions Available)
Remote – USA
Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv, coined the “AWS of manufacturing,” is a leading technology company transforming the $350 billion manufacturing industry. Our cutting-edge cloud platform uses AI and machine learning algorithms to help companies build hardware at the speed of software. Come join our growing team!
Impact In This Role
Fictiv is seeking a Website Strategist to oversee and manage all fictiv.com website content. Your goal is to develop an encompassing content strategy, site architecture, and user experience to drive visibility, engagement and acquisition with our audience. In this role you will be highly analytical but are also able to flex the right brain, offering creative solutions to challenges discovered through quantitative and qualitative data. You’re an excellent storyteller, proactive project manager, and have a passion for delighting customers through digital experiences.
You will report to the Sr. Digital Marketing Manager.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and execute website strategies to optimize the fictiv.com site for conversion.
- Build a system of measurement to monitor and deliver improved performance while creating a cadence for sharing actionable insights with stakeholders.
- Oversee and evolve website optimization to improve user experience using a/b/multivariate and user testing to inform changes.
- Work hand-in-glove with our Sr. Website Developer to bring an exceptional website experience to life.
- Collaborate closely with content, product, and other members of the marketing team to ensure the website is a robust tool for demand generation as well as an optimized resource for our target audiences.
- Partner with our Platform & Design team to ensure a seamless experience flow from website to order.
- Excellent understanding of UI/UX design with the applicable project management expertise to bring those experiences to life.
- Ensure website content is brand compliant and consistent in quality and tone of voice.
Desired Traits
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Marketing, Business, Computer Science or Communications.
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience leading website strategy in digital marketing or website optimization.
- Experience building and leading website initiatives from start to finish.
- Data analytics certification is a plus.
- Expert in conversion rate optimization and a/b/multivariate testing to improve lead generation, sales pipeline, and revenue.
- Strong knowledge of the following: Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Data Studio, as well as website optimization and personalization tools (e.g. Hotjar, Google Optimize).
- Experience with website ABM tools (like 6sense) or content intelligence platforms (like PathFactory) a plus.
- Experience working with WordPress is a plus.
- Experience building and managing a chat tool (preferably Drift) is a plus.
- Experience working with various levels of the organization including technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to travel 0-10% annually in the U.S. for team meetings, offsites, etc.
Perks and Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K plan
- Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
- Annual Education stipend
- Parental leave programs
- Paid volunteer days
- Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
- And much, much more!
Fictiv is continuing to expand our remote US workforce. Recent hires include professionals located in:
Arizona (AZ), California (CA), District of Columbia, (DC), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Iowa (IA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), Nevada (NV), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wyoming (WY)
Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.
About Fictiv
Our Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed and delivered to customers around the world.
This transformation is made possible through our technology-backed platform, our global network of manufacturing partners, and our people with deep expertise in hardware and software development.
We’re actively seeking potential teammates who can bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. We believe inclusion is the best way to create a strong, empathetic team. Our belief is that the best team is born from an environment that emphasizes respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Design Lead, Neighborhood Monetization
Location: US Remote
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.
Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 300,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
Meet Your Future NeighborsAs the Design Lead on the Neighborhood Monetization pillar, you’ll be a part of pillar leadership and manage a small team of designers focused on ensuring that Nextdoor drives incredible outcomes for our customers. You will be responsible for all design aspects, from Ad Creation and Management, Reporting, Analytics, and Ad formats across all of Nextdoor. You’re a player-coach, as excited to shape the strategy and the design vision as you are to get into designing the details and shipping the product.
You’re mission-oriented, deeply human-centered, and passionate about creating digital experiences that bring people closer in real life. You’re fascinated by neighborhood dynamics and human behavior and excited to design tools that empower neighbors to build stronger communities and transform how customers can reach engage and convert their neighbors in the local area. You’re ever-curious and let new insights change your mind and inspire new solutions. In this role, you’ll help define what the Neighborhood Monetization team takes on and guide your team toward building product experiences that enable people to build neighborhood relationships. You’ll work cross-functionally and across multiple platforms to shape the future of the Nextdoor product as we continue to grow.
The Impact You’ll Make
If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume and cover letter.
- You’ll partner with senior product management and engineering to shape the strategy for the Neighborhood Monetization pillar, while also leading a team of designers in articulating and implementing the vision
- You’ll envision, design, and ship delightful, user-centered, cross-platform experiences that build the fabric of local communities around the globe
- You’ll be involved in all aspects of the product development for a major product area; from strategy, research, prototyping, concept to interaction design, to final QA and code tweaks right before launch
- You’ll lead cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, design reviews and inspiring design team activities
- You’ll guide a small team of designers, helping them grow in their craft and career
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- 10+ years demonstrated experience shipping great mobile products in an agile environment.
- You’re a proven leader across the product development cycle: from strategy and research to synthesis and ideation; from going wide to explore many divergent concepts to focusing and honing in on the pixel-level details; from roadmapping to front-end development and implementation
- A supportive approach to leadership and growing designers’ careers
- A strong visual design sense and typographic skills, and the ability to design within, and help define, visual guidelines.
- Excitement about and expertise in creating rich interactive prototypes with Framer, Origami, or Principle
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
- You’re deeply curious about how to empower neighbors to strengthen their communities, and about what makes neighborhoods tick around the globe as we expand our footprint
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $140,000 to $230,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your ‘level’ of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.
We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.
Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Staff Application Engineer, Security
Location: San Francisco, CA
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
We are looking for an experienced Application Security Lead. This role will report to the Director of Information Security Technology and will be working closely with the Application Security Team.
This team builds tools to help identify and prevent vulnerabilities in Airbnb code. The team also hunts down vulnerabilities that are currently present using a combination of penetration testing and design review. Security Engineering is the primary contact for analyzing the security of a given application.
The Difference You Will Make:
In this role, you will help refine the direction of the application security team, mentor/train the current team, and help with board and executive level reporting. You will also work with Software Engineers to lead large-scale, cross-functional projects throughout the organization, as well as help with application level detection and incident response efforts.
A Typical Day:
- Develop tooling and frameworks to secure our products throughout the entire SDLC (static analysis, CSRF/XSS prevention libraries, CSP, code hardening efforts, etc)
- Security reviews and threat modeling across the entire company (new products, acquisitions, vendor integrations, etc)
- Security architecture, design, and code reviews across engineering
- Establish security goals across other departments
- Penetration tests conducted by internal engineers and third-party security firms
- Responsible for disclosure program via HackerOne
- Providing security training and promoting a culture of security across the engineering and product team
Your Expertise:
- Relevant engineering work experience and hands-on technical experience
- Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
- Been actively involved in setting product strategy
- Independently led technical team(s)
- Coding ability and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
- Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering
- Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
Nice to have:
- Experience with AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, …)
- Experience in Software development (Ruby, Java, Python, Golang)
- Familiar with version control (Git)
- Telemetry aggregation, query, and correlation (Athena, Elasticsearch, Kibana)
- Familiar with logging infrastructure (Syslog, Fluentd, Logstash)
- A desire to dive into Big Data, Data Science, Analytics, Machine Learning
How We’ll Take Care of You:
The starting base pay for this role is between $220,000 and $290,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: education, experience, and skills. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Your Location:
This position is US – Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb,Inc. can employ in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
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