by Ronald Barron | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Designer – Platforms
Remote – U.S.
The Role:
Splice is seeking a highly experienced Senior Product Designer to lead the design and development of user interfaces for our Marketplace Platform. As a Product Designer at Splice, you will play a crucial role in creating products that are loved by our users. You will collaborate with a diverse team of designers, researchers, product managers, engineers, customer experience associates, data scientists, and others to design, prototype, test, build, measure, and iterate on new and existing products. You will use a variety of methods, such as written communication and prototyping, to share your ideas and shape the future of music production.
Why Splice?
Music starts at Splice. Splice is cultivating the essential ecosystem for music creation with innovative audio products that inspire and enable artists. With sounds, skills and connected instruments – Splice is meeting the needs of a new generation of musicians and creators, alongside a diverse and trusted library of over 2 million pre-cleared samples. Splice is a global community of producers, innovators and musicians, offering creative solutions for creative challenges.
Our culture is our community; we hold ourselves and each other accountable as we work to continuously improve, navigate uncharted territory and change the industry for the better. As artist advocates we seek out diversity in who we hire, represent and how we collaborate, to ensure a more inclusive and open minded reality with access and freedom for all.
What You’ll Do:
- Envision and design the next generation of user interfaces for third-party partner experiences on our Marketplace Platform
- Create sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals and interactions
- Facilitate design projects from problem definition to production and beyond
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to drive projects forward and contribute to the overall direction of your area
- Use UX research and analytics to validate and evaluate design solution effectiveness
- Participate in design reviews and provide feedback
- Mentor other designers and participate in design candidate interviews
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience working as a Product Designer
- Experience authoring and managing design systems
- Demonstrated ability to turn abstract ideas into high-quality designs
- Portfolio showcasing a history of high-quality work
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and problems being solved
- Self-motivated and able to take ownership of work and attention to detail
- Humble and open to receiving and incorporating feedback
Nice to haves
- Passion for music and familiarity with creator culture
- Ability to prototype and/or build work with code
- Experience working at high-growth organizations
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Splice is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.
In accordance with New York law, the salary range for this role if filled within New York is $142,500 – $167,500. The range for the position in other geographies may vary based on market differences. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
[Long Term, Big Impact] Product Manager for Innovative New App at Established Education Company
This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of building the next big language learning site and mobile app. Parrot helps people learn through immersive first-person video and speech recognition.
Parrot is a new project started by the same company behind FluentU, a popular language learning app and website. We’re a profitable, stable company (started in 2011) with a long-term focus proudly self-funded. Many people know us through our blog, which is visited millions of times every month.
We offer you:
- the reliability of an established company
- the calmness and low drama environment of a 100% distributed team
- the dynamism and excitement of working on a startup
In this role, you will:
- own the mobile app, which is still in the early stages.
- work closely all members of the Parrot team (the founder of FluentU, developers, designers, content creators, and marketers).
What is this job about?
Your job will be to:
- help come up with product priorities
- create wireframes
- think through edge cases
- refine tasks and user stories
- benchmark competitors
- conduct user tests and summarize results
- work with designers who implement the wireframes
- suggest UX changes
- reply to developers about implementation questions
- analyze usage data to see the impact of the feature releases and identify priorities
How we work
- We’re a 100% distributed/remote team.
- All of our communication is text-based (mostly Asana) and we have a low-stress environment.
- We also have a flat collaborative environment.
- We make decisions based on logic/reason. We prioritize communicating clearly.
We’re looking for someone who:
- has meaningful product experience with B2C mobile apps
- has a strong understanding of mobile app UX
- is comfortable comprehensively thinking through scenarios (ie. does not just think about the “happy path”, but considers edge cases)
- has strong communication skills with clear and well-structured messages
- is fluent in English
- has experience creating wireframes and doing user testing
- has a sensitive/keen ear and can understand the implied meaning behind what users say (does not just take the response at face value)
- can do rapid prototyping on the fly based on user feedback
- applies changes or updates based on user feedback and not just gut intuition
- can organize tasks, scenarios, and discussions well
- has experience with product analytics tools like Amplitude
- can work at least 25 hours per week on a regular, long-term basis. Ideally, we are looking for someone to be full-time on this, and for this to be their sole focus.
Please note that this initial job is a 3-5 hour trial to see if there’s a mutual fit.
If you’re interested, please reply with:
- relevant work samples
- description of a few of your most relevant previous work experiences
- your weekly availability (the minimum amount that you can guarantee per week)
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Technical Recruiter
UNITED STATES /
PEOPLE – TALENT ACQUISITION TEAM /
FULL-TIME
/ REMOTE
About the role:
Aurora Solar is a fast-growing Series D company on a mission to create a future of solar energy for all. Aurora makes the software that is enabling society to transition to a world powered by solar power. It’s our goal to have every solar installation in the world pass through our software, which has already been used to design millions of solar projects. Named one of “The Best Remote-First Companies To Work for in 2023” by BuiltInSF.com and awarded #1 Solar Software platform by Solar Power World, Aurora is disrupting the energy industry and changing the course of history.
We’re looking for someone to help us grow our team quickly, but sustainably. Our ideal candidate will own and execute the entire pipeline—from identifying needs and crafting job postings to keeping candidates informed and helping onboard new hires. Our in-house recruiters will join our People Operations team and partner with stakeholders across the company as well as with the management team.
We are a passionate and diverse team that aspires to be the best place for the best people and we’re looking for talented individuals to accelerate our exponential growth as we continue to scale. If you are looking for a stimulating and fulfilling role, come join us!
What you’ll do:
- Manage the full lifecycle of the recruitment process from initial contact through offer acceptance for roles within our Engineering, Product, and Design teams
- Own and iterate on the interview processes for your searches to develop a diverse and robust pipeline of highly-qualified technical candidates
- Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and company stakeholders
- Create a world-class candidate experience that will scale with the company as we grow
What we value:
- 3+ years experience with a strong track record of sourcing, screening, and building technical and diverse talent pipelines without reliance on inbound applications or agency referrals
- Proven ability to parse specialized technical skills and qualifications
- Willingness and ability to work with stakeholders to forecast hiring needs, and incorporate feedback and suggestions
- Ability to naturally build rapport with candidates and further impactful candidate experiences
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Resourcefulness and self-starter, especially working in startup environments
Aurora is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce of people who believe in and are passionate about creating a future of solar energy for all. We are an equal opportunity employer, we welcome and consider qualified applicants regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. We encourage you to apply even if you believe that you do not meet all of the above criteria!
For San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.
Our mission at Aurora is to create a future of solar energy for all. We aim to reflect that inclusivity in the people who imagine and build our product by creating an environment where diversity is cherished and where anyone—regardless of background—can thrive. We strive to always do better and know that by empowering people, we can power the planet.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior, Lead Data Analyst
FULL TIME | ACHIEVE TEST PREP | OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES
Job Description
About Achieve Test Prep
We believe our employees empower our company and are the reason behind our success. We are the nation’s largest educational consultant and test prep center specializing in credit-by-examination degree paths, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey.
Most working adults find it challenging to overcome the many obstacles associated with obtaining their college degree. Achieve acts as a counselor, advocate, and partner helping students achieve their degree in less time, with less effort, and for less money utilizing an alternative path to earning college credit known as the credit-by-examination process. Essentially, Achieve helps students bypass all of the busywork associated with taking certain college courses the traditional way, by instead passing just one test-out exam. While our credit-by-examination programs can shorten the path to any degree at virtually any college, the field where we have the greatest impact is the nursing profession.
Employee engagement and development is one of the keys to our success at Achieve! Embracing a work-from-home model for the entire company, all employees enjoy a better work-life balance through flexible work schedules.
Job Description
As a Lead Data Analyst, you will become a thought partner to the senior leadership team. We are looking for an accomplished leader to help unlock insights in customer data coming from a wide range of sources. You’ll work with key stakeholders across Product, Development, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to turn data into information and information into insights. The ideal candidate is a creative self-starter and effective communicator who is comfortable wearing many hats. You should be an experienced data analyst who is excited about building a new function and more data-informed culture.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert on all internal data sources, identifying and documenting database and schema relationships.
- Build appropriate metrics frameworks and identify key data assets needed for a particular product(s)/system(s), address gaps and foresee needs. Awareness and utilization of best practices of peripheral products(s)/systems(s).
- Assess current data architecture and quality and develop systems to maintain clean data over time.
- Collaborate with the Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Development teams to identify and build reporting and analytics for internal use cases.
- Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
- Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Work with stakeholders across functions to assist with data-related technical issues.
Desired Skills & Experience
- 5+ years experience as a Data Analyst
- Expert in SQL, R, or other analytical tools. Experience with spreadsheets and data visualizations tools.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, validate, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with a remote team.
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau or Databox.
- Salesforce, Git and AWS experience is a plus.
- Able to move quickly, multi-task, and adapt to rapid changes of our growing market.
- Takes initiative and can execute with minimal supervision and high integrity.
- ENGLISH (Fluent Only) Must comprehend and communicate both written and verbally in English.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Content Strategist
Location: US National – Remote
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for a Senior Content Strategist for our Brand Strategy Team who will drive growth strategy across all of our brands and lead experimentation for content design. We want someone with a content design background, expertise level knowledge of web experience and experimentation, and the desire to solve big challenges. You will report to the Senior Director for Brand Management.
You will
- Create and execute hypotheses for growth strategies across the buyer’s journey within product, web, email, and paid channels
- Work with partners to test product positioning and identify opportunities for end-to-end funnel optimization
- Establish experimentation strategies within marketing channels and advise on new growth projects
- Work with other brand team members to ensure we follow our brand guidelines
You have
- 8 or more years of experience in a growth marketing, content design/strategy, or UX role
- Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically to deliver business results
- A solid understanding of conversion optimization, SEO best practices, growth marketing, and principles of experimentation across the marketing funnel
- A collaborative working style with a focus on building relationships and influencing teams
- A journalistic approach to content marketing and user-centric approach to designing content
- Must be comfortable dealing with complexity, multiple partners, and balancing the needs of both customers and the business
What we offer our employees
The base pay provided for this position ranges from $103,870/year to $175,605/year depending on geographic market and assuming a full-time schedule. Actual base pay is based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, education or training, skills, and experience.
Bonuses, commissions, and/or equity may also be offered as part of the total compensation package, in addition to a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; paid holidays; paid time off; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer
United States – Remote
About Square Roots
Square Roots is the technology leader in indoor farming. We create meaningful jobs in modern farming, empowering a new generation of leaders in agriculture. With production farms in Brooklyn, NY, Kenosha, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI (with more to come in 2022!). Square Roots is on a mission to responsibly bring our locally grown food to people in cities around the world, all year round.
The way we operate our business and operate our farms is better for local communities. Everyone on the Square Roots teamfrom farmers to engineers, commercial experts to operations specialistsis supported, connected, and empowered to do their best work to help Square Roots achieve its goals as a company.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a SeniorSoftware Engineer (Fullstack) to be an integral member of a product driven team that builds software to support our farming and business initiatives. You will help us develop and improve our proprietary web application, known as The Farmer Toolbelt, as well as support our scaling needs as we enter a period of fast growth. We have a wide range of technical solutions to figure out and scale – including improved user experience, data visualizations, and lots of workflow optimization. With your extensive experience you will guide architectural and technical decisions, as well as mentor the other members of the team.
These technology solutions will support business activities such as training farmers to grow food in our proprietary indoor farming system, exploring innovative ways to facilitate data collection to optimize growing conditions, and leveraging real-time data from our cloud-connected farms to proactively detect issues before they happen. This means being comfortable integrating existing apps, APIs, and services as well as developing new innovative solutions while prioritizing the end user experience. We have three campuses (Brooklyn, Grand Rapids, and Kenosha) and we are expanding rapidly to have a physical presence in many more cities in 2022, so our technology solutions have to scale appropriately.
You will:
- Create and iterate on full-stack web and IoT applications using a variety of technologies including but not limited to Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, GraphQL, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi, Python, AWS IoT Greengrass.
- Develop internal tools and workflow automation to support Farming, Marketing, Biz Dev, and Finance teams.
- Identify and solve the most important technical and business problems as part of a very collaborative product team.
- Guide overall architecture of our software projects.
- Help scale the team, interview candidates, and mentor junior employees.
- Be open to the possibility of leading a team.
You have experience with:
- Have 5+ years of Full-Stack developer experience, ideally in a startup environment.
- System design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Data modeling and relational/non-relational databases.
- Continuous integration and automatic deployments.
- React or a similar front-end web framework.
- Object-oriented programming languages such as Ruby or Python.
- Experience building IoT systems using frameworks such as AWS IoT Greengrass (Big Plus).
- You’ve had exposure to building and operating machine learning systems (Big Plus).
- You’ve grown food with hydroponics, other controlled-environment agriculture techniques, or from soil (Big Plus).
You are:
- Passionate about real, local food.
- Values-aligned.
You’ll love working at Square Roots because:
- We’re here to change the food system. You’ll have the opportunity to play a significant role in our work at the intersection of technology, farming, and the global food industry – and we’re only just getting started.
- Our team is driven by a shared set of values. These keep us aligned and remind us how to show up every day in the face of growth and ambiguity. Whether you’re working remotely or on the farms, collaboration, respect, optimism and humility are all embraced, and we seek to empower people at every step. Ask us about the rest!
- Benefits and perks, of course. We’re all here first and foremost to play our part in the mission, but medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible work life culture, and lots of samples of the delicious food we grow certainly do not hurt.
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