by Ronald Barron | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Game Designer
Location: US National – Fully Remote
At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!
Are you a game designer with a deep love for Dungeons & Dragons?
We’re seeking an engaging, hardworking, and player-focused Lead Game Designer to join our team building the future of Dungeons & Dragons’ digital play experience! In this role you will plan, detail, and supervise the creation of intelligent tools and digital content for all players, while also aligning with the business and design goals of the product. You will be an advocate for the player experience and the design ethos of the studio, collaborating in real-time with product managers, programmers, and UX designers to deliver the highest quality results.
Applicants should be enthusiastic about solving unique problems, have a proven track record of leading diverse teams in a variety of game genres, and be ready to immerse themselves in the work of digitizing the world’s greatest role-playing game.
What You’ll Do:
- Formulate Tactics: Collaborate with the Game Director on overall strategy and devise your own plans to achieve these goals.
- Lead the Way: Help the team understand how and why we are building specific features, own the process, and deliver results to the players.
- Explore Dungeons: Build up and maintain detailed documentation for new features with your team, leaving no pathway unexplored.
- Min-max the Game: Get the most out of features and systems with tools that empower both content designers and players.
- Fire up the Forge: Jump in and create content or prototype when needed, take control of your vision.
- Join the Party: Regularly play the game, filter feedback and suggestions from other members of the team.
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven experience as a game designer – minimum 6 years.
- At least 1 significant shipped project with lead design responsibilities.
- Deep knowledge of how to make games and how to “find the fun.”
- Strong analytical skills and a love for efficient problem solving, understanding when to use data to help make decisions.
- Experience with Dungeons & Dragons / TTRPG design and a drive to keep updated with the latest trends in the industry.
- Positive, direct, collaborative communication to improve our shared vision.
- Flexible, adaptable approach with a constant appetite for new knowledge and experiences.
- Motivated and self-sufficient, able to mentor and lead a diverse team of developers, artists, and designers.
- Understanding of UX concepts and ability to build flow charts.
- Understanding of the modern web environment, including HTML, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript, React and Typescript.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Experience)
Location: Remote US
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
The Merchant Enablement team builds and maintains Client UX and APIs in Affirm’s Merchant Portal and merchant Self Service onboarding flows. The goal of the team is to reduce complexity of merchant onboarding and augment merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities, as well as expand their servicing capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features. You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to support the growth of the company by launching new products.
We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!
What You’ll Do
- Work with product managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and commercial initiatives.
- Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others.
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
- Improve the current platform’s extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion.
- Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.
What We Look For
- 2+ years proven experience as a software engineer
- Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
- Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks
- Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
Location – Remote US
Grade – USA29
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here.
If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways not just candidates who check all the boxes.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Staff Product Manager
at Grow Therapy
Remote
About us:
We’re on a mission to fundamentally transform mental healthcare accessibility. Grow Therapy empowers therapists to launch and grow thriving insurance-accepting private practices. We’re creating game-changing technology to build America’s biggest behavioral healthcare group and ensure that anyone can afford quality mental healthcare. Following the mass increase in depression and anxiety from the pandemic, the need for accessibility is more important than ever.
To make our vision for mental healthcare a reality, we’re building a team of entrepreneurs and mission-driven go-getters. Our founders come from Harvard Medical School, Stripe, and Blackstone, and are champions of balancing bold ambitions with a culture that promotes holistic well-being. Since launching in 2020, Grow has raised over $90M from top VCs and angel investors, including TCV, Transformation Capital, SignalFire, Village Global, CoFound, and leaders of Oscar, Nurx, Quartet, Airbnb, and Blackstone.
If you or a loved one has ever tried to find an in-network therapist, you may have already experienced how hard it is to find a therapist that’s the right fit for you, understand the costs associated with the appointment, or figure out if you’re covered by your insurance. We are hiring our third product manager to create a game-changing experience that helps clients manage their entire mental health journey.
This is an opportunity to build technology that brings the therapy experience into the 21st century with a stellar engineering team.
As part of this role you will:
- Own the product roadmap for the client portal: You’ll work closely with the CTO and COO and use your learnings from talking with users and clinical advisors to figure out how to build digital health tools that improve clients’ therapy experiences
- Be a speakerphone for users: You’ll drive UXR for mental health clients, synthesize those learnings, and use it to inform the product roadmap
- Set best practices and culture for product at Grow: You’ll play a huge role in deciding how we hire and recruit product managers in the future
Requirements
- 4+ years of product management experience (startup and healthcare experience is a plus but not required)
- Collaborative. You have experience working with designers and engineering teams
- User Empathy. You relish talking to users, understanding their unique pain points, and using that deep understanding to build products from first principles.
- Scrappy. You’ll do anything to achieve your goal. You know how to think on the fly and persist through setbacks and roadblocks and to motivate your teammates to do the same.
- Team Player. You are collaborative by nature, relish in camaraderie and group wins, and are looked to by colleagues as a steadfast partner and source of encouragement
- Highly Motivated. You want ownership of your work
Benefits
- The chance to transform the mental healthcare landscape and drive impact from day one
- Our dedication to mental health guides our culture. Wellness benefits include unlimited PTO, winter break, Mental Health Mornings (2hr each week), wellness stipend, team meditation, lunch on us, and so much more!
- Comprehensive health insurance plans, including dental and vision
- Flexible working (hybrid of in-person & remote), relaxed dress code, office pets
- Continuous learning opportunities which include dedicated learning days, generous learning stipend, and monthly mental health workshops
- Strong ownership of your work, mentorship, and unbounded leadership opportunities. You’ll have the opportunity to help build a rapidly scaling organization
- Competitive salary
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Project Manager, Marketing Operations
Location: US National
Remote (U.S.)
The Marketing Operations team is looking for a project manager. You will lead end-to-end delivery of projects and provide operational support across initiatives.
You should have a strong foundation in project management and enjoy solving problems. You can transform the seemingly undefined and complex into something digestible, clear and systematic.
You will report to the Senior Program Manager and work alongside a team of marketers and various internal and external stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing
- Operationalize Discord’s marketing calendar by coordinating across individual projects and teams to deliver against macro goals
- Successfully deliver projects on budget. Review briefs, design an effective plan and process, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, and keep teams on track.
- Collaborate cross-functionally within marketing, to right-size project scope, define processes and milestones, and proactively identify interdependencies and mitigate risks.
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders and support communication with leadership teams.
- Deeply understand business goals and connect them with prioritization of incoming project requests.
- Partner with the Senior Program Manager on a variety of special projects (eg. streamline internal processes, define best practices, operational frameworks, etc.)
What you should have
- Experience managing multiple projects at a cross-functional level and across various marketing executions
- Strong communication, organization, planning, negotiation and risk management skills
- Superb organization and time management; able to prioritize large volumes of work effectively and efficiently
- Experience working effectively in a cross-functional environments
- 5+ years of previous experience in project management at an agency and/or in-house marketing team
- Experience documenting processes, understanding and analyzing briefs against macro strategies, and a well rounded knowledge of marketing processes
Bonus Points
- Experience using Asana
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Agency experience
“New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $109,000/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law.
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $87,200/year + equity and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).”
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
- Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
- 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- Volunteer time off
- A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
- Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Project Manager
Location: US National
Remote
The Role:
The Project Manager will be responsible for the scoping, planning, and execution of various cross-functional team projects within established Product cycles. You’ll be driving work to meet our key Product deliverables that will ultimately influence greater product engagement and adoption in schools. Your work will include forecasting resources to meet project needs, owning communications to critical project stakeholders, and removing blockers to maintain forward momentum for projects while keeping the team motivated. You’ll help ensure projects are on time and within resource constraints, as well as act as the key point of contact between senior leaders, accountable project leads, and other stakeholders across the company. Additionally, you’ll partner with our other project managers to develop systems and processes to scale our project management work, with a goal of improving efficiencies, standardization of projects and optimization of our work.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
We are committed to providing accessible, engaging learning content to our tens of millions of users nationwide. Your work will directly impact Newsela’s ability to build and deliver solutions that help shape the future of education. Reporting to the Manager, Project Management, you’ll be an invaluable resource across teams, working with a wide variety of stakeholders within the organization. As part of our growing Project Management function, you’ll help shape and define scalable processes, establish cross-functional partnerships, and deliver projects on scope, on budget and on time. You’ll also have the opportunity to grow your project management skills at a company that is as invested in your development as you are.
Why We’ll Love You:
Your 3+ years of experience leading projects have given you robust knowledge of time management, project coordination, and prioritization strategies that have enabled you to successfully execute projects on time and within scope. You are a detail-oriented, proactive planner who can seamlessly navigate complex problems, as well as scope and build a comprehensive project plan. You have a bank of proven project management processes and have used them to effectively influence technical and non-technical teams to keep projects on track. You’re an effective communicator who always seeks input from key stakeholders to drive alignment and deep understanding of the project at hand, while providing transparency and key information to all teammates from engineers to product managers.
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.
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: Annual stipends for continued education, regular manager training sessions, lunch & learns, and individual growth plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations.
- 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 | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Note from FlexJobs Staff: Employer has stated that this position has a flexible schedule.
Website Specialist
We are currently accepting applications from residents of all states EXCEPT California, Montana, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Applicants living in these states will not be considered for contract opportunities at this time.
BELAY is looking for Web Specialists who specialize in developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining websites. The Webmaster will serve in a remote capacity, which requires expert knowledge, responsiveness, attention to detail, and confidentiality. Additionally, the role requires the ability to interact with clients and the corporate team virtually (at all levels) in a fast-paced environment, sometimes under pressure, remaining flexible, proactive, servant-minded, resourceful, and efficient. We review every resume. If you are qualified, we will be in contact with you to discuss the next steps.
This is a 1099, independent contractor role.
Essential Functions:
- Update client’s website content in conjunction with client requests via marketing calendars or plans.
- Regularly audit and test websites to ensure optimal efficiency, navigational integrity, as well as page and link content accuracy.
- Track and prioritize website bugs and enhancements through completion.
- Ensure websites are secure and user data is safeguarded.
- Run backups on a frequency determined by BELAY and the client.
- Adhoc website builds
Key Attributes:
- Must be highly proficient in HTML, PHP, and WordPress.
- Utilization of scripting languages such as JavaScript and Jquery recommended but not required.
- Skilled in Adobe Suite with PSD, DW focus and Illustrator.
- Creating and updating CSS.
- Prior experience working with ZenDesk is a plus.
- Self-motivated.
- Proactive, pragmatic, and resourceful problem-solver able to identify and solve problems before they reach critical stages.
- Ability to manage confidential information.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Fast learner (Organization-specific software applications and/or (tools).
- Resourceful (learn new skills, new application, find your answers).
- Inquisitive/seeks clarification.
- Able to work independently and to anticipate, react and thrive in an ambiguous environment.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience working with managers and teams located remotely preferred.
- Ability to be on-call during regular business hours with a maximum 24 hour response time to requests.
- In-home office setup including:
- Mac or PC Computer
- High Speed (Cable) internet access
- At least one year of professional IT experience.
- Proven ability to work successfully in a digital/cloud environment.
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