by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Agile Project Manager
Remote
Full Time
Product
Formstack improves people’s lives with practical solutions to their everyday work.
We are looking for an Agile Project Manager to help us accomplish this mission.
Formstack is a remote-first company with team members who live and work across the U.S., Canada, and the globe. We offer more than just a job; we provide a community where you can learn, grow, and thrive your way. Join a dynamic and diverse team that values relationships as much as results. Come build what matters with Formstack.
Ken Medley, Agile Enablement Lead at Formstack, is looking to hire someone who will complement and strengthen the team.
Who You Are:
- You are passionate about fostering a collaborative environment across various departments.
- You are eager to be the driving force behind project delivery.
- You love to solve problems and remove obstacles to ensure the success of your team.
- You are a leader that finds value in identifying your team members’ strengths and coaching them on how to optimize their work for efficiency
What You’ll Do:
Agile Project Managers serve the organization by coordinating the completion of projects and ensuring teams are set up for success by following Agile principles. They do this by planning, monitoring, reporting, and delivering large scale projects to meet the goals of Formstack. The Agile project Manager will be accountable for product delivery and will work alongside Engineering Managers to ensure projects have the appropriate level of resourcing to achieve timelines.
How You’ll Succeed:
- Own the execution of the entire Product Development Lifecycle, and manage all stages of the project life cycle to ensure teams are on track to consistently deliver value
- Manage cross team/department dependencies, as well as internal communication on project status and timelines
- Facilitate the team’s Scrum practices by serving as the team’s Scrum Master and remove impediments and blockers for teams so they can continuously deliver value to customers
- Accountable for creating project artifacts such as project charter, project plan, communication plan…etc.
- Effectively work with the organization to manage risks
- Track project and team performance to analyze the successful completion of short and long term goals
- Be the first point of contact for project stakeholders
- Ensure teams follow proper playbooks, processes, and procedures defined in our PDLC
- Consistently deliver product department projects on time, within scope, and within budget
- Provide reporting on project plans and outcomes to appropriate stakeholders
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum process maturity and increase velocity over time
- Support the team in building, communicating, and maintaining the project artifacts
What We’re Looking For:
- 4-6 years of relevant experience managing teams and projects, and using agile methodology
- Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict
- Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum
- Strong knowledge of Agile principles and Scrum practices
- Great communicator that excels in both transparent and tactful communication
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Self-motivated and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
- Ability to anticipate impediments for the team before the team encounters them, and solve the root cause
- Proven track record of making process and velocity improvements through Kaizen retrospectives
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Bonus Points:
- Scrum Master Certified
- CAPM Certified
Salary Range:
$80,000 – $90,000 (USD) per year + bonus up to 5% of base salary
***This is a remote position***
What Formstack Offers for Full-Time Employees in the US and Canada(exclude Quebec):
- Free health plans and company-paid Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance Benefits for US and Canadian full-time employees.
- Monthly Health & Wellness and Technology stipends
- Half-day Fridays
- Unlimited PTO for all employees.
- 401k & Roth w/ safe harbor match (the US and Canada)
- The most up-to-date technology, including company-issued Macs, the latest software, and other tools needed to excel at your job
- Company-paid conferences and extended learning opportunities
- Yearly company and team gatherings
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Formstack, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Formstack is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionately committed to equitable hiring and boldly dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions), age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, uniform service member status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Women, people of color, bilingual and bicultural individuals, LGBTQ+ persons, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
All data collected in our application process from resume collection to application questions is used for recruitment purposes only. We will store it in our applicant tracking system, JazzHR, and will not share this data with anyone else. We will keep your data until the role is filled and only continue to store it if we feel you may fit future roles.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Retirement Plans Learning and Development Specialist III
locations
Portland, OR
Remote, USA
time type
Full time
job requisition id
REQ002967
At The Standard, you’ll join a team focused on putting our customers first.
Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We’re looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what’s right – across the company and in our local communities.
We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.
Ready to reach your highest potential? Let’s work together.
Job Summary:
Act as a consultant to management in the assessment, development, design, evaluation and delivery of training programs that support the development of employees. Track results and provide ongoing feedback in order to foster continued employee development, improve education programs and meet department goals. Participate in organizational development activities in connection with corporate initiatives, organizational review, performance management and workplace improvement to contribute to effective employee development.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
- Conduct full business and training needs analysis predominantly for large groups and department initiatives that links learning objectives to application for participants.
- Drive design and development of complex curriculum tied to measurable outcomes and impacts to the organization.
- Project manage the design work of high-risk and highly visible projects with stakeholders, complete make versus buy decisions, and recommend delivery method enabling effective learning.
- Facilitate complex topics and action learning workshops for high risk, challenging groups and senior learners.
- Ability to redesign class on the fly to meet the learning objectives for the audience/participants.
- Follow up engagement post-session facilitating learning reinforcement through debriefs and leveraging feedback systems using complex ongoing evaluation strategies.
- Develop assessments, evaluations, and learning activities to evaluate overall training effectiveness. Provide results and feedback to management, recommend training or process modifications.
- Design and analyze more complex evaluations, e.g., levels 3-4.
Job Specifications:
Education:
- Graduate degree in Education, Training, or Business preferred. Bachelor’s degree in HR, Adult Education, Business, ISD, Training, or related field preferred. or the equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.
Experience:
- 5 to 10 years of relevant, progressive work experience.
- 5+ plus years of training experience with 5 years in a corporate environment
- Experience in a public company with multiple divisions and locations
- Experience in a matrixed management environment, or the equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience in a business environment in the development of training for adults.
- Consulting/Business Partnering model application, strategic thinker.
- Experience in data analysis and vendor management.
- Strong familiarity with various forms of program evaluation and performance measurement systems and tools.
#LI-Remote
Note: The Standard is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary for this role when hiring a Colorado resident. The salary for employees working in Colorado in this role is listed below. The Standard’s package also includes incentive plan participation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement, and paid time off.
- Please note, eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.
Salary Range:
$62,000.00 – $93,900.00
Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, drug test, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Remote | Full Time | From $120,000.00 to $140,000.00 per year
About Us:
Founded in 2011, DirectDefense offers security services that are unmatched within the industry. Our core strength is our deep experience in holistic cybersecurity solutions for our customers, which include penetration testing, compliance consulting, and managed services in the security operation space. We are a dynamic fast growing organization whose success is attributed to our best-in-class consultants who provide superior technical know-how and top-notch customer service. If you are looking for a company to showcase your skills and be on the ground floor of a fast-growing organization then apply here!
Responsibilities:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to assist in the development of a security SaaS platform used to deliver security services. The requirements include knowledge in SQL, JQuery, JavaScript, CSS, and experienced overall knowledge of ASP.NET and other related server technologies used to implement .NET applications. The candidate must be able to work independently and must have strong architecture and conceptual skills
- Design, develop & modify ASP.NET Applications, NET components, Web Services & Enterprise Services components
- Design, develop and maintain SQL database schemas and scripts, including views, triggers, and stored procedures
- Deploy .Net systems to various production and pre-production environments and troubleshoot issues
- Create technical documentation such as design documents, specifications, software architecture documents
- Analyze design and architectural issues and questions
- Regularly communicate project progress, issues, and risks to the project manager
Required
- Full stack web development experience (5+ years), including C#, .NET, JavaScript, HTML, SASS/LESS/CSS, SQL
- Experience with React and TypeScript
- Experience using Git-based source control & issue tracking (Azure DevOps / GitLab / GitHub / etc.)
- Experience working in a self-hosted environment (especially vCenter / Windows Domain)
- Experience developing software-as-a-service
- Experience with Agile Development
- Strong communication skills for customer support and collaboration
- Shows initiative, works well independently
Bonus
- Understanding of network and application security concepts
- Understanding of UX design best practices
- Experience with using Docker containers
- Experience with Cypress testing framework
- Experience with Cube.js
- Experience with Kafka
Perks:
- Remote/Telecommute
- Group insurance plan which includes Medical, Dental, and Vision.
- DirectDefense will pay 100% for the base plan (plan details can be provided upon request).
- Cell phone service can be provided to the employee through a company group plan or reimbursed on a monthly basis
- Home office internet access is reimbursable
Salary range: $120,000 – $140,000
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Enterprise Search
Location: United States
Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.
Elastic is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world’s data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Grab, Goldman Sachs, ING, Microsoft, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what’s possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and our diverse open source community spans over 100 countries. Learn more at elastic.co.
As a senior engineer at Elastic on the Enterprise Search team, you’ll be working collaboratively in a distributed working environment delivering valuable features for the Elastic Enterprise Search solution, including the Elastic App Search and Workplace Search products. Enterprise Search lets users easily implement powerful, modern search engines and experiences for their websites, apps, or workplaces. Search it all, simply. We’re seeking a talented software engineer and communicator to help push the product and team to new heights.
What You Will Be Doing:
- You will be building product enhancements for Enterprise Search, including the Workplace Search and App Search products, with contributions to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
- You will collaborate with and mentor international teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences. You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback.
- You will collaborate with the team on features, breaking them down into technical deliverables. You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team.
Our Team Style:
- We appreciate articulate and low ego people who want to grow as part of a team.
- We welcome diversity in all forms. We embrace strange and risky ideas and appreciate characters of all sorts.
- We hold each other accountable and work to a high standard. We take pride in the frequent, safe and graceful delivery of innovative and valuable features.
- We embrace open communication and challenge. We appreciate positivity and vigilance and strive for autonomy, trust, and personal and professional growth.
- Our backend stack is in Ruby, running on JRuby, with a tight coupling to Elasticsearch. Our frontend is in TypeScript & React, deployed in Kibana.
What You Will Bring:
- Experience building software using Ruby and TypeScript.
- Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent.
- Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: issues, investigations, documentation and onboarding material.
- An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.
If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, blog posts and writing samples, links to personal projects, etc.
Additional Information – We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Double your charitable giving – We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is committed to diversity as well as inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to the principles of affirmative action. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. If you require any reasonable accessibility support, please complete our Candidate Accessibility Request Form.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Poster; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster.
Please see here for our Privacy Statement.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior UI Designer
EMPLOYEE TYPE: Contract
LOCATION: New York, NY
Job Description
A new creative think-tank and innovative force for a global finance institution is looking for a Senior UI Designer to join their team of designers, developers, and strategists. This team creates strategies and develops experiences that provide world-class creative services to market the company’s internal and consumer-facing products.
As a Senior UI Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of product development, from brainstorming the next great innovation to tweaking pixels and interactions right before launch. You will utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design skills to build world-class experiences and leverage the latest and greatest emerging technologies. While digital experiences are our passion, we create across all creative canvases, touch-points, screens, and physical spaces. Come innovate with us.
- Pay Rate: $70 per hour
- Start: As soon as possible
- Location: Remote, EST hours
- Duration: Ongoing
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on product development including product design, interaction design, and prototyping.
Qualifications:
- 4-5+ years of experience designing for at least two of these platforms: Web, Mobile apps, Social, Advertising, Connected TV
- You have strong communication skills and can articulate your design decisions.
- You have a solid understanding of core design principles, responsive design, typography, color and page layout.
- You are fluent with Material Design.
- You have demonstrated experience with UI/UX design and strategic thinking.
- You have a killer portfolio with samples of visual, UX, and interaction work.
- You are fluent with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InVision,.etc.
- Deep experience with user journeys, wire framing, animation/prototyping techniques, and working closely with front-end engineering resources.
- Working and hands-on knowledge of HTML5 and CSS.
- Ability to create experiences with brand elements, guidelines, and systems in mind.
- You have a proactive attitude and strong time management skills.
- You are able to work under pressure while meeting deadlines.
- Ability to adapt your designs across platforms with the understanding of opportunities, limitations, and form factors preferred.
- A foundation in design, visual communication or creative arts preferred.
- Agency, entertainment, technology background preferred.
- Solutions oriented approach to work and possesses a strong willingness to venture into the unknown, experiment, and work collaboratively.
- Must have a Portfolio with samples of visual, UX, and interaction work.
- A strong understanding of Visual Design and UX/interaction principles for content publishing across various digital platforms.
- You have a deep aesthetic sensibility and a perpetual curiosity for new and emerging approaches to human-centered design.
- Your design execution and aesthetic choices elevate the product you are designing for.
- You are fiercely passionate about the user experience and stay on top of all the latest design trends.
- You have a strong design background and weave between visual design and UX seamlessly.
- You are a conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Data Engineer
Location: United States
Who We Are:
Vista’s Data and Analytics (DnA) organization is working to make our company one of the world’s most well-known and successful data-driven companies. The cross-functional team includes product owners, analysts, technologists, data engineers and more all focused on providing Vista with information and tools we can use to deliver jaw-dropping customer value. DnA team members are empowered to learn new skills, communicate openly and be active problem-solvers.
The mission of the Data and Analytics (DnA) team is to transform Vista into one of the world’s most iconic data driven companies through industry-leading data products and analytics capabilities. You can read more about our mission on https://vista.io/. DnA is fully committed to delivering on this vision through a decentralized data mesh strategy. The Data Engineering Chapter works across multiple business domains to build thoughtfully architected, performant, scalable, data products using the Vistaprint Data Platform.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Customer and Business Modeling Domain to build subscription-based data products and allow reporting and data science capabilities of the performance of one of our Vista sub-brands for website creation: Wix platform.
What You Will Do:
- Build production grade data products including foundational data sets using technologies such as Snowflake, S3, Databricks (Spark), Matillion, Looker and more
- This is a partnership-heavy role who partners closely with teams in Vista’s digital subscription and Vista Corporate Solutions. Through the consulting-nature of our team, you will contribute to a variety of projects and technologies, depending on partner needs. The broad range of partners equates to a broad range of projects and deliverables: datasets, measurements, dashboarding, tools and process.
- Work directly with analysts, data engineers, product owners in a cross functional, agile, software development team
- Optimize and maintain existing data pipelines and executing quality checks to ensure the integrity of the data.
- Integrate data products with Vistaprint’s suite of microservices for use in analytic solutions and customer facing features on our website or marketing channels
- Provide feedback for new features to the Vistaprint Data Platform team
- Potential to manage 1-3 junior data engineers including performance reviews, feedback, and career growth / mentorship
Your Qualifications:
At Vista, we value the experiences that individual team members add to our culture. Please don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t meet the exact qualifications, we look forward to learning more about you!
- Coding proficiency in at least one modern programming language, e.g.: Python.
- Strong skills in SQL
- Strong experience building complex ETL data pipelines with scheduling and monitoring (e.g., with DBT and or Airflow) for batch processing and real-time data
- Experience with cloud services in AWS (Preferred), Azure or Google
- Experience handling large volume data as well as both structured/unstructured data of various quality
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Problem solving and multi-tasking ability in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with reporting tools like Looker would be a great plus
- Experience with NoSql databases and hadoop ecosystem (especially streaming data)
- Statistics experience is a plus!
- Familiarity with API’s/microservices (REST)
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Being at Vista means that you don’t see work as just a building, a desk or a manufacturing floor. You see it as a chance to take a step forward in your career journey and your life. We strive to give you everything you need to learn, grow, and succeed. Through innovation, collaboration, and perpetual exposure to what’s next, we’re always pushing boundaries and broadening our horizons. We embrace the chance to operate outside of our comfort zone to discover what we’re capable of. Some might call that a challenge; we just call it another great day at work.
Vista has received numerous recognitions including a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) naming us a Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality. We also earned a place as one of the best remote-first workplaces in the U.S. and on the Boston Best Places to Work list from Built In. In addition, Vista’s CEO, Robert Keane, was recently honored with Comparably’s Best CEOs award, listing him among the top CEOs according to employees.
Remote First-Culture:
In 2020, Vista adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy and trust in each other to work from home and, the ability to operate when they are most productive, empowers everyone to be their best and most brilliant self. Vista also provides collaboration spaces for team members to work physically together when it’s safe to do so or believe in-person working will deliver the best results. Currently we are enabled to hire remote team members in over 30 US States as well as many countries in Europe: including Spain, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, Ireland and Switzerland.
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