Senior Software Engineer 

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Sr Software Engineer (ZG181003)

Req ID: 59343

Job Family: Information Technology/Software Development

Sabre Corporation is a leading technology provider to the global travel and tourism industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre operates offices in approximately 60 countries around the world. At Sabre, we make travel happen. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Today, Sabre is creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. It is our people who develop and deliver powerful solutions that meet the current and future needs or our airline, hotel and travel agency customers. Join our journey!

Job Description

Trip Data Services team is focused on designing, developing and maintaining variety of Order (aka travel record according to NDC – New Distribution Capability, IATA) services running on open systems. We are responsible for Order data distribution to internal and external customers, hosting multiple Order management services and building Order data store in modern, scalable, microservice based and Cloud oriented architecture. We employ latest technologies and practices to handle high volume of transactions supporting millions of traveling passengers daily. Our team is global with largest decision-driving group based in Krakow and implements mature Scrum processes.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Under general supervision designs, develops, tests and debugs moderately complex software solutions using routine and/or advanced technologies
• Commitment to achieving projects goals and orientation to improve quality
• Design and build prototype applications
• Take part in researching best practices, new tools and technology.
• Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and resolve them
• Resolves customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements
• Assist in development of software technical documentation
• Support DevOps in our effort to evolve CI/CD processes

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience as Java Developer
• Possess good organizational skills
• Excellent Java/J2EE programming skills
• Expert knowledge in Java Core Multithread
• Good knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems
• Experience with SQL, Oracle, XML/Web Services, JMS technologies, JUnit/Unit Testing as well as with Tomcat or other application servers
• Experience in monitoring and improving performance of applications
• Experience with Spring framework
• Good communication skills in English, written and verbal
• Very good interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate initiative and creativity
• Willing to develop and learn new areas/technologies
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

Why is it worth working with us?

Flexible work arrangement

• Work From Anywhere: profit from working from home in different variants: in the office, hybrid or fully remote.
• Flexible working hours: maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs.

Paid time off

• Floating Holidays: use additional up to 2 days of paid time- off benefit
• Paid parental leave: if you are a father, take up to 10 additional weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. For mothers, we have maternity leave paid 100% for 12 more weeks.
• Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice.

Your money

• My Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card
• Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax
• Employee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury
• Baby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption
• Say Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services

Health and wellness

• Luxmed VIP medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services
• Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free, Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package.
• Employee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor.
• Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health with free access to Headspace, Burn Along, Sanvello which will help you manage stress, exercise, sleep and more.
• Life insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program.

Career development

• English & Polish lessons: improve your language skills during lessons led by native speakers
• Professional development: enjoy access to LinkedIn Learning as well as join Sabre live learning sessions.
• GCP learning and certification: learn and get certified during instructor-led training, online learning with Coursera, and test sandbox environments with QwikLabs
• Certification and tuition reimbursement
• Our Communities: join on of ours team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group, Innovation Lab Community, Woman in Technology, SOLVE!T and many more)

And more

• Car and bike parking including electric scooter charging station: use them free of charge.
• Fun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work, foosball, ping pong, pool table, swings, massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents’ rooms as well.
• No dress code
• Innovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment, Robot construction kit, 3D printers and many more
• Attractive Referral Bonus: earn $2500 USD for every hired referral.

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process. Join our life community at Sabre by following us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Stay connected with Sabre Careers

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Director, Product Design – Core Product

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Director, Product Design – Core Product (Remote)

UNITED STATES /

DESIGN /

FULL-TIME

About Us

The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.

About the Role

The Athletic has changed the way sports fans follow their favorite teams and leagues. Our product design team works at the intersection of our engineering, design, and data teams, as well as The Athletic’s Newsroom, the largest in sports media. Our team strives to craft sports experiences that blend technology with world class sports journalism.

As a hands-on design director who isn’t afraid to roll up her sleeves, you will set the design vision and standards across all parts of our product. You will be the go-to thought partner across our Growth, Audience and Engagement workstreams. You will be responsible for enabling product design managers and ICs to do the best work of their careers.

This is an exciting opportunity to have a major impact on all of the products that we ship and how our studio functions in order to ship them.

Responsibilities

• Lead and help hire a team of product designers (managers/ICs) tasked with creating world class user experiences delivered through our mobile app and website.
• Evolve and nurture our product design system.
• Establish yourself as a thought leader across the organization, actively contributing to product strategy and roadmap.
• Present design concepts and solutions that align cross-functional partners, company executives, and external stakeholders.
• Communicate the progress and outcome of your work to your teammates and partners.
• Implement processes and best practices which increase team efficiency and effectiveness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant product design experience at a consumer company (media, sports, or subscription business is a big plus).
• 5+ years of managing a product design team.
• Experience shipping innovative interactive user experiences.
• Experience inspiring, influencing, aligning and collaborating with cross-functional teams and executives.
• Technical and business fluency. You know how to break down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope).
• Strong visual and interactive design sensibility, with a mastery of the field’s history and trends.
• Enthusiasm for The Athletic and sports.
• Ability to think at a high level about product and feature strategy but also act with speed and precision to actualize projects.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Global Category Manager, Professional Services 

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Global Category Manager, Professional Services

Location: Remote, US

The Basics:

As the Global Category Manager – Professional Services, this position reports to Tanium’s Head of Global Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Operations. The Global Category Manager – Professional Services will be responsible for developing and operationalizing global sourcing strategies as well as demonstrating value achieved. This position must forge strong partnerships across the global organization, effectively communicating sourcing strategies and working collaboratively with stakeholders.

It is important that the candidate has strong category experience with a global company. Except for IT and Marketing, the success of this position is dependent upon deep knowledge of sourcing across indirect spend areas including Contingent Workforce, Consulting Services, Talent Acquisition, etc.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and Implement category strategies to optimize company spend and drive business efficiency.
• Build strong relationships with internal business partners to understand the global spend and identify opportunities to increase quality and improve value for money.
• Plan and execute effective negotiation strategies and competitive processes with vendors to best position the company for success, including financial analysis and business needs assessment.
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations.
• Lead contract negotiations

Who We’re Looking For:

• BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, or other related field required
• 5+ years of Procurement Category Management with a focus on Professional Services experience required
• Project management skills and the ability to drive change
• Experience with Coupa & it’s modules
• Experience and familiarity with NetSuite
• Experience utilizing spend analytics tools
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills and a track record of successfully working with cross-functional business stakeholders preferred
• Self-starter with superb attention to detail preferred
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to effectively present in formal and informal settings.
• Analytics experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Organized, dependable with strong attention to detail and committed to working with integrity
• Demonstrates initiative and motivation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team leader and team player
• Person of high ethics and integrity
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

About Tanium

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Taking care of our team members

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

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Senior Marketing Manager – Fashion 

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Senior Marketing Manager – Fashion

at Whatnot

Remote – North America

Whatnot

Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work. You can read our principles here.

Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.

Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 120+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely.

Opportunity Size

The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is one of the largest opportunities for disruption in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!

About the Go-to-Market Team

The Go-to-Market team at Whatnot is responsible for the expansion of our category suite and the continued growth of sellers and buyers on the platform. As a Senior Marketing Manager, you’ll own marketing strategy and buyer acquisition and build a healthy demand in your product category.

Role

• Own an up-and-coming marketing function and drive the growth and engagement of sellers and buyers on the Whatnot platform.
• Test strategies and tactics to build the fashion playbook at Whatnot including leading attention grabbing stunts and campaigns.
• Create awareness and growth impact with creative campaigns through leveraging multiple channels including social, influencer, content, events, and lifecycle.
• Lead strategy and execution of public relations and earned media efforts.
• Set the seasonal marketing calendar and define long-term strategies for delivering revenue growth and increasing brand awareness.
• Craft brand voice, message, and aesthetic for Whatnot’s fashion verticals’ marketing
• Lead the @whatnotwear social accounts, including owning platform-by-platform strategy, content creation, and content planning.
• Decide total fashion influencer strategy and work closely with the partnerships team to source leads, prioritize, contact, and onboard influencers.
• Create, lead, and execute all cross-category events, including digital-only activations, major brand, creator, or seller partnerships, and in-person events

You Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our first Marketing Manager – Fashion, you should have 6+ years of experience in marketing with a focus on creating and owning creative brand stunts and campaigns that drive outsized impact in developing awareness and acquisition, plus:

• Brand and content experience with proven results at a high growth start-up or fashion company
• An especially strong marketing strategist with the ability to tenaciously prioritize and implement the most impactful efforts and initiatives.
• An excellent creative mind that will think out of the box to build compelling, exciting, and surprising approaches to driving interest and engagement in the Whatnot platform.
• A strong analytical problem solver that can use data to guide decision making while still leaning into your marketing intuition.
• Strong project manager who can excellently manage the execution of complex campaigns and brand moments.
• Experience marketing through multiple channels including social, influencer, content, events, and life cycle.
• Been a top performer wherever you have worked.
• Comfort working extraordinarily fast in an ambiguous work environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform.
• Passion for creator communities, existing product categories on Whatnot, and/or new verticals that are uniquely suited for live e-commerce.
• Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces communities.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
  • Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
  • Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
• Work From Home Support
  • Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
  • $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
• Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
• Care benefits
  • $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
  • $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
  • 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
  • $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses

EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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Quality Program Manager, Customer Experience 

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Quality Program Manager, Customer Experience

at Whatnot

Remote – North America

Whatnot

Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work. You can read our principles here.

Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.

Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 120+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely.

Opportunity Size

The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is one of the largest opportunities for disruption in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!

About the Marketplace Operations Team

The Marketplace Operations Team is the engine that enables us to deliver an amazing experience to our customers. We deliver extraordinary support to our sellers and buyers, ensure the trust & safety of the platform, optimize our fulfillment logistics, and drive continuous improvement in everything we do.

Role

The Quality Program Manager, Customer Experience will be the first member of our quality team within Marketplace Operations. You will be tasked with helping us define and build our quality programs, establish a team of QA specialists, define our critical metrics, and drive RCA and continuous improvement routines. This is an exciting opportunity to join and build something from the ground up.

• Build and develop a team of QAs, providing support, coaching, and instill a collaborative and performance-driven culture
• Establish systems, metrics and measurements to enable a data-driven quality framework and advise the strategy of Quality programs
• Analyze systemic problems impacting process health and drive root cause analysis (RCA) to advise quality/process improvement initiatives for CSAT and QA performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Support, Trust & Safety, Outsourcing, Data Analytics) to identify, assess, and resolve customer issues in our product and support experiences
• Responsible for providing feedback and analysis on product, policy, and process updates, and identifying trends and areas of improvement
• Apply problem solving techniques such as, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, control charts, and design of experiment to correct and prevent process quality issues

You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

• Bachelor’s degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years experience in building and leading quality assurance programs
• 2+ years experience in a high-tech fast-paced environment
• Extensive hands-on experience with quality principles and practices including Problem Solving Tools (8D, 5 Why, Pareto analysis, control charts, and DOE), Process Audits and Quality Management Systems
• Experience in establishing Quality metrics/feedback systems for continuous improvement
• Proven experience establishing relationships with peers and senior stakeholders and collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple locations
• Track record of operating independently and delivering results, embracing ambiguity, demonstrating creativity, and performing in a highly organized manner
• Experience thinking analytically and strategically about issues and influencing team members, leadership and individual contributors at all levels
• Experience creating and delivering presentations to a variety of team members including senior-level leadership

Nice to Have

• Quality Assurance certification (ASQ, etc.)
• Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or Black Belt)
• Experience working in a large, global tech company or other fast-paced environments

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
  • Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
  • Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
• Work From Home Support
  • Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
  • $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
• Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
• Care benefits
  • $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
  • $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
  • 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
  • $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses

EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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3D Character Modeler, Senior 

by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: BC, 3D Character Modeler, Senior

Location: Vancouver BC CA

Job description

3D Senior Character Modeler

This position is based in Vancouver. All applicants must reside in the United States or British Columbia/Ontario if applying within Canada.

Zoic Studios is an Award winning VFX company made up of accomplished artists and producers who understand story, process and relationships. Partnership, integrity and enthusiasm are our key founding principles. We have three locations, Los Angeles, New York City and Vancouver, Canada. Some of our recent credits and works include, Sweet Tooth, Legends of Tomorrow, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Superman & Lois and Stargirl.

“Visual Evolution” is our mission; we invest in constantly improving our technological and studio processes so that our artists can focus on being creative even in the lightning fast paced world of visual effects. We apply these principles to our work on some of the most VFX intensive film and television projects out there. We like a challenge. Do you?

Our Vancouver location is currently seeking a 3D Senior Character Modeler to join our Character Development team.

The Senior Character Modeler reports to the Concept & Build Supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Model/texture/shade/sculpt high quality hero creatures and characters assets
• Take point on character/creature design and development under the direction of Supervisors as needed
• Collaborate with rigging, animation, and CFX to create production ready assets
• Set up initial groom and cloth template
• Create posed and lit turn tables
• Work within the colour and lighting pipeline
• Ensure downstream pipeline needs are considered and assets are optimized for rendering
• Work to address notes
• Work to ensure internal and external deadlines and deliveries are met with budgeted hours
• Share knowledge and techniques with team members to improve overall team skills and asset quality.
• Apply secondary skillsets in other areas when waiting for character/creature assignment.
• Mentor other artists including juniors.

Qualifications:

• 5 yrs. minimum experience creating high resolution organic models.
• Strong knowledge of realistic anatomy of both bipeds and quadrupeds.
• Proficiency in Maya, ZBrush, Mudbox.
• Proficiency in Substance Painter and/or Mari
• Solid re-topologizing and UV skills a must.
• Photorealistic texturing experience
• Experience with photo-real VFX production work.
• Strong understanding of hair grooming methodologies.

• Excellent English communication skills both written & verbal.
• Strong attention to detail and follow through.
• Positive attitude, hard worker, flexible schedule for deliveries.
• Ability to communicate creative ideas fluidly
• Pro-active, highly motivated with a solid work ethic.
• Team player
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner.
• Ability to keep up with fast pace and meet tight deadlines.
• Up-to-date reel showcasing required skill set.

Nice to have:

• Marvelous Designer
• Yeti
• Hard surface modeling experience
• Knowledge of V-ray
• Knowledge of UE4/5

Additional information

• Candidates MUST be located in the United States, British Columbia or Ontario. This is a remote (work from home) position.
• Zoic does not cover relocation costs.
• This job description contains the basic requirements for the position and is NOT intended to be a complete list of responsibilities; other duties may be assigned.
• Due to the volume of applications we receive across our different openings we regret that only those selected to interview will be contact.

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