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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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Data Scientist, Growth (Remote)
UNITED STATES / CANADA /
DATA AND ANALYTICS /
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
We are looking for a data scientist who will bring and develop a deep understanding of user growth, user segmentation, paid marketing optimization, and LTV predictions to help us accelerate the growth of our subscription business and make our best-in-class product even better. In this role, you will work closely with our data, product, marketing, and engineering teams to develop advanced models that help us understand our business, optimize and automate our workflows, and help our product make smarter, more informed recommendations. As a member of our small data science team, your work will have a significant impact on our business strategy and how our subscribers use our product.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term business goals, including subscriber retention and offer revenue.
- Train machine learning and data mining algorithms to solve problems across several teams.
- Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job.
- Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what marketing and user data are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis.
- Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
- Guide complex experiments.
- Cultivate an outstanding analytics environment.
- Evangelize and expand the impact of data science.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of experience as a data scientist with a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web scale data.
- Strong working knowledge of a scripting language like R or Python.
- Fluency in SQL.
- Knowledge of statistical principles and how they apply to predictive modeling.
- Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and prioritize high-impact work.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to build cross-functional relationships.
- Can explain sophisticated concepts to diverse audiences and craft compelling stories.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem.
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other data workflow scheduling platforms.
- Prior experience working with web-based subscription user data.
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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by twochickswithasidehustle | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!
We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
What’s Cool About This Job
As a Technical Support L1, you’ll be providing support to our customers primarily using live chat, but also over the phone and via support tickets. You will serve as the first point of contact for our customers, supporting all of their WordPress questions and needs. You will develop a deep technical knowledge of the various open source technologies which deliver amazing digital experiences for our customers.
WP Engine cares about you, meaning that we invest in both personal and professional development. Our mission is to develop you to your full potential and work with you through each stage of your career. We like to promote people within our business, and many of those folks started out in technical support. We recognize and reward talent, at WP Engine the best get better. If you are a self-motivator seeking a challenge and can think creatively, then this role is for you!
Your Impact
You will be the face of our company and have an opportunity to deliver a world-class experience with every interaction with our customers on our live contact channels of chat and phone.
You’ll get to apply creative problem-solving techniques to identify and solve the source of problems while keeping our customers happy and engaged.
Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning, to grow technical knowledge to better support our customers as well as strengthening your own technical skillset.
Help maintain a great team and working environment by assisting fellow team members. We are a global inclusive team, and we work together!
Demonstrate a positive attitude when faced with change, working with your teammates and with our customers.
Requirements for the Role:
1-2 years of experience working in technical support or a customer service position.
Open source content management systems.
WordPress: knowledge of WordPress, Plugins, and Themes.
Knowledge of DNS and SSL.
You understand the usage of file systems and the tools for remotely managing web content on a web or file server.
Knowledge of Linux Command Line.
You have experience with StudioPress and/or the Genesis framework.
You have previous experience with online Chat and/or instant messaging tools.
You have previously worked with customers via phone support.
Understanding of the core error codes associated with web hosting (eg. 404 etc)
Desired Skills:
Positive Energy and enthusiasm. You believe in our values.
Technical Aptitude: You demonstrate a keen knowledge of, and passion for, web technology or digital experiences. You are someone who learns quickly and takes ownership of your personal development.
Effective Troubleshooting Skills: You demonstrate strong root cause analysis skills, through effective troubleshooting skills and you are able to quickly identify problems and solutions. You work well in a collaborative troubleshooting environment, while at the same time you can also work autonomously to arrive at the right solution for our customers.
Communication Skills: You have strong written and verbal communication skills, with a strong command of the English language. Ability to accurately type 40 – 60 words per minute. You have the ability to establish a professional, friendly, and empathetic dialogue with customers.
Excellent Organizational Skills: You’re a great multitasker. You can handle multiple requests at once and have an understanding of prioritization.
Team Focus: Effectively work in a team environment that uses cross-collaboration and teamwork to solve issues. You enjoy working with others, demonstrate a willingness and ability to share your knowledge with peers and others.
Customer Inspired: Demonstrate customer focus in every interaction with our customers. You actively listen and leave our customers feeling supported and understood.
Adaptable: You are resilient and adapt to the changing business and landscape in the tech world.
Perks and Benefits
Compensation (We offer market competitive salaries)
Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
IVF Benefits
Paid Family Leave – 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 5 weeks for secondary caregivers fully paid
4% 401(k) Match (Make the most of retirement)
Life and Disability Insurance (100% Paid Life, STD, LTD, and AD&D)
Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off?)
Gym membership discount
At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Note From FlexJobs: Please be aware that Coalition Technologies requires a skills test including video as part of their hiring process.
Web Development Project Manager at Coalition Technologies
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY
Coalition Technologies is devoted to delivering the highest quality work for clients while providing our team a fun, thriving, and innovative environment. Along with the opportunity for tremendous career growth and rapid advancement, CT offers:
- The most competitive profit-sharing bonus plan in the industry, paying up to 50% of company profits to full-time employees each month!
- A highly competitive Paid Time Off plan, promoting quality work-life balance.
- Subsidized gym memberships to help team members feel their best.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance packages for all US-based team members.
- International Health Insurance Reimbursement Program for all international team members, a benefit unique to Coalition.
- Device upgrade and learning reimbursement programs.
- Motivating career development plans with clearly defined goals and rewards.
- Additional job-specific incentives and bonuses.
Plus, 100% of our team works remotely with the support of time tracking software. Our company culture specializes in supporting remote team members, and we’ve been doing so for more than a decade. CT welcomes your application, wherever in the world it’s coming from!
YOU SHOULD HAVE:
- Expert experience in frontend or backend development and be able to pass skills tests including pixel perfect PSD to HTML conversion
- Experience in responsive design, HTML5, CSS3 media queries
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar degree
- Knowledge of project management software such as Basecamp, MS Project, Visio, Salesforce, etc
- A solid understanding of web design standards, usability, and rich media
- Experience in working with large/complicated sites and high profile clients
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision making, and conflict resolution skills
- A solid understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and run team meetings
- An ability to anticipate issues, identify future choke points, and work ahead to time to alleviate potential issues
- Proven mentoring and team building skills
- An ability to manage many projects simultaneously
- Great attention to detail and be highly organized
- Familiarity with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento (preferred)
- An ability to demonstrate leadership capability with teams of 3 or more people (preferred)
- Proficiency in JavaScript & PHP (preferred)
- The availability to work 40 hours per week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm PST
- Reliable transportation if working in-house
- A reliable workstation with a fast computer, microphone and speakers, reliable internet and power if working remotely
YOUR DUTIES AND TASKS:
- Assisting and reviewing development of project scopes, considering resources, and technological constraints including cost estimates with consideration to business impacts and identified risks
- Creating and executing project work plans and revising as appropriate to meet the changing needs and requirements. This includes wireframing, sitemaps & scope of work
- Defining project scope and giving clear instructions to design and development team
- Clarifying and communicating project objectives and success criteria to team
- Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities
- Assuring that projects are completed according to schedule and within budget
- Reviewing deliverables prepared by team before passing to Account Managers
- Effectively applying our methodology and enforcing project standards
- Ensuring that project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
- Collaborating with SEO team, developers, and other parties involved to establish the vision and analyzing tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Ensuring that approved requirements are developed in sufficient scope and detail that will result in the delivery of a solution that meets customer needs as they perceive them
- Attending client meetings as required
- Assisting with developing quality assurance processes, documentation, and testing where needed
- Identifying and managing project risk
- Maintaining awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for client solutions
We are looking for talented and diligent candidates who excel in our skills tests, and will consider these candidates even if past experience or educational background criteria aren’t met.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote – Nationwide
About the Role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer works independently and collaboratively to execute department activities. In this role, you will be responsible for validating software architecture, determining performance objectives, designing engineering processes, fixing production issues, and leading large or small efforts in Engineering. As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, your work will help support the continued growth of our fast-paced company. A-LIGN will depend on you as the Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support management, maintain accountability, and other responsibilities.
Reports to: VP of Engineering
Responsibilities
- Validates software architecture against known production systems/patterns and determines fit/feasibility during planning.
- Analyzes architecture and determines where failures may occur, proactively identifying bottlenecks.
- Analyses functional requirements and specifies operational requirements based on the same (load testing strategy, downtime mitigations, security incident response plans)
- Determines performance objectives and provides input into the design process as it relates to performance, reliability and scalability.
- Designs engineering processes to support rapid development for engineering pods.
- Develops POC architectures where needed to show how to address performance, reliability or scalability concerns in a given design.
- Writes code in more than 1 language with mastery.*or* has mastery with 1 or more software frameworks or stacks
- Understands and promotes established design patterns (e.g. Gang of Four patterns, SOLID principles) in their code.
- Teaches other developers recommended practices and patterns.
- Responsible for code reviews for a large portion of development efforts, specifically focusing on performance, scalability, reliability.
- Automates repetitive testing tasks and looks for opportunities to improve efficiency of the testing process.
- Fixes bugs and proactively looks for regressions.
- Supplements quality efforts from QA team by proactively deflecting bugs where feasible.
- Fixes production issues as reported by support teams.
- Works with support personnel and auditors to interactively resolve issues where needed.
- Proactively looks for support issues using telemetry.
- Evaluates supply chain/package dependencies in code to determine if they put performance, reliability, scalability or security goals at risk.
- Leads small and larger efforts in Engineering
- Mentor and coach to other engineers in their daily interactions.
- Diagnoses and debugs issues with developer toolchain and environment, including docker/Kubernetes.
- Diagnoses and debugs issue with production deployment and environments.
- Participates in security incident response process as well as data integrity response
Benefits
- Employer Paid Health, Vision, Dental
- 401 (K) Plan with Employer Matching
- Competitive Bonus Structure
- Employer Paid Life Insurance and Disability Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off Plan
- Parking Allowance/Virtual Employment
- Technology Allowance
- Vacation Bonus
- Paid Office Closure December 24-January 1
- Paid Holidays Schedule
- Certification Reimbursement
- Flu Shot Reimbursement
- TSA PreCheck Reimbursement
- AAA Reimbursement
- Up to __% out of town travel
About A-LIGN
A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner trusted by more than 2,400 global organizations to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. We work with small businesses to global enterprises with services spanning across SOC, Penetration Testing, PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO and privacy compliance. Our proprietary compliance management platform is transforming the compliance experience by enabling an anytime, anywhere approach to audits. For more information, visit
www.A-LIGN.com.
Come Work for A-LIGN!
Apply online today at A-LIGN.com!
A-LIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer! Minorities, women, disabled, and veterans encouraged to apply!
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Analytics Engineer
Location: United States
Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb’s various functions embody the company’s innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.
The Location
This position is US – Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Airbnb, Inc. can employ in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware or Rhode Island. As this list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
The Job
About the Position
Analytics Engineers build the data foundation for reporting, analysis and experimentation. We are looking for someone with expertise in metric development, data modeling, SQL, Python, and distributed data processing frameworks like Presto or Spark. Using these tools, along with first-class internal data tooling, you will transform data from data warehouse tables into critical data artifacts that power impactful analytic use cases (e.g. metrics, dashboards) and empower downstream data consumers. As an Analytics Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of Data science and Engineering, and work collaboratively to achieve highly impactful outcomes.
Data can transform how a company operates; high data quality and tooling is the biggest lever to achieving that transformation. You will make that happen.
Responsibilities:
- Understand data needs by interfacing with fellow Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Business Partners
- Architect, build, and launch efficient & reliable new data models and pipelines in partnership with Data Engineering
- Design, define, and implement metrics and dimensions to enable analysis and predictive modeling
- Become a data expert in your business domain and own data quality
- Build tools for auditing, error logging, and validating data tables
- Build and improve data tooling in partnership with internal Data Platform teams
- Define logging needs in partnership with Data Engineering
- Design and develop dashboards to enable self-serve data consumption
About You
Minimum Qualifications:
- Passion for high data quality and scaling data science work
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong skills in SQL and distributed system optimization (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hive)
- Experience in at least one programming language for data analysis (e.g. Python, R)
- Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling
- Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments
- Detail oriented and excited to learn new skills and tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with an ETL framework like Airflow
- Python, Superset, and Tableau skills preferred
- An eye for design when it comes to dashboards and visualization tools
- Familiarity with experimentation and machine learning techniques
The Pay
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between $152,000 and $203,500. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Belonging & Accommodations
Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas foster innovation and engagement, allow us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.
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