by Ronald Barron | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Lead Graphic Designer
Location: Remote
Who We Are:
StackCommerce is the leading commerce + content platform. For consumers, we help them discover and purchase products directly on the news and content sites they visit daily. For merchants, we provide unmatched exposure through shoppable articles and product features on the world’s largest media outlets. For publishers, we power white-labeled e-commerce shops with on-site checkout for over 1,000 publishers including Yahoo!, CNN, Hearst, Mashable, NY Post, TMZ, MarketWatch, and many more. TPG’s Integrated Media acquired a majority stake in the company in December 2020.
The Role:
StackCommerce is looking for an experienced and passionate Lead Designer, who will be responsible for leading the design team, developing assets, overseeing company-wide campaigns and innovating design strategy for StackCommerce.
What You’ll Do:
Team Management:
- Oversee and manage team deadlines, resources, workflows and responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of designers (currently comprising 2 production designers, 1 graphic designer and 1 marketing coordinator) and help foster a collaborative and creative environment.
Design Recommendation:
- Develop thoughtful, data-inspired recommendations across various channels: paid, email, on-site, social media, etc.
- Analyze design performance, digging deep to understand how audience, channel, medium, and product affected said performance
- Lead, oversee and manage visual design of all creative to maintain brand consistency.
- Analyze current and emerging design/consumer trends and articulate ideas to ensure our brands stand apart from competition
- Create and manage the visual identity of the brand and maintain consistency of visual guidelines, photo and video standards, and brand voice across various platforms.
- Push creative boundaries by constantly pursuing new concepts and approaches, bringing new ideas to the table.
Cross-Departmental Collaboration:
- Collaborate across teams and actively participate in team brainstorm sessions (as well as cross-functional sessions) for new asset ideas, design development and innovation.
- Work closely with the leadership team to develop internal and external brand needs, such as decks, one sheets, case studies, landing pages, swag, and special one-off projects
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years of experience designing either in-house or for an agency
- 2+ years of experience managing a team
- Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design or related field
- An online portfolio that demonstrates examples of your work
- A hands on approach as you develop your team and act as an individual contributor
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and Premiere
- Proficient in Figma, Dimensions, and Substance
- Have experience in corporate branding, websites, and decks
- Have experience building branding materials and design playbooks
Big pluses:
- Experience in photography
- Experience producing or editing video content
What to Expect:
- Intro Call: You’ll hop on a quick call with the hiring manager so we can get to know you better and you can learn a little more about the role.
- Homework Assignment: We send over a quick exercise that challenges you to solve a problem and come up with a creative solution. Get a feel for what you’ll be doing on a daily basis!
- Remote-Team Interview: You’ll be meeting with 7 team members on a video call. This is your chance to ask questions and see who this role interacts with on a daily basis.
- Final Video Call: This is a great opportunity to get to know our COO or CEO over video.
- Offer: We send over an offer and you (hopefully) accept! Welcome to Stack!
Benefits + Perks:
As a company, we have a lot to offer for the right candidate:
- Competitive Compensation Package: Equity, 401(k) & Health Insurance
- Super Flex Time: Run errands as needed, just get your stuff done
- Unlimited Vacation: Take time to unwind
- Learning Budget: Dollars towards eLearning courses, eBooks, and more
- WFH Office: Home office stipend and internet dollars to set you up for success
- Events: Happy hours, company trips, team bonding budgets and team culture events (even while remote!)
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Sr. Product Analyst (remote)
Job Locations: US-Remote
Requisition ID2022-73618
# of Openings: 1
Job Function: Program Management
Job Schedule: Regular Full-Time
Job Description Summary
Job Summary
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the collaboration with business stakeholder to identify and document the system level requirements that solution the business requirements.
- Analyze and manage the business process flows and updates to system process flows and requirements.
- Work with the project team to understand how the present and future business needs may impact the solution.
- Define functional and non-functional requirements and work with the project team to prioritize release scope.
- Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and make recommendations to support the proposed solution.
- Actively participate in the creation of design specifications, user manuals, release notes, end-user training materials and general system documentation by analyzing business needs and creating or updating systems requirements.
- Review, update and maintain requirements documents based on peer reviews and scope changes.
- Actively participate in issue triage sessions by evaluating against existing requirements and determine outcome and priority.
- Report status to team and take action where appropriate.
- Support and contribute to the Requirements Development standard practices and procedures.
- Coordinate and lead project peer reviews to ensure that requirements development methodologies are followed and the artifact content supports the scoped changes.
- Identify anomalies and ensure that they are maintained through closure.
- Assist with basic back end configuration changes or data preparation.
- Work with the development team during the design phase to clarify use cases and/or requirements.
- Work with the testing team during test preparation and execution to clarify use cases and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in systems testing activities and in some cases, UAT activities.
Minimum Requirements:
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Demonstrates good judgement in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
Education and Experience Requirements
Additional Job Requirements:
- Create functional agile requirements artifacts including user stories, and user story maps
- Apply adept knowledge in prioritizing agile requirements and support the Product Owner in prioritizing requirement backlogs, based on an expert understanding of product strategy, plans and roadmaps
- Become a subject matter expert on MAXIMUS business processes and product offerings
Additional Experience Requirements – Product Analyst Specific
- Experience working with Agile software development methodologies including SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban
- Experience in a Product Analyst or Product Owner role
- Experience working with products developed using a Microservices Architecture (MSA)
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Database Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team to build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclop dia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core and MariaDB as its data store, surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.
The Wikimedia community continuously generates text content in the form of new articles, revisions and discussions. As part of our team you would have the opportunity to solve the storage, scaling, access and backup challenges that Wikipedias’ scale provides.
We currently use self-hosted MariaDB as our main RDBMS. Our goal is configuring and managing the database infrastructure in a way that maximizes the service uptime for Wikimedia projects’ users while at the same time simplifying the operational processes, automating repeatable tasks and applying industry best practices.
We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. If you find what we do interesting, if you are up to the challenge of improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top 10 websites, and you enjoy the idea of working in a remote-first role, we may be the right place for you.
You are responsible for:
- Operate and improve the RDBMS systems serving Wikimedia projects
- Respond to common database issues, following documented procedures
- Collaborate with SRE and other teams across the organization to ensure their specific database needs are met on an ongoing basis
- Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
- Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
- Monitor systems, services and service clusters, optimize performance and resource utilization
- Participate in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
- Share our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years experience in a DBA role as part of a team
- 3+ years experience with Linux in a production environment
- Knowledge and experience of (Free and Open Source) RDBMS (preferably MariaDB or MySQL) administration (understanding of and experience with replication is essential) and support, debugging query performance and schema design
- Comfortable with shell and at least one of the scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
- Passion for automating tasks and processes
- Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience working with or as a part of SRE/Operations/DevOps teams
- Experience with NoSQL products (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/redis, MySQL) – MediaWiki familiarity would be great!
- Developing Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Scrum Master
Department:Product & Technology
Location: Remote – Americas
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a rotating Scrum Master to join our newly minted Agile Delivery Excellence team. This full-time position is remote within the United States, Canada, or LATAM.
This is an exciting opportunity to support our technology teams as we scale, having far-reaching impact across Development, Product, QA, Analytics, and international contractors. The successful candidate will have experience working across multiple Scrum teams, and will embody the tenets of joy, flow, focus and empowerment. This individual will report to our Agile Delivery Excellence Lead.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as a partner to development teams across technology; providing expert guidance in Scrum principles and applications.
- Guide teams to help them experiment with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met.
- Lead Scrum ceremonies with a view to autonomous teams empowered to achieve business goals.
- Provide Scrum training to teams that elect to have embedded scrum masters.
- Work with QA & DevOps to ensure compliance and governance principles are adhered to.
- Facilitate and administer release management in collaboration with product, development, DevOps and QA.
- Quarterback impediments, questions and distractions in support of keeping the team in focus and flow.
- Engage with developers, QA, product and stakeholders to understand jobs to be done, bottlenecks, and pain points; adopting an empathetic and design-thinking approach.
- Support SDLC tooling (such as Jira) – configuration, automations, dashboards, security/privileges, etc.
- Support Scrum of Scrums dependency management, risk management, impediment removal, and governance.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master.
- Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile.
- Able to showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments, demonstrating flexibility and empowerment.
- Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity.
- Strong leader, educator, and coach.
- An excellent communicator and motivator.
- Scrum Master certification preferred but not required.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Data Scientist
Department:Product & Technology
Location: Remote – US
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Data Scientist at Velocity Global will be responsible for managing all aspects of the data science process within IT as a shared service for internal and external customers. Responsibilities include data curation/management, model construction, evaluation, and implementation, working with stakeholders to determine where data science could best be applied throughout the company to create value, and the creation of data products to drive increased revenue. The ideal candidate will have had at least five years of experience working as a data scientist, preferably in a management capacity. In addition to technical expertise, this position will require excellent customer service skills and creativity in the use of data to create insights and drive sales.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist in the data management process to ensure data is well organized for data science application
- Create classification and regression models for tasks such as: marketing targeting, customer churn prediction, and supported employee survivorship
- Perform statistical tests to assist in data analysis
- Time series modeling for sales forecasting
- Creation of data products for sale to external customers, e.g. job matching between clients and candidates
- Work with data engineering to implement models in Airflow and Snowflake
- Assist the business in developing use cases for data science and helping to scope and shape modeling asks
QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS
- Implementation of standard algorithmic techniques such XGBoost, elastic net regression, dimension reduction (e.g. PCA), deep neural network architectures, ARIMA, clustering (e.g. K-means), and statistical testing methodologies (e.g. chi-square)
- Knowledge of and experience working with RDBMS and No-SQL databases
- High proficiency in SQL and Python
- Additional experience with R preferred
- Experience with data visualization platforms such as Looker and Tableau
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or physics. Ph.D. preferred.
- 5-10 years working as a data scientist, preferably with management experience
OUR VALUES
Velocity: Exceeding expectations of our customers, colleagues, and ourselves by delivering swift and effective results.
Integrity: Doing right by our customers, colleagues, and ourselves through honest and ethical actions.
Be Bold: Daring to take risks, learn, and grow to benefit our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.
Empowerment: Owning our decisions and being accountable for the impact we have on our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.
Service: Supporting our customers, colleagues, and ourselves with respect and empathy.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Data Engineer – Remote
Department:Product & Technology
Location: Remote – Anywhere
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our rapidly growing Data Engineering team. The team that this role is a part of is primarily based out of the United States. However, we are a remote-first company, and applicants from anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply. This full-time position will work closely with members of the Business Intelligence team to provide clean datasets to the organization to help drive the business forward as well as work as a data engineering expert on the Product team, designing data intensive applications and services which will help build a world-class software development machine that will accelerate our revenue growth as we continue to build new applications and partnerships. This role will require excellence in data architecture technologies like RDBMS and DAG-based workflow tooling, as well as experience with DevOps and Software Engineering best practices.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a technical lead on our data engineering team, providing training and mentorship to help develop the skills and talents of others
- Architect RDBMS models
- Create logical data flows within the data warehouse
- Develop ETLs from a wide range of data sources
- Analyze data for completeness and accuracy
- Automate data and report QA functionality
- Assist in the creation of DevOps processes and utilize various software tools to codify those processes
- Develop machine learning model test and deployment strategies
- Assist in the creation of data intensive web applications
- Help implement engineering best practices including unit tests and integration tests in a CI/CD environment
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- Preferred but not required – Bachelors or Masters degree in CS or related fields. We find that the best software developers come from many diverse backgrounds.
- 5-10 years of experience in a data engineering, analytics, or related software development environment with at least 5 of those years being in a data engineering role
- An understanding of software engineering best practices, and a commitment to writing clean, self-documenting, code
- A high level of proficiency in SQL and Python
- Proven track record in developing highly scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines
- Experience with cloud environments, preferably AWS
- Strong writing, presentation and verbal communication skills
Nice to Have:
- Experience with a modern data stack, including tools like Snowflake, Looker, Airflow, and Dbt
- Front-End Web development experience including tools like Javascript, React, and D3
- Back-End Web development experience in a Microservices architecture
OUR VALUES
Velocity: Exceeding expectations of our customers, colleagues, and ourselves by delivering swift and effective results.
Integrity: Doing right by our customers, colleagues, and ourselves through honest and ethical actions.
Be Bold: Daring to take risks, learn, and grow to benefit our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.
Empowerment: Owning our decisions and being accountable for the impact we have on our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.
Service: Supporting our customers, colleagues, and ourselves with respect and empathy.
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