by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: UX Designer – Customer Platform
Location: Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Remote
About the Position
Rev is the leading provider of speech-to-text solutions servicing multinational media companies, educational institutions, and the most discerning and innovative tech startups. Rev leads the market in human-provided transcription and captioning, while providing the world’s most accurate AI-powered automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) services. With these offerings, we are transforming the world’s spoken words into insights at a global scale, powering media titans like CBS, ESPN, & Spotify, educational institutions like Stanford, Yale, & Duke, and technology leaders Loom, Descript, HireVue, Axon.
We seek a UX Designer reporting directly to the Director of Product Management for our Customer Platform team. In this role the UX Designer will have the opportunity to work on strategic customer platform initiatives Including helping discover business problems, user needs and the right solution in partnership with engineering and product.
Customer empathy is core to the success of this role. You will be designing products & capabilities that our customers directly interact with you should feel at home digging for pain paints in interviews with customers & prospects and be opinionated around good Design and User Experience
Job Responsibilities
- Ship measurable business value through design by:
- Identifying and solving problems
- Creating experiences that are easy to use
- Iterating toward intended success metrics
- Driving the discovery of user and customer insights
- Design new experiences or layouts that adhere to and, when appropriate, evolve and define our design system
- Drive partnerships and collaborate effectively with your team (Researchers, Product Managers & Engineers)
- Design experiences that simplify the complex, into usable interfaces
- Contribute to strategic decisions
- Give and solicit feedback from designers and the broader product team.
- Demonstrate strong day-to-day execution skills with meticulous attention to detail
Basic Qualifications
- Aptitude in the 6 main skill sets we define success by:
- Product thinking
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Proactivity and drive
- Intentionality
- Self-awareness
- A portfolio that showcases your ability in the skills above
- Experience using Figma as a primary design and prototyping tool
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated SaaS B2B design experience
- Experience evangelizing design to an organization.
- Experience working simultaneously with multiple PMs.
- Bias toward outcomes over output.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
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Life at Rev
Rev is a profitable, growth-stage startup that specializes in meeting the speech-to-text needs of hundreds of thousands of customers annually through its unmatched combination of the world’s most accurate speech AI and the world’s largest community of freelancers working side-by-side.
Rev’s suite of products includes transcription, captioning, subtitling, as well as a live-captioning app for Zoom video conferencing. Rev also boasts seamless integrations with YouTube and Vimeo, as well as custom APIs for enterprise clients who need novel speech-to-text solutions.
Founded in 2010 by five MIT alumni, Rev has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top Silicon Valley VCs and experienced exceptionally rapid growth, both internally and externally. Rev was recently named by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies and is a destination for the world’s foremost engineers and speech scientists.
Our promise is to create great work from home jobs, powered by AI. Our vision is to transcend all barriers of communication. Joining Rev means joining a team of smart, passionate, and friendly people with different backgrounds, shared ideas, and similar goals. Oh, and tons of perks!
- Get Paid: Be competitively compensated by a well-funded startup. Enjoy full benefits, options, and a 401k.
- Desk Budget & Office Equipment: Rev will provide you with a new laptop. You will also have a budget to outfit your workspace.
- Make a Difference: Be measured by your impact, not your effort. Help create real jobs for real people.
- Work Where You Want: For most roles, be free to stay at home, come to the office, or work from a coffee shop.
- Have Fun: Plan and participate in events like field day, baseball games, ski trips and happy hours.
- Stretch Yourself: Learn new skills, talk to customers, drive product improvements, or learn to design. We will push you to your limits.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Director, Design
Location: United States
Remote
Mailchimp is a leading marketing platform for small businesses. We empower millions of customers around the world to build their brands and grow their companies with a suite of marketing automation, multichannel campaigns, CRM, and analytics tools.
We are looking for an experienced and passionate design leader to lead our CX team (content design, research, design system). As the Senior Director of Design, you will be responsible for defining, measuring, and driving a world-class user experience for Mailchimp across our App and Mobile properties. You will lead and grow a team that will identify and drive the optimization of key customer-facing areas to connect the dots across the brand from marketing the campaigns across .com, using the product across desktop and mobile, to helping integrate contextual content such as the knowledge base, Mailchimp presents, and customer support. This team will be responsible for the management and delivery of the CX strategies, tools, concepts, and measurement. You will continually evaluate user experience opportunities, frame options and decision choices, and facilitate constructive tradeoffs to drive customer and business outcomes measured by a combination of CSAT, NPS, and product engagement.
As the Design leader, you will work with cross-functional stakeholders -including strategy, marketing, customer support, product, engineering, and people ops- to drive a culture of customer-centric thinking throughout the organization. You will have a proven track record of success in elevating the experience, leading with a strong vision, and a mindset that views the user experience as Mailchimp’s most important product. You should also have experience creating world-class systems and processes to measure and improve user experience.
What you’ll do here:
- Lead one of the world’s most talented design teams.
- Empower small businesses around the world to grow their customers, brand and businesses.
- Launch your side gig and actively get to use Mailchimp products and services to try to grow your customers.
- Coach and unlock personal growth for the leaders on your team.
- Create a culture and team environment where teams can do the best work of their lives.
- Learn how to make coffee for your coworkers (or order them coffee remotely).
- Champion the Mailchimp design brand in external and internal design communities.
- Lead cross-functional product vision as a member of the Product Leadership Team.
- Closely partner and collaborate with cross-functional partners to accelerate the time it takes for brilliant ideas to translate to experiments and experiences.
- As an officer of the company, consistently demonstrate inclusion, integrity and customer-obsession.
- Participate in Mailchimp programs that bring design opportunities and education to underrepresented communities.
We’d love to hear from you if:
- You are passionate about serving Small Businesses and growing incredible designers into design leaders.
- You have 8+ years of demonstrated UX leadership and management for branded products or systems.
- You have a solid understanding of UX strategies, best practices, principles, and models.
- You have experience leading UX design teams and deliverables (visual, interaction, content, user research, front end engineers).
- You are a servant leader with proven leadership and decision making skills.
- You are an exceptional communicator (written and verbal) with an ability to articulate and sell a vision to product and technical teams.
- You are a skilled collaborator that can bring the best out of your colleagues
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit and mindset with a focus on possibilities and not obstacles.
- You are adaptable to change, collaborative, and can work through ambiguity with ease.
- You like to win, and be a part of a winning team.
- Vaccination Policy: We are requiring that employees who come onsite be vaccinated. Unless prohibited by applicable law, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a requirement for any position at Mailchimp/Intuit that necessitates coming onsite and/or in-person business activity.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Educational Designer I
time type
Full time
Location: Remote/Flexible
Application Deadline: This position will be posted until a sufficient number of applications is received.
Required Application Materials: Resume in PDF format, as well as a link to an online portfolio sharing instructional design work created by the applicant.
Position Term: 1-year term with the possibility for extension
Type: Full time, exempt
Relocation: No relocation assistance is available for this position.
Work Authorization: UCAR/NCAR will not sponsor a work visa (e.g., J-1, H1-B, etc.) for this position. U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency, or other protected status under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) is required for this position.
Salary:
Hiring Range: $65,006 – $81,258
Full Range: $65,006 – $105,635
Benefits: UCAR’s rich package of employee benefits includes medical, dental, vision, education assistance, retirement, and life insurance. UCAR offers a variety of programs designed to assist with work-life balance including flexible work alternatives, paid time off and 14 weeks of paid parental leave. To learn more about our benefits, click here: https://www.ucar.edu/opportunities/careers/benefits
Vaccination Requirement: All employees hired by UCAR must comply with UCAR’s Covid-19 Vaccination Policy and safety protocols.
Where You Will Work:
The Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) serves the Earth system science community in three distinct areas of service. We partner with federal agencies and businesses to hire critical scientific staff enabling a more robust workforce. Through our scientific programs we seek to edify new research with our postdoctoral programs, our visiting scientist and internship programs, along with our interagency support programs. We also help build the Earth system science community by convening and managing summer schools and institutes, conferences, and advisory committees.
What You Will Do:
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area (WMA) Executive Council have developed a comprehensive Workforce Development and Training (WD&T) plan to support the staffing needs of a diverse workforce to more effectively face the water challenges of the nation. Implementing this plan requires key positions dedicated to establishing the governance, processes, and protocols to be used, and establishing new training requirements. A WMA Chief Learning Officer (CLO) is leading these efforts and requires staff to act as thought partners and who are dedicated to critical components of the plan.
This position will be necessary to design and develop virtual and microlearning instructional materials for Water Resources Mission Area staff and to conduct training.
This position will be located remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Create and deliver highly interactive virtual and micro training (technical and non-technical) for diverse audiences.
- Assess and revise existing instructional materials for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.
- Collaborate on creation of instructional materials with external vendors, USGS staff, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
- Work with the WD&T team to identify needed instructional materials including virtual and microlearning courses.
- Serve as a resource for SMEs and instructors on best practices for virtual and microlearning.
- Works with Instructional Design team and assists with coordinating communication between project leaders and with WD&T on project needs, status, and obstacles.
- Works with Instructional Design team to provide training in virtual learning and microlearning methodologies and best practices.
What You Need:
Education and Years of Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant academic discipline (education, instructional design, or STEM field),
- 3 years of relevant experience,
- Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of learning and education theories related to virtual and microlearning for students of diverse backgrounds.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate to a diverse workforce.
- Skill in developing performance objectives and assessments to determine the extent to which learners achieve desired performance including diverse students.
- Knowledge of STEM instructional materials design and development.
- Ability to adjust communication style and/or format to connect with a particular audience and context.
- Knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in STEM.
- Strong prioritization and organizational skills, and flexibility to accommodate changing demands.
- Willingness to learn.
- Willingness and ability to travel – up to 2-3 domestic trips per year.
Desired but not required:
- Training experience in a federal environment.
- Technical knowledge of water science (hydrology, ground water, meteorology, ecohydrology, etc.).
- Skill in applying qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite and technologies for creating and facilitating learning materials.
Applicant Notes:
- Please provide a link to an online portfolio sharing instructional design work created by the applicant.
- Please note that while the position description details both minimum requirements as well as desired skills and experience, we want to remind applicants that you do not need to have all the desired skills and experience to be considered for this role. If you have the passion for the work along with experience in a related field, you are encouraged to apply. We can provide on-the-job training for the rest.
- This position is subject to work location requirements for obtaining access to facilities and research systems. These requirements may include a combination of national security checks, credit checks, fingerprinting, or other security clearance requirements.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
User Experience Designer
(R6643)
User Experience
Seattle, Washington
Remote, United States
Avalara’s Product Experience Group (PXG) is hiring UX designers to help us deliver more and better experiences to our customers. Our customers use our software to help manage businesses of all sizes, from Etsy shops to enterprises. Avalara is a leader in SaaS compliance solutions, giving our employees unlimited opportunity to grow, discover, and innovate.
Requirements
We require a portfolio from all candidates as part of the application process, and you’ll be asked to review your work with the team during the interview.
- Design is an iterative process; seek feedback and collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
- Design intuitive features and interfaces that make emotional connections with users.
- Develop a apply a deep understanding of user needs and goals.
- Create designs ranging in scope, including flows, diagrams, mockups, interactive prototypes, specs, and assets for stakeholders
- Work with and contribute to components of Avalara’s product design system, Skylab.
- Contribute to online and in-person usability studies through all stages of product development.
- Test your ideas and rapidly incorporate user and team feedback.
Qualifications
- 2-4 years of professional experience designing interfaces and online experiences.
- 1-2 years of designing within an existing or emerging design system (i.e. Material Design, VMWare Clarity, Salesforce Lightning Design.)
- 1-2 years of working with developer teams in agile sprints, and participating in design reviews and retrospectives.
- You have a portfolio that includes wireframes, interaction flows, and high-fidelity interface examples. Your thought process and the context of your contribution should be clear.
- Experience with Figma or comparable tools.
- Working knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3.
- Experience working for software or SaaS companies with a customer base that ranges from small business owners to enterprise.
Education
- Bachelors or higher degree in a User Experience related field such as (UX design, HCI, Interaction Design, or Graphic Design), or equivalent professional experience.
About Avalara
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world.
Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.
The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries — is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds.
That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast.
Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, and the U.K.
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, or any other factor protected by law.
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Design Director
Location: New York City or Remote
At Code and Theory, our Design Directors create and inspire work that is distinctive, effective and clean. They cut through the crossed wires and static to facilitate a clear and coherent working environment, often juggling simultaneous client projects of varying proportions. We will always choose an open mind and desire to inspire and learn over a mile-long resume.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
The bread and butter of our visual design team is the development of platform-driven client sites, mobile and media applications, and internal tools that deliver smart and forward-thinking design solutions. As a Design Director, we’ll likely to ask you to:
- Lead efforts to develop creative concepts and implementations in a cross-disciplinary manner, working with planners and strategists to establish smart, creative approaches for each assignment
- Develop strategy, vision and concepts, set design direction and provide hands-on guidance to both internal and external teams
- Champion and generate ideas around innovative and effective digital communications, interface design, and interaction design
- Hire, inspire, mentor and train designers of all levels to create usable ideas that streamline solutions across existing and emerging platforms, setting design standards for the team and department
- Partner with internal teams on new business initiatives and work as the creative lead on pitches
ESSENTIALS
While we are an open and creative group at Code and Theory, we do have some concrete asks for this position. To be an effective Design Director, you should have:
- Minimum of 10 years experience in the creative/design industry with an exciting portfolio rooted in digital visual design
- Extensive tenure designing for multiple interface and platforms in an agency, studio or product-side environment, with a deep understanding of all creative disciplines, including conceptual and executional
- Effective communicator, whether it’s verbal, written, cross-departmental or across the globe
- A professional and mature presence in all aspects of team and client relationship building,
- Passion, curiosity, and understanding for digital media as well as the marketing industry, and a desire to adapt to the changing landscape of technology
TL;DR
The Design Director has a lot of plates spinning, and there are frequent unpredictable roadblocks, so agility and malleability will help you stay efficient and calm. As a Design Director, the ability to formulate a plan and clearly communicate it to your team and the client is crucial. Working within our team, you’ll use your incredible organizational (and design) skills to find yourself developing world-class solutions with us for a long time.
ABOUT US
Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology, which enables us to work across the entire end-to-end customer journey. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients.
Since 2001, we have helped redefine the publishing landscape, working with over 145 publishers in the process, while helping to create the first and second generation of digital-first publishers. Striving to never be pigeonholed, today we work across every major category, from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education, and partner with leading brands and startups alike, including adidas, Amazon, CNN, Con Edison, Estee Lauder, J.P. Morgan Chase, MARS, NBC, Samsung, Spotify, TikTok, and Xerox.
Code and Theory has a dedicated healthcare practice, eponymously named Code And Theory Health, focused on driving category innovation as we’ve done for other industries over the past two decades, working with clients such as Pfizer, J&J and Bioreference Laboratories.
The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Mediacurrent, Rhythm, and TrueLogic. Collectively, our team is comprised of nearly 1000 strategists, technologists, designers, analysts, and content creators, and with a remote-first approach to offices, we are distributed across North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
Code and Theory is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. DE&I at Code and Theory isn’t just an industry concept that we support, for us it is a mandate and a practice that we weave into everything we do, and everything we make, every single day.
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by Ronald Barron | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Java Developer – Telecommute
Location: Eden Prairie MN US
Job Category: Technology
Job Type: Full-time
Travel Percentage: -1
Job Description:
Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There is no room for error. If you are looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It’s an opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work as a part of our core engineering team to ensure the highest standards of design, implementation, performance, and security
- Work closely with the product team to ensure all customer needs are met
- Design and build upcoming new features
- Support and extend existing features
- Participate in daily SCRUM meetings
- Review requirements and develop technical solutions to meet requirements
- Estimate project deliverables
- Develop and test REST APIs to meet project requirements using Java Framework
- Develop Kafka Producer-Consumer components to meet requirements
- Develop and Deploy applications using CI/CD pipeline
- Develop applications adhere to secure coding practices and with adequate code coverage
- Work with data providers and API consumers to clarify requirements and remove roadblocks
- Provide innovate solutions to technical challenges
- Build and deploy framework components to achieve automated testing goals for the team
- Drive automation into everyday activities
- Deliver high quality high performing solutions
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of coding experience with one or more of the follow languages; Java Stack, Beam, Spark, Microservices, Spring technologies with a willingness and ability to learn new ones
- 3+ years of experience working with Oracle 11g, 12c, MySQL, NoSQL and Big data
- 3+ years of Agile development experience and knowledge of Agile ceremonies and practices
- 3+ years of experience with Unit Testing, Code Quality tools, CICD Technologies, Security and Container Technologies
- 2+ years of experience with Messaging Technologies like MQ Series, Kafka, Oracle AQ
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $82,100 to $146,900. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $90,500 to $161,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
Additional Job Detail Information
Requisition Number
2063450
Business Segment
Optum Technology
Employee Status
Regular
Job Level
Individual Contributor
Travel
No
Country: US
Overtime Status
Exempt
Schedule
Full-time
Shift
Day Job
Telecommuter Position
Yes
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