by Ronald Barron | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Design Manager, Client Experience
locations
United States
time type
Full time
job requisition id
REQ-39002
As the Manager of Design for Client Experience at Thrivent, you will be a strategic and compassionate leader responsible for building and nurturing a cross-disciplinary team of UI/UX designers, content specialists, and UX researchers. You will oversee capacity planning and talent management, ensuring optimal team performance while fostering a collaborative environment. Your role involves representing the voice of the user in setting the product strategy and prioritizing product roadmaps, maintaining high design standards, and delivering quality solutions. Additionally, you will prioritize the work of the team, ensuring their efforts align with business goals and project timelines. Effective communication and collaboration with product managers, developers, and stakeholders will be crucial in aligning design initiatives with business objectives and advocating for user-centered design principles throughout the organization.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a cross-functional design team of product designers, UX writers, UX researcher and other required design specialists as needed. Be able to effectively manage people and drive multiple related product areas.
- Develop processes and approaches for tackling design problems, using known methods and anticipating challenges. Facilitation to engage cross-functional teams.
- Realize the power of problem-framing, establishing new starting points that lead to quality solutions. Lead the solution of undefined problem spaces, taking a holistic product experience point of view.
- Communicate design rationale effectively using storytelling techniques, building trust with partners and stakeholders. Comfortably communicate at all levels of the organization, demonstrating confidence.
- Free resources to drive change by systematically cutting low-return activities. Use understanding of impact and success metrics to focus and reprioritize efforts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers, both downward and across the organization, ensuring alignment and fostering long-term relationships.
- Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
- Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, UI/UX Design, Web Product Design, Web Development or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background
- 8+ years of experience in a related field, with at least 5 years of experience in user experience, interaction design, product design and research in a product development team required and with at least 3 years with managerial experience.
- Proven experience in navigating and collaborating with different areas of the enterprise, including Engineering, Product and Business owners, to help prioritize work and identify high impact opportunities for the experience
- Ability to motivate, inspire and organize a team of 5-8 designers and researcher to deliver goals outlined for the portfolio of products the manager oversees.
- Manage a team like a business owner making tradeoff and prioritization decisions around how to allocate team members (skill sets and quantity) to meet the goals of the portfolio and products within.
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills, with the ability to build trust and establish long-term relationships.
- Understanding of impact and success metrics for any given product to focus and reprioritize design efforts to ensure the greatest impact possible.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional peers and drive change within the organization.
- Experience in talent management; including experience in recruiting, hiring, and professional development.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to develop processes and approaches for tackling design problems.
- Experience working with design systems and agile practices within a product team model.
Preferred:
- Strategic design thinking and the ability to contribute to the overall design strategy of the organization.
- Knowledge and experience working in financial services, ideally wealth management.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Principal Product Manager
USA – Remote
Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.
About the Role
Dandy is hiring an accomplished product leader to join our technology organization. As a Principal Product Manager, you will play a crucial role in driving the development and success of our technology platform. This is a senior level position, and we’re looking for experienced product managers with a track record of delivering commercially successful products within a fast-moving and highly collaborative environment.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute the product strategy and roadmap for our chairside software—the product suite our dentists use every day to set up patient cases and create orders. Ensure alignment with the company’s overall goals and vision.
- Gather and analyze customer feedback, market research, and competitive intelligence to identify opportunities and prioritize product enhancements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing and customer support, to define and deliver high-quality products used by external and internal customers.
- Communicate transparently with your cross-functional partners to ensure alignment on context and vision.
- Work closely with customers, customer support teams, and stakeholders to understand their needs and pain points, and translate them into actionable product requirements.
- Bring deep customer empathy and serve as the champion and voice of our customers.
- Partner with designers to conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights and validate product concepts, ensuring a user-centric approach to product development.
- Manage the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, and drive the execution of product initiatives in an agile environment.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of your products.
- Leverage data and insights to tell stories and measure your impact and success
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies and apply that knowledge to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Interface with external partners and vendors to evaluate and integrate third-party systems that enhance the capabilities and functionality of our dental technology platform.
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in product management, managing software products through the full lifecycle from MVP to general release and subsequent iterations.
- Strong experience advocating for and working directly with end consumers
- High bias-to-action. You regularly knock down barriers and get things done, quickly.
- Ability to drive alignment across many cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while TRAVEL”>meeting deadlines.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
- Technical competence and comfort-level. You can discuss APIs and services with the engineering team (but you don’t need to be able to code).
- Proven ability to think strategically, develop product roadmaps, and execute against them to deliver impactful results.
Bonus Points For
- Experience managing checkout (ordering) products, software products with a hardware component, and/or products built upon an SDK.
- Experience at an operationally-intensive company.
- Comfortable with writing SQL queries.
- Previous experience in the dental or medical industries.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Principal Information Security Engineer – Remote
Location: Plymouth MN US
Full Time
Enterprise Technology Infrastructure, Platforms & Services (ETIPS) delivers services and operational support to meet business integration objectives. Architecture leadership to provide scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions to meet care delivery business needs and enable future business growth.
As an enterprise enabling team, we will partner with CIOs and their Lines of Business to build faster, better and cost-effective solutions powered by elastic, resilient and secure infrastructure, services and platforms by:
- Running 75% of our business in the public cloud
- Transforming our customer and advocate experience with a modern Omni Platform
- Delivering Best-In-Class Digital Workplace Experience
- Accelerating NIEs Integration with Excellence
- Building high performing, engaged teams
The Principal Information Security Engineer is a role that understands, and has applied, a comprehensive method for analyzing and remediating security rules or policies across an enterprise while aligning with the organizations core business objectives and goals. The candidate will provide expert level analysis and direction across all application, network, systems, storage, cloud, mobile, and data protection environments. This person will be considered a go-to resource for all technical security items and be able to communicate at all levels of leadership, the importance of the security architecture and requirements chosen. The position will work with a team of experienced Security Architects within the enterprise security organization.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the contiguous U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Analyze, remediate, and approve firewall rules/policies in accordance with enterprise established standards and compliance requirements
- Make critical decisions on enterprise security policies
- Utilize the security monitoring tools to support audits (Ex: AlgoSec)
- Report and review the compliance status and take remediation actions
- Determine the severity and complexity of issues pertaining to the security and protection of systems data, (autonomously or as part of a team) to ensure the protections, conservation and accountability of proprietary, personal, or privileged electronic data
- Collaborate with director, managers, and other technical personnel to ensure mitigation of security risks pertaining to the company
- Define, implement, audit, and maintain firewall security policies
- Promote the development of innovative approaches and solutions to complex problems and issues
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience with Firewall rule/policy analysis and remediation
- 7+ years of experience with Palo Alto Firewall
- 5+ years of experience with Cloud Security
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in cyber security
- Splunk experience
- Security governance and compliance experience
- Supervisory experience
- Proven communication skills for team and customer engagement
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Business Operations Lead
at Practice Better
Remote – Canada
At Practice Better, we believe practitioners and their clients deserve better. We’re changing how health and wellness practitioners work by building a modern EHR that’s designed to support the health of their clients and their practice at the same time.
We’re on a mission to help millions of practitioners build the independent practice of their dreams. Founded in 2016, we’re built by practitioners, for practitioners. In 2023, we acquired That Clean Life, the #1 nutrition planning software for nutrition-based care. With more than 40,000 customers in 70+ countries worldwide, we’re honored to be the EHR of choice for the practitioner with an independent spirit. And we’re just getting started.
How we work:
Practice Better operates remote-first, hybrid optional. We ensure each member of our team is equipped with the necessary tools to perform effectively within the comfort of their own space. However, flexibility is important! So, if you need to stretch your legs or whiteboard with your team, you can use our beautiful, private downtown Toronto office.
About the Position:
Job Title: Business Operations Lead
Location: Candidate must be located in Canada or the USA. Our office is located in Toronto, ON, Canada, but the role is remote/hybrid/flexible.
Reports to: SVP, BizOps and Corp Dev
Position Overview:
As a Business Operations Lead, you’ll play a critical role in the strategic direction and growth of the company. This position will report directly to the SVP of Business Operations and Corporate Development and will partner closely with the leadership team to ensure we make progress on key strategic initiatives and plays. The Business Operations Lead will work across the entire organization with high visibility, consistently collaborating with leaders from Product, to GTM, to People, and Finance. This role and team is new to the organization so you’ll also have the opportunity to shape the direction of the team and opportunity for impact.
We’re counting on you to:
- Work cross-functionally with go-to-market and product stakeholders to define and implement strategy across all Practice Better products, driving increased value to our users and our business
- Wear many hats as the Practice Better team grows and we create new functions or build out existing functional areas – you may find yourself leading Talent Operations for a quarter or building Product Operations and processes in another quarter.
- Structure complex, ambiguous strategic problems for the Practice Better leadership team, defining clear hypotheses and building business cases and quantitative models that will inform and influence our approach – individually and with teams
- Lead the definition and management of key drivers of business performance, identifying areas of opportunity and incorporating them into your work
- Deeply understand Practice Better customers and the broader competitive market landscape to uncover insights that inform your recommendations
Who you are:
- Highly analytical: Strong analytical skills, including fluency with Microsoft Excel and BI / Product Analytics tools like Looker, Tableau and Amplitude. Knowledge of SQL is strongly preferred but not required.
- Intellectually rigorous: Strong first principles thinker and someone who is able to drive efficient and rigorous analysis, research and insight generation while building hypotheses and an action plan to tackle challenges.
- Able to build great systems, processes and ways of working: Ability to solve complex business problems, create and bring the team along on new ways of working, and build scalable processes.
- Excellent communicator: Excellent communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations.
- Highly collaborative and strong team player with high empathy: Ability to build trust with empathy while managing cross-functional relationships. Experience working closely with functional leaders to solve challenging business problems and credibly present and debate recommendations with both cross-functional peers and senior leadership is a must.
- Ownership mentality: Strong bias towards action and results-oriented ownership mentality with the ability to exhibit good judgment in ambiguous situations with imperfect data. We’re looking for someone who is a “learn it all” vs. a “know it all” in this role.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Product Designer
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Job Description:
At Qualia, we’ve built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple, secure, and enjoyable process. Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem—homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents—onto a single shared digital closing platform, providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions. Today, through our business customers across the country, millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join a collaborative team where they’ll tackle complex, highly technical problems from concept to launch. Designers should be self-motivated and fluent in navigating multiple stakeholder perspectives to create new features and evolve our existing platform. In addition to rethinking the real estate experience, designers must be comfortable collaborating across Product and Engineering.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design intuitive, human-centric flows and experiences that help our users achieve their goals with ease
- Work collaboratively with Product and Engineering partners from concept through completion and future iterations
- Own the end-to-end design (interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple features and projects
- Provide implementation guidance to engineers and ensure features launch at the highest quality
- Assess the success of your designs in the market and iterate to achieve better outcomes
- Advocate for our customers and help influence UI/UX best practices throughout the Qualia platform
YOUR BACKGROUND THAT LIKELY MAKES YOU A MATCH
- Well-rounded skills and experience to run projects independently end to end
- 5+ years of working experience
- Portfolio with a history of impactful projects that showcase your design process and meaningful outcomes
- Demonstrate strong UX, interaction, and visual design skills along with a human-centric approach to designing products
- Shipped products that have simplified complex workflows
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, and experience collaborating closely with engineering and product partners
- Have iterated on shipped products based on customer usage and feedback
- Fluency in commonly used design software and related tools
- While this role is based in San Francisco, CA we’re open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Application Implementation Specialist
Job Category: Project Management
Requisition Number: APPLI002893
Posting Details
- Full-Time
- Remote
- LocationsRemote – U.S.A
United States of America, 000000, USA
Job Details
Description
At Advarra, we are passionate about making a difference in the world of clinical research and advancing human health. With a rich history rooted in ethical review services combined with innovative technology solutions and deep industry expertise, we are at the forefront of industry change. A market leader and pioneer, Advarra breaks the silos that impede clinical research, aligning patients, sites, sponsors, and CROs in a connected ecosystem to accelerate trials.
Company Culture
Our employees are the heart of Advarra. They are the key to our success and the driving force behind our mission and vision. Our values (Patient-Centric, Ethical, Quality Focused, Collaborative) guide our actions and decisions. Knowing the impact of our work on trial participants and patients, we act with urgency and purpose to advance clinical research so that people can live happier, healthier lives.
At Advarra, we seek to foster an inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone is treated with respect and diverse perspectives are embraced. Treating one another, our clients, and clinical trial participants with empathy and care are key tenets of our culture at Advarra; we are committed to creating a workplace where each employee is not only valued but empowered to thrive and make a meaningful impact.
Job Summary
The Application Implementation Specialist is the subject matter expert on Advarra’s software applications and workflows for the full suite of clinical research solutions. The Application Implementation Specialist understands clinical research and specializes in translating organizational needs into workflows that support operational goals and optimized use of clinical research solutions. The role serves as the primary subject matter expert for implementing customers, as well as providing guidance to internal teams, including new product commercialization.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Master complex software applications, integrations and reports and their use within the clinical research industry
- Work with new customers to fully understand their current business processes and workflows while assisting with the implementation of technological solutions
- Map current state workflows into new, future state application workflows using process flow charting
- Develop and utilize use cases to analyze, define and document business requirements and application scenarios
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on customer enhancement requests
- Coordinate with other internal teams as necessary, to develop Statements of Work (SOWs) required to support new and implementing customers
- Assist in the completion of technical RFP questions for prospective customers
- Build a strong relationship with the customer project team to help ensure the success of the implementation
- Provide guidance to customers on best practices for integrating Advarra technology solutions into their research operations environment.
- Work closely with the implementation project manager to ensure on-time delivery of all milestones
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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