by Ronald Barron | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
eCommerce Site Operations Coordinator
Deliver and Operate
United States
Description
The Position
Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 90 of the worlds leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expectimproving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified, enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.
We are seeking an eCommerce Site Operations Coordinator to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.
What you will contribute:
- Implement front-end ecommerce marketplace updates including:
- Creating and maintaining marketplace collections and assortments
- Managing site setup configurations and tasks for new marketplace and feature launches with a focus on delivery to deadline
- Building out product and program pages for new and existing marketplaces
- Implementing enhancements and updates pertaining to product detail, pricing, content, etc.
- Execute accurate quality assurance processes
- Participate in promotion operations planning and execution processes
- Plan and execute accurate changes in product rebates on the marketplaces
- Intake and assess client requests from internal stakeholders
- Actively communicate updates to relevant internal stakeholders in a timely manner
- Provide feedback for improvement on current processes to drive efficiency. Introduce ideas for upstream solutions to recurring problems.
- Maintain and update documentation
What you bring to Uplight:
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong technical acumen and troubleshooting skills
- Problem solver; is resourceful by actively seeking resolutions
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Professional and positive attitude
- Bachelors degree plus one year of relevant experience required
Bonus points:
- Passion for driving impactful change toward energy efficiency and sustainability
- Experience with GitHub and entry-level coding, especially in YAML
- Experience in the following:
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Qualtrics
- Bazaarvoice
- Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Product Designer
United States
Overview
About the Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Product Designer who will lead the core UX experience of Caper Carts interface. Caper Cart, Instacarts AI-powered smart cart, aims to transform the in-store grocery shopping experience by helping customers save time and money while helping retailers grow their business. You will be working on a dynamic surface that involves collaboration with various teams to implement a seamless experience throughout the shopping and checkout process. Your mission will be to streamline and simplify what it takes for a customer to purchase and save on groceries in person.
We are looking for a Product Designer who will significantly contribute to enhancing the interface of Caper Cart, Instacarts AI-powered smart cart. As part of our team, you will:
- Support the ongoing design of Caper Carts UX, focusing on creating a seamless and engaging in-store experience for customers.
- Partner closely with the Lead Product Designer on our Core Experience pillar to ensure a cohesive and holistic experience across the shopper journey.
- Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, including industrial designers, motion designers, product managers, and engineers, to integrate diverse insights into the design process.
- Help to streamline and simplify the shopping journey, making it easy, fun, and useful, for customers to use the cart.
About the Team –
Caper Carts Core Experience team is responsible for the main interface that customers use while shopping in grocery stores. This includes the pre-shopping, shopping, and post shopping experience such as onboarding, adding and removing items, payments and checkout. This team is a key pillar within Caper Cart and collaborates closely with other pillars working on value and monetization, customer delight, and retailer customizations.
About the Job
Were seeking a creative problem solver to define the next generation of in-store shopping experiences by pushing the boundaries of design. Youll use your full range of skills including strategic design, ideation, interaction design, and visual design to shape and ship amazing experiences. Youll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Industrial Design, and Motion Design to identify new opportunities and bring them to life.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Proven track record of working on consumer interfaces that sit at the intersection of software and hardware. Minimum 5+ years experience working on consumer products.
- Experience in contributing to projects that balance innovative vision with practical execution.
- Portfolio that demonstrates involvement in various phases of the design process, from ideation to final solution
- Demonstrates strong or developing visual design skills and attention to detail, with a customer-centric approach.
- Comfortable working across disciplines and collaborating with motion designers, product managers, and engineers.
- Able to adapt to a fast-paced, start-up environment and possesses strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing at the intersection of hardware and software
- Experience partnering with industrial designers
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Interior Book Designer
1230 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA
Virtual
Req #201
Simon & Schuster was named to Forbes magazine list of America’s Best Mid-Size Employers 2022. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website atwww.simonandschuster.com.
Simon & Schuster is seeking anInterior Book Designerto design and layoutfiction andnonfiction books in the adult division. This person will be involved in, on average, 50projectseach year. An ideal candidate:
- Is an Adobe InDesign expert and book design enthusiast
- Is a talenteddesignerwith experience designing trade interiors
- Is able to work at all levels, from inputting corrections to building well-structured InDesign files for their own original designs
- Understands how their composition work impacts downstream processes, including ebook production and future print editions
- Will work collaboratively with Production Editorial to ensure the manuscript and InDesign document are coded complementarily and coding best practices are applied rigorously from manuscript to finished InDesign files
- Understands book production and printing standards
- Knows the difference between match designs, reflows, conversions, reissues and is able to create all of these
Requirements:
- 2+ years of layout experience in Adobe InDesign; expert inInDesign
- 1 year or more of experience designing original book interiors
- Solid understanding of book composition standards
- Ability to read and implement proofreaders marks
- Experience manipulating illustrations and photos in Photoshop
- Experience creating and manipulating vector art in Illustrator
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Manager, HRIS (Workday)
Location
Remote
Type
Full time
Department
People
Kin is on a mission to change home insurance from what it is to what it should be. Whether were leveraging data to create customizable coverage or providing claims service that goes above and beyond expectations, our members are at the heart of everything we do. In the face of ever-growing climate risk, they deserve an insurance company that cares about them. We aim to stick with our members through thick and thin.
Use efficient technology that lets homeowners buy directly from us to keep costs down: This is the essence of Kin. Our approach has fostered amazing growth, attracted marquee investors, and earned us accolades, including being named to:
- Built In Chicago’s Best Places to Work, Midsize Companies (2021-2024).
- Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers (2021- 2023).
- Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
- Forbes Fintech 50.
Simply put, our people are what make us great we need forward-thinking, inspired game-changers like you to join us in our mission.
So, whats the role?
Kin is currently seeking an HR Operations Manager to play a key role on a growing HR Team in a fast-paced environment. Reporting to the Director, Total Rewards & HR Operations, you will manage Kins HR Operations function, as it pertains to implementing & maintaining our HCM system (Workday), ensuring data integrity & system optimization, building reporting capabilities, and training internal stakeholders on how to utilize the system. Partnering with the HR team, you will provide technical support for our overall HR technology stack.
A day in the life could include:
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Workday, spearheading the full-cycle implementation of Workday Launch Express, and aligning it with strategic HR goals and business requirements. May at times also lead certain initiatives and projects during the implementation timeline.
- Responsible for overall administration and management of Workday post-implementation, working alongside internal stakeholders such as IT, InfoSec, Finance, and Legal, as well as external vendors; with respect to system configuration, troubleshooting, data security, compliance, reporting & dashboard building, etc.
- Ensure Workday landing page is kept up to date and configured to deliver appropriate content based on employees roles.
- Build and update functionality within Workday to meet changing business needs and discern if the use of third party vendors are needed.
- Review functionality of various other HR point solutions and integrations to ensure capabilities meet the needs of the business and overall HR processes.
- Support internal communication efforts for initial go-live of Workday and general employee use of the system. Put together training content and present materials to various groups as needed. Conduct live walkthroughs of the system for certain projects as needed (open enrollment, performance and compensation cycles, etc.).
- Engage with the Workday community for in-depth awareness of new products and system functionality. Share product developments and updates with the HR team.
- Support audit activities by keeping accurate records.
- Responsible for ensuring client satisfaction throughout position responsibilities. Build and maintain partnerships with internal business stakeholders.
- Assist with fulfilling 401(k) data requests and providing payroll records as requested for annual plan audit. Assist with providing reporting for general HR data.
- Ensure seamless connectivity across the HR tech stack and partner to resolve any issues that arise.
- Provide support and serve as a back-up to the Payroll team as needed.
- Support organization, maintenance, and access for main HR Google drive.
- Provide ad-hoc reporting, project support, or data analysis as assigned.
Ive got the skills but do I have the necessary ones?
- 6+ years of experience in HR Operations, HRIS, or People Operations roles. Experience with Workday is a must.
- Experience implementing Workday from beginning to go-live. Workday Launch Express experience is preferred.
- Experience configuring Workday modules such as Core HCM, Peakon, Benefits, Payroll, Learning, Advanced Compensation, Talent Optimization, People Analytics, Time Tracking, Absence Management, etc.
- Experience managing the day-to-day operations of Workday, including building workflows, configurations, reports, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to drive results and outcomes in cross-functional teams. Prefer working in fast-paced environments, with multiple concurrent projects.
- Successfully led complex projects with various stakeholders – delivering results on time and within budget.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong knowledge of Excel (Vlookups, IF formulas, etc.).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated track record of being detail-oriented and organized.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated partnership across various internal teams – including HR, legal, accounting, IT, etc.
- Strong customer service orientation with prompt follow-up and high degree of confidentiality.
- People-management experience and experience within other HR areas, such as compensation or benefits, is a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Software Engineer II, New Products
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Category: Growth
Job Description:
FloQast is looking for a motivated Software Engineer that will play a key contributor role in shipping high impact features on a new product line. This individual will help identify product and engineering opportunities that will delight our customers and build solutions that exceed their quality expectations. The right candidate should have a track record of building, testing, deploying, and soliciting feedback from stakeholders in a pre product-market fit or fast paced startup environment. You will work closely with your team, sales, and our customers to define, prioritize, and build new features.
What You’ll Do
- Build high quality, user focused experiences from the ground up with React, NodeJS, and MongoDB
- Leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as S3, Lambda, and Step Functions to get features to market quickly and efficiently
- Collaborate on our technical vision. Participate or lead discussions and implementation on multiple complex projects
- Continuously act on our customers product feedback, data, and growth needs to epitomize an agile environment by always working on the most important things
- Continuously improve our engineering process, tools, and systems to increase the team’s ability to do more with less
- Fully own or pair on vertically sliced features through the full SDLC including code review, deployments, and production support of our applications and external API
What You’ll Bring
- 1-3 years of professional full stack experience at 1 or more referenceable companies doing web app development, RESTful API design, or data modeling
- Proficiency in JavaScript and React, NodeJS, or MongoDB. Being able to think and develop in their patterns and practices. The more the better.
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features to customers, and developing projects at scale
- Ability to quickly turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
- Motivated by taking a product to market, solving customer problems, and mastering your craft through the growth of the business
Nice to haves
- Have taken a product from 0 to 1
- B2B SaaS experience
- Practice TDD, BDD, or use of code coverage
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
UI/UX Lead
Remote
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
We’re on the hunt for an exceptional and visionary Fulltime UI/UX Director to join our dynamic team, remotely from anywhere in the USA.
As the UI/UX Director, you won’t just be a part of the team you’ll be the driving force, a trailblazer, a visionary leader shaping the future of our products and bringing our customers’ visions to reality. You’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to breathe life into our ideas, from the initial spark of inspiration to the realization of cutting-edge products.
Your mission? To lead our brilliant UI/UX team, crafting online experiences that will leave users awestruck. You’ll foster a culture of collaboration within your department, fostering innovation, and creating a workplace where positivity and our core values thrive. Together, we’ll reach and surpass our product goals.
But that’s not all! You’ll be the maestro of our clients’ experience, orchestrating groundbreaking discoveries and steering the ship of all the UI and UX deliverables. Your ultimate goal? Ensuring client satisfaction reaches new heights.
So, what’s on your to-do list? Conducting in-depth research, unearthing precious insights, sculpting consumer scenarios, and crafting strategic documents that will guide our exceptional team to success.
If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and create unforgettable digital experiences, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Join us in reshaping the future of UI/UX, and let’s turn ordinary into extraordinary.
Responsibilities:
- Communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives
- Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions
- Prepare and lead kickoff Discovery sessions with clients
- Work with the team to plan and implement new designs
- Optimize existing user interface designs
- Test for intuitivity and experience
- Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements
- Create prototypes for new product ideas
- Test new ideas before implementing
- Conduct an ongoing user research
- Design, conduct, and evaluate studies to understand and improve user experience, documenting requirements.
- Work directly with clients to identify requirements and ensure a positive experience.
- Train, mentor, and supervise the UI/UX team
- Create mock-ups and track metrics related to identifiable factors that change user experience.
- Create and implement strategies that improve user experience through design.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as an UI-UX Designer or similar role
- UX/UI design portfolio
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience planning and facilitating client discoveries
- Ability to present and explain design options to clients
- Ability to write clear and concise documentation and communications
- Detail oriented
- Critical thinker
- Problem solver and customer-centered
- Knowledge of Adobe range of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat
- Knowledge of Sketch and Invision or similar
- Familiarity with CMS (WordPress and Drupal), HTML, and CSS
- Knowledge of Human Centered Design, Usability, and Design Thinking
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