by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
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Senior Designer – Design Systems
at Kin Insurance
Remote; Chicago, IL
The world has changed. Why hasnt insurance?
Kins mission is to reimagine home insuranceFor Every New Normal.While other insurers struggle to handle a fast-changing world, Kin is built for the future and is prepared to meet its challenges head on while helping our customers do the same.
Kin is proud to be one of BuiltIn Chicagos 2021 and 2022 Best Mid Sized Companies to work for, and Forbes 2021 Best Startup Employers in North America. Simply put, our people are what make us great, and we need forward-thinking, inspired game-changers like you to join us in our mission.
So, whats the role?
Kin is taking on the home insurance market with accelerated growth to help customers in climate affected states get affordable property insurance. We are a direct to customer business and our agents and support staff process complex information to ensure our customers find the best insurance policy for them. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing design system team and help craft the future of our design system, Kinetic.
You will be responsible for the design direction of Kinetic across our existing and new product surfaces. You will be working closely with our design system lead, and ux engineer to define components, token architecture, UX patterns, Figma workflows, and the visual language that drive Kins applications.
A day in the life could include:
- Work with the design system lead and UX engineer to define and establish Kinetics visual style.
- Work expanding Kinetic to be a flexible system that can work both for internal enterprise applications and external consumer facing websites.
- Work closely with the brand team to establish a design system that reflects the brand and values of Kin, visually and interactively.
- Work with Product Designers to improve existing as well as create new components and styles across Kin products.
Ive got the skills but do I have the necessary ones?
- 8+ years of experience designing products for mobile and responsive web
- 4+ years of experience building, maintaining, and using design systems
- A deep passion for bridging design, code, and systems-level thinking
- A good understanding of the web, accessibility, and user centric design principles
- Strong demonstration of visual craft and attention to detail
- A passion for typography, information architecture, and color systems
- Clear communication skills, and the ability to explain design choices to different team members.
- Worked within a fast paced agile environment
Bonus Points:
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and SVGs
- Experience working with prototyping tools
- Worked with, or created Figma plugins
- Maintaining and designing multi-platform design systems
- Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, cognitive science or equivalent experience
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
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Title: Senior Data Engineer, Applied Machine Learning
Location: Remote
JobDescription:Who We Are: WellSaid Labs
Were creating Voice for everyone.
At WellSaid Labs, we enable creatives around the globe by putting high-tech, human parity technology into their hands, giving them the ability to add voice-over to any project and iterate with ease. Creative teams use WellSaid Labs Voice Studio to create compelling employee training, design unique digital experiences, and narrate audiobooks. We believe deeply in AI for Good, and that technology should be empowering, engaging, and fair to all people.Who You Are: an Experienced Data Engineer working in Applied Machine Learning
The WellSaid Labs Applied Machine Learning Team works with stakeholders to identify, refine, and solve problems at the intersection of machine learning and customer needs. This team understands customer needs through quantitative and qualitative research and they work across WSL teams to understand how machine learning is utilized and how it can be improved.
Improving and maintaining our ML solutions includes creating test datasets and metrics to define and gauge success, working with the ML Platform Team to prioritize model updates, training new models for deployment, coordinating releases, and educating the customer on any new capabilities. The Applied ML Team is consistently testing and reviewing any deployed models.
As a Senior Data Engineer on the Applied ML Team at WellSaid Labs, you will be working to regularly improve our ML services, chiefly our text-to-speech service. You will own the strategy and development of projects pertaining to our testing frameworks, customer research, and model improvements, among others. As an individual contributor you will also add new datasets; train, deploy, and evaluate new models; and design experiments and algorithms for solving new and creative TTS challenges.
You will build automated systems for evaluating ML performance: accuracy, consistency, and customer acceptance. You will summarize your findings into compelling reports and then collaborate with the Platform and Applied ML teams to build solutions. You should be familiar with Text-to-Speech technology, database querying, data labeling and preparing, crafting workflows for crowd-sourcing evaluations, and metrics reporting. It would be great if you have experience being a team leader and can advise the rest of the Applied ML team in ML-, data- and research-related questions and proposals.How Youll Contribute:
In your day-to-day, you will:
- Own, strategize, and manage efforts to evaluate and improve the model: gather customer insights, audit training data, and bridge gaps between model performance and customer expectations
- Work directly with text and audio data: gathering, compiling, and organizing datasets, preparing data for machine training, evaluating results, debugging problematic data
- Train and deploy ML models: incorporating new data, monitoring training metrics, debugging failing code, deploying a model for customer use
- Evaluate ML models: consider causation or correlation between training data and ML predictions, design ML experiments and establish success criteria, gather and evaluate metrics including mean opinion scores; design evaluation tools for measuring pronunciation accuracy, naturalness, text normalization coverage, among others to minimize customer-model friction
- Additional research projects: interesting data or use cases, alternative services and solutions, internal process improvements, new quality evaluation exercises, etc.
In this role, you will need to take big ideas and build out specifications for achieving smaller milestones toward the ideal state. You will need to organize efforts into scrappy research, MVP executions, and long-term solutions. You should balance immediate results and technical debt with vision for ideal, automated systems. Additionally, this role requires you to write and review code that enables you, and others, to perform each of these tasks. It also requires you to think critically about Text-to-Speech tooling, customer experience, language, dialect, pronunciation, phonemics, and audio dynamics in order to build the highest quality voices and Studio/API experiences for our customers.What Were Looking For
To thrive in this role, you ideally have experience with and a solid understanding of ML concepts and best practices, a history of successfully managing datasets and metrics in a ML capacity, coding experience developing tools that can evaluate data and enable you and your team to establish recommendations based on data analysis results, and experience with software releases to production with strong considerations for both customer impact and ethical implementations of AI.
- You have worked in ML pipelines and have experience developing test suites, automating testing frameworks, and feeding data analysis back into model development
- You have experience working with audio data or within the TTS domain
- You have worked in a technical team at a high level, managing project expectations and communicating your plans, project statuses, and results frequently and comprehensively
- You have worked with a wide array of data types, building analysis tools and establishing success criteria for evaluating the success of data-driven projects
- You have built and deployed ML models for use by a non-technical audience, clearly communicating usage guidelines and best practices
- You have experience building and documenting new processes, especially in a ML pipeline or similar capacity
- You have a strong understanding of the importance of data preparation for ML training, data visualization and metrics for ML assessment, and analysis of ML results
- You have familiarity with software and feature releases and can work closely with a Product team for exposing ML changes to customers
- [Bonus] You are fluent in Spanish or French
- [Bonus] You have studied Deep Learning and have applied models to solve technical challenges
- [Bonus] You have an interest in eventually managing an Applied ML Team, strategizing workload, and mentoring contributing engineers under your supervision
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
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Title: Principal Network Engineer – Juniper focused
Location: Remote, US or Hybrid from Waltham, MA
JobDescription:
At Constant Contact, we are seriously awesome people who take ownership and make an impact by operating with the mindset, integrity and courage of a small business owner. Theres something so profoundly rewarding about knowing that your work is empowering people everywhere to pursue their dreams. Here, we all play an integral part in helping business owners, entrepreneurs, non-profits and individuals to succeed by giving them all the help and tools they need to grow online. Were energized by new challenges and new possibilities-and were just getting started!
We have an opening for a Principal Network Engineer to join our Network Engineering team. You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining the data center and corporate offices’ network infrastructure and have the chance to work on a wide variety of areas like WAN Edge, Wireless Technology, IPS/IDS, NGFW systems, various switching and routing platforms, DDOS Mitigations, Network Access Control, Load Balancers, Inter Office and Inter DC Connectivity, Cloud Networking, DNS, Automation.
What youll do:
- Design and deploy new infrastructure
- Recommend upgrades and solve complex issues on existing infrastructure
- Participate in life cycle projects of network gear
- Automate day to day tasks of network provisioning
- Participate in delivering complex projects and also communicate well with other operations teams
- Work on DNS, Load Balancer configurations
- Work on NGFWs, set up new connectivity to B2B partners and remote sites
- Deploy custom solutions, and use existing tools to monitor the infrastructure
- Train and mentor junior engineers
- Work on DDOS mitigations and other security initiatives
- Work on PCI compliance tasks
- Be a part of a 24×7 network engineering team and take part in on call rotations
- Work on day to day tasks of deploying or maintaining data center or corporate office network infrastructure
- Work with other operations teams to troubleshoot and fix complex issues
- Generate and update documentation and help with process streamlining
Who you are:
- 8+ years of experience in network engineering in large scale enterprise and data center environments. Juniper enterprise expertise is a must to be successful in the role
- Automation experience with tools like ansible to provision and configure network infrastructure
- Experience with designing and configuring EVPN fabrics
- Must have understanding of how web applications function at a high level
- Vendor Certification in routing and switching, firewalls, wireless is a plus (JNCIP, JNCIE, etc.)
- Linux skills to deploy monitoring tools. Perl or python experience is a plus
- Extensive experience with configuration of security appliances, switches, routers, etc. (Palo Alto, F5, and Juniper products)
- Understanding of load balancing technologies, DNS, SAAS Infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP. Understanding of cloud and on premises network connectivity
- Experience with Wireless Technologies for corporate offices
- Load balancer configuration skills are a plus
- Solid working experience with routing and switching technologies: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, MPLS (L2 & L3 VPN), RSVP, LDP, Switching technologies (VLAN/Trunking, STP,RSTP,VSTP)
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
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Title: Engagement Manager
Location: United States
JobDescription:
About Skylight
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.
Were at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.
If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, wed love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.
The work we do matters.
About the job
At Skylight, engagement managers are responsible for driving the overall success of our client work. They draw on their expertise in areas such as agile project management practices, agile coaching at the organizational and team levels, project status and progress reporting, risk/issue management, stakeholder management, continual improvement, and contract administration in order to deliver the highest levels of client service and work.
What youll do
- Translate the clients objectives and constraints into an engagement approach that will deliver a unique experience and impactful results in the shortest amount of time possible
- Assemble a multi-disciplinary team of experts from a variety of sources, including Skylight and other subcontractors, to deliver the engagement
- Manage multiple projects aimed at delivering transformation or a specific product using the appropriate methodologies (e.g., Scrum or kanban)
- Set up the team for successful delivery by removing obstacles, coaching them on how to become more collaborative and self-organizing, and enabling the work they do rather than impose how its done
- Conduct retrospectives with both the client and Skylight team to learn what is and isnt working well, and formulate and implement improvement actions
- Provide management- and team-level visibility into the status and health of the engagement
What we’re looking for
Minimum qualifications
- Understand how to apply agile principles to project and program management
- Ability to understand client needs and build long-lasting, meaningful relationships with them
- Ability to grow Skylights business through business development activities
- Can cultivate team health, including establishing psychologically safe environments
- Can ensure that each project is staffed with the appropriate level and types of personnel
- Can ensure that teams are compliant with their contracts terms and conditions
- Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
- Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Ability to travel for work from time to time
Nice-to-have qualifications
- Prior experience working in the civic tech space
- Experience working in a remote-team environment
Dont meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? Wed love to chat anyway! Were on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they dont check every box.
Other requirements
- All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
- You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
- As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
- Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
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Title: Program Manager, Risk
Location: Goma, DRC
JobDescription:
About GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly (GD) provides cash grants directly to people living in extreme poverty. Since launching in 2011, GD has raised over $1B, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million recipients, launched operations in 15 countries, and continues to expand its reach across the Global South. GD has also grown the research base supporting unconditional cash with 20 randomized control trials from its programs, generating rigorous evidence across countries and contexts. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GDs leading role within it) has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and agile. We work alongside 750+ individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages. Team members at GiveDirectly attest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a fundamental part of our culture and values. We actively seek to recruit individuals from the communities we serve, and use DEI as a lens in our hiring practices, programs, and initiatives. Our goal is to maintain a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and feel valued and respected for who they are. We strive to be inclusive of all cultures and experiences while upholding our values globally. In the spirit of our “Know Yourself and Grow” value, we recognize there is always room to improve our team’s working experience. But day to day, we aim to “Create Positive Energy” – we take care of one another, have fun, aim to maximize flexibility and accessibility in roles, and pursue professional development opportunities to stay challenged & engaged in our work.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
What youll do:
The Risk Manager is a multi-country management role with responsibility for recruiting and managing teams that monitor the risks associated with delivering millions of dollars to thousands of poor households each year. The Risk Manager supports the Director, Internal Audit; and Senior Manager, Internal Audit in managing regionally distributed internal audit teams and implementing innovations for the prevention, detection, investigation and mitigation of fraud and safeguard risks.
This role will require sharp judgment on operational issues and challenges, strong communication and interpersonal skills, exceptional people management and a strong commitment to GiveDirectly’s values, mission and model.
The Risk Manager must be a critical thinker who asks risk-based questions about GiveDirectly’s program design, location choices, internal policies and program timing. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Internal Audit and manages several internal audit managers.
The internal audit team is strictly protected by anonymity from the program team and is prohibited from interacting with the GiveDirectly program team. Although the Risk Manager is unprotected, you will manage a team protected by anonymity and, by joining as a Risk Manager, you must agree to do your job with a high degree of confidentiality and anonymity.
This role has the strong likelihood of managing multiple countries Internal Audit or risk divisions in the future, based on performance and need.
Responsibilities:
Design and implementation
- Detail project risk registers for all new projects and define risk assessment approaches
- Development of programme/recipient audit tools, e.g. surveys, checklists, etc.
- Lead the establishment of country audit teams
- Track and report on country internal audit operational metrics and objectives
Risk mitigation
- Support escalation protocols for different risks and monitor implementation of protocols by country leads
- Support country internal audit teams in detecting policy violations, fraud and adverse events.
- Lead the transparent, accountable, rigorous, and in accordance with best legal practices, and, if necessary, collaborative investigation of suspicions and allegations of fraud; policy violations, adverse events, etc. ; to the effective resolution of such cases
- Lead the program team’s data quality review against data quality standards established by GD and report any inconsistencies.
Policy Compliance Audit
- Act as guardian of the “Beneficiaries First” value within the team by ensuring compliance with GiveDirectly policies and protocols
- Maintain an active, visible and consistent commitment to a common standard of behavior that is required across all aspects of the organization, as stipulated in the Code of Conduct Statement
- Managing a team driven by individual responsibility involves moving from rules-based corporate behavior to values-based behavior that supports a greater focus on promoting individual integrity. .
Program management
- Develop the team’s annual, quarterly and monthly objectives in consultation with the Senior Manager/Director of Internal Audit
- Write team work plans for all projects and share them with team members
- Oversee the implementation of team rosters for work plan delivery
- Review quality checks by country teams to highlight team-specific ethical and value gaps
- Write reports and dashboards that reflect team performance against set objectives and internal audit operations quality bars
- Coordination in the DRC between the IA team and the HR, finance, office management and procurement teams to facilitate the operation of the IA team in the DRC according to the processes and organizational policies in the DRC
Team management
- Promote an effective team culture by encouraging recognition of positive achievements and other team building initiatives
- Model of ethical behavior that encourages the team to point out misconduct among GD staff, partners, community and beneficiaries
- Conduct staff career growth needs assessments (through structural surveys and 1:1 sessions) and liaise with the HR manager to deliver strong professional development sessions internally and externally
- Identify, interview, hire, onboard and retain high capacity national Internal Audit teams
- Manage conflicts and other risks within the team and escalate where appropriate
- Develop a team with strong problem-solving ability, critical thinking, and strong analytical and communication skills
Other roles
- Over time, reduce dependency on senior management and create more leverage for your manager through capacity building and delegation
- Other responsibilities assigned by the manager
What youll bring:
- University degree in a relevant field
- Demonstrated ability to approach work and collaboration with a DEI lens and cultural sensitivity
- Demonstrated success in a high-performance work environment
- Strong interest in advancing the values and mission of GiveDirectly
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and analytical skills
- Ability to approach tasks with resourcefulness and to work in a highly self-directed manner
- Ability to manage day-to-day operations while simultaneously building more robust, efficient systems
- Experience and high comfort-level working in developing-country or high-risk settings
- Experience leading or strongly supporting disciplinary investigations
- Experience in investigating fraud and anti-valuers
- Significant experience implementing projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries
- Bilingual with fluency in English and French.
- Preferred:
- Fluency in spoken and written Swahili
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Social Media Associate
Location: US Remote
JobDescription:
Newsweek is the global media organization that has earned audience time and trust for more than 90 years. Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.
Newsweek is looking for a part-time Social Media Associate to manage social media efforts for Unconventional, Newsweek’s original YouTube series covering the military. Reliability, scheduling and creativity are key! In this role, you’ll be the mastermind behind our online presence, helping us connect with our audience and spread the word about Unconventional.
Responsibilities:
- Crafting compelling content for all our social media channels (Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
- Develop a content calendar across all platforms, ensuring a consistent voice and brand tone.
- Craft engaging captions and copy that resonate with the target audience, sparking conversation and encouraging interaction.
- Create a mix of original content (photos, videos, infographics) and curated content to keep the audience engaged.
- Scheduling and posting engaging content that resonates with our target audience
- Monitor social media channels for mentions, messages, and comments, responding promptly and professionally.
- Research and recommend new social media platforms or features that could benefit the brand.
- Analyzing social media data and reporting on campaign performance
- Staying up-to-date on the latest social media trends and best practices
- Collaborating with the marketing team to develop and execute social media strategies
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree
- Reliable
- available for 20 hours per week
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- A keen eye for detail and a passion for creating high-quality content
- Proficient in using social media scheduling and analytics tools
- Bonus points if you have experience with video editing or graphic design
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