by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Managing Editor, Hispanic/Latino Initiatives
United States ● Virtual Req #40787
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally-focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer Prize-winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.
Our current portfolio of media assets includes The USA TODAY NETWORK, which includes USA TODAY, and local media organizations in 43 states in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom. We also own digital marketing services companies under the brand LocaliQ, which provide a cloud-based platform of products to enable small and medium-sized businesses to accomplish their marketing goals. In addition, our portfolio includes one of the largest media-owned events businesses in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.
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Managing Editor, Hispanic/Latino Initiatives
Gannett is seeking a creative, outcomes-obsessed leader to serve as Managing Editor of Hispanic/Latino Initiatives (ME). The person in this role will sit at the intersection of Content, Product and Revenue, leveraging a growth mindset to create, test and launch experiences designed for audiences who prefer to receive their news and information in Spanish. The goal of this role is to increase audience through content that serves distinct Hispanic/Latino audiences in diverse communities across the country.
The ME has the skill and knowledge to develop a creative, ambitious, and achievable plan to reach and engage a diverse audience, to build teams of content creators, and to quickly scale experiments for maximum impact across markets. The person in this role understands how to identify new audiences, create relevant experiences, and encourage engagement in ways that contribute to the financial outcomes that support enterprise growth. The ME has a deep understanding of content distribution tactics relevant to Hispanic/Latino audiences (YouTube, WhatsApp, SEO, off-platform distribution) and the ability to turn audience analytics into actionable insight.
The ME will work with the Senior Director of Innovation and Experimentation to drive this new venture, including P&L responsibility and goals tied both to audience and revenue. The ME will be tasked with leveraging the talent already within Gannett and then identifying roles to build and fill.
The Managing Editor, Hispanic/Latino Initiatives will:
- Assist the Senior Director in driving cross-departmental commitment to plan and test growth initiatives, from identifying capability gaps to prioritizing engineering needs and coordinating with newsrooms to ensure requirements are met to achieve the Company’s strategic priorities in Spanish.
- Participate in tracking the P&L on strategic growth initiatives, tying new content experiences to revenue results.
- Assess the feasibility of platforms, partners, and products, collaborating with Revenue and Transformation to expand audience and dramatically increase engagement.
- Oversee development of new content initiatives, set a clear mission around audience engagement and monetization.
- Work with Transformation and Revenue to develop a set of leading indicators that help us stay on plan and respond to industry and audience behavior changes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in journalism or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10-15 years’ experience in a digital media, with at least 6 years in leadership.
- Spanish language fluency required.
- Ability to maintain focus on high quality journalism and driving new revenue streams.
- A fearless tenacity for experimenting, learning and scaling.
- A history of successful collaborations, especially involving Spanish-language and Hispanic/Latino focused news and initiatives.
- Agility at managing multiple projects and leading through action and collaboration.
- A passion for innovation, experimentation, change management, driving new workflows.
- Proven experience in forging strategic partnerships with platform and content creators.
- Demonstrated success in new product launches that increase audience and deliver ROI.
- Experience using news analytics to understand and grow audience.
- Commitment with action to diversity and belonging.
- Employment is contingent on passing a post-offer, pre-employment background check.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Language Arts Worksheet Creator
Location: United States
Remote
IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by 14 million students worldwide, is seeking design-savvy educators to create language arts worksheets for Education.com. In this role, you will write, design, and produce educational worksheets for language arts topics in grades K–8.
This is a remote, 1099 consulting role for three months with a possible extension.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
- Create engaging, effective worksheets for grammar, vocabulary, writing, and reading topics in grades K–8.
- Write engaging, well-written, and grade-appropriate content for your assigned topics.
- Produce a polished, visually appealing worksheet PDF using design software such as InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Keynote, or Google Slides.
- Ensure that files meet visual and technical requirements.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- English teaching, tutoring, or mentoring experience for K–8
- Experience with visual design and design software
- Strong writing skills
- Experience in curriculum development is a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Experience Designer
Location: United States (Remote)
Type: Full time
Department: Design
Overview
About ONE
ONE’s mission is simple — financial progress. We’re doing this by creating simple solutions to help our customers save, spend, and grow their money — all in one place.
The U.S. consumer today deserves better. Millions of Americans today can’t access credit, build savings or wealth, and are left to manage their financial lives through multiple disconnected apps. Almost a quarter of U.S. adults are unbanked or underbanked and roughly 80% of fintech users rely on multiple accounts to manage their finances.
What makes us unique? We are backed by a preeminent fintech investor (Ribbit) and the world’s largest retailer (Walmart), maintain the speed and independence of a startup, and employ a strong (and growing) collection of world-class talent.
There’s never been a better moment to build a business that helps people achieve financial progress. Come build with us!
The role
As a Senior Experience Designer, your mandate is to help enhance our design team and create new experiences. This position will play a pivotal role in defining innovative ways to help people achieve balance in how they spend, save, and grow their money by designing a world-class experience that embraces ONE’s mission and brand. This role will report directly to the Experience Design Lead.
This role is responsible for:
Working across the studio with other designers and creatives to develop, refine, and iterate on new and existing experiences.
Collaborating with your cross-functional partners with the customer experience always in mind which will ensure we deliver only the highest quality work.
Working autonomously and focusing on people’s needs and emotions along their path to financial well-being.
Building strong and compelling user stories, information architecture, data visualization, and interaction designs that support the end-to-end product lifecycle.
Mentoring other designers, growing the understanding of our discipline within the company, and helping us grow ONE’s overall design culture.
Additional duties as assigned by your manager.
You bring
Mid Career (5-10 Years).
An act-like-an-owner mentality. We have a bias toward taking action.
Professional experience designing detailed, thought-provoking, and informative experiences.
A strong portfolio that demonstrates compelling interactive design work showcasing a perspective on your creative process and aesthetics.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams delivering high-quality work while advocating for design, brand, research, and user experience continuity.
Expert knowledge in experience design, in addition to proficiencies in one or more of the following software applications: Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Principle, Xcode, and Cinema 4D.
A proven ability to create innovative concepts via prototypes, storyboards, animations, and other visual mediums.
Genuine passion for design, and building products that people want and will use.
Ability to pivot through creative problem-solving.
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Media Arts, or similar is a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Staff Marketing Data Scientist
Marketing
US – Remote
UT – Salt Lake City
DE – Claymont
NC – Charlotte
WA – Seattle
CA – San Francisco HQ
NY – New York City
Description
Position at SoFi
Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The Role
The Marketing Data Science team is looking to add a Staff Marketing Data Scientist who will support marketing campaign execution and help shape product targeting decisions. The Staff Marketing Data Scientist will work closely with Marketing Managers, Marketing Technology and external data firms (e.g. Credit Bureaus and consumer data firms) to enhance SoFi’s marketing platforms and reduce our time to market. You will (1) build and update audience targeting capabilities, (2) build and implement data pipelines for direct mail and digital targeting campaigns and (3) extract, transform, and load data to facilitate specific marketing strategies.
To be successful in this role, you need to have at least 6+ years of hands-on marketing analytics as well as, campaign management and execution, preferably in financial services. You will leverage your direct marketing knowledge to become a subject matter expert on Pre-screening/Pre-approval acquisition campaigns as well as credit bureau data and our internal customer performance and marketing datasets.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and execute comprehensive marketing plans and programs, both short and long range, to support marketing acquisition and revenue objectives
- Lead development, implementation and continuous improvement of campaign data, strategies and processes
- Cultivate strong partnerships with Product Marketing, Channel Owners, Business Units, Risk Management, and Finance to identify improvements to campaign execution and results as well as make data-driven recommendations
- Identify opportunities to improve marketing efficiency such as campaign process improvements
- Research, analyze and monitor financial and technological factors to identify marketing opportunities
- Translate business goals into actionable tactics and campaigns informed by data that deliver short term results and build foundational platform for long term growth
- Support partners with ad hoc analysis requests that come up during normal course of business
- Synthesize data into succinct presentations that influence senior management decision making
- Focus on what’s best for the company – sometimes that requires being flexible, other times it requires being steadfast.
What you’ll need:
- 6+ years of relevant work experience in credit marketing capacity, with demonstrated experience developing and analyzing direct marketing campaigns
- Bachelor’s degree required (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or quantitative field.
- Experience with using Airflow to build Data Pipelines in Snowflake
- Data Engineering exposure in a marketing environment
- Strong knowledge of databases and related languages/tools such as SQL, NoSQL, Hive, etc
- Strong programming skills in Python and R
- Track record of delivering impact. Can both develop but also help implement solutions to ambitious problems
- Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills
- Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
- Ability to work ambiguity and have strong problem solving skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, with strong attention to detail
- Strong relationship-building and collaborative skills
Nice to Have:
- Knowledge of statistical modeling or machine learning is preferred but not a requirement
- Extensive knowledge of pre-screen driven marketing campaigns
- Proficiency in Tableau
- Effective communication skills and ability to explain complex systems and processes in simple terms
- Experience with experimentation and hypothesis testing
- High EQ with ability to influence outcomes and communicate technical content to general audiences
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Bookkeeping Software Customer Support – Remote
Customer Service
United States
Contract
Responsibilities
Working Solutions seeks independent contractors experienced in bookkeeping/accounting practices and using accounting software in order to assist customers. In this program, you will help callers with questions related to accounting software processes, ledger entry, navigation, and other troubleshooting needs. Proficiency in QuickBooks Online or comparable accounting software is required. This is a remote, independent contractor role that provides customer support via phone.
Why join the WooHoo! Crew? There are many perks to contracting with us:
- Work from home: Say goodbye to commuting hassles and hello to the convenience of working from home.
- Work when it’s convenient for you: Flexibility is the name of the game. Schedule your own hours and enjoy the freedom of creating a schedule that works best for you.
- Gain experience in different industries: Expand your skillset and broaden your horizons while providing exceptional customer service.
- Supportive environment: We’re there to help so you can focus your efforts on bringing top-notch service to the customers we serve.
Earnings Potential
- Earn up to $20.40 per hour
- Contractors are guaranteed a minimum of 45 minutes for each hour if available for the full 60 minutes.
Schedule
- Flexible schedule opportunities – you create your own schedule!
- Schedule available hours between 8 am and 8 pm CST, Monday – Friday
Skills Needed
- Proficiency in QuickBooks Online or comparable accounting software.
- Bookkeeping/accounting expertise to include AR, AP, journal entries, reconciliation, etc.
- Customer service experience and demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality customer service over the phone in a virtual or “brick and mortar” call center environment.
- Strong ownership of customer issues in order to take control of the situation and provide confident resolution.
- Tech savvy and avid computer user.
- Communicate with a friendly tone and professional demeanor.
Work Environment Requirements:
- Quiet, uninterrupted space
- Organized desk area
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Digital Designer, Video
Location: United States
Shared Services Ecosystem – Marketing /Full Time/ Remote
At Colibri Group, culture is a critical part of our collective success, and we live our values everyday: Love, Joy, Boldness, Teamwork, and Curiosity. These values guide our interactions with each other, our customers, and the community.
Position Overview:
The Digital Designer will work closely with the business team in developing, high standards digital design work for short graphic videos, motion graphics, animated GIF’s, digital ads/banners, posts, web sites, landing pages, and any other deliverables related to an ecommerce centric environment.
The Digital Designer is a strategic thinker who understands the impact that design has on business and devises compelling design solutions that translate internal into effective communications that align with the objectives and brand. The Digital Designer has the confidence to present to internal clients and articulate concepts, along with a strong affinity for branding and identity creation, creative focus, and technical ability. The Digital Designer works well as a team member on any given project and, understands how operate within a team DEADLINE ORIENTED setting, and knows what is expected in internal critiques and team meetings.
What You’ll Do
- Create superior, original designs for short graphic video’s, motion graphics, animated/static GIF’s, digital ads, banners, posts, web sites, landing pages, and any other deliverables related to an ecommerce environment.
- Advise Sr Creative Manager on design considerations and liaise with internal creative team including designers to share ideas, techniques, and best practices.
- Maintain positive working relationships with internal customers and internal creative team.
- Proactively manage project schedule to avoid last-minute projects and rush points; keep Project owners apprised of status.
- Proactively seek out ways to improve consistency and effectiveness of visual communications for the company. Identify relevant media, technologies, and production processes that offer significant improvements in cost-effectiveness, production time, or communications impact.
- Stay informed about company products, current graphic design trends and tools, and industry developments that may lead to future visual communications opportunities.
- Collaborate and work individually to solve problems and offer creative visual design solutions
- Assists other designers and the creative manager in fulfilling the Creative Department’s design directives and deliverables, including corporate initiatives.
- Assists Creative Service Manager in defining goals, deliverables, and standards for design group.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the creative industry function as lead digital designer.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent work experience (multimedia, graphic design. Interactive design, etc.,)
- Online portfolio with engaging digital design work is required.
- A solid academic background in graphic design techniques/theory and a mastery of the following disciplines: video design, editing, storyboarding, animation, digital design, and advertising/promotional campaigns a plus.
- EXCELLENT SKILLS in Adobe Suite products: Premier, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and other mainstream graphics and multimedia programs.
- Solid understanding of creative development for digital design; front-end development in Flash, HTML, CSS, or other front-end development technologies is a plus.
- Thought leadership: A strong point of view; ability to contribute to the strategic development of an assignment; creative ideas and the ability to promote conceptual thinking among the team.
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