by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: IT SaaS Administrator – Jira (Remote, US)
Location: Remote, United States
JobDescription:
Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up. We are re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. Doing this requires a rapidly growing team of exceptional, curious, empathetic people with a wide range of skill sets, spanning technology, data science, product, marketing, sales, service, claims handling, finance, etc.
Now is the perfect time to join the journey. Here’s why
- It’s working. We’re in multiple states and on our way to operating countrywide. We have thousands of agents selling our product and millions of dollars of annual customer premiums.
- We’re well-backed & stable. We closed our $100M Series D fundraise. We are supported by some of the top investors globally, including Google’s “Gradient” AI-focused fund, Obvious Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, Eden Global Partners, and Clocktower Technology Ventures.
- It’s not too late! Despite this traction and stability, we’re still early enough in the journey that there’s time to make a real difference during Openly’s formative period.
If you’d like to understand more about Openly’s mission, consider checking out this video (https://vimeo.com/267654520) from a company pitch we gave several years ago at Techstars.
Job Details
As an IT SaaS Administrator – Jira, you will play a crucial role in the administration, management, and optimization of our SaaS applications ecosystem. Your primary focus will be ensuring seamless integration, efficient utilization, and secure operations of all our SaaS applications and technology stack with special focus on the Jira administration for the whole organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and manage our SaaS stack, including user management, security configurations, application settings, and integrations.
- Administer and manage Jira instances, including user management, workflow configurations, and integration with other tools.
- Collaborate with IT Leadership to define and implement best practices, standards, and policies for Jira usage within the organization.
- Configure Jira projects, custom fields, permissions and workflows to align with business requirements.
- Provide Jira training and support to end-users.
- Ensure data integrity and security within Jira instances.
- Ensure the smooth operation and availability of our productivity applications, proactively monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and resolving incidents.
- Participate in the daily IT support rotation to address and resolve end-user issues, providing timely and effective support.
- Configure user access, permissions and security.
- Collaborate in the design and implement integrations, workflows and automations to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enhance user experience within our technology stack
- Develops comprehensive documentation for SaaS administration processes, procedures, and guidelines as well as mentoring more junior IT team members.
- Collaborate with IT Leadership and stakeholders in SaaS-related projects, defining project scope, managing resources, and ensuring successful implementation and delivery.
- Leverage project management methodologies to execute and monitor SaaS-related projects, adhering to timelines and quality standards.
Our core tech-stack
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Zoom
- JIRA
- Notion
- JAMF
- OKTA
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related experience. Relevant certifications in JIRA, JAMF, OKTA, Google Workspace, project management, and coding/scripting.
- 3-5 years of experience as an IT professional, 1-3 years of which as JIRA Administrator
- Proven experience administering various SaaS applications as part of a technology stack (OKTA, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, JIRA, Notion)
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive mindset, continuously seeking opportunities for process improvement, automation, and optimization within the SaaS environment.
- Nice to have: Experience in automation and scripting, with proficiency in coding languages such as Python, Google App Script, JavaScript and/or Bash scripting.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Engineer, High Voltage Development
locations
Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R1055153
At AES, we raise the quality of life around the world by changing the way energy works. Everyone makes an impact every day in our small, global teams. Apply here to start an extraordinary career today.
We are currently looking for a dynamic Senior High Voltage Development Engineer to join the team that coordinates the regional responsibilities of our project development pipeline. This position will require an individual who can competently manage challenging priorities, navigate between early-stage conceptual and more “refined” design, and demonstrate technical tasks with a strong focus on understanding grid integration requirements for renewables. This is a solid opportunity for an engineer who not only is proficient in the technical engineering aspects but enjoys building and being a great partner with suppliers, consultants, and Power Utilities.
The role will be a part of the Grid Integration Team at AES, in the High Voltage Engineering team that delivers pre-construction development engineering and construction/commissioning execution engineering for High Voltage facilities associated with renewable energy power plants. Voltage ranges from 35kV up to 500kV. As a part of AES Clean Energy, the role will play a part in the major growth in the renewable energy sector from greenfield development, large portfolio acquisition and multi-resource generation projects. The High Voltage Development Engineering team is looking to grow its core group of highly resourceful and regionally dedicated engineers as AES Clean Energy enters new markets and innovates on a large scale of energy production.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for early stage/conceptual pre-construction and construction phase design and engineering activities for Solar, Wind, and BESS collector high voltage substations and Generation Tie Lines (35kV to 500kV)
- Relating to conceptual designs for preliminary permitting and estimating
- Develop scope of work documents for regional renewable projects based on AES engineering standards and following utility requirements
- Manage consultants for 30% of design packages for collector substations and transmission facilities
- Raise the possibility of completing in-house with the design team
- De-risk project pipeline, including M&A portfolios, by performing technical due diligence and coordination with other internal departments
- Support cost estimating efforts for High Voltage facilities, including BOM review and substation expansions
- Establish and manage relationships with High Voltage specialist consulting firms
- Review Substation EPC bid designs for compliance with interconnection agreement requirements, applicable reliability standards, following scope documents, and meeting AES standards, etc.
- Provide design review and advise on any issues that appear technically incorrect or inconsistent with project documentation and contractual exhibits.
- Direct coordination with interconnection providers (CAISO, PJM, NYISO, MISO, ERCOT, WECC, SERC, NEISO) to design collector substations and account for new switchyards per Transmission Provider requirements.
- Growth opportunity for a leadership role within the engineering team.
- Work with a project team including real estate, permitting, interconnection, legal, finance, PV Development engineering, pre-construction and construction.
- Travel and field work 25%.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or similar with emphasis on Power Systems
- 5-7+ years of High Voltage design experience
- Excellent understanding of project management standard methodologies
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead technical discussions among HV EPCs, Power Utilities, and internal collaborators
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize projects and tasks
- Able to bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical in a fast-paced environment
Desired Skills and Experience
- PE Licensure.
- Experience on ETAP similar electrical modeling software.
- Experience on Relay and SCADA controls and architecture.
- Experience in PLS-CAD
- PMP Certificate
- Experience in training and mentoring other specialists
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Digital Marketing Manager
Remote
Kiva Brands – Marketing
Full-Time
Kiva Confections (www.kivaconfections.com) is a world-class cannabis-infused edibles company in California, the largest cannabis market in the world. Kiva’s line includes Kiva Chocolate Bars, Terra Bites, Petra Mints, Lost Farms Gummies & Chews, and Camino Gummies.
Our products are crafted from premium ingredients and thoughtfully combined with California cannabis. Since our beginning in 2010, our goal has been to create confections that redefine what a cannabis confection ought to be. By applying art and science, we ensure a deliciously consistent experience.
We have high-reaching growth plans as the legal market and consumer adoption expand. Key growth initiatives include ambitious platform innovation, outstanding marketing, geographic expansion, strategic partnerships, and more. We are resourced for this spectacular growth and looking for great people to help take us to the next level.
Are you a digital marketing enthusiast with a proven track record of developing and executing successful cross-channel strategies? Do you have a passion for the cannabis industry and a drive to lead innovative digital initiatives? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are seeking a Digital Marketing Manager to drive our digital and web marketing strategies for Kiva confections, Camino, Lost Farm, Petra and Terra.
In this role, you will be responsible for implementing content strategies, overseeing digital growth initiatives, and collaborating with internal and external teams to achieve business goals on both the cannabis and hemp digital platforms. Your role will be vital in enhancing brand presence, optimizing customer engagement through digital channels, and supporting our DTC efforts.
As Digital Marketing Manager, you will…
- Execute omni channel marketing strategies from optimization to reporting, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
- Manage digital advertising efforts, including budgeting and collaborating with Brand, Creative and E-Comm teams on ad creative for both cannabis and hemp sites
- Manages and grows the Digital Marketing Associate shared with the Director of E-Commerce
- Implement marketing strategies for third-party cannabis listing/ordering sites (e.g., Weedmaps, Leafly, I Heart Jane, Dutchie) to enhance brand presence and value for retail partners.
- Work with the Director of E-Comm and agencies to maintain and update best-in-class websites for our brands.
- Develop and implement SEO strategies to improve organic rankings and search traffic, with ongoing performance reporting.
- Maintain a monthly digital marketing calendar aligned with overall marketing initiatives and promotional activities.
- Collaborate with the creative team and brand managers to develop campaign assets that adhere to brand guidelines.
- Coordinate campaigns, and report on performance in collaboration with the Social Media and PR team.
- Analyze digital channel performance metrics to drive future marketing decisions.
- Generate monthly reports and assess the performance of all digital marketing campaigns on both cannabis and hemp sites.
- Understand technical limitations and opportunities working with a compliant heavy landscape
What we’re looking for…
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
- Proficiency in digital marketing tools (e.g., Web CMS, Google Analytics, etc.).
- 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, website management, and social media.
- Strong knowledge of social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.).
- Proven track record of managing SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, and social media campaigns.
- Experience with third-party and e-commerce platforms.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills for data interpretation.
- Effective communication and project management skills.
- Genuine passion for and interest in the cannabis industry.
- Prior cannabis or hemp industry experience is a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Editor – Remote
Location: United States
Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (better known as Hims & Hers) is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We are revolutionizing telehealth for providers and their patients alike. Making personalized solutions accessible is of paramount importance to Hims & Hers and we are focused on continued innovation in this space. Hims & Hers offers nonprescription products and access to highly personalized prescription solutions for a variety of conditions related to mental health, sexual health, hair care, skincare, heart health, and more.
About the Role:
Hims & Hers is looking for a full-time blog editor who is nimble, collaborative, and passionate about helping people find credible and authoritative knowledge to help them feel better. This editor will guide the creative work for two of the following four categories: hair care, mental health, sex, and weight management.
About You:
You’re up to the challenge of impressing readers while also knowing how to dance with Google’s web crawlers. Your editing is strategic and tactful, and you really care about making sure every reader feels taken care of. You also understand how keywords are used and why digital marketers are so obsessed with them. You want every article to succeed and you’re obsessed with optimizations to achieve SEO goals.
You’re adept at keeping up with hard deadlines, making pivots on the fly and are as committed as we (and our writers) are to taking sometimes complex topics and distilling them into simple, easy-to-understand narratives. People are looking for answers to often uncomfortable questions, and we want to make them feel like they can get solid, credible information from us, with no judgment.
These articles will be most peoples’ first touchpoint with the brand, so smart, accessible and engaging content is key to starting that journey on the right foot.
You Will:
- Edit compelling, accessible, authoritative content across the Hims & Hers blogs consistent with content briefs and medical research packets provided for each assignment by our in-house editorial and SEO teams.
- Ensure that articles include a mix of footnotes and reference lists, and follow a comprehensive SEO report (Experience with Frase, Clearscope, Ahrefs, etc. heavily preferred).
- Always be looking for ways to improve our editorial workflow to achieve targets.
- Be the advocate for brand tone and use our guidelines to inform editing from a high level.
- Always put the reader first: edit for the customer. What do they need to know to feel better? How can we provide them with rock-solid information that will enable them to trust us as a brand? What unique value can Hims provide that other publishers cannot? Whenever possible, we strive for a unique perspective.
- Revise work as necessary based on feedback from editorial, SEO, and medical reviewers.
- Identify new opportunities for existing content to improve SEO performance.
You Have:
- 7+ years of editorial experience, preferably for both brands and publishers, preference for publishers with a strong SEO strategy.
- Excellent time management and ability to meet weekly deadlines.
- Proven track record editing excellent content about complex topics.
- Strong creative, conversational editing style with a passion for good authorial voice.
- Experience using insights and strategic thinking to shape priorities.
- Experience driving complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have:
- Experience writing or editing in the medical or wellness space is strongly preferred
- Genuine passion for and interest in hair, sex, mental health, and/or weight management — from products to techniques and everything in between.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Freelance Associate Director, Visual Design
Location: US
JobDescription:
VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.
The Associate Director, Design will be responsible for creating outstanding visual stories to keep users engaged throughout their digital experience. They will establish art direction and design for complex and dynamic experiences across multiple channels and devices.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct conceptual exploration, establish direction and design solutions, and ensure successful implementation of that direction through production.
- Help establish art direction of projects.
- Lead the design of scalable, flexible design systems that are optimized for a range of devices.
- Champion usability, accessibility, and mobile-friendly best practices.
- Preemptively identify problems and propose solutions.
- Assist with keeping deliverables and schedules aligned on a given project.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in Brand Design/Digital Branding and UI Design principles.
- Illustration ability (to create Line, Flat, Isometric, Montage, Geometric Abstraction, etc.)
- Experience designing complex and dynamic experiences across multiple digital channels for various devices and corporate Platform Systems.
- Advanced skills with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Craft, and Zeplin.
- Understand how information architecture and schematics translate into design.
- Exceptionally skilled in Design Branding and User Interfacing.
- Ability to organize information, prioritize, have attention to detail, and accurately follow procedures.
- Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently in team environments.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Sr. UX Designer
Location: Remote
JobDescription:
ABOUT US
OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible. OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We’re on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.
OUR TEAM
At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.
To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.
OLIPOP is looking for a Sr. Digital Designer. This will be an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team and work to define the future at OLIPOP. You’ll work to ensure the best possible experience across all of our digital channels. You are curious, collaborative, enjoy solving business and technology problems, are solutions oriented and positive, have an eye for design and execute to pixel perfection.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partner with our in-house omnichannel and marketing teams to design digital experiences and wireframes for our digital platforms including drinkolipop.com, Amazon and email
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define design requirements for new or enhanced digital experiences
- Support User Acceptance Testings of implemented designs
- Identify, address and strategize solutions around impacting the customer journey and website performance (CRO)
- Establish and maintain a consistent UX and visual standard and brand identity across all OLIPOP digital entities
- Work cross functionally with the omnichannel team, designers, copywriters, web developers and marketing to build a best in class digital experience for OLIPOP customers
- Design and build landing pages in Figma and Shogun
- Design visually stunning email templates and visual assets for email marketing campaigns
- Build and implement email designs within email marketing platforms, such as Klaviyo
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of digital experience focused on eCommerce
- 5+ years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, animations and transitions a plus
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
- Extensive experience designing email templates within brand guidelines and knowledge of email channel best practices
- Experience with Shopify and Klaviyo a plus
- A strong digital portfolio showcasing your style and strengths across multiple digital touch points
- Strong understanding of current and emerging digital technologies
- Knowledge of best practices, including web accessibility, prototyping
- Strong organizational and communication skills, along with acute attention to detail
- Ability to present and pitch designs to executives
- Familiarity with the OLIPOP brand, consumer, and aesthetic – especially as we continue to evolve
- Experience working in startup/growth environment also a plus
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