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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

NOW HIRING: Senior UX Designer


Company: Superside
Website: https://www.superside.com
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States


We are looking for an experienced designer to join our super team of designers as a key member in helping craft the experience of our design service platform. You will be leading the design of new features, conduct research to optimise existing flows as well as contribute to the evolution of our design system and design process. As a part of a distributed company, you will have the freedom to work 100% remotely from your own space, choosing the location and hours that are best for you to have an impact.

This is a full-time position where you will be part of the distributed core team defining and evolving the user experience for both customers as well as design specialists who are part of our platform.


What you’ll do
  • Work with multi-disciplinary teams partnering with engineering, design and product folks finding solutions to design challenges on a wide range of product areas
  • Take ownership of design ideas through the research, ideation, wireframing & prototyping phases to the final well-polished and beautifully crafted experiences
  • Be up to date with and apply best user-centered design practices to create industry leading experiences
  • Make well-informed decisions based on deep understanding of customer needs and strategic business directions
  • Conduct research, user interviews and usability tests as part of your design process to deliver outstanding customer experiences
  • Make use of and contribute to the evolution of our design system, translating abstract concepts to patterns of reusable interactions and components
  • Know when to move fast by making low-fi sketches and when to apply attention to detail by producing pixel-perfect interfaces

About you
  • You are primarily based in a time zone +/- 3 hours from UTC
  • 5+ years of full-time experience working in-house as a UX / product designer for digital or web-based products
  • You have a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates your design thinking, process, challenges and solutions in web-based products and/or mobile applications
  • You are an expert in understanding customer needs, sketching concepts, tweaking flows or polishing existing designs
  • You are proficient in UX design and prototyping tools (e.g. Sketch, InVision, Adobe design tools)
  • You are a great communicator with excellent presentation, interpersonal as well as written and verbal communication skills in English
  • You have strong leadership and teamwork skills and the ability to work together with design leads, engineers and other stakeholders as well as the confidence to communicate your ideas clearly

What we offer
  • The freedom to choose the location and hours that are best for you to work and have an impact
  • Competitive salary
  • Stock options in a fast growing international startup
  • 25 vacation days per year

Who is Superside?

We are a people+technology company based nowhere that hires the brightest and most ambitious talent from everywhere. Superside connects enterprise teams who need design to our diverse creative talent. Our unique combination of technology and people allow us to deliver uncompromising design quickly and affordably. We are building world-class experiences for defining, delivering, and collaborating on design projects.

Our team members come from McKinsey, Booking.com, Amazon, Expedia, Pareto Securities, Zalora, as well as leading design agencies and consultancies. Our global team is spread across more than 40 countries.
Superside was part of Y Combinator W2016 and is funded by reputable Silicon Valley investors such as Freestyle Capital, High Alpha, Sam Altman, Slack Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Acequia Capital, and others, as well as Norwegian Alliance Venture.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Superside

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NOW HIRING: Marketing Copywriter


Company: BuddyBoss
Website: https://www.buddyboss.com
Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia


BuddyBoss provides software and services for creating and launching online platforms to sell courses, memberships and build online communities on WordPress. Our products are used to power tens of thousands of online communities, eLearning sites and other online platforms.

We also build custom development solutions for startups and established organizations, to address their specific platform requirements.

Our company is experiencing fast growth and we are seeking ambitious, dynamic, smart and energetic individuals to join the team and take part of our success!

If you are motivated to deliver high-quality and innovative services, BuddyBoss can offer you a great and fulfilling career opportunity.

We are a culturally diverse team of close to 70 motivated individuals, spread over 10 countries, working together like a big family. Two thirds of the company works remotely, and the rest from our two offices in Vancouver and Manila. We also enjoy meeting occasionally in different cities and at WordCamps, and we’re always super excited to see each other.


Overview

We are looking for an experienced, creative, and passionate writer to craft a variety of marketing collateral, including sales pages, landing pages and marketing emails.

You will be responsible for writing sales materials to be used in our advertising, affiliate marketing and promotional campaigns.

You will work closely with our marketing director to formulate content, drive conversions and implement our marketing vision and strategies.


Responsibilities
  • Working closely with the marketing team to plan product promotions and campaigns.
  • Becoming very comfortable with writing in the BuddyBoss brand voice.
  • Gaining a deep understanding of our products and marketing strategies.
  • Researching copy angles, gathering social/scientific proof and understanding market messaging.
  • Understanding our audiences’ wants, needs, and pain points.
  • Crafting compelling copy for a variety of mediums/campaigns including emails, websites, product pages, landing pages, ads, videos, webinars, case studies, transactional pages and social.
  • Working closely with marketing and optimization teams to write new emails, headlines, sales pages, etc. for testing and optimization.
  • Telling persuasive stories and creating copy/campaigns that evoke emotion, create credibility and inspire action.
  • Writing copy that is clear, compelling and concise but also compassionate and creative.
  • Writing a wide variety of digital marketing materials under tight deadlines.
  • Participate in, and occasionally lead, brainstorming sessions with the marketing team.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree.
  • Fluent spoken and written English.
  • 3+ years proven work experience as a copywriter, product writer, content writer or similar role.
  • Direct experience in direct response digital copywriting is a plus (preference for those with targeted experience in the technology and software niche).
  • Experience writing copy for a software company in the areas of online community software, eLearning or WordPress (Companies creating WordPress themes or plugins) is a BIG plus.
  • Portfolio of published sales pages, landing pages, content or email campaigns.
  • Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
  • Superior attention to detail, self-motivated, resourceful, and a creative problem solver.
  • Strong conceptual and brainstorming skills.
  • Writes with originality, personality and style and has strong storytelling/creative writing skills Thrives and adapts in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Ability to multi-task and work in a deadline-driven environment.
  • Appreciates analytics and metrics that can help improve conversions and creative impact.
  • Ability to follow directions and give/take constructive criticism.

Important

Only applications with resumes, portfolio AND cover letters will be considered. Please send in a PDF format. Include only the work you feel best showcases your skills and satisfies the role qualifications. Please include a link to your online portfolio.

In your cover letter, tell us about yourself, your journey into copywriting and why you think you’re a fit for BuddyBoss.

Write “Copywriter Application” at the beginning of the Cover Letter field.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remote Global, BuddyBoss

NOW HIRING: Full Stack Blockchain Developer


Company: Revolution Populi
Website: https://revolutionpopuli.com
Headquarters: Global


Please email your resume to info@revolutionpopuli.com.

Revolution Populi is seeking full stack blockchain developers to help accomplish the mission of returning all the data that passes over the internet back to the individuals to whom it belongs. Positions are fully remote. Please see our website at revolutionpopuli.com; and press coverage about the project:

wired.com/story/mirror-worlds-creator-displace-facebook-blockchain/

zdnet.com/article/they-are-going-to-leave-facebook-a-chat-with-new-social-networkers-revolution-populi/


Qualified individuals will have experience in:
  • C++
  • Javascript

Ideally, candidates will also have experience / can come up to speed quickly on:
  • Solidity
  • Graphene
  • Ruby
  • Go
  • Python
  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Java
  • Objective C or Swift
  • Decentralized storage systems like STORJ, IPFS

Qualified individuals should also have working familiarity with common cryptographic primitives and signatures such as SHA256 and ECDSA, as well as the following consensus algorithms:
  • Proof of Work
  • Proof of Stake
  • Delegated Proof of Stake
  • Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance

We’re seeking mission oriented people who would like to put their abilities and passions toward something worthwhile. You’ll need to be humble, team oriented, professional, an independent worker, an over-communicator (not someone who needs to be checked in on), and generally a cool person.


Source: We Work Remotely

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