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Friday, February 28, 2020

NOW HIRING: Senior Web Developer


Company: Minted
Website: https://www.minted.com
Headquarters: Kansas City, Missouri, United States


Minted is looking for experienced full stack web developers (Senior Software Engineer, Digital) to join its Digital engineering team in Kansas City (or you can work remote!). Help Minted build digital products that customers love -- with beautifully designed, delightful, and functional user experiences.
At Minted engineering, we marry design with technology to deliver beautiful, unique products that are co-created by our artist community and our customers.

Our engineers take on multiple roles and challenges, and we have a strong culture of mentorship and promoting from within. We are a metrics-driven organization and we work hard to make sure every project we do has a measurable impact. We give attention to our craft, and strive to build software and experiences that shine in their quality, influence on the business, and benefit to our customers. We like to ship early and often and to constantly reduce both the noise of software development and the iteration time toward seeing our work in production.


You will:
  • Work alongside other developers in the Kansas City team to craft some of Minted’s newest digital experiences (wedding websites, online invitations, address book, etc.).
  • Build both frontend and backend application code for products that excel in their design sensibility, user experience, and utility.
  • Craft interfaces using modern Javascript single-page application frameworks, libraries, architectures, and tools.
  • Implement the face of Minted as seen by the world and as experienced by customers.
  • Join the Kansas City team in its efforts to make Minted the best place for developers to work in KC.

You are:
  • Self-managed and work well in a partially-remote team.
  • Empathetic toward users and devoted to exceptional user experience.
  • Eager to write well-tested, maintainable, and scalable application code.
  • Driven toward a strong sense of craftsmanship in your work.

You have:
  • 1+ years professional experience with Python (or similar dynamic language).
  • 3+ years professional experience with Javascript.
  • 5+ years professional development experience, preferably Web.
  • Competence building responsive CSS with a cohesive experience across major browsers and platforms.
  • Rich understanding of details and techniques for delivering an experience to the browser with optimization for page load times.
  • Familiarity with concepts of modern frontend javascript frameworks and libraries (React, Vue, Angular, Ember, Backbone, etc).
  • Experience working closely with databases and crafting a strong data model, along with schema migration and form validation.
  • Experience working with authentication and authorization systems as well as varied approaches to maintaining application state with sessions, cookies, or other stateful storage mechanisms.
  • Experience building interoperable services with clean APIs for communication.
  • Strong written and verbal skills and proactive communication.

The Company

Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from independent artists around the globe and selling the best designs to the world in the form of art, home decor, and stationery. Founded in 2007 by Mariam Naficy on the principles of transparency and putting design first, we are early pioneers of crowdsourcing having launched our first design challenge in April 2008 and have held monthly art and design challenges ever since. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to learn more. Our corporate headquarters is located near the waterfront in downtown San Francisco, with additional offices in Oakland and Kansas City and we're backed by Benchmark Capital, IDG Ventures SF, Menlo Ventures, Primera (angel investors include Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp). We're a team of smart, ambitious, creative, and passionate people who come from all walks of life. Might you be one of us?

Minted is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws. Minted participates in the E-verify program. Minted's Job Applicant Privacy Policy.


Source: Best Remote Job, Minted













NOW HIRING: Onboarding specialist / Account Manager


Company: PASSION.io
Website: https://passion.io
Headquarters: Remote


PASSION.io helps people to make their dreams a reality by learning the skills from successful people. We call these successful people “experts” and by 2022, 30,000 experts will have helped 10,000,000 people. Our mission is to empower these experts to achieve that by providing the platform to turn skills into mobile apps and we give them everything they need to run a successful online business from concept to monthly payout cheque.

We are an international remote team with the majority of our business in the US.

Do you LOVE speaking to people, solving problems and setting people up for success?

We’re looking for a sociable, kind and structured person to join our Customer Success team as an Onboarding Specialist.

You will be the first point of contact for customers who have just invested in our platform, and who will be excited to take action. Your role is to support them in launching the first version of their Passion App (the mobile app they’re going to build on our platform, to help them share their skills with the world and live a freedom lifestyle).

If you want to have a huge, positive impact on people, at a critical and exciting time of their life, this is an awesome opportunity for you.


What you'll bring to the team
  • Customer obsession: Support customers on a daily basis using zendesk and social media, providing excellent customer service at all levels.
  • Detail oriented: Process following including bug reports, payments processing operations but also provide insight on how things could be done different/more efficient
  • Data oriented: provide specific information for escalation
  • KPI oriented: Hold accountable for 3 metris: customer satisfaction, First reply time and closure time
  • You’re the sort of person that crosses the street to help someone struggling with heavy bags, and then walks 3 blocks out their way to help them home.
  • You are an extremely structured thinker with a passion for taking action & getting measurable results
  • You are a passionate learner, motivating yourself and others to stimulate personal growth and development
  • You are fluent to a native level in English

What you'll be working on
  • Manage all aspects of the customers' onboarding process and track their progress
  • Provide technical and consultative support to our customers on a daily basis
  • Provides platform and program good practices to add value to our product.
  • Acts responsively, accurately and with attention to detail to customer by identifying their requests and acting upon their concerns
  • Assist the Customer Success Manager with workflows and data for accurate tracking and reporting to different stakeholders.
  • Train customers in their use of the platform by leading coaching sessions, presentations, and answering questions via phone, email and live chat
  • Follow up with customers’ who showed interest in our trial plan but have not yet upgraded yet
  • Help on the social media channels by answering their concerns and deriving to the correct channels.

What we offer you
  • Steep learning curve: Expect the steepest learning curve you have ever experienced - we are building a playground at passion.io to become the best version of ourselves. Meet and work with successful people worldwide to learn their success secrets.
  • Value-based company: Be part of an open, honest, creative, and results-driven environment where your opinion is highly valued. We want to change the globe for the better by providing value to others.
  • High-growth environment: You will be part of a strongly growing company with the opportunity to develop into a key contributor with incomparable responsibilities.
  • Personal and professional development: You will tackle projects across departments and thereby gain a top-notch tool box to succeed in tackling bigger and bigger challenges.
  • Autonomy / entrepreneurial work-style: You will only be measured by the results you produce and are in the driver’s seat, with full flexibility.
  • Remoteness and flexibility: You will join our truly international remote team from over 10 nationalities and work from anywhere you wish

Skills required:

Customer Service & Admin Support
  • Call support
  • Tech Support
Community Forum Moderation
  • Content Moderation
  • Customer Support
  • Email Support
  • Social Media Moderation
Office & Admin (Virtual Assistant)
  • Admin Assistant
  • Data Entry
  • Excel
English
  • Speaking
  • Writing
Employment Type: Freelancer
Minimum Experience: Mid-level


Source: Remoters, PASSION.io









NOW HIRING: Backend Engineer


Company: Manticore Games
Website: https://www.manticoregames.com
Headquarters: San Mateo, California, United States


Manticore Games is the developer of Core, a platform and community that is redefining how virtual worlds and games are created, published, and played. Core’s mission is to empower and discover a whole new generation of creators.

We are looking for Backend Engineers at all levels to help revolutionize the way we create, play, and share gameplay experiences. To do the best work possible, we prefer engineers be based at HQ; however, remote work can be considered on a case by case basis.


Responsibilities
  • Develop and support platform tools and features.
  • Troubleshoot operational problems as they arise, test fixes, and perform follow-ups to ensure issues have been correctly resolved.
  • Ensure and provide expertise in best security practices.
  • Seek and recommend improvements to current processes and technologies used.
  • Participate in code reviews for projects written by your team.

Requirements
  • 5 years of backend development experience.
  • Experience developing in Java or C#/.NET Core.
  • Experience working with cloud databases.
  • BS degree in Computer Science or a related field or 5+ years industry experience as the degree equivalent.

Pluses
  • Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
  • Experience in multi-region and multi-cloud deployments.
  • Experience working with social media concepts.
  • Experience with Azure and/or gCloud.

Manticore Games provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, Manticore Games


NOW HIRING: Managing Editor, Content Marketing


Company: Persado
Website: https://www.persado.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA


Persado is reinventing marketing creative by applying mathematical certainty to the message, the foundational DNA of marketing. By unlocking the power of words, companies win every digital marketing moment, experiencing dramatic new levels of brand engagement and revenue performance. CMOs from the world’s most valuable brands rely on Persado to generate in a dramatically new way using the power of intelligent automation, AI and advancements in linguistic science to unlock the power of words and emotionally engage consumers, one by one, moment by moment at scale.

The Persado Message Machine uses sophisticated AI, data science, computational linguistics and machine learning to generate the perfect message for every campaign by leveraging the world’s most advanced marketing language knowledgebase of more than one million tagged and scored words and phrases. Marketers gain full visibility with quantifiable results and data-driven insights to identify the trends and emotional language that win every moment in the customer journey while ensuring the marketing message always reinforces brand voice.


What We Are Looking For:

The Managing Editor will be responsible for oversight and management of the editorial content publishing process for Persado and help drive world-class editorial and user experience for visitors. The Managing Editor will be a critical member of the Content Marketing team and play a vital role in executing the content strategy across channels, properties, and assets. This role will own project management of the editorial calendar and process across a diverse set of content types from articles and blog posts to eBooks, whitepapers, videos, and longer form, to-be-determined assets. In this role, you will contribute directly to building an exceptional editorial function that directly impacts business performance.

You’ll manage editorial projects within our marketing team while displaying a devotion to growing our core audience and building deeper engagement with our visitors. You’ll guide diverse editorial projects across a variety of distribution channels and formats while working cross-functionally with key stakeholders including designers, copy editors and internal experts to craft and implement editorial ideas.

You’ll nurture and activate our voice, tone, and editorial style to connect with marketing leaders and work to bring unique story ideas to fruition regarding AI, marketing, and business growth. You’ll also write and create thought leadership pieces for executive-level audiences.


What We Want You To Do:
  • Own publishing of 4-7 content assets for executive audiences per week by coordinating multiple internal and external contributors and serve as the final editor to maintain Persado standards of quality and style.
  • Drive continuous improvement of the Persado editorial voice and tone, the publishing process and user experience to meet audience expectations and Persado marketing priorities.
  • Serve as liaison with marketing, product, creative, PR and communication, and IT partners to collaborate on content site evolution.
  • Develop and create high quality, on-brand content assets for executive audiences as needed
  • Help measure, report and analyze the impact of content assets and projects
  • Manage and evolve workflow process and tools to optimize productivity and establish workflows for requesting, creating, editing, publishing, and retiring content.
  • Collaborate with internal subject matter experts to ideate and develop content, based on Persado go-to-market plans, in multiple formats including articles, infographics, videos, quizzes, presentations, and eBooks to ultimately drive client journeys through the buying cycle
  • Support the evolution of the content marketing style guide in partnership with content marketing leadership to maintain a distinctive voice that adheres to brand standards and activates the brand across media and channels
  • Help drive and optimize SEO content across assets and channels to optimize site traffic with target audiences

What We Want To See:
  • Exceptional editorial, writing, project management, and proofreading skills, primarily for digital assets.
  • Experience in the role of managing editor working with executive-level content and audiences
  • Minimum 9-years hands-on experience creating B2B or technology content for a publication or brand for senior audiences and leading digital editorial workflows
  • Experience creating and distributing content across a variety of platforms (e.g., video, podcast, downloadable content, influencers, native advertising)
  • Ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders ranging from executives to subject matter experts, both verbally and in writing
  • Strong analytical skills a plus
  • Experience working with remote teams
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field; a focus in English, journalism or communications preferred
  • Adaptability and business acumen: The ability and desire to upgrade processes and standards while also being flexible enough to respond quickly when business needs change.
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where things don't always go according to plan but where the goal is an unwavering commitment to build a disciplined, high-performance culture.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills and ability to sell ideas and promote strategy with various stakeholders
  • Experience with project or workflow management tools (i.e. Monday.com, Asana, Workfront, etc.)

What We Offer:

By joining Persado, you will be part of a smart, creative and dynamic company experiencing rapid growth and transformation into a global market leader.
  • Competitive salary and equitable compensation
  • Generous benefits packages globally
  • Flexible paid time-off programs
  • Charitable giving matching and volunteer opportunities
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives
  • Structured On-boarding
  • Focus on continuous Learning & Development tied to a personalized career path

Persado is a place where your life goals and work goals can both be achieved!


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Persado




NOW HIRING: Editorial and Social Media Marketer


Company: Toggl
Website: https://toggl.com
Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia


You will join our marketing team to co-manage our blog publishing schedule and social media feeds.

The salary for this position is €35,000 annually.

You can work from anywhere in the world.


The role

You will be working in tandem with our Content Manager to maintain a consistent blog and social media publishing schedule. You will manage pitches and commissions from freelancers, and copyedit the articles in accordance with the Toggl Style Guide, which you will co-develop in collaboration with the Content Manager.

Writing blog posts, as well as accompanying copy for our commissioned comic pieces, will also form a significant part of the role. You will be responsible for growing the Toggl Track community across our social media channels, by posting regularly and engaging with those who create user-generated content featuring our product.


About you

You must have strong editorial skills and be a clear, concise writer. You can confidently manage deadlines and projects, and communicate expectations and any changes in the timeline clearly to all involved. You are happiest when you are given free rein to develop an established brand tone of voice and engage with customer advocates. As an extra bonus, you have experience in managing freelancers and/or working remotely already (though we have lots of experience we can share!).


About the team

Toggl is a distributed team of 75+ people working remotely from 30 countries. We take pride in our professional, learning-oriented and friendly working environment that values work-life balance and constantly doing our best in every aspect of our work. You can work from anywhere in the world, because we know great people do awesome work wherever they are. Every few months we travel to meet up somewhere in the world and spend some quality time together. Our business is profitable with a healthy margin and we are built with no outside investments, so you can count on a stable working environment.


Some benefits
  • Freedom to choose when and where you work from.
  • 24 days of paid time off a year, plus your local holidays.
  • 2 company retreats and 2 team meetups a year (expenses covered) for team-building.
  • Laptop and a €2,000 budget to set up your home office.
  • Reimbursement for co-working space rent or internet service at home.
  • Opportunities to attend trainings, workshops or conferences.
  • Monthly reimbursement for gym membership, massage and other things to improve your health.
  • Support for buying a phone, eyeglasses or tools you need for doing your best work.

Source: We Work Remotely, Toggl


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