NOW HIRING: WordPress Quality Assurance Engineer

Company: Elegant Themes
Website: https://www.elegantthemes.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

About Our Company

ElegantThemes.com is a leader in WordPress Theme & Plugin Development. We have been building the top premium WordPress themes and plugins for the past 10 years and we maintain the largest customer bases in the ecosystem. 600,000 users, freelance developers and web design agencies depend on our beautiful designs and we work hard everyday to make sure we are creating the best WordPress products on the web. Divi, our flagship theme and page builder plugin is pushing the boundaries and has inspired an absolutely amazing community to form around it. A focus on community is a core part of our culture and it makes our work environment is a truly rewarding one.

Job Description

As a Marketplace Product Technical Quality Assurance at Elegant Themes, you will be the front line, reviewing and managing product submissions for the Divi Marketplace. The Divi Marketplace is an emerging marketplace of Divi integrations, Child Themes and Plugins and Custom Divi Modules, with currently over 200 vetted and approved products and growing more every day.

You get to work with teammates all over the world as we are a 100% remote team, we work with the leading industry tools, we use Slack for chat communication, and our team structure is flexible and lots of room for growth. Self-motivated individuals tend to thrive best here, so we are looking for someone filled with inspiration and who loves to take the initiative and wants to grow and expand their experience.

You will interface directly with 3rd party developers who are building amazing extensions and child themes for Divi, for submission into the Divi Marketplace. You will review products and communicate with Developers to ensure best development practices and Elegant Themes Developer Guidelines are being followed for all new and updated submissions.

You utilize our cutting edge automated code analysis tools to help surface potential security or performance or other important issues in the product you are reviewing, but you will also have a good eye for spotting issues manually in code review, knowing and understanding common security issues that could be present in WordPress plugins and themes.

You will create detailed reports when you find issues and communicate your findings directly with the product's developer, and then follow through and answer any potential questions they might have as they work through your feedback. You will also get opportunities to communicate needs you see arise regarding our 3rd party API to help inform and shape the direction of our offering to ensure we are meeting the real life demands and needs of the Divi Marketplace ecosystem to ensure dev can continue to innovate and develop compelling and valuable products.

This is a great opportunity to sharpen and grow your technical and development skills, and would be a great fit for someone with QA experience who is working on or wanting to learn to be a junior web developer. You will need experience with reviewing and/or writing code in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and WordPress in general.

Responsibilities

• Communicate directly with 3rd party developers
• Review static analysis reports and code of products submissions and updates
• Have a good eye for spotting issues manually in code review
• Knowing and understanding common security issues that could be present in WordPress plugins and themes
• Taking the initiative to grow yourself and skills
• Self-discipline and managing your own workload and workflow

Required Experience

Solid experience working with WordPress themes and plugins.

Required Skills

• PHP
• HTML
• Javascript (ES5 and ES6)
• jQuery
• CSS
• git
• Security best practices

Bonus Qualifications

• React
• SASS

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, Elegant Themes

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NOW HIRING: UX Researcher

Company: Shogun
Website: https://getshogun.com
Headquarters: San Mateo, California, United States

Shogun is a powerful page builder platform for ecommerce stores, and we're on a mission to empower anyone to easily create high converting ecommerce pages through a delightful product experience.

The Role

As a UX Researcher on our design team you will have a very specialized role in helping us understand our users and create empathy for their needs. You will connect product and design with the user, and translate user behaviour into actionable insights. You will work across multiple teams and bridge disciplines in an attempt to help us bring the best possible user experience to our products.

You Will

• Help define our roadmap by advocating for our users needs
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, support, and engineering
• Facilitate user-testing and validate prototypes
• Establish and enable UX Research as a practice throughout the company
• Analyze data and insight into usable direction for product teams
• Be an advocate for our users

You Have

• Proven work experience as a UX Researcher
• Ability to quickly identify and utilize the best UX Research methods for any given task
• Experience conducting interviews, usability and accessibility testing, card sorting, eye tracking, and surveys remotely or ideas on how to accomplish these tasks
• Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data and how to utilize each properly
• Ability to analyze data and utilize the results into direct recommendations
• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
• Excellent written communication skills

Bonus Points

• You have worked remotely before
• You have product design experience
• You have worked in e-commerce or a similar field

Shogun Values

• Work in the open: Operate with high integrity and choose what's right over what's easy. Be transparent as a company and with each other.
• People are People: Treat yourself, colleagues, and customers with dignity, empathy, and respect. Start from a presumption of positive intent.
• Win and grow together: Strive to be the best, individually and as a team. Support and encourage each other. Seek opportunities for growth.

We offer:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive equity
• Benefits (vary by location)
• Co-working office reimbursement
• A highly skilled and dedicated team that is fun to work with.
• Remote work – We are a fully distributed team

Occasionally we hire on a full time contractor basis to begin with. Team members enjoy the same opportunities for great compensation, full time positions, equity, and consideration, regardless of location.

Shogun supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class.

Source: We Work Remotely, Shogun

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NOW HIRING: Amazon Advertising Manager

Company: Forde Baker
Website: https://fordebaker.com
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

We are looking for an ambitious Amazon paid media specialist to lead our user acquisition function.
This role is required due to considerable growth in the client base and the services offered to those clients. This is a crucial hire with very specific requirements. The role is suited to someone that loves responsibility, accountability and delivering results.

Main responsibilities:

• Developing and managing Amazon paid search and display campaigns
• Creating go-to-market acquisition plans for new brands and products
• Developing processes and frameworks to optimise and report performance
• Developing new business through blogging, conference speaking, webinars and other methods
• The person that takes the role will also act as a thought-leader internally and externally. If you like to share your knowledge and passion for paid advertising then this is the role for you.
• Whoever takes this role has an incredible opportunity to develop their career, build a team and define the paid media service within the agency.

What Does the Agency Do?

• We provide a full-service offering to fully manage the entire operation of selling on Amazon.
• Our clients are product brands that are selling on Amazon. They are mostly consumer products though we do have B2B clients. Clients are based in the UK, mainland Europe and the United States.
• Our clients are active in a wide range of sectors including skincare, beauty, office supplies, nutrition, clothing, stationery and books.
• Presently, we’re a small team. Everyone works remotely and manages their own schedules. Due to an increase in our client roster and the huge shift towards selling on Amazon we have plans to grow significantly this year.

The Ideal Candidate

• We value attitude over experience and believe that the right person can grow into this role. We do, however, have some minimum expectations
• At least 3 years of experience managing Amazon paid media campaigns
• Experience working with clients - strategising, planning and communicating performance
• Experience forecasting budgets and sales
• Ability to develop campaign strategies for new brands and products
• Familiarity with Amazon ad management software
• The type of person will exhibit these behaviours
• Tenacity
• Ambition
• A love of learning
• Not afraid to try things
• Embrace challenges
• Instinct to act
• People that value autonomy, work-life balance and striving to achieve their best work thrive in our company culture.

The role is 100% remote. The role is open to anyone in any location. The only limitation is that you must be available to speak with clients in the US, UK and mainland Europe during their normal working hours.

Otherwise, there are no set hours and no set ways of doing things. This is an opportunity to do your best work and take control of your work-life balance. The team communicates via Google Meet and Slack. If you are UK based then we will arrange regular face-to-face meetings.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Bonus scheme linked to bringing in new business
• Company laptop
• 25 holidays (plus public holidays)
• The benefits come from getting in early, influencing the agency’s long-term growth and growing with the business. You will also have exposure to many other aspects of ecommerce and the opportunity to broaden your skillset.

Interested? Apply now!

You have until June 30th, 2020 to apply!

Please email me at tom@fordebaker.com with your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this role, especially why you’re interested in joining a young agency, and what makes you a good fit to take on that challenge. Please cater your cover letter to the requirements listed in the job description.

Source: Remoters