Request for Proposals: UX Research Contractor, MoveOn (REMOTE)

MoveOn Request for Proposal: UX Research Consultant
 
Project Overview
MoveOn is seeking a user research consultant or firm to conduct in-depth user interviews, create personas and journey maps based on real people and experiences, and develop insights about member experience to support our growth work and improve our campaigning. 
The goal of this project is to hold a deeper understanding of member experience and how MoveOn can grow intentionally and equitably by meeting potential members where they are. Your role will be to humanize the member experience by generating and combining qualitative member data with MoveOn’s existing analytics to create relatable, clear personas that are based on real people for MoveOn’s millions of members. 
You will work closely with MoveOn staff and the core group working on this project. The consultant/firm will be expected to integrate and collaborate with the core working group on all aspects on this work. It’s important to note that MoveOn will own the majority of the quantitative research for this project but will share insights and information with the consultant/firm to ensure success. You will also interact with MoveOn members, so it is important that the consultant/firm we work with is respectful and understands the importance of confidentiality and security. 
In our external campaigning as well as our internal work together as a team, we seek to advance core values of equity and inclusion, including a commitment to identifying and uprooting unjust oppression. We know social identities including race, gender, immigration status, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, ability, and more can show up in organizations and the movement in ways that provide unfair advantages to some while unfairly disadvantaging others.
Project Deliverables
 
Topline deliverables:
  • Conduct in-depth user interviews (number and format of interviews will be decided between MoveOn and consultant).

  • Create 3-6 personas (roughly 2-3 for current members and 3 for nonmembers) drawing from interviews and other provided sources of data. Personas should capture real people, avoid stereotypes, have depth and texture, and account for experiences in a number of scenarios.

  • Create journey maps for personas.

  • Create a digitized and interactive report for staff that includes user research highlights, personas, and other key information.
Other deliverables:

  • Contribute to identifying interventions and tests based on user research and personas. 

  • Collaborate effectively with our staff to ensure that the personas you create accurately reflect our current and potential members.
Contract Timeline
The contract will likely run from April 2019 through June 30, 2019.
 
Criteria for Selection
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver deep user research and synthesize quantitative and qualitative user data.

  • Experience creating personas and journey maps across identities and communities.

  • Portfolio of relevant work.

  • Demonstrated commitment to advancing equity and anti-oppression in the outward-facing work you produce, as well as within your firm.

  • Your team’s ability to collaborate closely with the MoveOn team.

  • Ability to stay on budget and track projects and billing effectively. 

  • Your firm’s electronic security and data protection practices.
 
Proposal Process & Timeline
We will accept proposals until 5 p.m. ET Monday, March 11.
We plan to follow up to schedule conversations with a portion of the consultants/firms submitting proposals. We hope to make a final decision by April 1, with the project likely starting a week after on April 8, 2019.
Principal Point of Contact
Submit proposals via email to proposals@moveon.org with the subject line “UX Research.”
 
What the Proposal Should Include
  • The firm or consultant’s background.

  • Bios of the team/person and explanation of the role each person would play. 

  • Explanation of why you are well suited to take on this project.

  • Portfolio of UX research and sample personas and journey maps, including work conducted by the people who would work on this project.

  • Explanation of whether and how your firm has advanced the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Explanation about your views on inclusive and accessible design. 

  • Proposed workflows, project structure, and proposed fees and treatment of expenses.

  • Past clients that MoveOn may reach out to as references, with contact info.
Most-Favorable Terms
● MoveOn reserves the right to make an award without further discussion of the proposal submitted. Therefore, the proposal should be submitted initially on the most favorable terms that the vendor could propose. There will be no best-and-final-offer procedure. MoveOn does reserve the right to contact a vendor for clarification of its proposal.
● The vendor should be prepared to accept this request for proposal for incorporation into a contract resulting from this request for proposal. Contract negotiations may incorporate some of or the vendor’s entire proposal. It is understood that the proposal will become a part of the official procurement file on this matter without obligation to MoveOn.
No Obligation to Contract
This request for proposal does not obligate MoveOn to contract for services specified herein.
Rejection of Proposals
MoveOn reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to reject any and all proposals received without penalty and not to issue a contract as a result of this request for proposal.
 
Nondiscrimination
The vendor will adopt a policy stating that the vendor, in employment, recruitment, selection, compensation, benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment, will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, sex, national origin, ethnic identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, economic status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected basis.
This RFP was posted February 22, 2019.

Product Manager

Who We Are
Sierra Interactive builds web-based tools for real estate professionals to grow their businesses. As a tech startup that’s been around for 10+ years, our customers rely on our products as an essential part of their day-to-day operations. These clients keep us in business, and we’re committed to providing them with impactful, highly functional tools to help them thrive.
About This Role
As a Product Manager, you’ll be tasked with researching and managing the design and development of key features of our platform, as well as assisting members of our sales and marketing team to communicate the value of those features through various marketing channels. 
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll work closely with our web design and development teams to oversee new feature development. While there will be an opportunity to do some simple prototyping and web design within this job, this is not a design position or a programming position. Instead, your main focus will be to plan, guide and supervise feature development from conception through launch, and to assist in promoting the value of those features to existing and prospective clients.
In a typical day, you’ll be managing the development of multiple new features, each at different stages of completion. For one feature, you might spend time soliciting feedback from team members and considering possible use-cases before creating a detailed specification for our design team. For another feature, you might be providing completed design mockups to our development team, along with specific instructions on how programming should be integrated with the mockups to create an initial working version. For a third feature, you might be working with our development team to continue testing and providing feedback on a new feature in our dev environment, honing it for launch.
 
Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Act as project lead to supervise new feature development from initial design requirements all the way through to launch
  • Develop direct relationships with key clients, soliciting their ideas and feedback to help guide the development of new features and continue to improve the usefulness of existing features
  • Help inform our marketing efforts for new features, fashioning them into a compelling story
  • Work with company leadership, other team members and key clients to maintain a feature development roadmap, establishing priority and timeline for each feature
About You
You’re ready to contribute to the work and culture of a growing tech startup, in that:
  • You’re excited at the prospect of mastering a subject and working in it day to day. You take pride in learning a product in its entirety, not just at a high level but through all its intricacies and edge cases
  • You’re a hard worker with a proven track record of getting things done carefully and efficiently. You’re patient and pay close attention to the details
  • You’re organized and able to juggle multiple priorities at one time. You have the ability to switch gears quickly and re-adjust your focus as needed
  • Working with people makes you happy. You’re a talented communicator and can artfully break down, solve, and explain complex issues
  • Your writing skills are top notch. The product requirements you provide to our design and development teams will need to be clear and precise, outlining both the need for each feature and also the details of how each one should be implemented.
  • You’re a collaborator and team player. Your joy comes from assisting in the creation of the best work possible — recognizing and implementing good ideas wherever they may be found, placing the good of the product ahead of the need for personal recognition. 
In order to be considered for this job, you’ll need to:
  • Have a minimum of 3 years experience managing or working in product design / development, preferably working on a SaaS or other digital product
  • Understand the basics of web development (front-end and server-side) and how the separate pieces come together to create the whole
  • Have a BS or BA degree or equivalent work experience
As a bonus (though not required):
  • You have experience working with a web-based CRM
  • You have experience working in responsive web design
  • You have experience in app design
  • You have experience in working remotely (and loved it)
Benefits
Starting pay for this role depends on experience. Benefits are available contingent upon completion of a 90 day on-boarding period and include:
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • Choice to opt-in to join our company-sponsored group health/vision/dental insurance.
  • Simple IRA employer matching contributions.
Something else that’s important to you? Talk to us. We’re flexible and committed to providing a healthy work environment where great people can thrive.

UI/UX Designer

Created by the original editors of SparkNotes, LitCharts is a literary resource that takes an entirely new approach to analyzing and explaining literature. Millions of students, teachers, and book lovers around the world use the LitCharts website every month. We are looking for a full-time UI/UX designer to lead our design work.
What you’ll be doing:
  • Creating designs of existing and new LitCharts products and features on our website and in our mobile apps
  • Creating and maintaining all visual design-related assets, including a brand style guide
  • Collaborating with marketing to develop materials for social media and email marketing
  • Developing and executing concepts for seasonal or special promotions
Required skills and experience:
  • Extensive expertise in visual design and UX for web and mobile apps
  • Ability to develop designs based on detailed design specs
  • Excitement about working directly with our product and UX team members on an iterative design process with multiple rounds of feedback
  • Experience presenting testable prototypes in InVision or similar tools, and then collecting feedback and iterating on it
  • Fluency with industry standard tools like Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator and so on.
  • A positive attitude and experience working on a small all-remote team
Not required but nice to have:
  • Experience with front-end development for desktop and mobile web (HTML, CSS, JS)
  • Front-end development experience in Ruby on Rails (haml, scss)
  • Illustration skills, for creating custom illustrations and branding elements
  • Experience with graphic design for social media marketing
  • Experience designing and testing subscription and sign up flows
  • A passion for books, reading, education-related web services
This is a full-time work-from-anywhere position with competitive compensation, full medical benefits, 401k with matching and more; all full-time roles begin with a brief freelance trial period.
How to Apply
To apply, please email the following to designjob@litcharts.com:
  • A resume
  • Links to your online portfolio or recent design work
  • A brief response to this: Pick a design component on the LitCharts website and explain why you think it should be improved and how you would go about improving it.

Visual Designer

Do you want to change the way people innovate? Are you a problem solver who loves to visualize complex data in order to find the right solution?
We are looking for someone who wants to deliver beautifully designed experiences in a fast-paced, user-centric environment. If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
As a Visual Designer at Aha!, you will have an excellent opportunity to join a breakthrough and profitable company that is growing fast. Aha! was founded by a proven team of product and marketing experts. More than 250,000 users worldwide trust Aha! to set brilliant strategy, capture customer ideas, create visual roadmaps, and manage breakthrough marketing programs.

We are looking for someone who:

  • Has at least 3 years of experience on a product or visual design team for a SaaS application (or equivalent experience) 
  • Loves to see their work ship — quickly
  • Presents the user interface visually, making information easy to find, read, and understand
  • Generates clear ideas, concepts, and designs of creative assets from beginning to end
  • Designs production-ready assets and materials, including logos, icons, digital ads, landing pages, and event graphics
  • Partners across teams at every stage to deliver the highest level of quality
  • Has an understanding of product management as well as user behaviors and motivations
  • Wants to take responsibility for and measure the success of new designs
  • Stays on top of the latest standards and trends in enterprise SaaS visual design

We are committed to being great, and we want someone who:

  • Can work at a fast-paced company where the feedback cycle is measured in hours rather than weeks
  • Has a “get it done” attitude and proven background of delivering beautiful work again and again
  • Is seeking a career-defining opportunity with a proven, results-oriented team
We are building a distributed team, and you can work from anywhere in the United States for this role. We offer generous salary, equity, benefits, and a profit-sharing program.

Visual Experience Designer

CloudScale is looking for someone to help our customers vision their ideas then help our developers make their vision a reality. We want people who are excited about what they design and build. Just some quick info about why it’s awesome to work for us: all of the work is from home except for some small situations (see below for some more info), fully paid employee medical insurance and fifty percent for dependents, we reimburse for your internet, cell phone, generous bonus program, and more.
Please Note We’re only hiring from these states at the moment due to tax purposes:
– New York
– California
– Indiana
– Arizona
– Connecticut 
– Florida 
– South Carolina
– Washington
Technical Responsibilities:
  • Work with developers, business analysts, and clients to design and build new features
  • Conduct user interviews and workshops to collect requirements and develop user stories
  • Architect user experience and design within project and platform constraints
  • Design interface concepts and create comps
  • Build interactive wire frames and prototypes (we mostly use Axure but are open to other solutions)
  • Partner with developers to ensure that the markup and CSS is implemented well
  • Ensure cross-browser and cross-device compatibility
  • Plan for and implement responsive design
Business Responsibilities:
  • Liaising effectively with clients and other team members
  • Communicating with senior team members to receive feedback; use feedback to improve work
  • Supporting the team throughout the execution of campaigns and projects
  • Provide project updates to program leads and customers in a simple digestible format
  • Be available for a LIMITED travel relating to kicking off projects, client ‘meet and greets’ and emergency technical situations.
Some checklist items we’re looking for:
  • Simple DOM manipulation using jQuery
  • Understanding how to bring fonts into a site and update design
  • How to use Chrome Dev tools to inspect and style on the fly
  • Good on the phone, since all the work is remote there will be video chats and screen sharing.
  • Remote work ethic and self-management
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor s degree or higher (or some equivalent experience)
  • UX Design Experience – 3 Years
  • UI Design Experience (Comps, wireframes etc) – 3 years
  • CSS / Markup – 3 Years (We’re doing a lot of work with SASS)
  • JQuery / Basic JavaScript – 2 Years
  • Mobile web interface design and development experience
  • Front-end frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap
  • Solid understanding of user-centric and responsive design principles
  • Understanding of how a REST APIs works and why that matters when designing a UI
  • Passion for new technologies and fresh ideas!
Nice to haves:
  • Content management systems (such as WordPress or SharePoint)
  • BFA in Graphic Design (Or some other equally artistic area)
  • Front-end JavaScript library experience such as Angualr or React

Product Designer

DockYard seeks an exceptional Product Designer with a passion for UX and visual design to join our remote team in creating user-centered web applications!
Product Designer
This is an amazing opportunity to become a member of our exceptional product design team for a premiere, full-stack digital product agency. DockYard works with ambitious clients across a range of verticals, including: Netflix, Flywheel Sports, McGraw-Hill Education, Zipcar, and more.
We have a holistic approach to product design with an amazing team of designers and engineers. We are looking for someone who enjoys the challenge of making the complex simple and has a passion for the intersection of technology and design.
You are a full-stack product designer. Your workflow includes product discovery, design strategy, wireframing, user journey mapping, iterative prototyping, user research, user testing, and visual design. We take a user-centric approach to solving design challenges and are focused on growing our industry-leading expertise in Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in 2019 and beyond.

What It’s Like to Work Here:

We offer a comprehensive benefit plan with a focus on providing an exceptional working environment.  Some of these benefits include:
  • 100% distributed workforce
  • 100% DockYard paid medical, dental, vision, life & AD&D starting Day 1
  • 401(k) offered through Vanguard
  • Substantial paid time off
  • Conference & Laptop stipend
What you’ll do:
  • Design clean, intuitive flows and experiences that excite our clients’ users
  • Bring solid research and discovery practices to inform design and UX solutions
  • Wireframe, prototype, and create hi-fidelity designs
  • Craft beautiful and elegant user-centered solutions
  • Partner with our engineers, UXD, PMs and stakeholders to oversee user experience for products and features from conception to launch
  • Work in solidarity with our customers and other DockYard teams
  • Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with engineers and designers
  • Provide and seek feedback from other designers to always push quality
  • Design systems experience a plus
What we’re looking for:
  • 3+ years of product design experience
  • An excellent communicator who can work well with clients and diverse teams
  • Experience designing and shipping products that customers love
  • Experience with the full-range of product, interaction, and visual design
  • Experience using data to inform design and product decisions
  • Talent in creating and maintaining complex design systems
  • Ability to clearly communicate product strategy, design rationale and conceptual ideas
  • Proficiency with Creative Suite, Sketch, and prototyping tools.
  • A portfolio of top-notch product work that demonstrates strong design and UX skills
DockYard is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation, personal appearance, pregnancy, family responsibilities, matriculation, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Software Engineer – Backend / Distributed Systems

We are looking for a software engineer with experience with backend and distributed systems to join our team. You will help solve challenges in and improve our fault tolerance, latency, and queuing. Simply put, you will help design, implement, and improve our architectural vision.  Work out of our Downtown LA offices, or remotely.
We’re looking for someone who:
  • Has a love of learning.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic and highly collaborative environment. 
  • Enjoys the chance to pair with their peers and gives and receives well-crafted feedback.
  • Foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, queueing theory, fault-tolerance, caching, consensus and coordination between distributed systems.
  • At least five years of software development experience supporting a high-volume SaaS.
  • Experience developing in one or more of the following programming languages: Ruby, Python, Go.
  • Knowledge of relational databases and NoSQL systems.
  • Understanding of how the Internet works (networking and protocols).
Bonus experience and skills:
  • Building and maintaining APIs (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
  • Knowledge of event and streaming systems (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Kappa or Lambda architectures)
Note that this engineer will join the on-call rotation after an onboarding period.
Our stack:
Our platform is primarily built with Ruby on Rails with some additional Ruby and Go services. Data is stored in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis, and Hadoop. All on a cloud native architecture in AWS and managed with Terraform and Puppet.
NationBuilder is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We are committed to finding talent that is not determined on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Intercom + SaaS Integration: Customer On-Boarding Guru

My title says it all!   I need a guru who has proven experience integrating Intercom with B2B SaaS products!
This job is part designer, part Intercom configurator, part-UX strategist, and part copy writer….  messages after all have to be written, consumed and intuitively understood by real humans.
Here are the Intercom / Product Integration scenarios we need help putting into production:
  • Client Success On-Boarding
  • User Help / Guidance
  • In-App and Customer Support Messaging
  • Information Routing / Alerts
  • User Preference “Setup”
The list could be MUCH longer.. but if you’re the right freelancer, you know that already!

UI / UX Designer for CouponFollow (And Cently)

CouponFollow is looking for a talented designer to join our digital team.
CouponFollow is building next generation shopping tools for the everyday consumer. We’ve created an awesome money saving shopping Chrome extension, Cently, loved by hundreds of thousands of consumers and we want to continue to scale it with your help!
We have ambitious plans for updates to both CouponFollow and Cently and are looking for an equally ambitious and motivated designer to work alongside our CEO, and Director of Product to help design out new features, optimize the user experience and contribute to strategies that support growth, engagement and retention.
You should be passionate about creating exceptional products, with a deep love for user experience, and an eye for creating a clean, functional UI.
The role can be remote (preferably in the Americas), and will be a full time role.
Requirements:
  • A minimum of 5+ years of experience in a design role, ideally designing for both web and mobile.
  • Experience wire-framing and designing in Sketch with an ability to communicate ideas visually.
  • An ability to problem-solve, anticipate challenges, and propose better ways of building products.
  • Experience translating designs to product requirements and working with the development team in an agile environment to successfully implement the designs (familiarity with project management software like JIRA a plus).
  • Strong user experience intuitions, including an ability to discern great UX and empathize with users.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable taking the lead with clients, stakeholders, and remote teams.
  • A history of taking initiative, self-management, and solving problems without explicit direction.
  • A true team-player attitude and a willingness to roll up your sleeves to achieve the best results.
  • Prior experience working in a startup environment or on product development teams for tech companies.

    Responsibilities:

  • Lead new feature initiatives
  • Partner with engineering and design teams to deliver excellent products on tight timelines
  • Work with QA and development teams to ensure designs implemented according to your vision, and rigorously tested
  • Draft product requirements and specs, and transfer these into JIRA or similar tools
  • Join regular standups and team meetings to ensure company objectives are being met
  • Work in sync with customer success teams to prioritize UX issues and adjust designs accordingly.
  • Participate in product strategy and tactical planning conversations

    Nice to haves:

  • Experience working in an e-commerce background
  • Experience analyzing product funnels, with a desire to dive into product metrics, conduct analysis or research on user behavior, and translate findings into actionable product enhancements.
  • Prior experience working with membership-based businesses
  • Prior experience working with remote teams
  • Prior experience working with analytics tools like Mixpanel or Periscope
Perks:
  • Flexible working hours. The position can be remote, and (within reason) can fit around your schedule
  • Enjoyable, rewarding work. Our users are passionate about our products, and we believe we’re making a real difference in people’s lives. To date, we estimate that we have saved users over $400m to date, which is some serious dough. 
  • Working with a group of talented, passionate, kind, and motivated team members
  • The ability to directly influence the success of projects and lead the direction of product
  • Occasional business trips (e.g., open to occasional meetings in New York / Design, Product or Marketing conferences)
To apply for this role, please submit the following to jobs@couponfollow.com.
1) A cover letter explaining why you believe you would be a good fit for the position, including any relevant experience.
2) A link to your portfolio, so we can see your design chops in action 👩‍🎨🎨👨‍🎨

3) Include a link to 1-2 *live* projects (if possible) that showcase your ability to create a great user experience.

Software Engineer

At Paylocity, we create software that makes companies – especially their HR teams – better, faster, and stronger. We give clients the tools they need to make their companies run, and give our employees a rewarding company culture – all putting us in a category of our own. Join us and learn what makes us unique!
We’re a fast-growing company ready to revolutionize the payroll and HR world for hundreds of thousands of businesses by delivering innovative technology and support. We seek the best and brightest to help us create the future of our talent solutions – enabling our customers to better develop their employees. Our own employees are equally important to us: We work hard to provide the best work environment for our employees, and are dedicated to giving back to the communities in which we live and work.
Delivering one-of-a-kind cloud technology, accompanied by award winning customer service, Paylocity is a software company in a category of its own. 
 
Poised to revolutionize the world of human capital management for hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized businesses, we are seeking the best and the brightest to help us create the future – enabling our customers to be employers of choice for their employees and supervisors.
 
Our Product & Technology organization nurtures a dynamic agile work environment full of talented individuals with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds working in small squads around a shared mission.  Guided by our development principles, and a passion for compelling software, we come together to deliver great products and make Paylocity an exciting place to work. 
 
As a member of one of our product teams, this person will be responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Business Stakeholders. Our Software Engineers are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades.
 
Are you the teammate we are looking for?

Who you are:

  • Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience
  • An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process
  • Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
  • Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
  • Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
  • Excited to work on cutting-edge technology

How we work:

  • Curiosity and candor; the quality of the idea wins the day
  • Casual, focused, and agile environment operating under our shared principles
  • Customers at the center of everything we do
  • Small, mission-focused squads with an entrepreneurial spirit backed by enterprise investments
  • Consistent routines across stakeholders to ensure complete transparency
  • Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and customers

What we offer:

  • A compelling mission to elevate payroll and human resources across the backroom and into the boardroom
  • Focus on helping our customers automate manual processes, appeal to the modern workforce, and glean insights from analytics
  • Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our customers at the center of everything we do
  • A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them the chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity
  • Ample opportunity and encouragement to stay current with external training
  • A phenomenal talent anywhere culture, where employees can work remotely anywhere in the US and/or work from one of three U.S. offices located in Illinois, Florida and Idaho

Required Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience
  • Must have at least 2-3 years’ hands-on experience with full-stack web development, with experience in Client Side Programming (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX) and SQL
  • Must be proficient in object-oriented design and development and unit-testing, Web Services, and web pages preferably in ASP.NET and/or ASP.NET MVC with C#
  • Should be familiar with Systems Architecture and developer tools
  • Must be able to work effectively in an agile environment
  • Must be effective and creative in problem solving

During the last three months, you would have:

  • Built something that you are proud of
  • Learned something that you are excited about
  • Done the best work of your career so far
  • Found innovative ways to increase the quality and velocity of your work
  • Exercised creativity and solved cool problems
  • Demonstrated passion for writing quality software
  • Contributed to a shared code base
  • Strengthened your team by sharing your knowledge and interests with others
  • Built relationships and communicated with various types and levels of stakeholders across the organization
  • Analyzed and spearheaded improvements to the systems and software that are important to your team
  • Managed risks, escalated priorities and helped to resolve issues that could impact production quality