Product Manager

What We Do
Overleaf is a startup and social enterprise that builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over three million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.
Who We Are
Overleaf was founded by two mathematicians who were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for scientific collaboration and communication. Now we are a team of thirty based mainly in and around the UK and in the US. We were recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 fastest growing businesses in 2018.
In September 2018, we officially launched ‘Overleaf v2’, the latest version of our platform, which we’ve been working on since our acquisition of ShareLaTeX, the other major online LaTeX editor, in 2017. We’ve now integrated the two products and teams.
How We Work
Overleaf is remote-first — all founders and staff work remotely. We also have an office by King’s Cross station for those in the London area, and we get the whole team together in London several times a year for face-to-face time.
We encourage flexible working. Our core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time, during which we have a 10–15 minute daily standup call for the whole development team. We have few standing meetings for the development team, but we do many smaller video or voice calls for pairing or within project groups.
We don’t yet have standing teams, but we form and dissolve smaller teams on a per-project basis; we try to give everyone the opportunity to serve as a team lead if they want to.
We always collect user feedback to inform our work. We have UX professionals on our team, and we run many surveys and user interviews.
We organise our work with Kanban. We use GitHub pull requests for each feature with code review to share knowledge and best practices (and catch bugs). We test thoroughly with automated unit and acceptance tests, supported by continuous integration (CI). We’re also fans of linting to minimise bikeshedding (and to catch bugs).
About This Role
This is a broad role, which you will be able to shape as the business grows, but in the short term we will ask you to:
  • Work closely with the development team as a product owner throughout the development process:
  • Take the lead in product and feature design, representing the needs of the user and other stakeholders to the engineering team,
  • Work with the engineering team to make sure that we are taking an approach which maximises the value to the user, while minimising technical complexity,
  • Prioritise tickets in bi-weekly sprint planning sessions to make sure we are regularly delivering small improvements, rather than only focusing on big feature releases,
  • Monitor the impact of new features and releases, to determine if they achieved the goals set out for them at the start.
  • Work closely with internal teams (sales & marketing, support, business) to:
  • Understand the users they engage with and the problems, pain points and requests they are seeing,
  • Clearly communicate our roadmap and product changes in advance of their launch,
  • Run early rounds of internal feedback gathering, before we launch to users,
  • Understand how our internal tooling can be improved for internal users
  • Work closely with our UX team to:
  • Develop strategies for regularly monitoring and collecting user feedback,
  • Formulate hypotheses which we can answer with user feedback and testing.
  • Work closely with our CTO and CEO to:
  • Plan out the longer term product roadmap
  • Understand the high level company vision and goals, and make sure these are reflected in ongoing product development
As a recent example of a project which required many of these roles was the development of the Overleaf v2 git bridge:
  • We designed and ran a survey to assess which workflows were important to users in Overleaf v2, and then a follow on survey and user interviews after an initial beta launch. One of the outcomes of this was a reversal of a decision to remove git bridge, once we understood how crucial it was to many users’ workflows.
  • Implementing the git bridge in Overleaf was a complex technical challenge, where different engineering choices would have different impacts to the user’s workflow, and vice-versa. Effectively bringing together the engineering team, user feedback, and product vision was important in finding the best solution.
  • We rolled out the git bridge slowly to a beta cohort of users, to assess feedback and catch any usability problems early.
  • Keeping the support team up to date so they could communicate the situation to users, and let interested users into the beta program was important.
  • Giving the sales and marketing team reasonable estimates that they could communicate back to clients was important.
  • We are conducting another large scale survey and round of follow up feedback on the launch of Overleaf v2, and part of the focus of this will be on learning how the git bridge is now perceived and used.
As a product manager, you would have been involved in leadership, product decisions and coordination between teams that went into the above process.
Here are some examples of other projects we’ve recently completed:
This year, we have many projects planned including Single Sign On for our many university clients, improvements to our rich text mode, Dropbox sync, B2C conversion funnel, and much more.
Personal traits
  • A strong intuition for what makes products a joy to use,
  • Empathy for how different users will need different things out of a product at different stages, and how to effectively serve these different needs in one product,
  • Strong communication and mediation skills,
  • A technical enough background to understand how the user facing product will tie into backend and architectural decisions.
How We Hire
The stages in our hiring process are typically:
  1. We will aim to update you on the status of your application within one week from when we receive it.
  2. We’ll follow up by email (or sometimes schedule a phone call) with any questions we have about your application, usually around logistics, your ambitions and your expectations about the role.
  3. We’ll schedule a more in-depth interview, which is typically two hours long. The first hour is discussion, and the second hour is practical. For the practical, you’ll have the option of either completing a homework assignment, which requires about one hour of your time before the interview, or doing an exercise during the interview, if you prefer. The exercises are practical in nature, and you can use Google, etc., and ask us questions.
  4. We’ll make an offer. We usually interview in batches, so there may be a short delay while we interview other candidates, but we will try to keep you informed throughout the process.
If you have a deadline, please let us know in your application, and we will try to be accommodating.
Requirements
We require that you:
  • have a minimum of 2–3 years of relevant experience (we aren’t taking on more new graduates at the moment).
  • will work for us full time (or nearly full time).
  • will usually be available in our core hours, 2pm–5pm UK time.
Benefits
 
  • Remote and flexible working.
  • Salary £40k–£75k per year depending on experience.
  • You would join a small, dedicated and growing team.
  • We’re substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source.
  • We’re backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we’re part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech.
  • Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there’s lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work.
  • You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we’ll provide what you need.
  • We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials.
  • We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tax Filing Specialist

TaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and is trusted by more than 10,000 businesses. Our mission is to make ecommerce easier for everyone.

Our Core Values

  • We do the right thing for our customers.
  • We’re a team, built on trust.
  • We’re proud to be remote.
  • We’re in control of our own destiny.
We have an immediate opening for a hungry, highly-experienced, highly-detail-oriented Tax Filing specialist who is fanatical about helping SMB businesses succeed.
TaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and is trusted by more than 10,000 businesses. We were founded to help eCommerce owners spend less time on sales tax and more time growing the businesses they love. We’re passionate about creating simple solutions and leveraging technology to solve complicated sales tax issues. We’re not just about sales tax though, we’re a technology-driven company focused on providing a great experience for both merchants and developers. We work closely with eCommerce partners like Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Square, Magento and WooCommerce to help eCommerce businesses thrive.
We offer TaxJar Reports, a simple web-based reporting tool that organizes sales tax data into return-ready reports by state,AutoFile, a service that automatically files sales tax returns (this is the team you’d be joining), andSmartCalcs API, a modern, accurate, sales tax API for developers to outsource sales tax rates and calculations.
*This is a full-time remote position, available to folks located in the continental US only.
As a Tax Filing Specialist you will
  • Interface directly with customers to validate their filing credentials on a per state basis
  • File a high volume of sales tax returns to states (don’t worry, we’ll train you)
  • Work with representatives of states to quickly solve issues related to invalid filings
  • Categorize and quickly respond to customer questions and requests via email
  • Track all customer requests and trending product issues
  • Contribute to clear and simple documentation and support content
  • Work closely with our product team to continually make our filing process more efficient
You’re the ideal candidate if you
  • Approach success from the customer’s point of view
  • Are extremely patient…sales tax is painful 🙂
  • Have impeccable attention to detail
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Think the chance to understand the ins-and-outs of sales tax is interesting!
  • Have prior experience handling highly-sensitive data
  • BONUS POINTS if you have previously filed sales tax returns for more than 1 year in multiple states
You’ll be a great fit on our team if you
  • Only want to work remotely
  • Are a PRO at communicating and collaboration
  • Highly value working with people you like and respect
  • Are accountable
  • Are confident in your skills and a solid team player (We’re peers here, no egos please) but also comfortable working asynchronously
  • Hungry to play an impactful role and not afraid to fail
We’re a happy team and we all really love what we do. We’ve created a space where high-achievers can succeed, but are also safe to fail. We’re profitable and focused on growing TaxJar sustainably. We’re always learning how to make TaxJar the best place to work for all of us, and not just another tech startup. We’re always looking for an amazing new teammates to come share in the excitement of solving real-world problems with technology.
Benefits
  • Excellent health, vision and dental benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy 
  • $1,000 in professional development credit
  • Home office stipend
  • Equity in a profitable company
  • 2x year all-company in person retreats (fully paid for by us of course)
  • Brand new Macbook computer
  • Mandatory Birthday holiday!
  • 12 week paid maternity/ 6 week paid paternity leave
  • Monthly perks reimbursement for things like Netflix, Amazon Prime, your gym membership, home internet and more
We offer all of our employees amazing benefits. Visit www.TaxJar.com/jobs for a full list of our benefits and to learn more about how we work and what we stand for.
If you’re not the perfect fit for this position, but you know someone who is, we’ll pay you $1,000 if you refer us to the person we hire.

Ecommerce Copywriter

Can you write snappy product copy that sells? Do you like to come up with new ideas and be creative… but aren’t too fond of talking to clients?
If so… Wavebreak is hiring a part-time Ecommerce Copywriter.
We’re looking for:

  • Someone with a high standard of integrity and strong work ethic
  • Experience with ecommerce copywriting, including product descriptions, emails, Facebook ads, social media, etc. (writing samples of past work required)
  • Strong writing skills and creativity
  • Someone based in the US with long-term, part-time availability
  • Great time and project management skills; deadline-oriented with experience getting projects done quickly, with very high quality
  • Bonus points if you have experience with ecommerce email marketing or Klaviyo
What you’ll do:

  • Write email copy/briefs for our design team (this is the majority of the role)
  • Set up email campaigns, sequences, and segments in Klaviyo (ecommerce email marketing software, we’ll train you how to use it)
  • Communicate with our internal team to get campaigns and projects done on time
  • Track everything in our project management software and make sure nothing falls through the cracks
  • Other duties as assigned
Benefits:

  • You’ll get to have fun doing simple, creative work with great people
  • You’ll be paid a steady monthly retainer for every client that you work on
  • Not client-facing, you won’t have to talk directly to any clients – just write copy and set up emails
  • You’ll get to work on a variety of clients and industries
  • Remote role with flexible hours
  • We value life more than work
About Wavebreak:
Wavebreak is an ecommerce email marketing agency. We help established ecommerce stores stop leaking revenue with done-for-you email marketing.
Have a blast doing the best work of your career from the comfort of your home or your favorite coffee shop.
Think you might be a fit? Apply now.

IT Risk and Compliance Officer (UK or Europe only)

The IT Risk and Compliance Officer protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Canonical’s information systems. Serves as expert advisor to management, peers, and employees in defining, recommending, and implementing necessary policies, controls, and procedures to cost-effectively assess and manage security-related risk, educate workforce, and participate in regulatory compliance activities, especially with regards to data privacy and security legislation.  Assists with development, implementation, and maintenance of world-class information security organization, including annual and ad-hoc information security risk assessments, policy governance, compliance with regulatory requirements, information security training and awareness initiatives, third-party audits and assessments, contract and procurement guidelines, and third-party risk. Oversees and coordinates information security-related risk management.  
This role is a 6 month assignment and can be home or office based, but being based in London is preferred. Periodic international travel for training and business meetings is required.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Shape and drive the company strategy for access controls, compliance, audit, and penetration testing that supports the company’s business units and enables risk management and regulatory compliance. The challenges include identifying where and how we use data; determining what tools and technologies we should deploy; ensuring that preventive/detective/corrective controls are in place and functioning effectively; staying current with government regulations and commercial agreements governing the use of data.
  • Collaborate closely with leaders in each business unit to understand what customers they serve and in which markets those customers exist in, how data that they process and retain is categorized, what business processes make use of the data and why, and how the controls provide proper security and compliance. Be a representative for our customers, making sure that customer data is safeguarded and used ethically and responsibly.
  • Organize and lead Risk/Privacy/Compliance training programs across departments, in order to educate and inform employees about our practices and standards, raise the level of cooperation and help people to understand the rationale for the rules.
  • Manage internal and external audit and testing programs, reporting risks and areas that need correction to the senior management team and prioritizing compliance work.
  • Reviewing and responding to security questionnaires and contract questions from customers on Canonical’s information security policies and practices.

Required skills and experience:

  • You are familiar with contractual compliance obligations, contractual security, privacy and completing security questionnaires and reviews.
  • Experience defining and implementing appropriate methodologies for penetration testing, auditing, secure coding standards, incident response playbooks, forensic analysis procedures, takedown processes/law enforcement/censorship.
  • You can speak intelligently about situational awareness, change management, access control, and incident response.
  • You have demonstrated ability to communicate complex or detailed technical topics to a non-technical business audience, clearly conveying risk assessments, actions needed, and cost implications.
  • You have a general understanding of privacy and compliance legislation in the UK and Europe, including the GDPR.
  • Experience in working with legal, audit, and compliance staff.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
  • Experience in driving risk-based decisions supporting business owner expectations and needs.

Preferred Experience:

  • Strong knowledge and experience of applicable frameworks and regulatory requirements, e.g. ISO 2700x, PCI-DSS, NIST.
  • Strong technical or engineering background, including but not limited to software development, scripting, networking, and cloud architecture.
  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Freelance Essay Writer

Successful candidates will enjoy the freedom and flexibility to work from home in this remote position.

The primary responsibilities of our writers include:
  • Conducting research, reading course materials, and drafting essays and other assignments for our clients
  • Ensuring that work is completed by specific and time-sensitive deadlines
  • Performing edits on pre-written work by our clients
  • Completing revisions as requested by clients and/or our Quality Control department
As a remote position, a reliable Internet connection and dedicated home workspace are essential. The ideal candidates will also have wide availability, including days, afternoons, evenings, nights and weekends. 
This is a position with widely varying volumes of work (e.g., summers tend to be slower, while late fall and spring tend to be busy), and applicants should be aware of this when applying. 
Additional qualifications include:
  • Completion of a bachelor’s degree (minimum) in any subject
  • Exceptional communication, organizational, time-management, and critical-thinking skills
  • Professional proficiency in Microsoft Word
  • Proficiency in a variety of academic writing formats (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) is preferred
  • Previous writing and/or editing experience is preferred (but not required)
We invite all interested candidates to submit a tailored cover letter and resume to hr@masterwriter.ca. We thank all applicants for their time and attention; however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Content Writer

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for a Content Writer who understands email marketing, SEO and has experience in producing pieces that increase engagement and drive leads.
Content marketing is the biggest part of MailerLite marketing, which includes our Knowledge Base, blog posts, videos, webinars, information on our website, customer-generated YouTube videos, training on MailerLite in Udemy, etc. These are some of the ways we educate our current customers and how new customers learn about MailerLite.

ABOUT US

MailerLite is one of the fastest growing email marketing technologies. We help more than 500,000 businesses around the world keep in touch with their customers. 
Our growing team of 40 people is united by enthusiasm for great products and delightful customer experiences. We strive to build a company culture where work, socializing and personal development go hand in hand. Our culture is defined by 10 company values.
At MailerLite, we use the upside-down marketing funnel. That means our current customers are our main focus. We believe that it’s much easier to grow when you provide value to current customers and make them feel special. That’s the reason they stay with MailerLite and recommend it to others.
Moreover, we concentrate on long-term goals. If we spend time on content, we think of several ways we can extend it (maybe it might become a video/webinar or part of an ebook) and how to make it relevant for the long-term (Is it evergreen? is it optimized for search engines?).

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a content writer, it’s your job to come up with hot topics to write about, new approaches to familiar information, and ways to provide value to our current and potential customers. This includes writing and editing articles, promoting them on social media and brainstorming ideas for content that will increase engagement and drive leads.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Excellent writing and editing skills in English.
  • Experience with Search Engine Optimization and internet research.
  • Knowledge of digital marketing tactics, including SEO, email marketing and web analytics
  • Track record of producing pieces that increase engagement and drive leads.
  • Great communication skills.
  • Able to work independently, handle several projects at once and meet deadlines.
  • Available to work 40 hours per week.

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Remote-first culture with half of the team in Vilnius, Lithuania and the other half working remotely from all over the world.
  • Office or Remote – you can choose every day.
  • Company-paid retreats that we call Workations. The entire team gathers twice a year for a week in an exotic location to work, learn and have fun together.
  • Flexible vacation – take time off when you need it. We trust you.
  • MacBook Pro and other tools that you will need.
INTERESTED? 
 
Don’t send us a CV. We like to do things differently.
Instead, here is how we would like you to apply:
  1. Sign up for a free MailerLite account.
  2. Create a newsletter about yourself and send it to jobs@mailerlite.com.
Before you send the email, you will need your new account to be approved. In the approval form, you will be asked how you collect subscribers and what type of content you plan to send. Just write “Job application”.
There is also another quick way. Simply send us the url of your newsletter.
Things we would love to see in the newsletter:
  • Links to 3 pieces of your content that you are most proud of and why you feel this way.
  • Links to your Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook or personal homepage.
  • Why you want to join MailerLite?
  • What would you improve in MailerLite’s content marketing and why?
  • Expected Salary.
 
Good luck!

Head Buyer

The Role

Moment is an ecommerce business and we are looking for a lead buyer to select, merchandise, and manage our 3rd party brands. The Moment store is growing with over 150 photo, video, and travel products from 14 different brands. We’re looking for someone who can grow the number of brands on the site while keeping the offering fresh and interesting. You should have both a love for photography and experience in buying and managing product lines. 

What you will be doing:

+ Defining themes for each drop based on a given creative direction
+ Managing the schedule for each seasonal drop.
+ Selecting products and brands that fit each of our seasonal drops. 
+ Contacting, onboarding, and managing all of our brands. 
+ Directing product photography and page listings for each product.
+ Working cross team to market and launch each seasonal drop.
+ Providing forecasts to brands and re-ordering based on demand.
+ Closing out products that don’t sell.
+ Customer service, because everyone on the team does a few hours per week. And we mean everyone in the company.

You need these qualifications:

We are looking for someone who has experience making purchasing decisions. Someone who has solid buyer fundamentals to create consistent themes and select products that sell.
+ A passion for photography and travel.
+ 4+ years of experience as a buyer in retail.
+ 2+ years of experience in ecommerce.
+ Competent in excel and managing forecasts.
+ Experience managing vendor relationships.
+ Organized, detailed, and direct communicator.
+ Experience leading a team is a plus.

Compensation And Benefits

+ We keep it simple.
+ A salary
+ Medical insurance or $550 per month to do what you want.
+ A free Moment Trip every year.
+ Moment gear.
+ A $500 stipend per year to spend on your own equipment.
+ Three company offsites per year.
+ Unlimited vacation.
 
Are you in?
Apply on Angel List here: https://angel.co/moment-2/jobs/478303-head-buyer

Digital Project Manager

Bear Group is a leading web development firm in Seattle looking for an experienced Digital Project Manager to lead its Run State client support program for enterprise CMS, eCommerce, and integration tasks. This roles blends aspects of technical support management, client management, developer management, account management, customer service, and quality assurance. Above all, you are responsible for ensuring high client satisfaction and managing Run State’s quality, growth, and profitability.

What’s in it for you:

  • Work from anywhere! We currently work as a distributed team that allows for some flexibility in work hours. The position can be performed remotely with regular status meetings. Applicants only in PST, MST, and CST time zones will be considered.
  • Competitive compensation, learning challenges, and opportunity to grow your career with the company.
  • Health, Dental, Life, 401K matching, education stipend, 3 weeks PTO + 2 weeks of company holidays.
As lead project manager for Run State:
  • Facilitate onboarding Run State clients by outlining expectations, establishing communication channels, and scheduling/leading weekly standup meetings.
  • Build and maintain “RunBoards” for each client with key contacts, their resource plan, and setting up their personal service desk.
  • Document and maintain each piece of tech in use for clients, including website platforms, server technologies, and all modules/extensions/API in use.
  • Build out an Analytics dashboard for each client and do a full review of the client wish lists and backlogs.
  • Lead bimonthly Run State meetings with a systems & status overview, roadmap review, analytics dashboard and key metrics review, and task and queue review.
  • Triage, schedule, and ticket proactive development, bug fixes, new features, web operations/IT updates,
  • documentation, training, general QA, content updates, analytics support, or custom-specific issue support escalations.
  • Oversee the Run State team that includes a Developer, Web Ops, QA Specialist, and Content Manager.
  • Provide weekly status updates to the Director of Project Management and present monthly program updates to the Management team.
  • Direct communication and documentation with existing client base on technical matters and tasks. Maintain and extend healthy client relationships using solid account management practices.
  • Agile sprint planning and general project management, Jira task management, and scheduling. Provide standard project documentation like agendas, contact lists, communication plans, and weekly status reports.
  • Ensure quality control with documentation, task management, communication, client relationships, and team dynamics.
  • Technical tasks may include configuring Drupal, WordPress, and Magento systems, graphic adjustments, and content changes.
What you bring:
  • BA/BS degree plus a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
  • Background in client-service environments — web development firms, interactive agencies, graphic design firms.
  • Candidates should have some experience in web development and UX methodologies. Experience with the Drupal, Magento, and other Marketing Technology (CMS, eComm, CRM, Automation, Analytics) is a big plus.
  • Professional and client service-oriented, positive and proactive, and able to react swiftly to meet client expectations.
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence software used for managing all development tasks, project roadmaps, and resources.
  • Ability to set realistic deadlines, forecast risk, coordinate internal and external resources, and accurately estimate resource requirements.
  • Enthusiasm, superb communication, leadership, management, organization skills with a proven ability to manage multiple projects. Excitement to learn, grow, and adapt.
  • Office software products expertise and experience with wireframing software, visual workflow, and diagram tools.
To learn more about the company, visit www.beargroup.com
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Lead Engineer

About the position:
Wirecutter Money is looking for an experienced web engineer to lead the development and drive the architectural decisions of its small engineering team with a focus on its newly established financial product database. This database is the lynchpin of Wirecutter Money’s ability to provide accurate and up to date information to its readers, automate changes within content to our financial products, and build the foundation for the business.
The tech stack for Money consists of:
  • Node.js, Express, and React
  • MongoDB, GraphQL, and Apollo
  • PHP, WordPress, MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS Lambda, RDS, etc.
This is a new position created as we continue our investment in Wirecutter Money. Money engineers operate within a distributed, agile, cross-functional squad that includes product, project, design, editorial, and other engineers. While some of this work will be self-contained, there will be a number of features or dependencies requiring collaboration across Wirecutter’s engineering organization.
What are we looking for:
We are a startup within a startup within a big company. For that reason, we’re looking for a strong communicator and a scrappy problem-solver. You should love to roll up your sleeves, find creative solutions, proactively identify opportunities, and deliver user and business value.
We’re looking for an engineer that will help us grow this new venture from the ground up. As such, you should love to solve problems, be comfortable with uncertainty and be unafraid to make mistakes. Most importantly, you should have a deep passion for helping readers navigate complex subjects. We are a fiercely independent and reader-centric company. A deep appreciation to serve the reader above all else is a must.
You will:
  • Collaborate with your squad leaders and stakeholders on the scoping, planning, prioritization, successful execution, and rollout of user or business features.
  • Research and recommend technical solutions that best align with our product and business goals.
  • Build scalable, high-quality, and innovative back-end features and workflows that underpin our credit card database and bank API integrations.
  • Define new data models that are appropriately scalable, standardized, and reliable.
  • Help to guide, define, and architect the tech stack behind the Money team’s editorial operation.
  • Design applications with extensibility in mind, while considering efficiency, and the burden of developer onboarding.
  • Configure analytics events and tracking metrics for reporting.
  • Write code that is simple, reliable, maintainable, performant, and functional.
  • Share information and learnings with others.
  • Perform code reviews with meaningful feedback.
  • Test and troubleshoot with automated testing or manual quality assurance.
  • Write and maintain user and software design documentation for our applications and infrastructure.
  • Debug, support, and maintain our applications, environments, and related services.
  • Improve our development workflow and infrastructure.
  • Mentor and coach other members of your squad and the engineering team.
  • Contribute to engineering initiatives as a member of Wirecutter’s engineering team.
About you:
  • You have 5+ years experience in software engineering.
  • You have production experience with Node, React, and GraphQL.
  • You have experience reliably integrating and handling data from multiple APIs.
  • You understand the challenges of scaling and caching a Node.js back-end application.
  • You understand the challenges of being data-dependant on multiple external APIs.
  • You have experience building applications at scale on any major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, etc.)
  • You can design & optimize queries, data sets, and external API data storage that helps generate insights and addresses reporting needs.
  • You are thoughtful, clear, and persuasive in writing and in person.
  • You have strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking abilities.
  • You have experience listening to product and business users, and can translate their needs into actionable tasks.
  • You are proactive and comfortable working quickly on a small, dedicated project team without micromanagement of day to day tasks.
  • You are excited to play a pivotal role in Wirecutter’s mission, innovation, and growth.
  • You are passionate and enthusiastic about what you do.
  • You have experience with version control, shell scripting, the Unix filesystem, and automating deployments.
  • Ideally, you have experience with MongoDB or another NoSQL database.
  • Ideally, you have experience with WordPress or another PHP based CMS.
  • Ideally, you have production experience within a microservices architecture.
  • Ideally, you have experience with Docker, and basic environment and infrastructure configurations.
  • Ideally, you have experience in providing technical leadership, advocating for your team, and steering multiple stakeholders when needed.
  • Ideally, you’ve worked as a member of a distributed or hybrid engineering team.
About Wirecutter Money:
Wirecutter is The New York Times Company’s product recommendation service. The company was founded in 2011 with a simple mission: to save people the time and stress of figuring out what to buy. It became a part of The New York Times Company in October 2016.
This role will join a young team focused on providing guidance, reviews and recommendations in the personal finance space. Wirecutter wants to help students and early to mid-career professionals navigate essential financial firsts. We believe that by having the right financial knowledge at the right time, our readers can solve problems, maximize future financial opportunities and avoid common pitfalls.
In short, when it comes to starting their financial lives, Wirecutter wants to make sure no reader ever has to say, “I wish I’d known…”
Locations:
Even with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, Wirecutter remains a highly remote culture with employees across the United States. Right now, we are eligible to hire in the following locations:
CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, or WA.
 
Benefits and Perks:
  • Make an impact by supporting our original, independent and deeply reported journalism.
  • We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families
  • We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.
  • We offer a competitive parental leave.
  • We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.
  • We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.
  • Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.
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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Director of Content

At Dataquest, we teach data science to a community of hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We help students deeply learn concepts, build projects, work together, and gain the confidence they need to start new careers. Read more about our philosophy here, and read what students think here.
We’re looking for a Director of Content to lead our team of content authors. We want to eventually help tens of millions of students worldwide change their lives through data science education. You will play a key role in helping us track content metrics, manage the content team, mesh content with business goals, and evangelize the way we teach.

Who Should Apply?:

The Director of Content will help us evolve how we teach, and ensure that our business continues to grow quickly while serving students effectively. You’ll need strong people management and business strategy skills. The Director of Content will set team culture, deadlines, and accountability. You will also create content roadmaps and processes. Ideally, you have experience maintaining the delicate balance between content quality and speed of output.
Solid communication and collaboration skills are key. You’ll report directly to the CEO and have input into wider company strategy. You will also coordinate with other teams (specifically the engineering and marketing teams) to launch courses and improve our teaching methodology.

How You’ll Contribute:

  • Determining if our content is teaching students effectively.
  • Managing the (currently) 6-person content team, including 1:1s, performance reviews, and hiring.
  • Determining content success metrics.
  • Identifying how content contributes to the business.
  • Setting and sticking to content roadmaps.
  • Coordinating and evangelizing course launches.
  • Identifying students needs and evolving how we teach and what we teach to better serve those needs.
  • Coordinating with other teams to improve the learning interface.

Requirements

Must Have:
  • Experience teaching, even if it’s writing technical or educational blog posts.
  • The ability to tie your past work to business and customer outcome metrics.
  • You should be a strong team player who buys into the mission of serving students and is energized by it.
  • You should enjoy identifying and solving problems.
  • Strong leadership and management skills.
  • Experience formulating strategy, and having input into larger company goals.
  • Some experience with data science, even if it’s SQL.
  • Some experience with project management.
Nice to Have:
  • Background in learning styles, basic education research, and/or pedagogy.
  • Experience working in a startup environment.
  • Experience working as part of a remote team.
  • Experience setting and understanding business metrics, such as revenue.
  • Experience working with technical teams, such as engineering or product teams.
Why You Should Work at Dataquest:
  • The opportunity to see your impact on the lives of our students every day.
  • Be a part of an engaged and mission-driven team.
  • The chance to contribute to product direction and decisions.
  • We’re fully remote!
  • A supportive environment where you can get help when you run into blockers.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits (for full-time US-based employees only).
  • 401(k) and life insurance plan.
The salary range for this role is $95,000 USD – $125,000 USD per year. This is a full-time remote position.