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San Francisco Estuary Institute: Web Developer At Science Non-profit

Location: Oakland CA
URL: http://www.sfei.org

The San Francisco Estuary Institute, an environmental research non-profit in Oakland, is seeking to hire a Web Developer in its Information Technology group. This person will work on a team to expand the functionality of SFEI’s web products in support of San Francisco Bay and the California environment. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your web development skills to a meaningful cause, give us a look.

For a decade SFEI has been one of the leading producers of environmental data and analysis for the San Francisco Bay Area, creating leading environmental web products such as the California Wetland Portal, California rapid wetland assessment software, and Historical Coast Survey Maps website.

Primary duties include

Working closely with other technical staff to develop and maintain web applications for the Institute and its clients, particularly products addressing the management and oversight of California wetland resources.

Staying informed on web technologies and strategizing with staff on the most appropriate technologies for our web applications.

Required skills/characteristics

3 or more years experience in related work

Works well on a team

Strong, current skills in HTML/CSS

Strong skills in PHP and JavaScript, including for application-database communication. Knowledge of JQuery a plus.

Skills in Java/Grails a big plus

Organization and attention to detail are critical

Advantageous skills/characteristics

A strong eye for elegant, functional design

Knowledge of the Drupal content management system

Strong oral and written communication skills. This position works routinely with Institute scientists, staff and clients, and may be called on to write technical project documentation, specifications, and/or work plans.

Understanding of spatial data formats, tools, and concepts

Additional information

SFEI offers a bayside setting, earns excellent employee retention, and provides the candidate the opportunity to join the Institute’s mission to use scientific understanding to protect and enhance the San Francisco Bay environment.

$50,000-$70,000/year based on experience and skills.

Please reference Job # MM-IT002 in your correspondence.

To apply: Send a cover letter and resume to resumes@sfei.org. The subject line must be "Web Developer #MM-IT002"

Go Daddy: User Experience Architect

Link to Originating Site

(Scottsdale, AZ)

Job overview

We are looking for a talented individual with a wide range of user experience and design knowledge who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role is responsible for the inception and design of new products or features that will be used by millions of GoDaddy’s customers.

What does the job entail?

Create wireframes, sitemaps, flow diagrams, annotated screen mockups, and other interaction documentation.
Work with executives, product managers, marketing managers, business analysts, and developers to shape new product or feature requirements.
Oversee the creative development cycle, working with visual designers and technical writers to ensure the consistency and timelines are met.
Help usability engineers focus evaluation objectives.
Initiate and carry an idea from concept to completion.

Do you have what it takes?

Rapidly create wireframes with limited input or requirements.
Understand interface technologies and their limitations.
Enjoy thinking from the user’s perspective.
Present ideas and designs to a diverse group of stakeholders.
Comfortable defending work in small and large collaborative settings.
Able to influence others through conversation and education.
Enjoy being innovative.
Manage many large-scale, long-running projects at one time.
Appreciate working in a fast-paced and iterative environment.
Adapt quickly to change.
Understand when to compromise between business goals and customer needs.
Keep up-to-date on current user experience industry trends.
Experience creating wireframes using Axure, Visio, Omnigraffle, or another wireframing tool.
Ability to manage a project from start to finish while working with a diverse team of contributors.
Minimum of 3 years working in the user experience or related field.

Desired but not required:

Bachelor’s degree in interaction design, human factors, applied psychology, graphic design, or related field. Alternatively, equivalent work experience in the industry.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS.
Experience working with Photoshop.
HFI Certification.

Submit your application with your cover letter and resume to the link on this posting. Let us know why you’re interested in taking on this role with GoDaddy.com. If you have a Web portfolio, please include the URL on your resume.

Why is it worth it?

A fun, dynamic and challenging work environment
We offer a competitive base salary and opportunity for additional incentives
100% employer-paid medical, dental, STD, LTD and life coverage for all benefit eligible Go Daddy employees
Three weeks of paid vacation plus two paid personal days available in your first year of employment
Professional Development and Tuition Reimbursement
Subsidized meals on-site at our Customer Care Centers
Exceptional 401(k) plan where you are vested after 1 year for the company match
Employee Appreciation Initiatives – team building activities and recognition

Go Daddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Apply: https://www.hirebridge.com/v3/application/applink.aspx?cid=5475&jid=100282

Savannah College Of Art And Design Is Looking For A Chair Of Motion Media Design In Savannah, Georgia

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Tax - Tax General - Senior Manager (tax206) / Grant Thornton Llp / Southfield, Mi

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Grant Thornton LLP/Southfield, MI

Tax Senior Manager â€“ Manage Tax Team for Global Accounting Firm

POSITION SUMMARY:

Grant Thornton's tax professionals are committed to developing and implementing bright ideas, intelligent strategies, and innovative solutions - solutions that can significantly reduce our clients' tax bills. Reducing our clients' tax bills in today's environment requires not only bright ideas and intelligent planning, but also a commitment to professional excellence and a complementary service approach.

Grant Thornton's tax specialists are dedicated to delivering value-added, client-focused tax services that shed light on all of our clients' unresolved tax concerns.

The Senior Tax Manager is responsible for the delivery of a full range of tax services for multiple clients in a wide variety of industries. Responsibilities include interacting closely with clients to provide innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise; developing and managing staff; working closely with partners and staff on client management, practice development and business development activities; and formulating and delivering innovative tax planning and tax savings strategies. The Senior Tax Manager is responsible for an assigned group of clients.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
-Oversee the efforts of multiple client services teams on client engagements; plan, execute, direct, and complete tax projects in a wide variety of industries; provide innovative tax planning, consulting, and compliance expertise to clients; market, sell, design, and implement tax-planning strategies for clients and manage to budget.
-Understand and manage firm risk on tax services and proposals.
-Develop a project vision and set challenging personal and client service team goals.
-Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on tax projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews.
-Conduct primary and secondary review of complicated or complex income tax returns including Corporate, S-Corp., partnership, and individual clients.
-Research and consult on complex tax matters.
-Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, make sure deadlines are met, and lead change efforts effectively.
-Consult, work with, and service client to make recommendations on business and process improvement and serve as a business advisor to client.
-Work closely with partners, managers, and staff to integrate practice development skills into a team approach to client service and new business development.
-Play a key role in the future business generation and continued development of the client base within industry groups and identify future client needs and new business opportunities.
-Use established network of business relationships within industry groups to generate new sales opportunities.
-Maintain strong client relations and cross-sell services within the assigned group of clients.
-Recruit and retain managers, senior associates, and associates.
-Coach staff and motivate others to accept new ideas, practices, or action and achieve goals and objectives for performance and professional development.
-Attend professional development and training seminars on a regular basis.
-Perform other job-related duties as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
-Bachelor's degree in Accounting. CPA, Masters in Taxation, LLM in Taxation, or JD.
-A minimum of eight years of progressive federal tax consulting and/or compliance experience in public accounting or a combination of corporate and public accounting experience.
-Experience in Corporate, S-Corp. and/or Partnership returns.
-Superior analytical, technical, and tax accounting/technology skills with proficiency in US GAAP, tax compliance, corporate consolidated returns, consolidated federal tax returns, partnership returns, and combined state tax returns.
-Outstanding experience in staff and tax management in an integrated client service team.
-Ability to manage and develop staff in a highly interactive team environment.
-Demonstrated experience in practice development, business development, and managing other managers.
-Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships.
-Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
-Outstanding leadership, business development, recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
-Computer expertise including knowledge of tax software and technology.
-Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

BENEFITS:

Grant Thornton LLP promotes a nationally recognized culture of health and offers an extensive array of benefits to meet individual lifestyles. For a complete list of benefits please visit www.gt.com.
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Enova Financial: Ui Engineer

Link to Originating Site

(Chicago, IL)

UI Engineer / Front End Developer

We subscribe to a notion that great programmers are 300 times more productive than average programmers. We surround ourselves with only the most talented of individuals. This person will be part of the development team; designing and implementing user interfaces for open-source and proprietary web applications.

Essential Function:

Writing front-end (table less) code in Ruby, XHTML/CSS, and JavaScript.
To identify, create, and implement radiant/functional UI design.
Implement new features and optimize existing ones.
Understanding of browser compatibility issues that currently exist on the web today.

Required Qualifications:

Fluent in Web Standards for XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM-Scripting is required.
Experience with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is required.
Development in Ruby on Rails and/or other Open Source technologies preferred. (Given that Ruby on Rails is rather new, extensive experience developing web applications in other languages can be substituted as long as a strong desire to work in Ruby exists.)
Experience with Linux/Unix is required.
Up to date knowledge of Semantic markup, progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, and web accessibility.
Proof of relevant experience; portfolios, web page links, work examples are strongly encouraged.
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

About Us:

Enova Financial manages businesses that offer a variety of financial products and services to consumers over the Internet. As a global resource, the company operates in multiple countries; including Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Enova Financial is a subsidiary of Cash America International, Inc. (NYSE: CSH), a publicly held financial service provider.

Our global headquarters is located in downtown Chicago. The company was founded in 2004 by a dynamic management team, with roots in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, and has grown at a tremendous pace since inception. Today, we are proud to have over 600 Enova team members serving millions of customers world-wide.

We have a fun, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment. We work hard; we play hard. We constantly challenge each other. We wear flip flops and jeans to work (weather permitting!)

Job Perks: If you have the talent, we'll pay to relocate you! We have a stacked-kitchen with all-you-can eat breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks! We have a flexible schedule (our developers don't tend to get in until 11am!) We are very entrepreneurial in nature, yet our corporate office is near 300 people.

Apply: You can apply under the Careers section of our website at www.enovafinancial.com OR, you can send your resume and portfolio to me directly at jemerson1@enovafinancial.com with the subject line "UI Engineer Applicant." We are excited to hear from you!

Benefitfocus.com, Inc.: Design Manager

Link to Originating Site

(Charleston, SC)

Benefitfocus is the leader in software and services for the healthcare benefits market by providing employers, insurance carriers and consumers a single Web-based platform for shopping, enrolling, managing and exchanging benefit information. Since its founding in 2000, Benefitfocus has been a growing company solidly positioned in the 2 trillion dollar healthcare industry.

Benefitfocus is seeking a dynamic and innovative leader for our User Experience Group (UxG). As the Design Manager, you will work with the Carrier Product Management team, Engineering, Marketing, Communication and Executive leadership teams to define and shape the future direction of the Benefitfocus software offering and its corporate design standards. You can expect to:

Manage and mentor a team of 6 to 8 interaction engineers and interface designers
Lead recruiting, training and professional development activities for the User Experience Group
Ensure all team members are completing tasks and deliverables on time and with a high level of quality
Work with internal teams to define and evolve overall Benefitfocus corporate design standards
Ensure a high-level of usability and user-centric design across all Benefitfocus products
Develop and maintain formal management metrics to measure individual and team performance, including weekly management of associate time reporting and completion of assigned project tasks

Qualifications:

BA/BS degree required
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human Factors, Design or similar discipline highly desired
Proven experience establishing and enforcing design standards for an online/web-based software company
Demonstrated mastery of human factors, user interaction, information architecture and user-centric design
Expert knowledge and understanding of key Web 2.0 standards and best practices, including W3C standards, CSS styling, DOM scripting, and AJAX
Enterprise software engineering and coding background (e.g. J2EE, .Net) highly desired
Ability to lead and mentor as a hands-on designer and as a web interface coder
Ability to work across different organizations, drive consensus and deliver high-quality software
Strong presentation and communication skills
Experience working in a Software as a Service environment (preferred)
Experience working within a high growth software/technology environment

Apply: Please send resume to Jill at jill.wysocki@benefitfocus.com or apply online at www.benefitfocus.com/careers.

Brooklyn Museum: Brooklyn Museum Programmer

Link to Originating Site

Location: Brooklyn, NY
URL: www.brooklynmuseum.org

The Technology department at the Brooklyn Museum seeks a programmer to help manage and develop the institution’s web presence. You’d be working with a small team on a variety of web and in-gallery projects related to art, community, visitor experience and open access. This is a fun, friendly and fast-paced environment with interesting content.

About us:

The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country and our world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Our mission is to act as a bridge between the rich artistic heritage of world cultures, as embodied in its collections, and the unique experience of each visitor. Dedicated to the primacy of the visitor experience, committed to excellence in every aspect of its collections and programs, and drawing on both new and traditional tools of communication, interpretation, and presentation, the Museum aims to serve its diverse public as a dynamic, innovative, and welcoming center for learning through the visual arts.

The job:

The Technology Department at Brooklyn Museum seeks a computer programmer to develop and manage

All technical aspects of the Web site and CMS
Web-based Intranet applications such as a label-editing tool, architectural drawing management system, and a building maintenance system
Standards for programming, user experience, documentation and security
Reviewing code and establishing development guidelines
Other duties as assigned

We are a small shop, and all of our staff members work across disciplines and support each other. Accordingly, qualified candidates for this position will have two or more years' experience, and will possess a range of skills across three categories: FreeBSD/Linux systems administration, Web programming, and user experience.

We’re looking for:

Qualified applicants will have extensive experience and specialized skill with items in group A, group B, or both.

Group A

Extensive experience with interaction/user experience design and information architecture
Solid understanding of and commitment to web standards, accessibility guidelines, and web usability

Experience conducting usability studies and running usability tests
Experience working on mobile platforms (e.g. iOS, Mobile Safari, Android)
Strong command of HTML and CSS
Familiarity with object-oriented PHP
Familiarity with object-oriented JavaScript and relevant frameworks (e.g. MooTools, jQuery)
Experience working on large, multi-part, CMS-driven web applications
Familiarity with version control, e.g. SVN

Group B

Extensive experience working on large, multi-part, CMS-driven web applications
Extensive FreeBSD and/or Linux systems administration experience
Extensive experience setting up, configuring, maintaining and administering LAMP-based web servers
Experience deploying to cloud computing platforms, e.g. Amazon Web Services
Strong command of object-oriented PHP
Strong command of HTML and CSS, as well as understanding of and commitment to web standards and accessibility/usability guidelines.
Strong command of object-oriented JavaScript and relevant frameworks (e.g. MooTools, jQuery)
Strong shell scripting skills
Familiarity with at least one modern scripting language, e.g. Ruby
Familiarity with database administration and SQL, especially MySQL and MSSQL
Experience working with 3rd party APIs
Familiarity with version control, e.g. SVN
Experience with e-commerce and PCI compliance

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with other departments and personnel, to manage multiple responsibilities independently, while adhering to established departmental technology standards.

To apply:

Please send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to job.programmer@brooklynmuseum.org with the subject line: "Programmer, 37Signals, Last Name, First Name." Include your cover letter in the body of the email and attach your resume.

Your cover letter must include salary requirements and resumes without cover letters will not be considered. Please, no boilerplate cover letters, they will end up in the cyber circular file. Be original! And, let us know why you think you'd be a good match for a position at the Brooklyn Museum.

This position is located in Brooklyn, New York and does not include telecommuting or relocation; qualified candidates must be able to commute daily to the Brooklyn Museum. No recruiters please.

Brooklyn Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants for positions are considered without regard to race, creed, color, country of origin, sex, age, citizenship, disability or sexual orientation. Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply. The Immigration and Control Act (1986) requires that all hires be in conformity with the law.

To apply: Please send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to job.programmer@brooklynmuseum.org with the subject line: "Programmer, 37Signals, Last Name, First Name." Include your cover letter in the body of the email and attach your resume. See notes above

Shivum Gautama: Enfiresolutions Designer And Coder Needed Asap!

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Innovaro: Producer

Link to Originating Site

Location: Chicago, IL
URL: www.innovaro.com

Producer/Designer for exciting series of multimedia magazines

Why we need you

If you’re highly creative, motivated by excellence at the big picture and pixel levels – and like to “safely push the edge” – we are looking for you.

Innovaro delivers end-to-end innovation management software and services that enable teams to create breakthrough business concepts, design defensible, new business models, and accelerate growth businesses to market.

We need you to lead production and delivery of a series of exciting multimedia magazines (docuzines) in the corporate innovation space. These docuzines will be delivered through web-based and touch software platforms as both standalone learning modules and, when required, connected to a corporate LMS.

Experience in instructional design for corporate education curriculum development, LMS systems knowledge and a Master’s in Education will give you a big advantage for this position. Being a hands-on contributor is a must.

What will you do?

Design e-learning modules including script and storyboard based on core innovations concepts and instructional theory
Manage the production of e-learning modules through product life cycle under the guidance of the VP Products and User Experience
Work with software development team to deploy as standalone docuzines, integrate into our innovation management software platform and, when required, connect to LMS systems
Assess effectiveness of learning based on user and deployment consultant feedback
Populate and maintain product and brand content integrity through overall content management
Maintain continuous, industry knowledge to better serve customers
Ability to analyze content and determine appropriate instructional methodologies
Manages and interfaces with customer support within product training programs and is able to assess effectiveness and recommend changes or improvements as necessary

Some Key Requirements

Work Experience

5-7 years of demonstrated experience in instructional design, project management and multimedia production
Hands-on experience with publishing and media tools
Experience directing film crews, post-production and software developers
Experience in electronic curriculum development
Experience working within corporate organizations with marketing, sales and R&D functions
Emerging technology platform knowledge, including HTML5 and touch-based tablets (iPad) is highly desirable

Education

BA or BS required
Master’s in Education, Instructional Design, or Educational Technologies & Learning Sciences helpful
Coursework or projects in multimedia development helpful

Group Products and User Experience

Leader VP Products and User Experience

This is a contract position for an approximate six month period, looking to hire asap.

To apply: Send resume to joanne.diguido@innovaro.com

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