Ursus, Inc.

JOB TITLE: Graphic Designer/Production Artist

LOCATION: Hayward, California

DURATION: 3 Months

RATE RANGE: $30-35/hour

SUMMARY:

Our client is looking for a Graphic Designer/Production Artist to work in and run their print shop in Hayward, CA.

RESPONSIBILITIES/ QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working and running a print shop
• Fluent with Adobe programs, fluent in Illustrator, indesign, photoshop
• Experience with Cutters
• Should know how to use Microsoft office: outlook, excel and word.
• Understand how to rip files for printing and cutting
• Understand how to print, fabricate signs and mount vinyl to material.
• Experience with print production
• Experience with high volume of requests
• Experience with Global Signage
• Experience creating graphic designs
• Experience working a fast paced environment
• Print production Experience

Ursus, Inc.

Title: Sr. Product Manager

Location: Hybrid

Duration: 5+ months

Comp: $65.00-$75.00/Hour

Company:

Our client is a Fortune 500 e-commerce company. They are looking for a Senior Product Manager who can create product roadmaps and take products through the whole lifecycle start to finish for their Buyer Experience team.

Role:

As a Product Manager in Buyer Experience, you will be responsible for managing partner requests into a few critical, buyer facing pages, and the overall onsite product experience as these changes get implemented.

You will need to be dynamic, organized, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improve existing products that power one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for knowledge of customer domain, working in close partnership with PMs across various initiatives.
• Become an expert on customer needs and pain points, and work to understand the needs of your partner PMs, so you can co-create & guide them towards the best experience for our customers.
• Work closely with our Product and Engineering partners to help define, size and scope incoming product requests into Buyer Experience managed pages.
• Drive alignment on proposed solutions, prioritization, scope and planning with partner teams.
• Review demo, provide feedback and approve solutions for development to enable large scale UX and platform updates.
• Provide approval to launch experiment; review timing/duration, experiment setup, hypothesis, launch criteria, success metrics. Approve full feature launch, review results, assist with future hypothesis development.
• Manage communication with cross-functional partners to ensure alignment and timely delivery of product features.
• Promote a culture of quality, customer centricity, scalability and reliability.
• Be the customer yourself!

What we are looking for:

• Background in product management is a plus. Understanding of product management methodologies, process and analysis. Experience with JIRA is a plus.
• Experience with data analysis and supporting platforms, including the ability to analyze large sets of unstructured data and identify key insights and trends.
• ​​Strong customer empathy and a passion for building great customer experiences across web & mobile devices.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships internally and externally with customers.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and address customer concerns.
• A customer-centric approach, with the ability to put the customer’s needs and concerns at the forefront of decision-making.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of product management or related experience. Passionate about quality products.
• Self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly and drive projects with many moving parts.
• ​​Strong analytic skills and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources
• Detail-oriented, and demonstrated experience in writing clear user stories
• Experience working closely with internal partners on user research, product roadmaps, design, and development
• Outstanding communication skills – verbal, written and presentation abilities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent industry experience

Ursus, Inc.

The Creative Director is the driving force behind the team’s brand strategy and direct to consumer marketing, defining the creative vision. In this leadership role, you will grow the brand strategy through visual and verbal storytelling, to obtain new customers and grow profitability. You will also contribute to ideation and evolution of our products and be responsible for managing a creative team, supporting the creation and communication of overarching marketing strategies that are both innovative and sustainable and modular.

• Lead creative strategy, design, development and execution for digital platforms, social media, digital advertising campaigns, and content deliverables
• Develop brand positioning/strategy that will guide the continuing evolution of the brands within the companies portfolio
• Meet with stakeholders and upper management to get input and communicate strategies and solutions.
• Use internal research, cultural trends, and competitive analysis to help identify the strategic direction for social media, and marketing campaigns
• Develop direct to consumer digital advertising that is brand positive and will guide continuous brand evolution
• Manage day-to-day creative projects, reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer
• Manage creative teams, reviewing and providing feedback on work and guiding their career development
• Lead the design team in ideation and concept explorations, partnering with E-Commerce, IT, and other internal partners to shape the UX strategy and experience of consumer-facing products.
• Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.
• Ensure product value propositions are integrated into creative strategies and customers’ experiences with cohesive and compelling brand narratives
• Develop, draft, and edit short- and long-form content including brochures, infographics, white papers, newsletter, flyers, guides, blogs, social media posts, video scripts, print and digital ads, email and landing page copy

Ursus, Inc.