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About O’Reilly Media

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At the heart of our business is a unique network of experts and innovators who share their knowledge through us. O’Reilly Learning offers exclusive live training, interactive learning, a certification experience, books, videos, and more, making it easier for our customers to develop the expertise they need to get ahead. And our books have been heralded for decades as the definitive place to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future. Everything we do is to help professionals from a variety of fields learn best practices and discover emerging trends that will shape the future of the tech industry.

Our customers are hungry to build the innovations that propel the world forward. And we help you do just that.

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About the Team

The Product Design Team at O'Reilly focuses on delivering highly impactful experiences and outcomes for millions of learners, teachers, creators, and content partners across their learning journeys. We obsess over the entire platform user experience and the environment it operates within, and collaborate broadly to ensure it's effective, enjoyable, and well-orchestrated. We're a cross-disciplinary group of thinkers and doers driven by a vision to work on stuff that matters and create more value than we capture.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing team who brings together the power of information architecture and the expressiveness of content design. You will help define the future of learning capabilities on the O'Reilly platform of today and tomorrow. In this Senior Product Designer role, you'll work across multiple levels of information architecture and content design—from systems and structures to visual concepts and words—creating product experiences that meet the needs of our technical end-users, content creators, and the companies they sustain. You will focus on driving and executing on the most business critical product initiatives, working directly with the Senior Director of Product Design and Product Management leadership to determine priority and pursue direction. This role demands successful collaboration and effective communication within the Product Design team, the larger Product Team and across the business. You will need to be able to work diplomatically between departments to be able to support the advocacy and maturation of the Product Design discipline at O’Reilly. 

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000

What You'll Do

As a Senior Product Designer working the O’Reilly platform and products, you will:

• Raise the bar on the product experiences delivered by O’Reilly Product Design team 
• Collaborate and negotiate across functional groups (product managers, content curators and editors, front- and back-end engineers, product marketers, researchers, and data scientists) to understand why and how our customers want to engage with our core learning experiences so together you can shape solutions that succeed
• Envision and guide information architecture 
• Design and lead creation of visual and written content 
• Create and communicate effective user-centered design solutions—at all fidelities—with teammates and stakeholders, using flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes
• Work expansively to explore opportunities and iteratively to refine deliverables 
• Compromise constructively without settling, and challenge without alienating
• Help product management define, monitor, and report on feedback loops to analyze and apply learnings from user behavior 
• Engage design peers and advise Product Design leadership on process, tools, and operations regarding IA and content design

What You'll Have

Required:

• 9 years of commercial software experience design practice including demonstrable, effective information architecture and content design, including tangible contributions to product and company success, working within multidisciplinary teams under dynamic conditions
• Equivalent education and/or experience may be considered      
• Evidence and artifacts of your impactful design work showing effective processes and methods, mature information architecture and content design, modern aesthetics, and meaningful outcomes
• Experience designing technology-focused tool or learning environments, such as editors, configurators, and terminals
• Experience designing and prototyping in software industry standard tools such as Figma, Adobe and Whimsical
• A passion for designing learning experiences for specialized audiences
• Effective communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills  
• Consistent skill growth via continuous hands-on and structured learning

Include the following with your application:

• A link to your work samples and explanations, include credentials for us if needed 
• A description of our ideal environment for getting good product design done 

Preferred: 

• Experience with design for the use of LLMs supporting language interactions 
• Enterprise SaaS or E-Learning experience 
• Familiarity with general front-end technologies like CSS, JavaScript, Reach and JSON (this is not a coding role)
• Involvement in quantitative research projects end-to-end from recruiting through reporting 

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About the Team                 

Our data platform team is dedicated to establishing a robust data infrastructure, facilitating easy access to quality, reliable, and timely data for reporting, analytics, and actionable insights. We focus on designing and building a sustainable and scalable data architecture, treating data as a core corporate asset. Our efforts also include process improvement, governance enhancement, and addressing application, functional, and reporting needs. We value teammates who are helpful, respectful, communicate openly, and prioritize the best interests of our users. Operating across various cities and time zones in the US, our team fosters collaboration to deliver work that brings pride and fulfillment.               

About the Job                 

We are seeking a skilled and thoughtful Lead Data Integration Engineer to contribute to the design and development of a modern data platform. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of modern data platform concepts, will develop and support data integration strategies that aligns with the organization goals. The candidate will work hand in hand with the data architect and lead team members. Responsibilities include overseeing implementation of data framework covering data integration services such as profiling, ingestion, transformation, quality, and data operations management.                            

The Lead Data Integration Engineer will be comfortable with building software that interacts with a diverse range of data. Additionally, the Lead Data Integration Engineer will create tools for delivering analytics data within O’Reilly, aiding decision-making, and enhancing product features. These tools encompass RESTful web services, custom analytics dashboards, and data visualization.                            

Our ETL platform primarily uses BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Talend, Python, and PostgreSQL. We develop and support RESTful web applications in Django, Redshift, Hadoop, and Spark for higher volume data ETL and analysis. Containerization is integral to our approach, employing Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes for building, deploying, and managing a diverse range of services.As part of our ongoing initiatives, we are migrating our data platform and services to the cloud GCP environment. The candidate will oversee legacy and new data platform initiatives.                            

Salary Range:$155,000-$170,000            

What You'll Do                    

TheLead Data Integration Engineerwill:                          

• Develop and Implement data integration strategies aligned with organization’s goals and objectives     
• Identify opportunities to streamline data workflows and enhance data quality            
• Oversee the integration of various data sources and ensure seamless data flow across different systems within the organization     
• Collaborate with the Architect and enforce ETL best practices and oversee code reviews of the team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data analysts and business stakeholders, to understand data requirements and deliver integrated solutions that meet business needs        
• Monitor and Optimize data integration processes for performance, scalability and efficiency             
• Lead a team of data integration and data support professionals. Provide guidance, set priorities, mentor and support team members to ensure successful project delivery            
• Oversee and maintain documentation for data integration processes, including data mappings, transformations and data lineage     

What You'll Have                                  

Required:                           

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field              
• In lieu of degree, equivalent education and/or experience may be considered             
• 4 years of experience leading teams in data warehousing and/or data engineering             
• Proven experience in data integration, ETL development and data warehousing             
• Strong technical skills in GCP, Talend, BigQuery             
• Deep understanding of SQL, Shell scripting, and Python             
• Experience with Agile software development lifecycle              
• Experience with Django, Pub/Sub, Hadoop, Spark and Kubernetes             
• Knowledge on Postgres, Redshift, RabbitMQ, Jenkins and Docker
• Knowledge of BI tools such as Qlik Sense or Looker
• Knowledge of data governance principles and regulatory requirements             
• A high level of comfort with DevOps processes
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment     

• Experience with BI tools such as Qlik Sense or Looker
• Relevant certifications in data integration (ex. Talend Data Integration) and cloud technologies (ex. GCP, AWS, Azure) are a plus