Here are some $8500/month worldwide work from home jobs with 3 day weekends, a free laptop, & Kindle!
These jobs are at Buffer.
Buffer is a software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in social networks, by providing the means for a user to schedule posts on social media.
Compensation/Benefits:
- Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the range is: $135K–159K USD.
- Get a laptop + $500 to set up your home office.
- Live and work wherever you like.
- Health Insurance.
- 4-Day work weeks: We offer 4 Day work weeks with flexible Fridays.
- Extra money for learning and development.
- At least 3 weeks/year of minimum vacation, with no upper limit and currently we're working a 4-day workweek.
- 401(k) with 3% company match.
- When the company does well, all team members share the profits. 8-15% of profits are distributed annually to the team.
- 3 months of family leave for all parents, and more is possible.
- Company get-togethers twice per year.
- Get some extra cash for a co-working space or coffee shop work.
- Get a free Kindle and all the free books – digital, physical, and audio – you like, anytime.
- Take a 6-week Sabbatical, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer.
- See this page for more on benefits
Interview Questions:
- Culture questions to see how you'd fit in with the Buffer culture.
- They asked to share a mistake I made and what I learned from it.
- Lots of hypothetical situations
- What do you consider your personal values to be?
- Tell me about a time you started a project and suddenly realized that a process you’ve been asked to follow didn’t make sense, or didn’t feel like the right way forward. What did you do in this situation?
- Tell me about the time that you failed.
- Have you used Buffer?
- Describe your impact at Buffer.
Marketing UX Designer at Buffer
PAY: $102,800 – $125,800 USD.
Responsibilities
- Champion creative design for Buffer’s Marketing team – Collaborate across Marketing and Product to translate strategy and user insights into the creative direction for Buffer’s brand and our marketing initiatives.
- Own Buffer’s marketing design – Create cohesive and engaging marketing creative for Buffer’s marketing campaigns, including digital assets for email, web, social, and paid channels.
- Contribute to the evolution of buffer.com – Become the default owner of our visual style featured on buffer.com – ensuring that buffer.com stays contemporary, performant, and engaging for our users.
- Create systems to decentralize design – Evolve our design system and create a suite of creative assets for the Marketing team to leverage across multiple mediums and channels. Enable the team by contributing visual/brand standards and re-usable web components to our web platform, in close collaboration with Marketing Engineering.
- Champion user empathy within the Marketing team – Collaborate closely with Product Marketing on our qualitative user research methodology, tooling, and analysis process that informs our marketing and creative strategy.
- Collaborate effectively with the Marketing team – Work effectively with various marketing stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions, while maintaining strong communication and accountability with your teams.
Qualifications
- You have a strong understanding of creative marketing principles and proven application of these principles to various marketing channels across web and mobile.
- You have outstanding visual design skills and understand how to design creative that makes people look, click, and convert.
- You have experience working on marketing campaigns and product launches, which required design assets across several marketing channels in a cohesive and efficient manner.
- You are comfortable designing for web, with an emphasis on accessibility, performance, and UX principles.
- You have prior experience in a similar role, either as part of an agency or in-house, preferably at a SaaS company.
- You have demonstrated proficiency with design and prototyping tools (Figma, Photoshop, etc), as well as knowledge of working with various mediums such as web, social, email, blogs and ads.
- You excel at working in agile, collaborative team environments and are comfortable navigating projects with multiple stakeholders and crafts.
- A bias towards action with an ability to have a high output. You’re resourceful, proactive, and a team player.
Required Qualifications:
- General: At least 4 years of experience as a product designer, covering the full end-to-end product design life cycle from early problem exploration and definition, over detailed UX and visual design, to collaboration with developers during implementation.
- Process: Strong understanding of UX and UI design, processes, patterns, and best practices
- Problem solving: Effective approaches to solving complex problems, incorporating data and feedback from multiple sources. Ability to generate multiple solutions with a clear understanding of their impacts.
- Interaction design: Ability to design intuitive, effective and consistent flows and screen
- Visual design: Ability to design visually engaging and delightful interfaces
- Technical: Solid understanding of possibilities and constrains of web platforms and relevant design patterns
- Collaboration: Ability to work within a larger team and across disciplines, and across multiple locations and time zones
- Communication: Ability to effectively express yourself concise and clearly in talking, writing and visually, to a variety of audiences and stakeholders
- Business: Ability to understand larger business goals and strategy, and to develop matching design solutions
- Work standards: High standards for your work, attention to details, and an ongoing desire to learn and improve
- Other: A strong portfolio showcasing your previous work including starting points, process, end results, and impacts.
- Fun fact: We use Figma and FigJam at Buffer.
Senior Engineering Manager
PAY: $168,043 – $207,976 USD
What you'll do
- Lead engineering team(s) to deliver high quality software in small iterations, working to reduce cycle time and friction for your team.
- Have regular one-on-one meetings with engineers, where you will:
- Set expectations, provide regular feedback & hold team members accountable
- Develop a strong two-way feedback loop where you share wider organisational context and build a deep understanding of each engineer and how they work
- Support engineers and help reach a resolution when issues arise
- Craft a fulfilling and engaging work experience through regular career growth and development conversations
- You’ll work in close partnership with product and design to align on the business outcomes you are seeking to achieve.
- You’ll bring forward the feasibility of projects and ideas and collaborate on lean ways to deliver these outcomes, validating assumptions along the way.
- Maintain a strong and up-to-date understanding of the architectural challenges and opportunities your team is facing building and deploying software. Little of your time would be spent coding, but you will be expected to maintain context, ask informative questions, and assist the team in making strategic trade-offs.
- You will work closely with engineers in your team to ensure that your team delivers their work in a way that aligns with our technical strategy and engineering goals.
- Partner with other engineering managers to drive EPD (engineering, product, design) wide initiatives that help us to level up as a team.
- Participate in hiring and on-boarding of engineers.
Helpful skills and experience:
- You have experience leading and managing engineering teams.
- You have a history of holding your team(s) accountable for achieving their goals while operating with high levels of autonomy.
- You have a technical background and are passionate about delivering maintainable and well-tested software. Engineering managers at Buffer have typically worked as senior engineers in their careers.
- You use your time effectively and efficiently, and ensure that your team does the same. You manage projects using your organisational skills to ensure that they are delivered optimally.
- You have experience working with data and making decisions that are centred on customer needs.
- You know how to work with a team to move fast, ship an MVP, and get early data and feedback
- You’re capable of leading globally distributed team members who might have different skill sets from your own.
- You have a deep understanding of how software is built and deployed.
- Our frontend is built with React.js, and we have a service-orientated architecture with microservices built using Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, and GraphQL.
- All of our engineering teams are full-stack, so an understanding of building both front-end and backend applications as well as knowledge of any server-side language and JavaScript would be helpful.
- Able to work proficiently using English, as we work exclusively in this language.
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