Jobs at Black Spectacles

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Develop Technology Leadership & Strategy (what technology should we use and why). Understand and contribute to the development of Product Strategy. Recruit, manage and mentor/coach our technology team. Develop our Technology Culture: ie, standards and processes, and ensure their adherence. Develop goals for the team and work to ensure they achieve them. Manage workload for the dev team & ensure they hit their quality and deadline goals.

Plan, analyze, design, develop, maintain, evaluate and support the implementation of all instructional assets (e.g., videos, exams. flashcards, and coaching/tutoring). Leverage industry research and participate in company research to define and measure BKS lesson, module, and program outcomes. You will participate in creating contemporary learning strategies that meet business and audience needs. Design and build online courses and content helping architects pass the ARE and advance their skills and knowledge in the field. Work closely with SMEs to develop content delivery strategies. Determine the appropriate delivery for the target audience. Help develop content, instructional formats, and learning objectives for desired learning solutions.

Establish and enforce visual & UX design direction for our software products, learning videos and our marketing collateral, ensuring design consistency across all departments. Build, manage and coach a new design team, from the ground up, of visual designers and UX designers to execute on your world class design direction for software, learning videos and marketing materials. Develop design processes and systems to be used across all variations of our software products, learning materials and marketing. Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management in an Agile/Lean and iterative fashion to ensure your proposed designs meet user needs and are feasible to implement. Tell the story of the customer, their jobs-to-be-done and create consensus around user outcomes. Continuously assess customer interaction points and recommend design improvements.

Research, build, and maintain a pipeline of prospects of top 300 architectural firms. Contact 20 leads per day via cold phone calls and emails to schedule product demos. Schedule 5 demos for Account Executives per week. Become and serve as a product knowledge expert. Provide a consultative sales process. Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans. Actively look for opportunities to improve and optimize our sales processes. Maintain symbiotic relationship with Marketing and Product teams to improve business processes.

Develop Technology Leadership & Strategy (what technology should we use and why). Understand and contribute to the development of Product Strategy. Recruit, manage and mentor/coach our technology team. Develop our Technology Culture: ie, standards and processes, and ensure their adherence. Develop goals for the team and work to ensure they achieve them. Manage workload for the dev team & ensure they hit their quality and deadline goals. Be the LEAD (rockstar) developer. 70% of your time will be spent coding, 30% on the above tasks.

You will be responsible for planning and scheduling on-site interviews and in-studio recording sessions. For the in-studio recording sessions, you will be responsible for working with the authors to develop their course outlines and in leading them through the recording process. You will lead the video editing team and will be responsible for quality control of the content that is produced. You will also be responsible for developing a quality assurance program, and will help identify strategy/tactics to to grow our video production team.

You are an analytical thinker who is able to accurately estimate project timelines while maintaining a strong focus on quality of work. You're able to adapt to external factors as they arise and take the lead with a positive outlook towards getting things done. You're also a self-starter who is not afraid to ask questions and is always open to constructive criticism.

Your work will include developing a content plan and strategy for our online forum. You'll provoke activity, create content and respond to our users. You will be the voice of the community via daily moderation, reviewing discussions, replying and probing on posts and escalating member feedback. You seek out information with an underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people or issues. You naturally place emphasis on creating customer loyalty by delivering on commitments to customers with clear, concise information. You're able deal effectively with pressure and remain optimistic and persistent under adversity and can solve problems openly and objectively in an unemotional manner.

This position involves leading aspiring architects through the ARE 5.0 exams via virtual study groups. Black Spectacles will provide training and a syllabus for you and we'll match you with a group of committed aspiring architects who are in search of a structured approach to prepare for the ARE. You'll then set, prepare for, and lead online meetings for each exam. You'll serve as the main point of contact for your group members, and work closely with Black Spectacles to help guide and evolve the direction of the program.

Your work will include front and back end development for our site. You will be working with our product team to innovate and execute new projects to help grow our business. You’ll also be creatively designing products from scratch, developing data analytics tools, and administering general IT functions.

You are a licensed architect with 8+ years of experience. You have experience managing at least 5 commercial projects from start to finish (including bidding, SD, DD, and CA). You have a strong desire to help architects in the journey of their careers. You are skilled in communicating difficult concepts and theories related to architecture. You're willing to be accountable to our customer's success, you encourage and respect your teammates, and you're careful and thoughtful with your work. You also appreciate and value the power of great design. You have experience teaching (preferred but not required).

Your work will include prospecting for new business, closing new business, on-boarding new clients and retaining those clients. Set up and execute new business prospecting campaigns. Work leads from the early stages of the sales cycle through signing the contract. Manage a book of business, including renewal management and upsell campaigns. Work with marketing team to develop content to be used in prospecting campaign. Work with product team to make improvements to technical aspect of the tools used by the sales team.

We're on the hunt for an Architectural Software Expert to join our team on a contract basis. In this role, you will help build our next iteration of Software Learning video tutorials through your subject matter expertise on architectural software and instructional background, and serve as a member of our Software Learning Committee.

Monitor our social media platforms. Generate engaging social content. Analyze & react to the performance of platforms. Manage our online reputation. Engage with social followers by responding to all comments and messages. Respond to online reviews. Develop and execute social media campaigns. Uphold brand consistency across platforms.

Reviewing of existing marketing campaigns across the business and automating where appropriate. Day-to-day management of Salesforce and integrated systems. Work with cross-functional teams to make enhancements and modifications to our Salesforce.com configuration. Manage day to day administration tasks for Salesforce.com and ActiveCampaign. Maintain/monitor all data loads/data integrations between Salesforce.com and other systems/files. Ensuring our marketing automation platform (ActiveCampaign) communicates seamlessly with other parts of the business. Carrying out A/B testing on automated marketing campaigns to maximize results. Working collaboratively with other departments to ensure automated campaigns achieve company goals. Promote long-term growth and engagement with our target audience.