An opening for an Associate Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax and two positions at Protocase in Sydney headline our Jobs of the Week column today.
Protocase has openings for a Software Developer and a Junior Web Developer. Established in 2001, the company makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries. The company has more than 175 employees and 12,000 clients,
Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.
The Job of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Here are excerpts from this week’s posting:
Halifax
Dash Hudson
Dash Hudson works with the most discerning brands (Apple, Kylie Cosmetics, Revolve, Estée Lauder) and publishers (Condé Nast) in the world to drive visual performance across all of their marketing channels. Our visual intelligence platform provides brands with a one-stop solution to create, source, measure, and enhance the engagement of their photos and videos.
Your Role:
As our Associate Product Manager, you will work directly with our product team, our incredible dev team, and all other DH departments to push the boundaries of innovation, while defining our place in the hearts of our customers. You can't be afraid to take on challenges you don't understand, and you need to have the confidence to figure it out.
An APM at Dash Hudson truly understands and values our customers and applies their needs to product roadmap planning and execution. With a strong set of communication skills, the APM will aid in maintaining constant communication across departments at Dash Hudson, so all teams are confident in the direction we are moving with the product. They work hand-in-hand with the Product Manager and are an extension of our customers internally. They will own, and monitor, product usage and adoption and apply these learnings to feature planning and execution. Providing customers with a great experience and a great product is at the root of everything that we do!
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the product vision with the Product Manager.
- Process, review, and understand customer usage patterns to uncover new product insights.
- Gather and organize feedback from customer-facing teams to help guide product roadmap decisions.
- Maintain the idea backlog for future feature consideration.
- Execute quality assurance testing pre-launch to ensure product design and functionality requirements are met.
- Ensure smooth launch and support of new features cross-functionally.
- Define and monitor success metrics pre and post product launch.
- Monitor and report on users' reactions and adoption post-product launch.
- Support PM in clear, cross-team communications, training and expectation management.
- Create + maintain support and training documents for internal users.
- Active market and industry research to keep up with the industry's development. . .
Read the full job posting here.
Sydney
Protocase
Protocase is currently seeking a tenacious, organized Software Developer to join its Research & Development team in Sydney (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who’s driven by the underlying goal of making software that the end user actually wants to use. Protocase’s Research & Development (R&D) is a busy department within the company, serving many different internal teams with software development and project engineering on a variety of systems and programs.
We are a unique ultra-lean manufacturer that provides the upper echelon of scientists and engineers all over the world with rapid custom manufacturing in 2-3 days. Our team of developers is tasked with continually improving and maintaining internal and external software that are crucial to our ongoing productivity, efficiency and growth. Protocase is proud to offer its customers Protocase Designer, free enclosure-design software that makes it as easy as possible to design, price and order custom enclosures, parts and panels.
In addition to Protocase Designer, our talented team of developers maintains several pieces of business software in Java (along with some work on application add-ons in C#) that are essential to Protocase’s day-to-day operations and ongoing growth.
Responsibilities
About You:
You are tenacious when it comes to goals and completing projects. You love writing software, and you love seeing what you create come to life, function, and make users’ lives better. You understand with deep clarity that if the end user isn’t actually using the software, then your work isn’t done.
Your duties will include:
• Developing new features and improving current features for our CAD software or internal business software
• Working with internal stakeholders to solve complex problems
• Ensuring our software applications are highly testable, maintainable, and scalable In order to succeed in this role, you must be a lifelong learner who cares deeply enough about your professional excellence and pushes yourself to learn things.
In order to succeed in this role, you must be a lifelong learner who cares deeply enough about your professional excellence and pushes yourself to learn things.
Qualifications
• Experience in Java
• Technical degree or diploma in Software Development (or related field), or 2+ years’ experience
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• You have a goal-oriented personality and love to make things work!
• Attention to detail • Excellent time-management skills
• Strong analytic skills and problem solving
• Enjoy working in a team environment
• Ability to work independently
• Experience working with legacy software a plus
• CAD experience, mathematical ability, and/or database experience also would be considered assets but are not required . . .
Read the full job posting here.
Protocase and 45Drives is currently seeking a Junior Web Developer to join its marketing team in Sydney (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia.
Our companies’ websites are a primary means of communicating with prospective and current customers about our products and services.
Responsibilities
As the junior web developer, you will assist the web manager by taking on several key tasks and responsibilities:
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best practices
- Create website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices
- Integrate data from various back-end services
- Gather requirements based on technical needs
- Create and maintain documentation
- Be responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our site
- Stay plugged into emerging technologies and industry trends
Qualifications
In order to succeed in this role, you must be proficient in the following areas:
- CSS
- JavaScript/Jquery
- PHP
- HTML
We are not looking for CMS experience or proficiency as a Wordpress developer.
Other key skills and attributes:
- Education: Completion of high school, as well as some college/CEGEP/vocational or university
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Attention to detail
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Ability to take direction
- Excellent time-management skills
- Thrive working in a team environment
- Criminal record check and security clearance . . .
Read the full job posting here.
