<h3>About Take Command</h3><p>Take Command is a start-up on a mission to improve the healthcare system, starting with health insurance. Pragmatically speaking, we help employers reimburse employees for individual insurance instead of offering a traditional one-size-fits-all group plan. We believe this model can empower employees (when they have the right support) to be savvy healthcare consumers and have a transformative impact on the entire healthcare system.</p><p>Let’s be honest—health insurance is usually a confusing, frustrating, and even emotional experience for people. We want to fix that with a new model, great technology, and a superior user experience. We have made a great start, but we need your help to fully realize our long-term vision.</p><h3>About the Role</h3><p>We are seeking a talented leader in Product Design to lead highly ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and turn complex customer and business needs into clear, thoughtful product experiences. Partnering closely with product, engineering, research, and other stakeholders, you will help shape product strategy and deliver intuitive, accessible, and user-friendly solutions from discovery through launch. This role requires a deep understanding of user-centered design, strong attention to detail, and the ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints while raising the quality and effectiveness of design across the organization.</p><h3>What you’ll do</h3><ul><li>Lead end-to-end design, including discovery, research, interaction design, prototyping, validation, and implementation</li><li>Translate customer insights, business goals, and technical constraints into intuitive product experiences</li><li>Partner with product and engineering to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable outcomes</li><li>Contribute to and evolve our design system and product-quality standards</li><li>Clearly communicate design rationale and build alignment across teams</li><li>Shape broader product strategy, lead work spanning multiple teams, mentoring through influence and example</li></ul><h3>What we’re looking for</h3><ul><li>A strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, product judgment, interaction design, and shipped outcomes</li><li>Experience independently leading complex product initiatives</li><li>Strong collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills</li><li>Ability to navigate ambiguity, incorporate feedback, and balance customer, business, and technical considerations</li><li>Commitment to accessible, inclusive, and high-quality experiences</li><li>Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate research synthesis, exploration, prototyping, UX writing, or design-to-code delivery</li></ul><h3>Nice to have</h3><ul><li>Using tools such as Claude Artifacts, Claude Code, Cursor, v0, or similar</li><li>Technical fluency with modern front-end development, including React, HTML/CSS, component libraries, design tokens, and design systems in code</li><li>Ability to build working prototypes, collaborate directly in a codebase, or meaningfully review front-end implementation</li></ul><h3>Compensation</h3><ul><li>We believe employees should be compensated fairly based on the market in which they live and work. Using geographic market data helps us maintain competitive pay, support internal equity, and ensure a consistent approach to compensation decisions across the company.</li></ul><h3>Working at Take Command</h3><p>We’re excited to build a team and culture that reflects our values! We offer competitive pay and health benefits to share with this position.</p><ul><li>A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses. You get to use our own product and we think that’s so exciting and rare!</li><li>Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.</li><li>401(k): 90-day eligibility for 4% match that vests over 4 years with a one year cliff!</li><li>We have two beautiful offices in Richardson, Texas (City Line) and Austin, Texas. The kitchen is well-stocked and we've designed the space to have lots of different areas to work--lounge on the couch, stand near your colleague at a kiosk desk or hole up in one of our phone rooms!</li><li>Competitive parental leave for new parents.</li><li>Up to two paid days of Paw-ternity leave. We recognize that pets are family too - and supporting life outside of work (including four-legged members) matters!</li><li>ClassPass corporate membership with access to over 73,000 fitness and wellness options.</li><li>Flexible on where you work – we believe in the power of connecting with intention! While we hope to see you around the office on a regular basis, you also have the ability to work from home some when you need to get focus work done.</li></ul><h3>More About Us</h3><p>We secured our Series B funding in 2023 and are thrilled to be able to expand our team. Despite being a small startup in a land of health insurance giants, we’re the recognized industry leader for what we do (health insurance reimbursements) and passionate about bringing it to market because we know we can help fix a broken system and improve our clients’ wellbeing and health outcomes. We’ve been featured in <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The Dallas Morning News</em>, and other national healthcare publications and are excited about our growth opportunities.</p>

Senior Product Designer

<div>We're looking for a talented, mission-aligned UI/UX Product Designer to help shape the look, feel, and experience of FaithOnline. You'll own design across our iOS and Android mobile app as well as our web-based platforms, including the internal CMS and admin tools our team uses to run FaithOnline day to day. You'll work closely with engineering to bring screens to life with pixel precision, and with product and leadership to make sure every flow serves formation, connection, and growth rather than distraction.</div><div>We move fast, learn fast, and adjust fast. The right person thrives in that environment and genuinely cares about what they're building.<br><br></div><div>This role starts as a contractor position at 15-25 hours. Hours and scope could grow with the platform.</div><div><strong><br>What You'll Do<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Own product design across the core FaithOnline experience: exploration, interaction design, visual execution, prototyping, and implementation.</li><li>Design across both our consumer-facing mobile app and our web-based platforms, including the CMS and admin tools our internal team uses to manage content and run the platform.</li><li>Turn product objectives into real solutions. Dig into the problem with Product, try several approaches, weigh the tradeoffs, and land on a direction.</li><li>Design 0-to-1 features and workflows as we build the platform out past our beta.</li><li>Design past the happy path: states, transitions, errors, edge cases, and system feedback. A feature isn't done until it works as a whole.</li><li>Hold a high bar on interaction and visual craft, and help FaithOnline's aesthetic (warm, grounded, premium, human, hopeful) evolve as you go.</li><li>Prototype fast with whatever fits: Figma, AI-assisted prototyping, functional prototypes. The point is to make ideas tangible and decisions faster.</li><li>Grow our design system as the product grows. Build on our Material Design foundation and add patterns that let us move quickly without dropping quality.</li><li>Work closely with engineering through implementation. Give them the interaction detail, logic, and context for a clean handoff.</li><li>Pitch in on FaithOnline's broader visual direction when it makes sense, including product-adjacent surfaces like the website and app store presence.</li><li>Communicate early. Raise questions, risks, and ideas before they turn into problems, and keep Product and Engineering in sync via Slack and Jira.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Our Tech Stack<br></strong><br></div><div>You should be comfortable, or quickly get comfortable, working across all of these:</div><ul><li><strong>Design:</strong> Figma, Material Design components</li><li><strong>Mobile:</strong> Designing for cross-platform (iOS + Android)</li><li><strong>Web:</strong> Our in-house, web-based CMS and admin platforms</li><li><strong>Analytics:</strong> Mixpanel</li><li><strong>Project Management:</strong> Jira, Slack, Confluence/Notion</li></ul><div><strong><br>What We're Looking For<br></strong><br></div><div>We care more about what you can do than how many years you've done it. You'll probably do well here if you:</div><ul><li>Have serious visual and UI craft, with a portfolio that shows it, ideally including both consumer mobile apps and web-based platforms.</li><li>Have a track record of building experiences that drive real retention and app growth, not just experiences that look good in a portfolio.</li><li>Know your UX and interaction fundamentals: hierarchy, flows, states, feedback, and messy product behavior.</li><li>Think in systems, not screens, and track how one decision ripples through the product.</li><li>Have taken vague, early-stage problems and made them coherent.</li><li>Explore before you converge. You can build out real alternatives, name the tradeoffs, and say why you'd pick one.</li><li>Move fast without going shallow. You know when to explore, when to raise fidelity, and when a decision is ready to ship.</li><li>Own past the initial ask. You design the whole experience, not just the first screen.</li><li>Can explain your calls, grounded in user needs, product logic, UX principles, and real constraints.</li><li>Work well alongside product and engineering while running your own work independently.</li><li>Have built and maintained design systems and reusable component libraries; experience with Material Design specifically is a strong plus, since that's our foundation.</li><li>Use AI in your process (exploration, prototyping, iteration, production) and can tell what it can speed up from what needs your own judgment and craft.</li><li>Are genuinely aligned with FaithOnline's mission and the call of the Great Commission. This isn't a box to check; it shapes the decisions you'll be trusted to make.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Helpful, Not Required<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>Big bonus:</strong> you've built content, community, engagement, or social platforms, and know what actually keeps people coming back.</li><li><strong>Big bonus:</strong> you've designed for faith-based platforms in a way that speaks to the heart of Scripture and real spiritual formation, not just growth metrics.</li><li>Experience designing B2B, internal tools, or CMS/admin platforms, not just consumer-facing surfaces</li><li>Early- or growth-stage startup experience</li><li>0-to-1 products or major features</li><li>AI-powered products or workflows</li></ul>

UI/UX Product Designer

<p><strong>Location:</strong> Plano, Texas (In-office, Full-Time)</p><p><strong>Department:</strong> Design</p><p><strong>Reports To:</strong> Design Director</p><p><strong>Salary Range:</strong> $70,000–$90,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications</p><p><strong>Website:</strong> JoinAmazing.com</p><h3>ABOUT AMAZING LIFE</h3><p>Amazing Life creates content, products, and technology that equip churches and families to inspire the next generation.</p><p>We are looking for a Senior Web Designer to take meaningful ownership of the quality, execution, and continual improvement of Amazing Life’s web presence.</p><p>This is a Figma-first, hands-on web design role for someone with excellent visual judgment, strong UX thinking, and enough technical fluency to move comfortably from design into the realities of a live website.</p><h3>THE ROLE</h3><p>The Senior Web Designer will design, maintain, and continually improve web experiences across Amazing Life’s digital ecosystem focused on our joinamazing.com site.</p><p>This is first and foremost a design role. We are looking for someone with strong visual judgment, excellent web and UX craft, and the ability to independently take a page or experience from problem to polished design without needing someone else to define the creative solution.</p><p>You will work deeply in Figma, handle ongoing website design and updates, manage and improve our existing WordPress presence found at thinkorange.com, and work closely with engineering to bring high-quality digital experiences to life.</p><p>You should understand how websites are built and maintained, but we are not looking for a front-end engineer. Your technical knowledge should make you a better web designer—helping you create realistic solutions, work confidently in existing web environments, and collaborate effectively through implementation.</p><p>Our web environment is evolving. Figma is becoming increasingly central to how we design, prototype, and build new experiences, while WordPress remains an important part of our existing web presence.</p><p>You will often receive a goal or problem rather than a complete brief. We expect you to understand the need, ask the right questions, design a strong solution, work through implementation with the right partners, and stay involved until the experience is live and working well.</p><p>This is a senior individual-contributor role for a designer who enjoys making, refining, solving, and shipping.</p><h3>WHAT YOU'LL DO</h3><ul><li>Design, build, and continually improve Amazing Life’s websites, landing pages, product experiences, campaigns, and other digital touchpoints.</li><li>Own day-to-day web design needs, including page builds, visual improvements, responsive refinements, and ongoing site updates.</li><li>Work deeply in Figma for UX, visual design, responsive layouts, prototyping, reusable components, and digital design systems; use Figma Sites and other modern web tools where appropriate.</li><li>Turn loosely defined goals or problems into clear, polished digital experiences with a high standard of typography, hierarchy, interaction, responsive behavior, and brand expression.</li><li>Manage and improve our existing WordPress site, including pages, templates, content structure, plugins, responsive QA, and design-led updates.</li><li>Work closely with engineering to translate designs into production, solve implementation constraints, review builds, and ensure the finished experience reflects the intended design.</li><li>Identify and act on opportunities to improve usability, navigation, information architecture, product discovery, accessibility, performance, and conversion using analytics, user behavior, and design judgment.</li><li>Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to accelerate exploration, prototyping, production, and implementation while maintaining strong human judgment and craft.</li></ul><h3>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS</h3><ul><li>5+ years of professional web, digital, UX/UI, interactive, or related design experience.</li><li>A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent web and digital design, including real experiences that have shipped.</li><li>Advanced proficiency in Figma, with excellent visual design craft across typography, hierarchy, layout, interaction, responsive design, and brand expression.</li><li>Strong UX thinking and the ability to independently take a web problem from initial direction through polished final design.</li><li>Experience creating and maintaining reusable components, templates, and digital design systems.</li><li>Experience managing and improving production WordPress websites.</li><li>Practical working knowledge of HTML and CSS, with enough familiarity with JavaScript and modern front-end concepts to make informed design decisions and work effectively with engineers through implementation.</li><li>Strong communication, ownership, and follow-through, with a working understanding of accessibility, SEO, performance, analytics, and conversion fundamentals.</li></ul><h3>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</h3><p>We do not expect every candidate to have all of these.</p><ul><li>Experience with Figma Sites or other modern web-building tools.</li><li>Experience using AI-assisted design, prototyping, or web-building tools.</li><li>Experience with user testing, experimentation, motion, or interaction design.</li><li>Experience designing digital products, subscription platforms, content-rich websites, or systems used by marketers and content teams.</li><li>Experience in publishing, education, ministry, family-focused products, or mission-driven organizations.</li></ul><h3>YOUR PORTFOLIO</h3><p>Your portfolio will be one of the most important parts of our evaluation. We want to see real websites and digital experiences that shipped, not only isolated visual concepts or static design exercises.</p><p><strong>Strong portfolios should demonstrate:</strong></p><ul><li>Excellent web and digital design.</li><li>Strong typography, hierarchy, layout, and visual craft.</li><li>Thoughtful UX and responsive design.</li><li>Sophisticated Figma work.</li><li>An understanding of how designs translate into real websites.</li><li>Reusable components, systems, or templates.</li><li>Evidence that you personally owned meaningful parts of the work from problem through launch.</li></ul><p>For your strongest projects, be prepared to explain the problem you were solving, what you personally owned, why you made the decisions you made, how the experience was implemented, the constraints you encountered, and what happened after launch.</p><p>We care about the thinking and execution behind the work, not only the finished screens.</p><h3>WHY JOIN AMAZING LIFE?</h3><ul><li>Take meaningful ownership of a growing and evolving web presence.</li><li>Have the opportunity to both design the experience and help bring it to life.</li><li>Work directly across design, engineering, product, marketing, content, technology, and brand.</li><li>Help improve the web platforms we rely on today while contributing to what we build next.</li><li>Build systems and experiences that support multiple products and audiences.</li><li>Join a team that values strong craft, ownership, collaboration, continual growth, and work that actually ships.</li></ul>

Sr Web Designer

<h3>Multi-Media Content Producer</h3><p>Alpha Youth is looking for a creative and talented Multi-Media Content Producer to bring inspiring stories to life across social media and digital platforms.</p><p>Working within Alpha's Creative Studios team and partnering closely with Alpha Youth, you'll create social-first content that inspires young people, equips youth leaders and supports churches. From short-form video and graphics to campaign content and event coverage, you'll play a key role in shaping Alpha Youth's digital presence.</p><p>This is a 12 month fixed term contract. The salary range for this role is between £30,000 - £32,000.</p><p>Some of the key responsibilities for this role include:</p><ul><li>Create engaging content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and emerging platforms.</li><li>Produce high-quality videos, graphics and digital assets from concept to delivery.</li><li>Develop creative content and campaigns that resonate with young audiences.</li><li>Repurpose and optimise content to maximise reach and engagement.</li><li>Capture and create content from events, podcasts, interviews and youth initiatives.</li><li>Stay on top of social media trends and emerging formats, bringing fresh ideas and innovative approaches to content creation.</li></ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>The following skills and experience form the minimum requirements for the role:</p><ul><li>A committed Christian with a strong passion for evangelism and a clear alignment with Alpha's mission and values.</li><li>Demonstrable ability to create high-quality digital content, supported by a strong portfolio of video, graphic design and social media work.</li><li>Strong video editing skills, with proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and/or DaVinci Resolve, and the ability to produce engaging short-form content for digital platforms.</li><li>Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator, with the ability to create high-quality graphics and digital assets.</li><li>A strong understanding of social media platforms, content formats and audience behaviours, with the ability to create content optimised for different channels.</li><li>Good visual design skills, with an eye for composition, typography, branding and digital storytelling.</li></ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p>We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including:</p><ul><li>25 days annual leave (plus public holidays), which increases with length of service.</li><li>Pension scheme contributions.</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support.</li><li>Medicash plan.</li><li>Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.</li><li>Access to training and development resources to help you grow in your role.</li></ul>

Multi-Media Content Producer

<h2>Senior AI Developer &amp; Technical Lead</h2><p>Remote (Global)</p><p>Full-time</p><h2>The Opportunity</h2><p>We're looking for a Senior AI/Backend Developer with deep expertise in Python, backend systems, and AI agent frameworks to join our studio team as both a technical contributor and mentor. As a player-coach, you'll split your time between hands-on development and leading our team of developers—helping set technical direction, mentoring junior talent, and ensuring best practices across our ventures.<br><br>You'll help build and scale AI-powered applications across multiple ventures while guiding a distributed team of 3-5 developers through technical challenges and career growth. This role focuses on strengthening human relationships through technology, both in the products we build and the team culture we foster.<br><br>This is a full-time, fully remote role working within a small studio of 10-15 passionate builders yearly launching three new redemptive AI ventures in partnership with Praxis.</p><h2>Who We Are</h2><p>Sprout AI is pursuing a relational renaissance through venture building. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to create AI ventures that deepen authentic human connections in an increasingly digital world. Our founding team combines decades of proven commercial success with a powerful redemptive vision for how entrepreneurs can address the major issues of our time.</p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><h3>Technical Contribution (60-70%)</h3><ul><li>Design and develop intelligent agent systems and backend services that scale</li><li>Build multi agent systems using LangGraph, Open AI Agents SDK, etc.</li><li>Fine-tune and deploy models, manage training datasets, and maintain performance</li><li>Integrate backend functionality with web/mobile frontends (React, Next.js)</li><li>Stay on the leading edge of evolving coding agents and AI-assisted development tools and workflows (Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, etc)</li><li>Support 2-3 ventures per year, contributing across prototype, MVP, and launch phases</li></ul><h3>Leadership &amp; Mentorship (30-40%)</h3><ul><li>Mentor and guide 3-5 developers of varying experience levels, helping accelerate their technical growth</li><li>Take lead on making key architecture and tech stack decisions across our startup ventures</li><li>Help prioritize technical work across the team, balancing immediate needs with long-term architecture</li><li>Serve as the go-to technical resource for problem-solving and architectural decisions</li><li>Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement</li><li>Work asynchronously across time zones, ensuring smooth handoffs and clear communication</li></ul><h2>Our Development Approach</h2><p>We embrace an AI-augmented development process that maximizes creativity and efficiency:</p><ul><li>Rapidly prototype concepts using tools like V0, Lovable, etc</li><li>Develop applications using AI-assisted coding with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code</li><li>Deploy and iterate quickly using Railway, Vercel, Replit, and Lambda Labs H100s</li><li>Focus on building what matters through rapid experimentation and validation</li></ul> <h2>What We're Looking For</h2><h3>Required:</h3><ul><li><strong>7+ years of experience building production-grade web/backend applications</strong></li><li><strong>2+ years of experience mentoring developers or leading technical teams</strong></li><li>Strong experience with backend development in Python (Flask, FastAPI, etc.)</li><li>Experience with API design, microservices, and relational/non-relational databases</li><li>Knowledge of cloud-based deployment, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps basics</li><li>Familiarity with AI agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph) and LLM RAG implementations</li><li>Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly</li><li>A proactive, builder mindset and the ability to work independently while supporting others</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills in English</li></ul><h3>Preferred:</h3><ul><li>Experience fine-tuning models and building/managing datasets</li><li>Understanding of security best practices, performance optimization, and API scaling</li><li>Previous experience in startup or venture-building environments</li><li>Excitement about working on projects that restore and deepen human connection</li></ul><h2>Why Join Us</h2><ul><li>Build AI-first products that positively impact human relationships</li><li>Shape the technical culture and growth of a talented development team</li><li>Collaborate with ambitious founders across multiple ventures each year</li><li>Be part of a lean team redefining product development with AI</li><li>Enjoy flexibility and autonomy in a globally distributed team</li><li>Work on real problems with real societal stakes—from 0 to 1</li><li>Grow your leadership skills while maintaining hands-on technical work</li></ul><h2>Our Culture</h2><p>We're builders and innovators at heart, exploring how technology can be applied redemptively rather than accepting the status quo. While we set audacious targets, we remain committed to a posture of humility. We balance high standards with grace, knowing that building ventures requires iteration and learning.</p><p>We value mentorship and believe that growing others is as important as shipping code. We're looking for someone who finds energy in both solving hard technical problems and helping others do the same.</p><h2>How to Apply</h2><p>If you're passionate about using AI to deepen human connection, enjoy mentoring others, and want to build ventures that matter, we'd love to meet you.</p><p>Complete the application below to tell us more about yourself.</p>

Senior AI Developer & Technical Lead

<div>This Graphic Designer supports Westminster Theological Seminary by producing creative collateral for projects managed by the Marketing & Communications (“Marcomm”) department. This person will have the exciting opportunity to help support the Westminster brand under the guidance of the department’s directors through creating various digital and print assets for event promotion and donor outreach.<br><br></div>
<div><br><strong>DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></div>
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<li>Design creative collateral to meet deadlines. Projects will include biannual issues of Westminster Magazine, print issues of Point of Contact (newsletter), digital and print collateral to support event promotion (flyers, ads, invitations, etc.), mailers, email templates, social media content, and other relevant collateral.</li>
<li>Collaborate with teammates on ideation, editing, and execution as needed.</li>
<li>Maintain knowledge of design programs and trends to ensure quality standards are met and that Westminster’s brand is represented in a way that is relevant and effective.</li>
<li>Occasionally create storyboards, mockups, and illustration files with design notes for animation projects; partner with our videographers to develop visually compelling video projects.</li>
<li>Monitor competitor collateral to evaluate strategic design opportunities for Westminster’s marketing initiatives.</li>
<li>Ensure that all creative collateral adheres to Westminster’s brand guide.</li>
<li>Maintain organized file system on DropBox or Google Drive to promote easy team-wide access of assets.</li>
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Graphic Designer

<div>The YouVersion Product Designer focuses primarily on delivering well-executed design concepts and solutions to key stakeholders while creating more opportunities for people to find intimacy with God. This role uses research and intuition to help explain highly complex matters in a clear, understandable manner and ensure smooth delivery of concepts to the next stage of the design process.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>YouVersion was created by the local church in 2007 and remains a ministry of Life.Church today. At Life.Church, our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Our team is committed to reaching people worldwide through innovative technology. And YouVersion is one of the ways we get to do that. Life.Church is a multi-site Christian church meeting in the United States and globally at Life.Church Online.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>We wholeheartedly believe a daily rhythm of seeking intimacy with God has the power to transform lives. That’s why YouVersion creates biblically-based experiences that encourage and challenge people to seek God. We hope everyone in our community is on an active journey to become who God made them to be, abiding in Him, and drawing closer every day.&nbsp;<br><br></div><h3>What You’ll Do</h3><ul><li>Design and prototype new product concepts.</li><li>Utilize research to design new concepts for key product areas in a way that is understandable.</li><li>Provide relevant data along with concepts to help support decision making.</li><li>Work closely with product management, localization, and engineering teams to facilitate brainstorming and prototyping sessions.</li><li>Deliver polished comps, flows, and assets across all platforms.</li><li>Present new design concepts and solutions to Product Management teams and stakeholders.</li><li>Gather and test user feedback on new concepts.</li><li>Ensure feedback has been validated and then implemented with proper design consideration.</li><li>Ensure a smooth delivery to developers for the next steps in the design process.</li></ul><div><br></div><h3>Skills Needed to Succeed</h3><ul><li>Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions and find innovative solutions.</li><li>Outstanding listening skills and the ability to take learning and create a vision and effectively execute.</li><li>Must exemplify a high level of customer focus.</li><li>Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.</li><li>Ability to initiate the creative and critical thinking processes for oneself and the team.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in related field</li><li>3+ years in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction/visual design or equivalent.</li><li>Portfolio of outstanding work.</li></ul>

Product Designer

<strong>About the Role</strong><br>An Engineering Manager in the Acquisition Portfolio leads a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, bridging technical expertise and product partnerships. The day involves being a hands-on technical partner to product management and tech leads, overseeing delivery, and maintaining hands-on technical understanding. This includes actively guiding architecture, code quality, and system design decisions to ensure scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.<br><br><strong>Overall Tasks and Responsibilities</strong><br>Overall, the role requires providing strategic direction across teams, establishing operating practices, priorities, and metrics aligned with organizational goals. The manager interprets and applies company-wide policies within the context of engineering delivery, driving effective execution and continuous improvement. They collaborate closely with Product, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex compensation and advisor needs into well-designed technical solutions. Additionally, the manager leads technical discussions and forums that shape direction, ensure clarity, and support the delivery of business and technology outcomes. The team maintains and builds highly integrated products and experiences, requiring cross-functional collaboration across Thrivent.<br><br><strong>DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong><br><ul><li>Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.</li><li>Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.</li><li>Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution.</li></ul><br><strong>Developing Software</strong><br><ul><li>Has developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.</li><li>Ensure code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills.</li></ul><br><strong>Learning and applying new techniques</strong><br><ul><li>Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.</li><li>Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating within team</strong><br><ul><li>Supports the team agile practices and learning events/trainings.</li><li>Helps break down barriers for the team.</li><li>Engages in sprint demos; understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.</li><li>Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.</li><li>Collaborates with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups.</li><li>Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across teams</strong><br><ul><li>Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products.</li><li>Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome.</li><li>Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.</li><li>Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solving collaboratively.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across the organization</strong><br><ul><li>Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Setting product/platform technology strategy</strong><br><ul><li>Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives and alignments.</li><li>Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap.</li><li>Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Defining Engineering standards/patterns</strong><br><ul><li>Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.</li><li>Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.</li><li>Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.</li></ul><br><strong>DevOps</strong><br><ul><li>Define and supports the development lifecycle processes.</li><li>Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems.</li><li>DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting.</li><li>Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve.</li><li>Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues.</li></ul><br><strong>Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors</strong><br><ul><li>Be an advocate to the team to define criteria for selecting the right platform/technology.</li><li>Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection.</li><li>Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.</li></ul><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong><br><ul><li>Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meetings.</li><li>Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.</li><li>Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.</li></ul><br><strong>Recruiting/building talent</strong><br><ul><li>Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners.</li><li>Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process.</li><li>Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.</li><li>Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.</li><li>Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.</li><li>Manage a team of direct and indirect staff.</li></ul><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:</strong><br><em><strong>Required:</strong></em><br><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.</li><li>8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.</li><li>3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.</li><li>3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance.</li></ul>

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