Skylight

Skylight is a company focused on innovative design and engineering solutions, actively seeking talent for various roles in engineering, service design, design research, user experience, and management.

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🔥 VP of Growth

Posted 2024-11-07

📍 US

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000 - 240000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy for government services

Broad executive-level growth experience in business development and government professional services.
Demonstrated experience managing growth at the federal level.
Ability to coordinate cohesive and collaborative growth activities in a matrixed environment.
Establish order and accountability in growth practices.
Maintain trusted relationships internally and externally.
Deep understanding of government procurement regulations and processes.
Experience collaborating with finance and marketing functions.
Understanding of core competencies like user experience design and software engineering.
Outstanding organizational skills with attention to detail.
Commitment to excellence and quality, with strong communication skills.
Passionate about improving public outcomes through government services.
Ability to travel for work.

Strategize and build a scalable growth model leveraging SBIR/STTR contracts.
Formulate and execute cyclical growth strategies in alignment with company goals.
Lead growth-related activities and teams, including business development and sales.
Partner with business unit executives to execute key growth initiatives.
Guide pursuit of contract opportunities with appropriate resources and arrangements.
Collaborate with marketing to align outreach and growth activities.
Engage hands-on in growth activities as needed.
Improve growth infrastructure, tools, processes, and training.

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🔥 Senior/Staff Software Engineer (ACF)

Posted 2024-10-12

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $170,000 - $203,000 per year

🔍 Digital consultancy for government services

Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code.
Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing.
Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities.
Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind.
Ability to take on data engineering responsibilities as needed.
Understand the importance of always putting users at the center of your work, including thinking through the impact and implications of any code that you write.
Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients).
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values.
Ability to travel for work from time to time.

Engineer a software product as part of a cross-functional team, which includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists.
Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing.
Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions.
Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, as well as design, document, and communicate solutions.

Backend DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentAgileFrontend DevelopmentGitJavaJavascriptReact.jsSCRUMJavaScriptData engineeringReactCommunication SkillsAnalytical SkillsCollaborationCI/CD

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🔥 Chief Financial Officer

Posted 2024-09-29

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

🔍 Digital consultancy, government contracting

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or related field; Master’s degree (e.g., MBA) or relevant certifications (e.g., CPA, CMA) preferred.
Extensive experience in financial management, with at least 10–15 years in financial leadership roles in a government contractor professional services environment.
Excellent general management and leadership skills.
Outstanding organizational skills, including attention to detail.
Excellent people management skills.
Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
Relentless commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Collaborative, supportive leadership style.
Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Strong business acumen.
Superb written and oral communication skills.
Relentless commitment to excellence and quality in everything we do.
Strong understanding of business functions such as people ops, marketing, business development, etc.
Ability to collect, analyze, and derive actionable insights from financial, operational, and performance data.
Ability to serve as a coach/mentor to other leaders and managers.
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
Ability to travel for work from time to time.

Strategic financial leadership: Formulate and implement the company’s financial strategy, participate in strategic planning, act as an advisor to the executive team, and play a key role in mergers and acquisitions.
Financial planning and reporting: Develop, manage, and oversee the annual budget process, prepare accurate and timely financial statements, and conduct financial analysis and performance monitoring.
Compliance and risk management: Ensure adherence to government regulations (e.g., FAR, DCAA), coordinate audits, manage financial risks, and maintain internal controls.
Cost management and pricing: Implement cost accounting practices for government contracts, develop pricing strategies, manage wrap rates, and identify and implement cost-saving measures.
Cash flow and expense management: Monitor and manage cash flow, develop financial forecasts and projections, oversee expense management, and manage payroll and accounts payable processes.
Tax, investment, and debt management: Oversee tax planning and compliance, manage investment portfolios, develop capital-raising strategies, and manage debt relationships.
Team development and training: Assemble, manage, and develop the finance and accounting team, including providing financial training and support to other organizations.
Vendor and procurement oversight: Oversee financial relationships with vendors and contractors, ensure procurement process oversight, and negotiate payment terms.
Financial systems and technology: Oversee the implementation, management, and upgrading of financial systems and technologies to streamline processes and improve accuracy.
Stakeholder communication and ethical standards: Communicate financial performance and strategy to stakeholders, uphold ethical standards in financial reporting, and serve as the primary financial liaison with government agencies.

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Posted 2024-09-29

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🔥 Head of People Operations

Posted 2024-09-29

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

🔍 Digital consultancy

Experience as a talent management leader or similar role.
Experience advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and engagement within the workplace.
Experience recruiting design and technology professionals, such as product managers, product designers, user researchers, content strategists, software engineers, and DevOps engineers.
Experience working with remote teams.
Awareness of relevant labor laws and how to comply with them.
Ability to operate at strategic and tactical levels.
Excellent interpersonal, motivational, and relationship management skills.
Organized, detailed-oriented, and quality-minded.
Superior written and oral communication skills.
Strong data and analytical skills.
Comfortable working with people management tools, such as Gusto, Lattice, and Greenhouse.
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values.
Ability to travel for work from time to time.

Manage the entire talent management life cycle, from workforce planning to succession planning.
Understand the current and future talent needs of the organization.
Develop and implement a talent acquisition strategy in alignment with our talent needs.
Manage and support recruiting and hiring activities.
Build and maintain a strategic talent pipeline.
Manage the onboarding process.
Manage our performance management system (e.g., individual performance planning, performance evaluation, internal promotions, continuous feedback).
Support the development and ongoing improvement of a professional capability framework for describing and measuring how to progress and be successful in various roles at Skylight.
Discuss career-pathing options with high-potential employees and their team leaders.
Organize and oversee individual and team training programs (both internal and external).
Develop and implement employee retention strategies or programs.
Create and implement succession plans.
Create organizational charts and define each position’s responsibilities.
Perform benchmark research on compensation and benefits.
Manage the offboarding process.
Infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion into every aspect of our people operations.
Implement data-driven approaches to continually improving our people operations and talent outcomes.
Understand and drive the adoption of emerging best practices related to people operations.
Grow and manage our talent management team under your leadership.

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🔥 Senior/Staff Product Manager (ACF)

Posted 2024-09-21

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $170,000 - $203,000 per year

🔍 Digital consultancy, public services

Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning.
Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria.
Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product’s scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the product’s iterations.
Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction.
Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others, in order to get things done.
Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams.
Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice.
Prior experience with grant programs for government or nonprofit organizations, particularly those related to health and human services is a nice-to-have qualification.
Familiarity with federal grant regulations and the ability to navigate grant lifecycle processes from application through reporting.

Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to build and ship high-impact products and services.
Translate needs from users and government partners into a product strategy, including vision, objectives, measures of success, product roadmap, and product backlog.
Manage the direction, scope, and priorities of the product initiative, building from user research to minimum viable products to scalable solutions.
Write user stories, prioritize stories, and build release plans.
Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives.
Draw on data and feedback to inform the product strategy and roadmap.
Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project.
Creatively navigate bureaucratic challenges, paving the way for more intuitive processes in the future.
Collaborate with government partners to ensure compatibility with existing processes and technologies.

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🔥 Senior/Staff Service Designer (ACF)

Posted 2024-09-21

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $150,000 - $203,000 per year

🔍 Public services / Civic tech

Can take a systems thinking approach to changing how elements of an organization interact
Ability to plan, synthesize, and present research findings
Ability to identify service improvement opportunities through ideation
Know how to align policies, technology, infrastructures, and systems for meaningful outcomes
Ability to lead collaborative research and design activities and influence others
Ability to communicate effectively with clients in a professional services environment
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
Ability to travel for work

Lead strategy and planning to define service design engagements
Conduct activities of service design — research, ideation, prototyping, and implementation — as part of a multidisciplinary team
Understand user behaviors through research planning, data collection, and analysis
Generate ideas for service improvements through collaborative ideation activities
Explore and validate user interactions through prototyping
Implement changes to service components, including organizational and technological aspects
Maintain organized documentation throughout the service design process

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Posted 2024-09-21

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🔥 Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (CDC)

Posted 2024-09-21

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $150,000 - $203,000 per year

🔍 Public Health Data Infrastructure

Expertise in cloud architectures, specifically AWS and Azure.
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred), and Docker containerization.
Experience managing cloud systems for availability, reliability, and resiliency.
Ability to work with engineers to configure infrastructures for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, and compliance.
Skilled in writing infrastructure as code and standardizing deployment processes.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, comfortable liaising with customer teams.
Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment.
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
Ability to travel for work from time to time.

Serve as an implementation engineer, deploying solutions and collaborating with clients for successful outcomes.
Enhance developer experiences in web-based environments like Ruby, Python, Java, and Node.js through automation, virtualization, and process improvement.
Advocate for lean-agile engineering principles such as simple design and automated testing to maintain technical excellence.
Apply security and privacy best practices to protect sensitive data.
Conduct security audits, risk assessments, and implement remediations.
Select and use the best tools, frameworks, and technologies, with a focus on open-source solutions.
Communicate clearly with customer teams via email, phone, and video to ensure effective collaboration.

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🔥 Research & Design Lead (CDC)

Posted 2024-09-20

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Digital consultancy, public health

Expertise in human-centered design and systems thinking.
Proven experience leading large research and design teams.
Skilled in DesignOps and ResearchOps, optimizing both design and research processes to enhance team efficiency.
Ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams tackling complex data challenges.
Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities.
Experience in cross-functional teams using modern practices like product management, lean-agile engineering, and data science.
Expertise in service design within complex ecosystems (nice-to-have).
Understanding of public health systems and the challenges surrounding real-time data interoperability (nice-to-have).
Active federal public trust (tier 2) (nice-to-have).
Experience working with the CDC (nice-to-have).
Prior experience working in the civic tech space (nice-to-have).
Experience working in a remote-team environment (nice-to-have).

Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, including service designers, researchers, product designers, and content designers, fostering collaboration and high performance.
Develop and implement a cohesive research and design strategy centered on enhancing data interoperability and real-time public health responses.
Partner with CDC public health experts, technologists, and key stakeholders to create open-source tools that improve data flow and integration across public health systems.
Guide research efforts to deliver actionable insights, driving critical public health interventions and decision-making.
Apply service design methodologies to tackle systemic public health challenges, with a focus on optimizing data management and accessibility.
Spearhead DesignOps and ResearchOps initiatives to streamline operations, enhance team efficiency, and support scalable design and research processes.
Drive cross-team alignment, ensuring design and research efforts are fully integrated with product and engineering, while remaining aligned with the CDC's mission and goals.
Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across all teams and projects.
Provide hands-on support as needed, helping teams navigate obstacles and stay on track to meet project goals.

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Posted 2024-09-20

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🔥 Executive Assistant

Posted 2024-08-07

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 40000 - 55000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy and government contracting

Self-directed, requiring minimal supervision.
Thoughtful, adaptive, and positive mindset.
Highly resourceful, reliable, organized, and detail-oriented.
Ability to prioritize, problem-solve, and multi-task.
Good written and oral communication skills.
Highly collaborative, interpersonal style of working.
Passionate about creating better public outcomes through government services.
Alignment with the company's core values.
Willingness to travel for work occasionally.
Occasionally travel on-site to collect and manage mail.

Provide daily administrative support to the COO and the executive leadership team.
Organize and schedule meetings, interviews, events, and other activities.
Assist in the preparation and distribution of communications, such as emails and reports.
Manage the life cycle of company documents, including creation and archival.
Assist with corporate compliance-related tasks and ensure operational data accuracy.
Help manage the recruiting process and ensure a positive candidate experience.
Assist with onboarding and offboarding processes for employees and contractors.
Document staffing requirements and facilitate staffing changes.
Book travel arrangements and coordinate offsite events.
Proactively suggest operational improvements and ensure compliance with change control procedures.
Promote a positive and inclusive work environment.

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🔥 Chief of Staff

Posted 2024-08-07

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000 - 240000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy

Strong understanding of how a professional services and government contracting business works.
Excellent management and leadership skills with a startup mentality.
Relentless commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ability to analyze data and derive actionable business insights.
Superb written and oral communication skills and excellent interpersonal abilities.

Be a strategic partner to the CEO and executives, providing advice and managing priorities.
Lead high-priority initiatives, manage stakeholders, and streamline operations.
Promote a diverse and equitable culture, ensuring team success and performance outcomes.
Keep executive leaders informed on financial and operational health.
Lead annual strategic planning processes and build cross-organizational relationships.

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