All companies want employees who are responsible, enthusiastic, capable, “team players”. That’s a given. But at RPI, we also want creative thinkers—people with a spark, who aren’t afraid to act on it. We’re growing at a rapid clip, and it’s not enough to just keep up. We want people who will help drive us forward.
We offer highly competitive salaries and a full suite of benefits, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% paid for employees), a 401(K) plan, and opportunities to earn equity.
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Product Owner
Position Summary:
We're seeking a Product Owner who is responsible for defining internal and external customer requirements and prioritizing the features into product releases. This position involves close interaction with software development, IT, product design, manufacturing and key customers.
The successful candidate will be self directed with a strong technical background. She/he will be a collaborative, results-driven leader who can prioritize well and transform ideas, customer needs and requests into cohesive, detailed business, product and technical interface requirements.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
We're seeking a Product Owner who is responsible for defining internal and external customer requirements and prioritizing the features into product releases. This position involves close interaction with software development, IT, product design, manufacturing and key customers.
The successful candidate will be self directed with a strong technical background. She/he will be a collaborative, results-driven leader who can prioritize well and transform ideas, customer needs and requests into cohesive, detailed business, product and technical interface requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Write product requirements and user stories to communicate customer needs and create alignment among the stakeholders and development team
- Prioritize and maintain the agile product backlog on an ongoing basis, ensuring the most important requirements are always being worked on
- Prepare for the sprint planning meetings by progressively decomposing requirements prior to the meeting in order to create a smooth flow of work
- Actively monitor the implementation of each product project; Clarify requirements when questions arise and review work results using the agreed-upon “done” criteria
- Maintain the product portfolio roadmap
- Maintain a status dashboard for all portfolio products
- Monitor and incorporate industry innovations
- Conduct technology assessments
- Analyze the competitive landscape
Qualifications:
- Thorough understanding of the product development process with software as a component
- Successful experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban development methodologies writing user stories and using prototypes to effectively communicate unambiguous requirements to development teams and stakeholders.
- An understanding of development concepts regarding windows and web applications & services
- Experience with requirements & support issues surrounding the development and maintenance of a 24/7 SOA Web Application.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with all levels of the organization.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Technical proficiency and ability to discuss and define technical concepts and tradeoffs with engineering team members and stakeholders
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to justify requirements and features
- Meticulous attention to details and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision
- Excellent teamwork and negotiation skills
- Minimum of 5 years experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent technical experience is required.
- Scrum Product Owner Certification highly desired
- Sense of humor and self directed is a must.
- MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)
- Wire framing tools, such as Mockflow
- Interest and knowledge in personalized product technology, particularly digital photography and self publishing is helpful
Stationery Product Designer
As an integral part of our growing Product Marketing team, you will be responsible for developing and creating new stationery products for specific retail customers; research stationery trends including paper, body styles, packaging, print and color. This role is responsible for the preparation all production files to internal partners and outsourced vendors. Also, will work with art director and head merchandiser to develop key accounts in line with season and trend.
Key skills for this role include:
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Special consideration will be given to candidates with the
following:
Key skills for this role include:
- Communicating conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale, both verbally and visually.
- Expanding/versioning a particular style into a family of graphical assets
- Creating a look consistent with client’s brand while simultaneously upholding company’s design standards and guidelines.
- Producing multiple 2D concept drawings and physical mock-ups/prototypes of product concepts to review for alignment with business goals, user needs and broader product initiatives
- Creating inspired collateral in both digital and analog formats
- Creating rapid prototypes and wireframes to express your ideas in motion. “Back of the napkin” skills encouraged!
- Knowing when to be consistent and when not to be
- Collaborating with product engineering and production team to ensure the final product meets design specs
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Bachelors degree in surface, graphic or related design program.
- 5~10 years in stationery or paper product related industry.
- An online portfolio demonstrating your best work and capabilities. Please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when you apply.
- Must be well versed with Adobe Suite CS programs, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- An expert eye for the little details that make or break a great design
- Ability to create original artwork/illustration by hand and digitally
- Stellar layout, color and typography skills with a fanatical attention to detail - down to the every pixel on the screen for web and every point on the grid in print.
- Must have experience building press-ready files.
- Full knowledge in various print production/manufacturing and packaging processes and ability to take it from beginning to completion.
- Must be able to take directions well and implement independently under tight timeline.
- Ability to take constructive feedback on your work. No divas.
- A positive attitude, an innovative mind, and a good sense of
humor!
Special consideration will be given to candidates with the
following:
- Experience in packaging
- Significant illustration portfolio including sketch and vector
Senior Account Executive
This is a highly visible position that requires a combination of sales, category, and account management experience within the retail, print and/or the make-on-demand market. The successful candidate will be a creative, entrepreneurial and self motivated person who has a solid track record of delivering innovative services in a high growth environment. S/he
will be a strong, apolitical leader who can prioritize well and communicate a compelling strategy and plan clearly at all levels inside and outside the organization.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Travel Requirements – 25 – 30%
The Senior Account Executive is responsible for delivering strategic and day-to-day management of the personalized printed products category for top-tier retail partners. The selected candidate will manage creative merchandising, marketing and promotional programs with our partners to drive revenue growth, and work closely with our product development and marketing teams to expand and optimize our retail platform (web and in-store). In addition, you will hold key relationships and function as the primary service and support contact for large retail partners.
This is a highly visible position that requires a combination of sales, category, and account management experience within the retail, print and/or the make-on-demand market. The successful candidate will be a creative, entrepreneurial and self motivated person who has a solid track record of delivering innovative services in a high growth environment. S/he
will be a strong, apolitical leader who can prioritize well and communicate a compelling strategy and plan clearly at all levels inside and outside the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Set high performance standards to provide industry leading, high quality services to our partners.
- Build partner respect and satisfaction by driving account plans that meet or exceed their strategic objectives.
- Measure and analyze category performance and develop strategies to increase sales and profits as well as drive continuous improvement within partner accounts.
- Track and communicate competitive factors, trends, issues and opportunities at regional and national levels.
- Champion the category review process and partner dashboard for key partner accounts.
- Develop and execute partner integration plans for new product introductions / launches.
- In conjunction with marketing and product management, collect/develop and analyze sales reports and market data from internal sources, syndicated data and
partner POS in order to identify key issues, trends, opportunities and market
share growth/decline for use in marketing and sales planning purposes. - Provide ad-hoc analysis and reporting as requested by management (internal and
external). - Coordinate resources to maximize the relationship and revenue opportunities.
Qualifications:
- BA in Business or equivalent
- 5 -7 years experience within the retail or print industry in strategic account
management - Highly analytical with the ability to develop strategic insights across multiple data sources and translate insights into actionable plans and presentations.
- Ability to develop and cultivate relationships with key partners.
- Experience in negotiations with customers at mid, senior and executive levels.
- Effective presentation, communication and influencing skills.
- Meticulous attention to detail and proven ability to complete multiple, competing
priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision - Sales, project management, or marketing experience a plus
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Sense of humor and self directed is a must.
Travel Requirements – 25 – 30%
Pre-Press Engineer
The Pre-Press Engineer is a senior level position that collaborates with product development and production engineering staff to provide professional graphic design, and layout of printed and electronic materials to support the needs of RPI. RPI is a highly automated environment and this is a position with high visibility and growth potential for demonstrated leadership and process improvement.
Essential Responsibilities include:
Qualifications
Essential Responsibilities include:
- Design optimized impositions for product development concepts and manufacturing processes including high volume "one off" digital photo products such as photo books, greeting cards, envelops, posters, and expanding product portfolio.
- Insure compliance in design for manufacturing for various digital printing technologies including sheet fed photo color devices, large format inkjet devices, mailing devices (addressing), print converting requirements including marking for automated bindery and converting equipment.
- Design and integration of new products, and optimization of existing portfolio
- Design complex imposition to include packaging, folding, and essential marking for manufacturing automation
- Pre-press design requirements owner including color, automation and "lights out" manufacturing including integration with XML based web to print solutions
- Products and Designs are developed and integrated over several weeks and then integrated with client web to print solutions. These products then flow automatically from web to pre-press to imposition, to manufacturing. This position owns file design for manufacturing and assists in developing solutions for creative and product architects.
- Active leadership in the product engineering team reporting to the product engineering manager.
Qualifications
- Requires 7-10 years demonstrated expertise in digital pre-media technology and digital workflow (web to print)
- Expert status in industry tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Pit Stop Professional, and Adobe InDesign required, digital workflows (designing layouts and impositions to optimize the automated workflow).
- Color expertise to include GRACOL G7, color profiles, digital equipment including HP Indigo, Xerox IGEN, and other digital equipment including toner based, and inkjet based technology.
- B.S. or B.A in Graphic Design, Package Engineering is ideal but not required(Demonstrated direct experience considered equivalent).
- Significant direct experience required with industry leading performance and history preferred.
- Experience must be in the digital print and converting space not in lithographic impositioning or non-automated workflow environments.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Position Summary:
RPI is looking for a candidate with experience as a QA Engineer focused on large scale custom systems. This position will be responsible for performing testing as well as developing of test cases.
Requirements:
It will help if you have:
RPI is looking for a candidate with experience as a QA Engineer focused on large scale custom systems. This position will be responsible for performing testing as well as developing of test cases.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years of quality assurance experience.
- Strong understanding of the software development life cycle in an agile/SCRUM environment.
- Excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication and project management skills a must.
- Strong leadership skills that inspire team confidence and respect while motivating team members in a creative and effective manner.
- A solid understanding of black and white box testing methodologies.
- A solid understanding of TSQL.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to work well independently as a self starter and within a small team environment.
- A B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
It will help if you have:
- Experience with SQL stored procedures and working with large data sets.
- Experience with debugging windows services code.
- C# Coding experience.
- Experience with building test environments in a VMware environment.
Software Developer
Position Summary:
We’re looking for a skilled Software Developer to join our team. We are a Microsoft environment and develop a wide range of applications including high availability web services, factory and prepress automation services for high-end digital printing, and high speed and high volume supply chain integrations. Our engineers are capable of working anywhere in the software stack, comfortable with everything from design to production support, and enthusiastic about the team and its growth.
Requirements:
Nice to have:
We’re looking for a skilled Software Developer to join our team. We are a Microsoft environment and develop a wide range of applications including high availability web services, factory and prepress automation services for high-end digital printing, and high speed and high volume supply chain integrations. Our engineers are capable of working anywhere in the software stack, comfortable with everything from design to production support, and enthusiastic about the team and its growth.
Requirements:
- 3+ years experience with object oriented programming (C++, C#, etc.), with 1+ years experience specifically with C#
- 3+ years experience building on the Microsoft stack
- 3+ years experience with relational databases, especially SQL Server
- Web development Skills including CSS, HTML, XML, JSCRIPT, JQuery, ASP.Net
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
- the ability to work well independently or within a team
Nice to have:
- Experience with an agile development process – we’re a Scrum shop inside a lean manufacturing environment
- Experience with Windows Service programming
- Experience with multi-threaded programming
- Experience in high availability and high transaction environments
- Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent
Part-Time Graphic Designer
As an integral part of our growing Product Marketing team, you will be responsible for a wide range of both communications and product initiatives around our core products (photo books and stationery), as well as products that are in development. The most critical will be the generation of significant graphic assets required for new product launch. As such you must be capable of creating a wide variety of artwork and applying to
various form factors.
Graphic designer is responsible for the creation and organization of graphic files for both print and web platforms. You will be handling high volumes of graphic assets and must be extremely organized and process oriented. You need to be able to work well collaboratively but also have a strong individual sense of aesthetics and be able to bring tasteful, stylish,
trend-forward ideas to the table. You must be able to consistently balance high quality results with multiple competing priorities. You will be a key member of a small, entrepreneurial, agile, fun, creative team with high energy and opportunity for growth.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Special consideration will be given to candidates with skills in the following:
various form factors.
Graphic designer is responsible for the creation and organization of graphic files for both print and web platforms. You will be handling high volumes of graphic assets and must be extremely organized and process oriented. You need to be able to work well collaboratively but also have a strong individual sense of aesthetics and be able to bring tasteful, stylish,
trend-forward ideas to the table. You must be able to consistently balance high quality results with multiple competing priorities. You will be a key member of a small, entrepreneurial, agile, fun, creative team with high energy and opportunity for growth.
Responsibilities
- The primary responsibility of this position is creating and building final art files in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat to meet production requirements and to produce multiple outputs and publish the results in our systems.
- Create and organize artwork (photographs, illustrations and designs). Layout, design and format graphic files to print specifications, customer requirements, and print limitations. Layout new and existing graphics using style guides.
- Coordinate closely with production team on schedules to ensure delivery of final art files and will provide proofs to the Art Director for approvals.
- Create layouts, tweak graphics files, retouch and rearrange Photoshop illustrations and provide graphic design support to the internal stakeholders.
- Manage the organization and upkeep of the materials and samples library.
Qualifications
- Online portfolio of your work. Please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when you apply. No attachments.
- Minimum 3~5 years industry experience as a graphic designer using Adobe Creative Suite 4 or above in PC environment.
- Working knowledge and mastery of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.
- Working knowledge of graphics file creation optimized for both web and print.
- Highly organized and able to manage large number of files in a corporate server environment.
- Adaptable, reliable and able to meet or exceed deadlines in a quick turnaround environment.
- Strong visual language skills- layout, design, typography, composition, color, lighting, and illustration skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience interacting on a collaborative team and working directly with stakeholders to implement designs
- Have strong bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
Special consideration will be given to candidates with skills in the following:
- Prototyping skills in HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
- Photography skills.
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