Careers

2021 is going to be an exciting year at THRIVE as we’re expanding our development team to include at least two new squads to increase the pace and deliver new features for an innovative learning platform.

As Squad Lead, you’ll be responsible for a squad of four, with two developers and a dedicated QA engineer working alongside you. You’ll liaise with the product lead, principal engineer and scrum master to refine the backlog, plan sprints, and implement integrations with third-party platforms like Zapier, Teams, Slack, Power BI, Domo, Udemy, Pluralsight, Open Sesame. 

You’ll also be instrumental in improving the standards compliance of our platform to make it easier for customers to implement bespoke integrations with their own infrastructure and systems.

The role will be home-based, with regular catch-ups occurring mainly online, but occasionally face to face.

Key responsibilities 

• Leading a squad of developers and testers to implement and enhance integrations with third party services
• Working collaboratively to refine tickets in the backlog and ensure a shared understanding ready for development
• Oversee the delivery of projects by your squad, proactively working with the wider team to resolve issues that may otherwise cause delays
• Delivering scalable integrations within a microservice architecture
• Participating in code reviews

• Reviewing and contributing to technical documentation 

• Raise, investigate and resolve problems and known errors
• Research, document and implement improvements to improve THRIVE APIs
• Supporting QA testers in diagnosing and solving issues
• Supporting the professional and personal development of squad members, providing regular performance feedback.

Must-have experience

• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Experience working with API technologies including GraphQL, REST, SOAP and Webhooks to provide integration between systems
• Experience with developing microservices using NodeJS, and concepts of asynchronous messaging
• Familiarity with common enterprise systems and associated integrations, for example Identity Management, HRIS and CRM systems
• Understanding of authentication concepts including bearer tokens and OAuth 
• Practical knowledge of API tools such as POSTman
• Deep understanding of CI/CD approaches
• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working and processes
• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve

Desirable experience

• Familiarity with AWS cloud services
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases including Elasticsearch and MongoDB
• Practiced with automated testing, writing unit tests, and considering test coverage
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Comfortable working with remote teams
• Familiarity with e-Learning technologies such as xAPI, LTI, SCORM and CMI5

If you’re interested in this role, please email Mark Ward, CTO at THRIVE with your CV.

This is an exciting opportunity for an animator to work with a creative team designing innovative marketing and sales videos for THRIVE.

The role offers creative freedom and the opportunity to influence the development of a new and exciting brand as well as get your work in front of some big brands, including DECIEM, Sky and Ted Baker.

Working closely with our Senior Graphic Designer and Chief Marketing Officer, this role will involve:

• Generate new ideas for how video can enhance marketing campaigns and sales
  
• Create assets for marketing and sales campaigns; imagery, GIFS, videos, animations and more that showcase our products and brand identity
  
• Design assets and video for the THRIVE learning website
  
• Create new videos that showcase new THRIVE LXP features and functionality
  
• Produce detailed storyboards for video animation concepts that promote our brand and products
  
• Post-production work to edit and create final videos, including working with designers and commercial stakeholders throughout this part of the process
• Set up a video shoot and direct others to achieve the best results
• Post-production work to edit footage and create final videos, including working with designers and project managers throughout this part of the process

If you’re interested in this role, please email our CMO, Cassie Gasson at cassie.gasson@thrivelearning.com with your CV and attach your portfolio and CV to your application email.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Digital Marketing professional to have autonomy over the digital elements of our busy B2B marketing programme.

You’ll specialise in conversion rate optimisation, paid media, search engine marketing and managing the CMS to attract household brands such as DECIEM, Experian and Global Radio.

Key responsibilities

• Support Chief Marketing Officer in delivering a busy plan of B2B marketing activity
• Search engine marketing 
• Content creation – Use SEM insights to create relevant content that will improve organic rankings and traffic
• CMS – Manage our commercial website focussing on driving traffic and improving the user journey
• Conversion optimisation -Track key landing pages and implement improvements to increase conversion rates
• Paid media – Own and deliver PPC, paid social and paid media campaigns
• Monthly reporting on digital marketing campaigns using Google Analytics, Adwords and Data Studio to inform future optimisation

If you’re interested in this role, please email our CMO, Cassie Gasson at cassie.gasson@thrivelearning.com with your CV.

As a Product Designer, you are at the core of creating our learning platform, you will help craft the learning experiences that help companies organise and share their knowledge. Our platform is used by some of the biggest names in the UK such as Sky, Vitality, Decium and Nando's.

At heart you are a true creative, you love your craft and are a connoisseur of good design. You have a curious mind and love to ask why.

At THRIVE we have 4 key disciplines in the product department: Product Management & Strategy, User Research, Design and Analytics. As a Product Designer, you'll be working primarily in the design discipline but you'll have the opportunity to engage, grow and collaborate in activities in the other disciplines as well, we do this to give all our product people the opportunity gain a well-rounded knowledge of product and to grow your skills empower you (...but if you want to stick to only design that's fine too)

As a priority we're looking for someone with strong visual design skills, we all know there's a lot more to product design than UI but we also believe that talented creatives are hard to find and it's easier for someone to learn and grow in UX methodologies than to gain the years of experience it takes to have a keen eye for the good visual design.

What skills do you have?

• 2+ years experience as a designer
• We use Figma, if you're using something else at the moment, don't worry we'll help you make the switch
• A strong visual design portfolio, show us the projects you are proud of, only 1 or 2, quality over quantity (we love people who can tell a good story without writing an essay)
• You are organised and methodical, using UX methods and practices to work through your projects
• Good communication skills and the ability to concisely articulate design decisions
• A keen ability to work through uncertainty, keeping track and managing the assumptions you make as a designer
• We don't expect you to be some kind of unicorn but naturally the more skills you bring to the table the more impressed we'll be, some designers like to dabble with coding, some with animation, others love to do research... tell us your story!

Responsibilities

• Mapping User Needs (User Journey Mapping, User Stories, JTBD)
• Sketching / Wireframing
• High Fidelity Mockups (UI Design)
• Prototyping & User Testing
• Prepping for Handover (Finalising designs to be dev ready)
• Contributing and working from a design system

If you’re interested in this role, please email our Head of Product, Zandre Coetzer at zandre.coetzer@gmail.com, please attach your portfolio/website and CV to your application email.

That's all the career vacancies we have available at the moment, but we never want to miss out on working with the best talent. So, if you have something truly special to bring to our THRIVE Tribe, drop us a message. We'd love to get to know you and talk about any future opportunities.

✉️ hello@thrivelearning.com