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Position Profile:

The Manager, Art Direction & Product Design works closely with the Director, Product Design to support art direction and feedback and manage the Product Design team. The team is accountable for the developing products and packaging for the CURiO Brand portfolio that are innovative, beautiful, safe, and sellable to end consumers. This position provides expertise and guidance to the Product Design team in the creation and sourcing of custom vessels (glass, metal, and ceramic), and secondary packaging (paper boxes, tubes, bags, labels, hangtags). The position collaborates across CURiO’s departments, working closely with: Project Management, Brand, R&D, Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Marketing. The role has direct reports that may consist of any of the following positions: Sr. Product Designer, Product Designer, or other similarly assigned roles.

***This role is for candidates who reside within 60 miles of our corporate office on 9th Street SE in Minneapolis***

Work Responsibilities:

Design & Concept: Guides the Product Design team in translating creative requirements from concept through execution using a unique combination of creative and analytical talents.

• Helps lead strategic thinking of CURiO creative work, ensuring design vision aligns with business objectives, brand aesthetics and costing goals.
• Assigns and manages team workflow of projects, monitoring overall capacity of product designers.
• Helps to identify and implement process improvement areas that result in simplified steps and gain efficiencies for the company.
• Organizes and condenses design feedback into digestible, actionable tasks for product designers.
• Leads design meetings as needed throughout the development process.
• Participates in the approval of prototype samples for style details, construction, safety, and usability.
• Communicates with domestic and international vendors to achieve design intent, construction, safety, and usability goals. Contributes problem-solving ideas throughout the development process.
• Mentors and coaches on varying topics such as: design approach, vendor communication, file building and general best practices.
• Collaborates with Director, Product Design, Product Design team and Brand to research and concept new product ideas.
• Develops mood boards for new product collections and product formats.
• Reviews creative presentations and presents concepts to internal brand team and external customers.
• Demonstrates systematic approach in designs for varying structures, materials, sizes and product types. Brand steward, keen eye for detail, refines designs across selected product assortment.
• Works closely with external vendors, helping to build strong partnerships.
• Organizes and labels incoming samples and approved counters.
• Attends weekly Design & Innovation status meetings and other meetings as needed.
• Works closely with Brand, Project Management, Engineering, R&D, Purchasing, Quality, Production, Finance, and Sales to ensure development is on track to meet project goals, design intent and timeline.
• Works closely with designers and print vendors as needed to develop structures, reviews proofs for color/ detail accuracy and attends press checks as needed. Color advocate for the brand standards.
• Works closely with Project Management team and Cost Analyst on costing exercises. Contributes to product cost discussions, providing insights and ideas on how to cost engineer new developments to meet cost objectives.
• Assists and supports design team in daily tasks as needed such as: mock-ups, structure development, file construction, quotes, 3D renderings, etc.

Supervisory: Responsible for providing leadership to the team and ensuring that the team has the talent, resources, and readiness to meet team goals as well as ensuring maximum productivity and performance. Models CURiO Cornerstones and uses cornerstones framework in decision making.

• Effectively manage a multi-locational team under a fast pace and constantly changing circumstances.
• Hires, trains and develops team, ensuring that each employee has a clear and thorough understanding of their role and responsibilities.
• Fosters a collaborative creative environment.
• Effectively orient new hires to CURiO culture, structure and specific role and responsibilities, ensuring a positive and productive employee experience.
• Utilize the company’s performance management program as designed to align individual performance to overall performance objectives. Provide ongoing performance feedback. Identify and work with manager and HR to take appropriate action for non-performance.
• Ensure all CURiO communication is disseminated to the team in a positive and timely manner.
• Administer all internal policies and procedures in accordance with company, human resources, budgetary, and finance guidelines. Ensure accuracy of staff data records.

General Responsibilities:

• Supports CURiO Cornerstones and strives for individual leadership by using cornerstone behaviors in the workplace and in daily decision making.
• Follows all policies and procedures of the company. Works cooperatively with all departments, maintaining a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner that promotes cooperation with co-workers, supervisors, and managers.
• Actively seek individual development through taking advantage of opportunities for skill enhancement.
• Keep up to date with the latest best practices, trends, concepts, and regulations in the specific job area.
• Manage time effectively, meet personal goals and work effectively with other members of the team to meet CURiO goals.
• Follows all safety guidelines and polices. Makes supervisor/manager immediately aware of any observed safety issue. Keeps work area clean, safe, and organized.

Position requires extended work hours as necessary to meet seasonal deadlines. Performs other work as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic and design or equivalent work experience
• Four years’ experience in product and packaging development
• Intermediate level supervisory role

Computer and/or software qualifications:

• Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Outlook
• Advanced level of proficiency in design software; Adobe CS (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
• 3D printer experience preferred

Core Competencies:

• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and across multiple departments, managing a large volume of projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of design techniques, ability to think creatively, with an eye for color and design
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail, well organized, and systematic in working
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Excellent presentation and writing skills
• Excellent initiative and follow-through
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with business partners
• Tolerance for moderate stress
• Self-Driven, able to work independently

Travel Requirement: Less 5%

Hybrid Working Environment and Physical Demands:

• General office or home office environment: Works at a desk in a well-lit, air-conditioned cubicle/office/home office, with moderate noise levels.
• Ability to sit for hours at a time, viewing computer monitor on a constant basis. Some walking and standing relative to interaction with other personnel.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items weighing 10 – 15 pounds.
• When in a facility, occasional exposure to dusty and fragrant conditions, varying temperature levels, work near moving mechanical parts, and high noise environments is possible.
• Requires in-office visits weekly for such tasks as: sample unpacking/ review, organization needs, shipping, in-person meetings.

Health & Welfare Benefits:

Eligibility begins on the first day of the month following 30 days of employment unless noted otherwise:

• Medical, Dental, Disability Insurance (cost shared)
• Life/ AD&D Insurance (employer paid)
• Additional voluntary benefit offerings (employee paid): Vision, Accident, Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Voluntary Term Life Insurance, AD&D
• 401(k) – After 6 months of employment on next quarterly entry date

** Note: This job description does not restrict CURiO’s right to assign or reassign duties or responsibilities to this job at any time. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. It does not alter the "at will" employment relationship between the company and the employee.

We are currently supporting a direct client that has recently migrated from a legacy data platform to Databricks as part of a broader modernization initiative. As this is a new implementation of their Lakehouse platform, the team is looking for a Senior Databricks Platform Administrator who can play a key role in guiding the platform through the next phase — including POC validation, platform governance, and operational best practices.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the architectural and platform level, helping organizations avoid common pitfalls and ensuring the Databricks environment is built for scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization from day one.

You will have the opportunity to shine with your expertise by advising the client on platform design, governance models, cluster strategy, and DevOps automation, while helping establish the foundation for a robust enterprise Lakehouse environment.

Key Skills & Experience

• Databricks workspace administration and cluster governance
• Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Spark performance optimization
• AWS architecture including IAM, VPC, S3, KMS, PrivateLink, and CloudWatch
• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code for platform provisioning
• CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, Databricks CLI, and API integrations
• Automation using Python or Bash
• Cost optimization and platform governance strategies

Nice to Have

Experience with:

• Delta Live Tables
• Auto Loader
• MLflow
• Feature Store
• Databricks Serverless Computer

Role Overview 

Linx Printing Technologies is establishing a new direct business presence in the United States. The US Office Manager will play a critical, hands-on role in making this happen. 

This is not a maintenance role. It is a #buildwhileyoufly position at the heart of a growing sales operation. The role owns customer order execution, day to day operational decision making, and the flow of materials from the UK into the US 3PL network to support an expanding direct sales team. 

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating with high autonomy, limited precedent, and evolving processes.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Manage end-to-end customer orders, resolve issues, and ensure excellent customer experience. 
• Work closely with the US sales team, providing updates on orders, inventory, and deliveries. 
• Oversee inventory at the US warehouse, coordinate material replenishment from the UK, and mitigate stock risks. 
• Handle daily operations with logistics partners, ensuring goods are stored and dispatched accurately. 
• Help design and improve processes as the business grows, proactively addressing gaps and inefficiencies. 

Skills & Experience 

• Strong background in order management, logistics, or inventory planning. 
• Experience supporting sales teams in a fast-paced environment. 
• Organised, resilient, and able to manage multiple priorities. 
• Confident decision-maker, even with incomplete information. 
• Experience with international supply chains or US imports is a plus. 

Personal Attributes 

• Decisive, autonomous, and proactive problem solver. 
• Customer-focused and keen to build structure in evolving operations. 

Why This Role Matters 

This role is vital to Linx’s success in the US, placing you at the heart of operations to drive growth and ensure customer satisfaction. 

Interviews to be held on site in Grand Rapids, week commencing 30th March.

• $1000 Sign-on Bonus/$1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Paid sleep time ($11.00/hr)
• Awake Pay Rates $17.00
• Non-traditional hours available
• Additional Bonuses and Mileage Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Part Time Positions
• Mostly 2nd and 3rd Shift sleep time

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork -developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.
  If you enjoy helping others, join our team! Be a life changer

Compensation details: 17-17

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• $1000 Sign-on Bonus/$1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Pay Rates $17.00
• Non-traditional hours available
• Additional Bonuses and Mileage Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Part Time Positions
• Second & Third Shift Needed

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork-developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Compensation details: 16-16

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• Specialized training in direct care provision preferred.
• Must complete and obtain certification in OPWDD Approved Medication Administration Course (AMAP) during probationary period and maintain AMAP certification.
• Ability and willingness to be First Aid and CPR certified.
• Ability and willingness to obtain certification in SCIPR Competencies and advance to Promote

• Demonstrated competency in written, verbal and computational skills to document records in accordance with program standards.

• Regularly required to speak clearly and hear the spoken word well.
• Regularly required to utilize near vision ability to read data and documents, including spreadsheets and reports, in printed form and on computer screens.
• Regularly required to provide physical care for clients and individuals, which may include, but is not limited to bathing, feeding, changing clothes or diapers and pushing wheelchairs.
• Ability to physically restrain challenging behaviors that include aggression, self-injurious, and destructive behaviors.
• Ability to apply proper lifting techniques.

• Noise level is consistent with levels usually present in an office, education, group home, residential, rehabilitation, industrial, workshop or health related environment.
• Hazards present are consistent with those common to an office, education, rehabilitation, industrial, workshop or health related environment.
• Working with individuals whose age ranges from childhood to adulthood.

• Work towards the satisfactory completion of each of the core competency goals according to the OPWDD timeline requirements.
• Provide safe and clean environment for the individual based on skill level and risks and support the safety of all individuals in everyday situations.
• Use verbal and physical means to create a positive environment that will encourage and enable individual growth.
• Assist the individual in the development of social skills that will help the individual become integrated/ included in his or her community.
• Perform protective oversight while engaging in community activities.
• Monitor each individual's personal health on a continuous basis (during situations of high activity, while bathing/showering/swimming, in the morning and the evening, at meals, while in the community, at all times).
• Assist individuals in learning and practicing skills necessary for home living (indoor household chores such as, but not limited to, cooking, sweeping, dusting, bed-making, vacuuming, and dish-washing, laundry, folding and storing clothes, etc.).
• Perform advocate responsibilities, while demonstrating respect for the processes and people involved.
• Responsible for all documentation related to the essential function and services for the individual.

• Minimum 1-year experience working with developmentally disabled population preferably in a residential, health or treatment related setting preferred.

• $1000 Sign-on Bonus/$1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Pay Rates $17.00
• Weekends and Overnights
• Additional Bonuses
• Part Time Positions

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork-developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Compensation details: 17-17 Hourly Wage

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• $1000 Sign-on Bonus/$1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Pay Rates $17.00
• Non-traditional hours available
• Additional Bonuses and Mileage Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Part Time
• (Every other Weekend Required)

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork-developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Compensation details: 17-17

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• $1000 Sign-on Bonus/$1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Pay Rates $17.00
• Non-traditional hours available
• Additional Bonuses and Mileage Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Part Time
• (Second & Third Shifts Needed)

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork-developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Compensation details: 16-16

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• $1000 Sign-on Bonus
• $1500 Referral Bonus
• Paid Training
• Pay rate of $19.00/hr
• 10pm-8am; every other weekend may be required
• Additional Bonuses and Mileage Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement

• Work in a comfortable home setting.
• Go shopping, go bowling or fishing, go to the movies, maybe even go on vacation!
• Get paid to help others celebrate holidays, birthdays, other special events.
• Use your mentoring/coaching skills to teach people self-reliance
• Know that you make a difference everyday helping others live their best life

• We're invested in our employees and their success.
• Our Core Values: Respect, Empowerment, Positivity, Ownership, Teamwork-developed with staff involvement.
• We continuously strive to create the best possible work culture for our staff.
• We are stable, reliable and established (since 1976) as a leader in providing services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Compensation details: 19-19

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