Bengali Speaking Community Manager

The Visual Architect is a visionary leader responsible for defining, evolving, and championing the overarching visual strategy and design language across all learning solutions. This role requires a profound understanding of learning objectives, business goals, and user experience, translating complex concepts into innovative, engaging, and scalable visual solutions and learning artefacts. The Visual Architect drives design excellence, leveraging storytelling and visual communication to ensure brand consistency and visual impact at the highest level within the learning ecosystem, significantly influencing learning strategies, including the integration of AR/VR, game mechanics, and gamification.

• Champion User-Centric Design: Define and enforce user-centric design principles throughout all stages of the design process, ensuring all visual solutions are optimized for the learner's experience and engagement.
• Incorporate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): Lead the development and implementation of design standards that fully comply with WCAG to ensure all learning artefacts are accessible to a diverse audience.
• Strategic Design Leadership for Learning: Define and articulate the long-term visual design strategy, architecture, and standards for complex learning programs/projects and organizational initiatives, aligning with pedagogical goals, business objectives, and emerging trends in digital learning.
• Conceptual Innovation & Learning Artifacts: Lead the ideation and development of groundbreaking visual concepts, translating abstract learning objectives and content into highly effective, engaging, and memorable visual experiences that manifest as compelling learning artifacts. Generate and evaluate multiple design solutions, pushing creative boundaries for learning content.
• Lead Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and Emerging Technologies Design: Define and champion the strategic use AR/VR, and other immersive technologies to create groundbreaking and effective learning experiences.
• System-Level Design for Digital Learning: Architect comprehensive visual design systems, guidelines, and frameworks (e.g., design systems, brand guidelines, UI/UX patterns) that ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across diverse learning platforms and programs/projects.
• Advanced Visual Communication: Demonstrate mastery in all aspects of visual communication, including typography, color theory, imagery, iconography, layout, and composition, to convey complex information clearly, effectively, and aesthetically within learning content.
• Brand & Content Stewardship: Act as the ultimate guardian of brand consistency and visual identity for all learning artefacts, ensuring all design outputs adhere to the highest standards and evolve the brand's visual presence. Expertly manage and integrate content for maximum visual impact in learning artifacts.
• Immersive & Interactive Learning Design: Drive the adoption and integration of cutting-edge 2D/3D and immersive design principles to create highly interactive and engaging user experiences within learning environments, enriching learning artifacts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship: Collaborate seamlessly with Learning Architects, ISDs, subject matter experts, engineers, product managers, and senior leadership, particularly on learning content development. Provide expert guidance and mentorship to senior multimedia designers and visual teams, fostering a culture of design excellence and innovation in creating learning solutions.
• Performance Management: Proactively manage the performance of visual design initiatives, including setting and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), assessing the effectiveness of visual solutions and learning design, and driving continuous improvement based on outcomes.
• Stakeholder & Customer Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with high-level internal and external stakeholders, providing constructive feedback and influencing design decisions at an executive level, especially concerning learning strategies and solutions.
• Team Management: Provide direct leadership and management to a team of designers, including hiring, performance reviews, professional development, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Research & Development: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in visual design, learning experience design, and interactive media, integrating them into the design strategy.
• Master's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Interaction Design, Learning Technologies, or a closely related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in visual design, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership, architectural, or principal design role specifically within digital products or learning content development.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, conceptual innovation, and mastery of visual design principles across diverse, complex learning programs/projects.
• Proven expertise in defining and leading visual design strategies for enterprise-level initiatives.
• Extensive experience in developing and managing comprehensive design systems, style guides, and component libraries at scale.
• Expert command of industry-standard design software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, 3D modeling/animation tools, advanced prototyping tools). AR/VR , AR/VR, game mechanics, and gamification elements into both macro and micro learning strategies
• Strong understanding of front-end technical capabilities and limitations (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to ensure feasible and scalable design solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex information into compelling visual narratives for educational purposes.
• Advanced proficiency in user research methodologies, WCAG, usability testing, and data-driven design decision-making.
• Superior communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and articulate design rationale to executive leadership and diverse stakeholders.
• Track record of mentoring and developing design talent.
• Deep understanding of AGILE methodologies and extensive experience working within a learning, educational technology, or complex content delivery environment.

Job Description

Who we are looking for:

A Senior consultant with proven technical and consultative experience, fluent Japanese language proficiency, and expected to be strong in both technical and interpersonal skills. A Senior Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. Deliver timely engagements and work closely with Practice Directors to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team. In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Comfortably deliver solo-based work or act as "point" for complex projects

• Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants

• Lead in creation, development and delivery of custom security solutions

• Lead security and compliance program-related development and implementation efforts

• Design, implement and educate on specific security processes

• Effectively provide knowledge transfer and post-engagement support activities as necessary

• Excellent team communicator

• Mentor less experienced consultants

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISACA, ISC2 etc.

• Consistently complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting

• Support and occasionally lead practice related development efforts including training and awareness, performance development and cyber strategy accelerators

• Act as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and related work experience

• Proven security architecture experience

• Strong knowledge of multiple security concepts and methods such as vulnerability assessments, data classification, privacy assessments, incident response, security policy creation, enterprise security strategies, architectures and governance

• Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI model), operating system fundamentals (Windows, UNIX, mainframe), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.) and application programming/scripting languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell)

• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance issues affecting clients related to privacy and data protection, such as PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection Directive, International Cross Border, and U.S. State Data Privacy Laws

• Expert knowledge of using Microsoft Office

• Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas

• Well-developed negotiation skills

• Ability to build consensus

• Solid business acumen and basic project management expertise.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel

• Willingness to travel to meet client needs.

Good-to-Have Criteria

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, or equivalent
• Exposure to cloud security platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in data privacy & cross-border compliance projects
• Advanced skills in automation, scripting, or security orchestration
• Previous consulting experience with global clients
• Participation in professional associations (ISACA, ISC2, etc.)
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Mandatory Criteria:

• Need candidate having Fluent Japanese language proficiency.
• Need candidate from Cybersecurity companies Only.
• Certifications required by the candidate - (Either from given two) - ISO 27001 or CISSP
• Candidate should have experience in Security architecture & Consulting
• Candidate should have Strong expertise in networking, operating systems (Windows/UNIX/mainframe), firewalls, IDS/IPS
• Candidate should have Knowledge of scripting/programming languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell)
• Candidate should have Hands-on experience in vulnerability assessments, incident response, policy creation, governance
• Candidate should have Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection, US State Privacy Laws)
• Candidate should have Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills
• Candidate should have Ability to mentor, lead projects, and work in diverse teams
• Candidate should be Willing to travel as per business/project requirements

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :-

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Knowledge of Angular and its components.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
• Experience with user interface design.
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good project management skills.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES :-

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of the project.
• Should be capable to work in a team.
• Must have strong communication skills.
• Should be enthusiasts and able to take challenge.