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Professional Services & Product Business Analyst

The position of Business Analyst within the Product Team heavily focuses on the User Interface and User Experience within the 4th Generation of our Kingland Platform. Meeting with client and internal stakeholders to determine business requirements while utilizing those requirements to create innovative and industry leading software is a focus area for this position. The business requirements and mock-ups help support the Development Teams in both US and China locations.  Validation and testing of the development work is ongoing while ensuring the approach and vision of the stakeholders is achieved.

Client Success Analyst

The Client Success Analyst serves as the entry point of contact for the client, is responsible for multiple clients and solutions, and is responsible for day-to-day client success activities spanning from initial stages of onboarding to continued engagement and retention activities. The Client Success Analyst must gain an understanding of each client’s unique business needs, monitor for solution utilization, support, other key metrics, and related triggers, raise opportunities for growth to a Client Success Manager, and champion client responsiveness and issue resolution. Strong communication and relationship skills are a must for this position as client success analysts maintain and cultivate client relationships over a period of several years. Client Success Analysts must be able to identify ways to engage productively with clients and internal Kingland teams. Our business analysts who have a passion for working with our clients and maintaining strong relationships have the opportunity to transition into a client success analyst role during their Kingland career.

Business Development Analyst

The Business Development Analyst provides end-to-end analysis supporting the B2B sales and marketing functions at Kingland. From analyzing competitors and market opportunities, to developing lead generation strategies, to engaging with prospective clients and presenting relevant product and solution information, the Business Development Analyst helps Kingland grow.

A successful Business Development Analyst must possess strong analytical skills, a business mindset, and be a fast learner of complicated topics and technologies. These skills are applied every day to managing a changing set of priorities, developing high quality documentation and presentation materials, and coming up with new ideas. With exposure to marketing and sales, the Business Development Analyst role provides excellent exposure to career growth opportunities.

Professional Services

Project Managers within the Professional Service team are responsible for managing engagements/projects that are delivered to our clients. Organization and prioritization are crucial for our project managers as they typically juggle multiple engagements at any given time based on the need of the engagement. The Project Manager is responsible for creating a project plan and then ensuring that project plans and requirements are met and completed on schedule in order to delight our customers and within budget to keep our CFO happy. All of these responsibilities must adhere to our processes to ensure we run our projects with the right amount of rigor. Our processes are designed in a way to help project managers and teams use data and historical performance to work efficiently and avoid costly mistakes.

Product Development/Internal

The Project Manager position within the Product Development team involves managing projects that impact multiple solutions, products and customers. We also provide the support and leadership critical to various teams within our company. The Project Manager is responsible for planning a well-coordinated project to ensure project success and progress towards strategic goals. The Project Manager is responsible for creating a project plan and then ensuring that project plans and requirements are met and completed on schedule and within budget.

Communication is key to being a successful Project Manager on the Product Development team. As a Project Manager, it is crucial to understand the challenges of the project, communicate project status and progress to stakeholders, ensure cohesive coordination between team members, and articulating the project visions and goals. This cannot be done successfully without effective communication. Leadership, planning, and organization skills are also required. A Project Manager leads and organizes the team around a common goal without direct authority. A Project Manager is also responsible for planning how the team will accomplish the work to meet this goal.

Accounting & Finance

The Accounting & Finance Intern records, analyzes, and provides insight into Kingland’s financial performance. From assisting in the maintenance and preparation of financial statements to updating forecasts of financial activity and completing a wide variety of adhoc project work as assigned, the Accounting & Finance Intern impacts the overall profitability and success of the organization. This position will have the opportunity to learn and gain real-world experience in a variety of financial activities such as performing bank reconciliations, fixed asset inventories, forecasting updates, variance analyses, and a number of other tasks as assigned.

Marketing Specialist 

The Marketing Specialist develops and delivers high quality marketing results that supports Kingland’s go-to-market strategy. As marketing strategies evolve, this role requires individuals who understand branding and can quickly learn challenging concepts and technologies, but then take on tasks to deliver marketing materials. Specializations may differ, but includes writing and promoting easy to read content, developing and producing videos, designing and creating marketing collateral, organizing and running events, and run lead generation and marketing promotion campaigns.

Good collaboration skills, a strong point of view, and a genuine interest in B2B marketing differentiation are a must for our Marketing Specialists.

Human Resources (HR)

The Human Resources/Administrative Intern provides support to Kingland’s Human Resources team in the areas of recruiting, onboarding, training, and performance management. Additionally, this position performs administrative office  functions in Kingland’s Ames office and to the employee base.

Strong communication, self-motivation, and attention to detail are key to success in this internship due to the frequent interaction with employees, potential employees, visitors, clients and vendors.

The Human Resources/Recruitment Intern provides support to Kingland's Human Resources team and Kingland Recruiter, in the areas of recruiting, onboarding, event planning, and other areas as assigned. Such tasks include assisting with the on-boarding process, assist Kingland Campus Recruiting with a variety of recruiting needs, assist with administration of Advanced Intern Professional Development Series, collaborate with Kingland marketing to make updates to the recruiting website, career fair handouts, and social media accounts, assist with the Advanced Interns, and provide support and assistance in other areas of human resources as needed.