Executive and Subject Matter Experts - Opportunities

Future Ventures provides key executive and management resources to fill critical gaps during times of growth, scaling, transformation, or succession.


Whether your organization is undergoing an important change initiative, strategic transformation, implementing a new program or service/product delivery, or you require effective senior management to fill a key role on an interim basis, we can help.


Future Ventures seeks to provide exactly the right resource (experience, capability, talent, desire and chemistry) for your situation at exactly the right time. We can place the right resource in your organization quickly and efficiently. Our pool of skilled interim Executives and Subject Matter Expert (SME) consultants are ready to make an immediate impact on your business and leave a legacy of organizational improvement.


Do you have something you’d like to contribute?


The Futures Ventures team includes some of the best and brightest people we know, with decades of relevant experience.


In fluid workplaces like we are currently experiencing, we know that many highly-skilled people are re-evaluating their careers and many are likely to opt for a flexible work situation including work-from-home, interim executive placements or contracting, where you can maximize your time and expertise and make huge impacts in short order.


CxO, VPx, Director of X, and Strategic Advisors for:



  • Leadership & Culture 
  • Enable organizations to thrive


  • Portfolio, Program and Project Management
  • Management of growth, change and transformation initiatives


  • Strategy and Business Models for Services or Products 
  • Change or create business models for services or products to create competitive benefits and/or market disruption


  • Change and Transformation
  • Qualifying and quantifying change and transformational opportunities, shaping and creating responses to market evolution or disruption


  • Engagement 
  • Create engaging experiences with Employees, Customers, Partners, and other members of your Business Ecosystem


  • Financial Management and Value Enhancement
  • Strategic forecasting, budgeting, investment planning for shareholder value


  • Revenue Management and Value Enhancement 
  • Enable holistic aligned and integrated revenue generation strategies


  • Brand Management 
  • Leverage a current brand or forge a new identity


  • Organization & Workforce (Workforce + Culture + Digital) 
  • Open-talent workforces and connected experiences to focus current and future workers


  • Enterprise Operations (Workforce + Processes + Digital) 
  • Organizational back-end enterprise operations, processes, and technologies


  • Customers, Partners, and Suppliers (Workforce + Platform + Data) 
  • Systems, technology, and data assets.





Future Ventures executives and subject matter experts are often engaged in opportunities that never make it into the public view. 

Our ability to gain access to trusted conversations provides Future Ventures with undiscovered or unrealized supply and demand opportunities. And when the “people” demand is clearly out in the open for all to see, we are fierce competitors and seek a win-win for both sides.


If you are interested in the challenge of applying your considerable experience to a varied set of engagements, initiatives, or projects, let’s talk.


Current Opportunities

  • Full Stack Web Developer

    Who We’re Looking For?


    Are you an experienced full-stack developer with an eye for code and a knack for creating features with the user experience in mind? 


    Then we want you to be a part of our growing team! 


    The Role

    This role will be part of our development team, which operates on an Agile Scrum methodology consisting of Epics, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria defined by our Product Owner. Industry best practices are a key component as we work across the full spectrum of front-end application and back-end development.


    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
    • Expert knowledge and experience with:
    • Web framework for Node.js (Express, Next.js)
    • Front end frameworks (React, Angular)
    • Styling frameworks (Bootstrap, Material UI)
    • API design and development (RESTful, GraphQL)
    • SQL and NoSQL database design, implementation, and management (MySQL, MongoDB)
    • JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest)
    • Application deployment (AWS, DigitalOcean)
    • Server-side document generation (PDFKit)
    • Code workflow and versioning (Git)
    • Build frameworks (npm)
    • Agile DevOps oversight (Atlassian Suite)

    Performance

    As our ideal candidate, you’ll bring a forward-thinking mindset, a collaborative approach, and the drive to solve even the most stubborn development challenges. 


    Your skillset will include the ability to:

    • Develop technical solutions aligned with the design framework, and that prioritize business functionality and intuitive user navigation
    • Proactively identify opportunities for improvement along with recommendations for potential solutions during daily scrums
    • Uphold industry best practices while working across the full spectrum of front-end application and back-end development with responsive and multi-platform requirements
    • Create quality screens and effective integrations with repeatable, scalable, and easily maintained development infrastructure

    Our Style

    • Questions are a great thing! Asking questions promotes clarity, trust, and learning; all of which are important to a close-knit and solutions-focused team culture.
    • Proactivity is the key to long term success. The more initiative our individual team members take, the more effective we can be as a whole. We celebrate an ambitious mindset!
    • Professionalism is essential. 
    • Communicating and interacting respectfully and appropriately builds a strong base with our customers and within the organization, and that translates into better relationships, products, and services.

    Our Work Ethic

    • Everyone has an area of expertise. We want you to get the chance to use yours to the fullest, and then collaborate with your team to leverage their strengths as well.
    • Be a teacher and a student. An openness to learning new skills or different ways of doing things is an important part of a dynamic team. So, share your knowledge and be open to receive it from others.
    • Momentum is everything. While the speed may vary, we are always moving forward and growing. The desire to overcome roadblocks is part of our nature and central to our work.

    MVP Qualities

    • Active interest in learning and growth opportunities
    • True passion for your field, and willingness to level up your strengths
    • A strong creative streak and an openness to changing up the status quo
    • Pride in your work, and honesty in your communications and interactions
    • Solutions-focused: If you find a problem, bring ideas of how to overcome it!
    • Ability to thrive on a team, and bring positivity to those you work with
    • Timeline awareness and an advocate for quality deliverables

    Location and Scheduling

    Remote work and flexible schedules are part of the digital world, and we embrace this as an opportunity to give our team the option of working where and when they can be the most productive. Be prepared to talk about your ideal schedule with our recruitment team.


    How to Get This Job

    Show us your self-starter mindset and examples of your talents, experiences, and successes. We want to know what wins you are most proud of, how you align with our style, and what unique qualities will make you a good fit for our team. 


    Here’s what to expect of our interview process:

    • Initial video call to learn more about you and dig into some of the role specifics.
    • Company presentation and role outline, followed by an interview and Q&A session.
    • Skill-based assignment for at home completion.
    • Team-fit open chat and interview session
    • Offer! After you ace the other steps, we get to offer you a job. 

    We can’t wait to have you as part of the team, celebrations will be in order!


    How to Apply?

    Send us an email to careers@futureventures.ca

  • Software Technical Lead

    Who We’re Looking For?

    Are you a strong developer with excellent leadership and problem-solving skills, as well as experience in guiding a team from initial project phases through to completion?


    Then we want you to be a part of our growing team! 


    The Role

    This role will lead and support our development team, which operates on an Agile Scrum methodology consisting of Epics, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria defined by our Product Owner. Industry best practices are a key component as we work across the full spectrum of front-end application and back-end development.


    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (documentation required)
    • Expert knowledge and experience with:
    • Web framework for Node.js (Express, Next.js)
    • Front end frameworks (React, Angular)
    • Styling frameworks (Bootstrap, Material UI)
    • API design and development (RESTful, GraphQL)
    • SQL and NoSQL database design, implementation, and management (MySQL, MongoDB)
    • JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest)
    • Application deployment (AWS, DigitalOcean)
    • Server-side document generation (PDFKit)
    • Code workflow and versioning (Git)
    • Build frameworks (npm)
    • Agile DevOps oversight (Atlassian Suite)

    Performance

    As our ideal candidate, you’ll bring a team-centric leadership style, a forward-thinking mindset, a collaborative approach, and the drive to solve even the most stubborn development challenges. Your skillset will include the ability to:

    • Develop technical solutions aligned with the design framework, and that prioritize business functionality and intuitive user navigation
    • Proactively identify opportunities for improvement along with recommendations for potential solutions during daily scrums
    • Uphold industry best practices while working across the full spectrum of front-end application and back-end development with responsive and multi-platform requirements
    • Create quality screens and effective integrations with repeatable, scalable, and easily maintained development infrastructure
    • Use your proven track-record of successful web development and efficient project scheduling to prioritize and track workflows and timelines for outstanding outcomes
    • Use motivation and accountability tools to build a high-performing team driven by quality and attention to detail
    • Implement a collaborative, team approach for code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and optimization practices.

    Our Style

    • Questions are a great thing! Asking questions promotes clarity, trust, and learning; all of which are important to a close-knit and solutions-focused team culture.
    • Proactivity is the key to long term success. The more initiative our individual team members take, the more effective we can be as a whole. We celebrate an ambitious mindset!
    • Professionalism is essential.
    • Communicating and interacting respectfully and appropriately builds a strong base with our customers and within the organization, and that translates into better relationships, products, and services.

    Our Work Ethic

    Everyone has an area of expertise. We want you to get the chance to use yours to the fullest, and then collaborate with your team to leverage their strengths as well.

    Be a teacher and a student. An openness to learning new skills or different ways of doing things is an important part of a dynamic team. So, share your knowledge and be open to receive it from others.

    Momentum is everything. While the speed may vary, we are always moving forward and growing. The desire to overcome roadblocks is part of our nature and central to our work.


    MVP Qualities

    • Active interest in learning and growth opportunities
    • True passion for your field, and willingness to level up your strengths
    • A strong creative streak and an openness to changing up the status quo
    • Pride in your work, and honesty in your communications and interactions
    • Solutions-focused: If you find a problem, bring ideas of how to overcome it!
    • Ability to thrive on a team, and bring positivity to those you work with
    • Timeline awareness and an advocate for quality deliverables

    Location and Scheduling

    Remote work and flexible schedules are part of the digital world, and we embrace this as an opportunity to give our team the option of working where and when they can be the most productive. Be prepared to talk about your ideal schedule with our recruitment team.


    How to Get This Job

    Show us your self-starter mindset and examples of your talents, experiences, and successes. We want to know what wins you are most proud of, how you align with our style, and what unique qualities will make you a good fit for our team. Here’s what to expect of our interview process:

    • Initial video call to learn more about you and dig into some of the role specifics.
    • Company presentation and role outline, followed by an interview and Q&A session.
    • Skill-based assignment for at home completion.
    • Team-fit open chat and interview session
    • Offer! After you ace the other steps, we get to offer you a job. We can’t wait to have you as part of the team, celebrations will be in order!

    How to Apply?

    Send us an email to careers@futureventures.caDescribe the item or answer the question so that site visitors who are interested get more information. You can emphasize this text with bullets, italics or bold, and add links.

  • Quality Assurance Analyst

    Who We’re Looking For? 


    Do you enjoy solving problems, working in a team, and have an eye for detail that can help enterprise businesses validate their developed software solutions? Then we want you to be a part of our growing team! 


    The Role 


    This role will be part of our Business Transformation and Enablement team. You will be accountable to engagements that form the entire software development lifecycle from idea to sustainment. 


    Responsibilities 

    • As our ideal candidate, you’ll bring a forward-thinking mindset, a collaborative approach, and the drive to validate even the most stubborn software requirements. You will be responsible for defining and executing tests and providing input into testing frameworks to improve the technology solutions to meet the business’ needs: 
    • Writing specifications for both manual and automated test cases: design, creating, execution, deploy, and maintain testing suites to provide high code coverage, review and challenge functional specifications for specificity and testability
    • Developing and owning test artifacts including test plans and test scripts for both functional and non-functional testing practices.
    • Take ownership of functional areas to ensure that appropriate business analysis and development activities are in place: e.g., code reviews, appropriate unit test coverage, user story documentation.
    • Executing functional, regression, non-functional (performance, resilience, load, etc.) tests and managing defects. 
    • Provide effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives, and performance to teams, peers, and management.
    • Liaising with project team members and uphold a one-team mindset with business analysis, developers, and business users.
    • Building a strong knowledge of fiscal regimes and petroleum industry knowledge
    • Proactively identify testing and process gaps, implement solutions to achieve efficiencies.
    • Maintain product quality by enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures.
    • Assess, and proactively identifying opportunity for improvement along with recommendations for potential solutions; responsive to client’s needs 

    Qualifications for an Incredible Candidate 

    • 5+ Years of Experience in Software Quality Assurance 
    • ISTQB Qualification or similar
    • Experience testing complex business processes
    • Experience as a quality assurance analyst across the full development lifecycle
    • Proficiency in all levels of testing including functional, regression, smoke, business process, exploratory, etc. – manual & automation
    • Proficiency in working the Quality Assurance lifecycle: designing and creating test cases and test scripts to the execution and reporting of defects and test progress
    • In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies, defect tracking life cycle, defect analysis & preparing defect matrix and project status metrics
    • Familiarity with MS SQL and Microsoft tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
    • Bright and motivated; a minimum of a 2.1 GPA or above in degree level
    • Personable and enthusiastic team player and self-starter with the ability to take the initiative in resolving challenges
    • Experience working within a financial services organization, or the petroleum industry would be highly desirable
    • Experience auditing financial calculations results preferability with a background in accounting or finance
    • Experience with advanced financial evaluation techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations, decision trees, tornado diagrams, spider diagrams, portfolio management, efficient frontiers, or real options theory
    • Development knowledge in .NET, especially experience in working with unit testing using NUnit
    • Independent decision making in undertaking initiatives and identifying and solving problems 

    Working with Us 

    This is a full-time contract ranging from 3-months to 18-months positions, MDT daytime hours. Based on your experience, you’ll earn a competitive wage between $50 and $75 an hour. You will have the opportunity to work for a respected leader in Oil & Gas. 


    Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with in Canada is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position. 


    Our Style 

    • Questions are a great thing! Asking questions promotes clarity, trust, and learning; all of which are important to a close-knit and solutions-focused team culture. 
    • Proactivity is the key to long term success. The more initiative our individual team members take, the more effective we can be as a crew. We celebrate an ambitious mindset! 
    • Professionalism is essential. Communicating and interacting respectfully and appropriately builds a strong base with our customers and within the organization, and that translates into better relationships, products, and services. 

    Our Work Ethic 

    • Everyone has an area of expertise. We want you to get the chance to use yours to the fullest, and then collaborate with your team to leverage their strengths as well. 
    • Be a teacher and a student. An openness to learning new skills or different ways of doing things is an important part of a dynamic team. So, share your knowledge and be open to receive it from others. 
    • Momentum is everything. While the speed may vary, we are always moving forward and growing. The desire to overcome roadblocks is part of our nature and central to our work.

    MVP Qualities 

    • Active interest in learning and growth opportunities 
    • True passion for your field, and willingness to level up your strengths 
    • A strong creative streak and an openness to changing up the status quo 
    • Pride in your work, and honesty in your communications and interactions 
    • Solutions-focused: If you find a problem, bring ideas of how to overcome it! 
    • Ability to thrive on a team, and bring positivity to those you work with 
    • Timeline awareness and an advocate for quality deliverables 

    Location and Scheduling 

    Remote work and flexible schedules are part of the digital world, and we embrace this as an opportunity to give our team the option of working where and when they can be the most productive. Be prepared to talk about your ideal schedule with our recruitment team.


    How to Apply?

    Send us an email to careers@futureventures.ca