The Lake Companies (One of Banyan's Portfolio Company)

Company Overview: The Lake Companies is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions, specializing in the implementation and support of Infor SyteLine for manufacturers across the Midwest region. With a focus on delivering innovative technology solutions and exceptional customer service, we help our clients streamline their operations and achieve sustainable growth.

Job Title: Software QA Lead

Location: Green Bay or Remote
Department: Product Development
Reports To: VP of Product & Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time,  Exempt 

SUMMARY

The Software QA Lead owns product quality at The Lake Companies — from release readiness through post-release monitoring and escaped defect trends. The role blends hands-on testing work with quality strategy: enforcing standards, owning the testing library, directing QA testers, and holding the gate on what ships. The right candidate brings enough experience to get oriented quickly and start making a real impact.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Ownership

• Hold the go/no-go gate for every release, enforcing non-negotiables around Data Integrity, Security, and Core Workflows.
• Own escaped defect metrics and drive year-over-year reductions in customer-reported defects.
• Maintain the Quality Dashboard and chair the monthly Quality Council with Leadership, Product, and Support.
• Own and enforce the Definition of Done across all product lines in partnership with the Scrum Master.
• Participate in design and requirements reviews (Shift-Left) to catch quality issues before development begins.

Testing Library & Team Direction

• Own the QA testing library: define what gets tested, at what depth, and to what standard.
• Direct and coordinate QA testers, ensuring regression and manual testing tasks are completed on schedule and to standard.
• Review and approve test contributions to maintain framework quality and consistency.
• Develop tester independence and capability so the team can execute the majority of regression work autonomously.

Release & Defect Management

• Coordinate the end-to-end release process: schedules, checklists, stakeholder communication, and UAT.
• Triage and prioritize defects with the Product Manager for service packs and hotfixes.
• Own 48-hour post-release hypercare monitoring using telemetry dashboards.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS 

• Familiarity with Infor SyteLine ERP and the manufacturing environments it serves. Experience with Lake Companies products (Doc-Trak, Shop-Trak, Fact-Trak) strongly preferred.
• Experience owning or significantly contributing to a QA testing library or automated test framework.
• Hands-on experience with TestComplete or Playwright is a plus — this role will get into the details when needed.
• Strong analytical skills; able to translate defect and support ticket data into prioritized quality improvements.
• Clear communicator comfortable running cross-functional meetings and presenting quality data to the broader team.

KEY SUCCESS METRICS

• Year-over-year reduction in customer-reported critical and non-critical escaped defects.
• Year-over-year reduction in support tickets categorized as Software Defect.
• QA team independently executing the majority of defined regression tasks.
• Consistent Definition of Done enforcement across all releases.

The expected base salary for this position is: USD 80,000- 90,000 and additional commissions. Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience.

Apply today and take the next step in transforming both your career and the future of manufacturing.

Director of AI

AI Factory  –  Application Modernization Program

The Opportunity

Banyan Software acquires, builds, and grows great software companies for the long term. Across our portfolio of 100+ operating companies, many run on proven but aging codebases—15 to 25 years old—increasingly at odds with what modern customers expect: cloud-native, mobile-first, always-on SaaS.

The AI Factory is Banyan’s centralized application modernization engine—using AI-powered discovery, verification-first engineering, and an integrated delivery model to rewrite legacy applications into modern platforms in 15–25 weeks (vs. the traditional 2–5 years). This is a Banyan-funded program purpose-built for our operating companies, and it is already live.

The Director of AI will lead this program across its full scope—sitting at the intersection of product strategy, field engineering, and platform operations—with an outsized influence on how Banyan’s portfolio evolves over the next decade. The boundaries of this role are yours to define.

Three Pillars of Leadership

What You Will Do

Program Strategy & Execution

• Own the AI Factory’s end-to-end program lifecycle across its 9-phase modernization process—from harvesting through production launch and customer migration.
• Define and track program-level KPIs, velocity metrics, and business-value outcomes; translate technical progress into executive-ready language for OpCo CEOs and Banyan leadership.
• Continuously refine the factory’s operating model based on field learnings, feeding insights back into tooling, process, and architecture.

Forward Deployed Engineering

• Recruit, hire, and develop the FDE team; define the FDE role, career path, and engagement model.
• Author the FDE playbook: engagement kickoff, stakeholder alignment, technical assessment, embedded delivery, knowledge transfer, and OpCo handoff.
• Personally lead early FDE engagements—embedding with operating company teams, earning trust through technical credibility, and driving adoption of AI-assisted workflows.

People & Operations

• Manage and mentor direct reports across the FDE team and the supporting Project Manager / Scrum Master.
• Build a culture of ownership, velocity, and craftsmanship. Drive the MACROSS framework (Maintainability, Adaptability, Cost Accountability, Reliability, Observability, Scalability, Security) as the decision-making lens for every engagement.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

• Present to and align with OpCo CEOs, CTOs, and product leaders during kickoffs, weekly syncs, and milestone reviews.
• Partner with Banyan’s VP of Engineering and executive leadership to shape the AI Factory’s strategic roadmap, investment priorities, and portfolio expansion plan.

Who You Are

Non-Negotiable Attributes

Critical Competencies

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 3 years spanning both technical delivery and program management.
• Demonstrated experience leading application modernization, re-platforming, or digital transformation—ideally in a multi-product or multi-company environment.
• Proven ability to embed with or lead cross-functional engineering teams without formal authority.
• Hands-on proficiency with cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), CI/CD tooling, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience building teams, processes, and playbooks from scratch in a high-growth or startup-like setting.
• Strong executive communication skills with a track record of presenting to C-level stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in forward-deployed engineering, professional services, or embedded consulting.
• Background in private equity portfolio operations, multi-entity software, or vertical-market software.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, agent-based development).
• Experience with legacy application assessment, strangler-fig patterns, or monolith-to-microservices transformations.
• Agile coaching or program management background (CSM, SAFe, PMP, or equivalent).

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a typical Director title bolted onto a predictable org chart. The AI Factory is early, ambitious, and consequential. You’ll have a dedicated Project Manager / Scrum Master handling sprint cadence, backlog management, and stakeholder scheduling—freeing you to focus on shaping the modernization methodology, building a world-class FDE team, and defining how AI transforms legacy software at scale.

The scope is deliberately broad because the right person will see connections across these pillars that no org chart could anticipate. If you build rather than just manage—earn trust through technical credibility, not title—and see the potential in a program that touches every corner of a 100+ company ecosystem, this is the role you’ve been looking for.

Banyan Software is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. Compensation is commensurate with experience and includes a competitive base salary, performance bonus, and equity participation.

The expected base salary for this position is: $250,000-$300,000 USD excluding annual bonus and equity (when applicable). Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience.

 About RubyLaw (One of Banyan's Portfolio Companies)

RubyLaw is a legal marketing technology platform that powers websites, manages experience data, generates marketing documents for proposals and presentations, and ensures the integrity of digital content for law firms.

For over 20 years, we have developed sophisticated, intuitive software solutions that help marketers and developers be more efficient and productive, working in partnership with leading creative agencies. Our clients include some of the world's leading law firms.

While we are a fully remote company, we have roots in New York City. Our talented team is composed of more than 20 software engineers, strategists, marketers, relationship specialists, and technical support professionals. We are led and inspired by our mantra, Awesome Every Day, which rallies our internal culture and guides our commitment to excellence.

Software Engineer, (Full Stack)

At RubyLaw, we engineer custom, high-performance websites for some of the world's leading law firms. Our Services Team is looking for a talented full stack Software Engineer to build and launch these client sites, which are powered by our flagship RubyLaw CMS.

We are a tech firm full of bright, creative problem solvers. If you are passionate about leveraging industry-standard technologies like React and Node.js to create exceptional digital experiences and execute sophisticated interactive designs, we want to talk to you.

Our Technology Stack

You will be an individual contributor building on a modern JavaScript-based stack, including:

• Front-end: React, Redux, and a deep understanding of modern JavaScript.
• Styling: Sass/SCSS, with a focus on component-based styling methodologies.
• Build Tools: Webpack and Babel.
• Back-end: Node.js with Express web server.
• Databases: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and Couchbase.

What You'll Bring

• Experience: 5+ years of professional full-stack web development experience using JavaScript and React
• Technical Proficiency: Strong proficiency in JavaScript for effective API interaction, data querying, and data transformation to drive the front end user experience. We seek candidates who can demonstrate a deep ability to leverage core JavaScript in conjunction with React components. 
• AI-Enhanced Productivity: The ability to strategically integrate AI tools into your workflow to streamline boilerplate tasks and debugging, allowing you to dedicate more focus to high-level architecture and complex feature development
• Pixel-Perfect Execution: The ability to ask the right questions and see beyond a given assignment to translate high-end designs into performant, high-quality code that is faithful to the original design.
• Problem-Solving: A solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and how your tasks relate to the implementation of an empowering user experience.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with designers and other engineers.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with design tools like Figma, Zeplin, or Sketch.
• The ability to leverage AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code for enhanced coding efficiency.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Rundeck.

Perks & Culture

• Remote-First: We are a fully remote company, allowing you to work from wherever you're most productive.
• Impactful Work: You’ll work on complex projects for a prestigious client base and have opportunities to contribute to our core RubyLaw product.
• Work-Life Balance: We believe in sustainable productivity. We offer a generous holiday schedule, including a full week off at the end of the year, to help our team rest and recharge.
• Holistic Wellness: Our benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement savings plan with a company match, and a virtual social calendar featuring wellness sessions, movie nights, and more.
            

Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.

The expected base salary for this position is: USD $100,000 - $120,000 and excludes annual bonus and equity (when applicable). Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience.

About the Role 

We are seeking a visionary and highly motivated AI Factory Program Manager to drive the development and delivery of our AI Factory platform. This unique hybrid role requires a strong blend of program management, Scrum Master expertise, and product ownership to ensure the AI Factory operates efficiently, delivers high-quality AI solutions, and aligns with strategic business goals. This role will be instrumental in bridging the technical AI teams with business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Scrum Master (50%)

• Agile Leadership: Serve as the Scrum Master for multiple AI development teams, facilitating all Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives).
• Process Optimization: Implement and continuously improve agile methodologies and processes tailored for AI/ML development, including managing data dependencies, model training pipelines, and MLOps workflows.
• Risk & Impediment Management: Proactively identify, track, and remove impediments, risks, and dependencies that could block team progress, particularly those related to data, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams.
• Reporting & Communication: Monitor and report on key program metrics, team velocity, and project status to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment across the AI Factory.

Product Owner (50%)

• Vision & Strategy: Define and articulate the product vision and strategy for specific components or services within the AI Factory, ensuring alignment with the overall business and AI strategy.
• Backlog Management: Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog for the AI team, clearly defining user stories, acceptance criteria, and epics for new AI features, models, and platform capabilities.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as the primary liaison between the AI development team and key internal stakeholders (e.g., business unit leads, data science, engineering) to gather requirements and communicate progress.
• Value Maximization: Continuously assess and track the business value delivered by the AI models and platforms, guiding the team to prioritize work that maximizes ROI and customer impact.

Required Experience:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 8+ years of progressive experience in technical program management, product management, or a similar role, with at least 2 years focused on AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science initiatives.
• Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification or experience.
• Agile Leadership: Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects in an Agile environment.
• Communication: Exceptional communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.

Job Location – Remote (USA & Canada)

The expected base salary for this position is: CAD 190000/ USD 195,000 excluding annual bonus (when applicable). Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience.