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Fran Middleton shared thisI’m searching for a Director of Ecommerce Technology to join our team at Life is Good. This role will help lead the next evolution of our digital shopping experience shaping the technology and tools that bring optimism (and great tees) to millions of customers. If you are interested or know someone, my DM's are open! https://lnkd.in/e6B7HmUy
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Fran Middleton shared thisCareer update… Last week, I joined The Life is Good Company to lead their growing Ecommerce business. It’s been a great start working alongside the team that drives this mission-driven brand built on spreading optimism. We’ve got big plans to keep growing and share those good vibes with millions of customers. Let’s go!✌️
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Fran Middleton posted thisAmerica's Test Kitchen is hiring! I’m on the lookout for talented folks to fill these newly created roles for 2024: - Two mid-level Product Managers with a passion for innovation - A Data Architect who can help scale our vast database of cooking content - A Full Stack Software Engineer who loves tacking challenging problems This is a great opportunity to work on our flagship digital subscription product that reaches millions of consumers each month. If you are interested or know someone, please message me here directly.
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Fran Middleton reposted thisFran Middleton reposted thisThank you to the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) in recognizing ATK at the recent 2023 IACP Awards Ceremony. Congrats to all who contributed to these wins!
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Fran Middleton shared thisSo excited to share the trailer for our newest series, America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. Eleven home cooks, from all over the country, come to our studios in Boston for the job interview of a lifetime. Congratulations to my many talented colleagues at America's Test Kitchen who made this happen. Premiers on Amazon Freevee December 9th!
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked this#AI Coding Agents 201 - Agentic Engineering: From Prompting to Orchestrated Engineering. Great day ahead! #learningculture #EQengineered
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Fran Middleton liked thisThere's something special brewing in Boston! Keep It Simple, our custom tee printing wing, came through for Cisco Brewers Inc. to commemorate the budding friendship between us Bostonians and our new Scottish friends!Fran Middleton liked thisMassachusetts has embraced the Tartan Army. The Tartan Army has embraced Massachusetts. And we partnered with Cisco Brewers Inc. Inc. to make a special tee that celebrates the magic of this moment. It's what we do — fast, quality, custom t-shirts at scale. So when you need one, you know who to hit up.
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked thisAfter 15 years, I made the decision to leave America’s Test Kitchen this past March. It marked the end of a long and very meaningful era in my life. I started as an intern and left as a VP & Executive Producer - a fittingly American arc for a company with “America” in its name. I remain deeply proud of the work I helped make there. I always loved the integrity of ATK’s mission: helping people feel more confident in the kitchen. That simple, useful promise shaped so much of what we made, and I feel lucky to have spent so many years contributing to it. But of course, the people are always the point. I had some of the best colleagues in the business - brilliant producers (Mary Agnes, Sara Joyner, Caroline Rickert, Alex Curran-Cardarelli, Yumi Araki (荒木 悠美), Angelica Quintanilla) editors (Sean Sandefur, Caroline Barry, Ruthie LaMay, Ben Mushinski, Marley Maginnis) directors (Herb Sevush), post professionals (Chen Margolis, William Rogan), budget wizards (Diane Knox), hosts (Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster), test cooks (Lan Lam, Bryan Roof, Morgan Bolling, Becky Hays, Keith Dresser, Ashley Moore, Christie Morrison, Erin McMurrer and many others over the years) and executives (Dan Souza, Jack Bishop, Jackie McCauley Ford, Madeline Langlieb, Nina Giannelli) who made the work better and the days more fun. I learned from all of them, and I’m grateful to now call many of them friends. After becoming a mother last year, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want this next chapter of work and life to look like. For now, I’m spending time with my son and taking on a small number of selective advisory projects in producing, content strategy, and founder storytelling. I’m excited to stay connected with friends and collaborators across food, media, audio, video, and creative strategy.
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked thisA little update from my personal creative work: As part of my ongoing creative partnership with UNIQLO , we celebrated the grand opening of their new Downton Crossing flagship in Boston with some new designs. Thank you to the thousands (!) of people lined up for the opening, our Mayor Michelle Wu, and Fuminori(Fred), for coming out, and the awesome team at Uniqlo for such a great experience and our collaborations over the past year. More to come!
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked thisThe myth of DIY. We had our second Field Trip for The Afternoon Shift last Friday, and an unexpected moment from a full-time working artist ended up making the case for collaboration before we even got started with the formal program. After a great experience last month at the Folk Americana Roots Hall Of Fame at the Boch Center, I decided to keep the music theme going. It's consistently energy-giving, and, in my experience hosting, it's undefeated as a device that quickly shifts perspective and invites connection. For Field Trip #2 we gathered at The Record Co., a state-of-the-art recording studio and creative complex, which also happens to be the only non-profit studio of its kind in Boston. There were two guiding principles for the day: 1. Scruffy networking: put aside the urge to impress and instead show up humble, honest, and helpful. 2. Chatham House Rule: you can share what you learned after the event, but in an effort to support principle #1 (keep it scruffy), don't quote anyone directly unless you have explicit permission. With that, 20 exceptional leaders entered the space, grabbed a slice, and joined me for what turned out to be a surprising performance to kick off the event. I knew singer-songwriter Zion Rodman would be entertaining, but his performance was truly mesmerizing and did something hard to do in the middle of a work day: make us forget the stream of messages competing for our attention. I didn't want to mess with his flow, but I couldn't let the moment pass. It felt like a unique opportunity for all of us who work in a traditional business context to hear from a full-time working artist. I asked him what he thought about collaboration, and he once again matched his musical prowess with deep and thoughtful storytelling about what it was like to focus on his art full-time. He talked about getting up at 530 to wash windows earlier in his journey, what it was like now as a full-time artists, and the various people in his life who help him make the latter a reality. In doing so, he explicitly dispelled the romantic notion of do-it-yourself. I can't imagine a more poignant way to drive home the point of teamwork at the heart of The Afternoon Shift. With that as our inspiring jumping-off point, we spent the rest of our time in pairs, going through three different rounds and meeting three different people with three different challenges. It culminated in each person texting their new accountability partner on the spot, committing to a specific action they'd been putting off and agreeing to follow up with one another to help see it through. I'm so grateful to everyone who joined, and we're just getting started. Look out for the Field Trip #3 announcement coming soon in the newsletter. Let's keep making career more of a team sport. ---- 🎥: Recording - Aaron Wagenheim, Editing - Siena Tan Yi
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked thisI’m excited to share that I have accepted an offer to join Brown & Brown as an Employee Benefits Analyst Intern for Summer 2026! Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout this process. I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and look forward to joining the team!
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Fran Middleton liked thisFran Middleton liked thisToday, Sierra is releasing Ghostwriter, our agent for building agents. With Ghostwriter, you can create an AI agent for your customer experience — one that can chat, pick up the phone, speak dozens of languages, take action on your systems of record, and be protected with industry-leading guardrails — simply by having a conversation. No clicking, no forms, no menus. Codex and Claude Code have transformed how we build software, making it possible for software engineers to orchestrate and review the work rather than doing all the work themselves. We think the same transformation will happen for all software. Rather than every enterprise app having a web app for humans and an API for automation, every software platform’s UI will be an agent that can do the work on your behalf. I recorded a demo of my building and optimizing an agent with Ghostwriter so you can see how powerful and easy it is to use. It’s completely changed the way our early adopters build agents, and it’s changed the way I think about the software industry. Let me know what you think, and, if you’re interested in trying it out at your business, please reach out directly. You can check out the full blog post in the comments.
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Fran Middleton liked thisI'm thrilled to announce that I've joined Going as CEO. A huge thank you to Brian Kidwell and Scott Keyes for this opportunity. I look forward to working with both in this next chapter and helping millions of people travel and experience the world. To the Going team, I'm excited to dive in and to see how far we can fly together! ✈️ #getgoing #travelFran Middleton liked this🛫 Hold on to your boarding pass. We have news... We're thrilled to announce that David Krauter has officially joined Going as our new Chief Executive Officer. David brings serious travel industry chops — including over a decade at #Tripadvisor, where he led SmarterTravel and its portfolio of brands like Cruise Critic, Jetsetter, and Airfarewatchdog. Our founders, Scott Keyes and Brian Kidwell, remain close to the mission, stepping into board member roles as Going enters its next chapter. But after more than a decade of bootstrapping Going from a scrappy project into a platform that's helped millions of travelers save over $1 billion on flights, they're handing the reins to a leader ready to take things to the next level. As the formidable Cheap Flights Guru Scott Keyes puts it: "I never meant to start a company; I was just a guy who wanted to travel and couldn't afford expensive flights." That spirit is still very much at the heart of what we do — help more people travel and experience the world, one great flight at a time. We're excited for what comes next. If you've ever scored a jaw-dropping flight deal through Going, you know what we're building matters. And we're just getting started 🎉 ➡️ Learn more below: https://lnkd.in/gGeRrHbB #getgoing #travel #bigannouncement #welcomedavid
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2022 Webby Winner: Social Food and Drink
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