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Consumer Reports is seeking an Automotive Engineer to join us at our auto testing site in Colchester, CT! You'll need to bring your passion for cars, with knowledge and insights into the automotive industry and emerging technology. You'll take part in the evaluation of approximately 50 cars every year and work with other Auto Testers and Content, Video, and Communications departments to make the most of the findings. 

Consumer Reports is seeking to hire a Systems Engineer to join our cutting edge IT organzation. As a CR Systems Engineer you will install, administer, and optimize enterprise systems and related components to achieve high performance all supported enterprise systems, environments, and applications. This includes ensuring the availability of client/server applications, coordinating all new implementations, and supporting processes and procedures for ongoing management of the server and client environment. 

Responsible for safety and security of all staff and visitors, and the safeguarding of CR’s assets.  Manages contract security staff and oversees maintenance operations. Ensures the ongoing effectiveness of enterprise-wide security and related operations.

Consumer Reports seeks a Test Project Leader - Automation.  The Project Leader oversees testing projects and automation efforts in the test labs. The Project Leader ensures that testing protocols and procedures are followed, and develops methodologies to meet testing objectives.

For over 80 years, people have trusted Consumer Reports to work for a safe, fair and transparent marketplace that serves their interests and help them make informed decisions. This commitment to putting consumers first is reflected in our work bringing people together to advocate for consumer rights -- whether in the halls of government or the headquarters of corporations. We believe that consumer power is an extraordinary force. Working alongside our members, we don't hesitate to launch actions against powerful corporate actors. And we win. We've led campaigns that have pushed fast food companies to adopt sustainable practices, passed reforms that protect a free and open internet, and forced safety improvements in cars and other products. Our track record shows: it's by harnessing the collective power of consumers that we can hold even the largest corporations accountable and promote policies that protect people in the marketplace. As Associate Director, you'll help us envisage the next era of consumer engagement. Your role is to design and implement strategies and systems that scale our engaged community, build strong partnerships across diverse organizations and networks, and most importantly, empower consumers to be leaders in advocating for change. You'll be instrumental in mapping out the investments and technologies needed to build partnerships with diverse networks and groups. And you'll help us reach new, younger, diverse audiences. We're looking for someone to build consumer power in an age when consumers need a powerful partner to stand up for their rights. Inspired? Then we want to meet you.

  Consumer Reports—the nation’s premier independent product testing organization—seeks a highly skilled editor and manager of people to help oversee CR’s team of auto journalists, specifically focusing on editing and managing CR’s extensive auto review and auto-related product coverage. The ideal candidate is a self-professed car geek with broad experience in mainstream media and significant editing and management skills.  He or she labors over article organization, is a strategist who can develop new digital-first forms of storytelling, and is at ease discussing automotive technology with our expert testing staff as well as representatives from the auto industry.   The successful candidate has a collaborative spirit and a demonstrated knack for working across department lines on multi-platform content. This is a unique chance to help lead one of CR’s most important franchises that reaches millions of readers every day.   This position is located in Colchester, CT. Take a test drive around our 327-acre auto testing facility. 

We’re looking for a lab testing program manager who lives and breathes privacy. Our experts put thousands of products to the test each year in our 63 labs. These result in product ratings and also recommendations to manufacturers to make their products better.   With signifigant investment in our Digital Lab, we will begin incorporating privacy and data security scores for all of the connected product categories we test. We will also screen for problems with privacy policies and data security, which often results in discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities.   That’s where you come in. You will manage two project leaders who will manage time-bound projects to incorporate privacy and security tests for products ranging from TVs, to laptops, to fridges, to robotic vacuums. You will oversee all aspects of a wide range of product testing projects related to privacy and information security of network and Internet-connected consumer products (both hardware and software). You will own planning, development, deployment, support and successful delivery of all phases of assigned product testing work as part of an overarching marketplace change strategy. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to original investigative research with CR journalists and advocates.   This is a great career opportunity for a researcher or technologist interested in making a measurable impact on consumer privacy, cybersecurity, and the lived quality of IoT. You will solve a steady stream of interesting challenges, be exposed to the latest hardware and software from hundreds of manufacturers, and have the opportunity to take them apart, probe them, and increase public knowledge in a way that benefits millions of people.

For over 80 years, people have trusted Consumer Reports to work for their interest and help them make informed decisions. Today, consumers are facing a whole new set of challenges in a digital marketplace where tech companies hold the power to shape people’s lives. Big tech companies are leveraging their size and reach to introduce business models that limit choice, avoid addressing the harms posed by their products and services, and use people’s data without their understanding, consent, or control.   If you think we all deserve better and want to help create a fairer digital marketplace, then we want you to join CR’s advocacy efforts as part of our new Digital Lab.   We’re looking for a lawyer, economist, or entrepreneur who has deep familiarly with the novel challenges of the digital marketplace, Big Tech and telecom companies, and an interest in putting consumers first. This new Senior Researcher will join the advocacy team to help create a digital marketplace where competition empowers consumers. They will leverage the resources of CR’s Digital Lab and their own expertise in tech industry business practices, competition law, the economics of competition and consumer welfare, or other relevant knowledge to help CR take on Big Tech.   At Consumer Reports, we're building a diverse workforce that reflects our society, embraces new ways of thinking, celebrates a wide breadth of experiences, and reflects all of the audiences we serve. Inclusion means valuing the uniqueness that each staff member brings by creating an environment where everyone is welcome. Our objective is simple: for all employees to feel supported so that they're set up for success.   A cover letter is required with resume submission.

Are you concerned that tech companies have too much power to shape people’s lives? That the most powerful business models today are based on extracting people's data without their understanding, consent or control? And that companies are not keeping pace with the emerging harms posed by their products and services? If you think we all deserve better and want to put your skills to work for the good guys, then we want you to help build our new Digital Lab.   For over 80 years, people have trusted Consumer Reports to advocate for their interests and help them make informed choices. Today, we're inviting you on new mission: to make sure there are rules for fair conduct in the digital marketplace, and that they’re set in consumers’ favor. To make sure people can live their lives without being forced to sacrifice their privacy. And to make sure people can trust that their devices and data are secure.   We're looking for technologists, activists, lawyers, economists and entrepreneurs who share our drive to build consumer power in the 21st century. With your help, we’ll lead a new movement to restore choice and control to our digital lives. Learn more at http://lab.cr.org.      

Are you concerned that tech companies have too much power to shape people’s lives? That the most powerful business models today are based on extracting people's data without their understanding, consent or control? And that companies are not keeping pace with the emerging harms posed by their products and services? If you think we all deserve better and want to put your skills to work for the good guys, then we want you to help build our new Digital Lab.   For over 80 years, people have trusted Consumer Reports to advocate for their interests and help them make informed choices. Today, we're inviting you on new mission: to make sure there are rules for fair conduct in the digital marketplace, and that they’re set in consumers’ favor. To make sure people can live their lives without being forced to sacrifice their privacy. And to make sure people can trust that their devices and data are secure.   We're looking for technologists, activists, lawyers, economists and entrepreneurs who share our drive to build consumer power in the 21st century. With your help, we’ll lead a new movement to restore choice and control to our digital lives. Learn more at http://lab.cr.org.