Design Technologist - IMDb (onsite in SEA office 3x per week), Creative Studio
IMDb.com, Inc.
Seattle, WA
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. IMDb runs the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. IMDb sits at the intersection of the entertainment, media, and technology inside the world’s most innovative and consumer-centric company – Amazon.com. IMDb employees enjoy the benefits of working for Amazon with the autonomy of working on a small, nimble team.
You are an experienced Design Technologist who has successfully demonstrated taking business goals, prototyping interactive advertising experiences and turning them into inspiring world-class designs. You understand the complexity of advertising and know how to set the visual standard for different categories. You have strong organizational skills, web expertise and acute attention to detail.
You will work with a talented team of designers, program managers, and developers to launch campaigns for every major movie and TV studio.
Key job responsibilities
* Work on custom, experiential advertising campaigns on behalf of global entertainment partners.
* Create robust design tools that empower designers and design technologists to create best in class campaigns.
* Continued development of the IMDb advertising product portfolio, building scalable products that keep current with the perpetual evolution of the advertising industry.
* Own end-to-end development of functional prototypes to test hypothesis and demonstrate concepts to business partners, software development teams and senior leadership.
* Identify, source and evaluate hardware components and platforms against customer, product and business requirements.
* Rapidly build and iterate on prototypes of varying fidelity, that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task.
* Partner with Product Managers to develop vision, strategy, and technical requirements.
* Partner with operations, product and engineering teams to ensure prototypes address integration dependencies.
* Evaluate and document any new creative and/or engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work.
* Be able to work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to create delightful experiences for customers.
* Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to your immediate and extended team.
About the team
We are a technical UX team, that operates with a design studio mentality. Our culture is relaxed but professional. We enjoy each other's company and value the diverse range of opinions and skillsets within our team. We partner regularly with Product and Engineering teams that comprise our organization. Our team is expanding our portfolio to support global advertising products on IMDb. We also support a suite of home-grown internal tools, designed and built within our team. These tools enable a broad range of critical campaign and creative processes within our broader organization.
You are an experienced Design Technologist who has successfully demonstrated taking business goals, prototyping interactive advertising experiences and turning them into inspiring world-class designs. You understand the complexity of advertising and know how to set the visual standard for different categories. You have strong organizational skills, web expertise and acute attention to detail.
You will work with a talented team of designers, program managers, and developers to launch campaigns for every major movie and TV studio.
Key job responsibilities
* Work on custom, experiential advertising campaigns on behalf of global entertainment partners.
* Create robust design tools that empower designers and design technologists to create best in class campaigns.
* Continued development of the IMDb advertising product portfolio, building scalable products that keep current with the perpetual evolution of the advertising industry.
* Own end-to-end development of functional prototypes to test hypothesis and demonstrate concepts to business partners, software development teams and senior leadership.
* Identify, source and evaluate hardware components and platforms against customer, product and business requirements.
* Rapidly build and iterate on prototypes of varying fidelity, that express design intent, using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques for the task.
* Partner with Product Managers to develop vision, strategy, and technical requirements.
* Partner with operations, product and engineering teams to ensure prototypes address integration dependencies.
* Evaluate and document any new creative and/or engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work.
* Be able to work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges imposed by the delivery platform to create delightful experiences for customers.
* Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to your immediate and extended team.
About the team
We are a technical UX team, that operates with a design studio mentality. Our culture is relaxed but professional. We enjoy each other's company and value the diverse range of opinions and skillsets within our team. We partner regularly with Product and Engineering teams that comprise our organization. Our team is expanding our portfolio to support global advertising products on IMDb. We also support a suite of home-grown internal tools, designed and built within our team. These tools enable a broad range of critical campaign and creative processes within our broader organization.
Full-time