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.
* Develop the IMDb advertising product portfolio to build scalable products that keep current with the perpetual evolution of the advertising industry.
* Proven ability to simplify complex problems into intuitive and elegant experiences
* Proven web development experience across multiple devices, webviews and browsers
* Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
* Gain alignment with stakeholders by presenting work to peers, product teams and executive leadership
* Partnering with program and product managers to appropriately identify correct features for product offerings.
* Develop functional prototypes to test hypothesis and demonstrate concepts to business partners, software development teams and senior leadership.
* Ability to participate in the full lifecycle of design and development – including ideation, prototyping, development, backwards compatibility, fail overs, validation, and user-testing
* Own end-to-end prototyping process and deliverables from a UX and technical perspective.
* Providing 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 7+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
– Have an available online portfolio
– Have coding samples in front end programming languages
– Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes
– Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 8+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $123,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.