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Senior Manager, IMDb Product Management/Marketing (Seattle, WA)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique US visitors each month. This is a key leadership position which will extend IMDb’s lead as the premier movie, TV and celebrity site on the web by driving innovation and strategic planning for IMDb through the management of the global consumer websites, including product management, editorial and marketing.

As a product leader for IMDb, you will manage a team and be responsible for driving significant growth of IMDb’s consumer businesses through defining the overall product and marketing vision and strategy, product design and development, as well as driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech and media industries. The successful candidate will continue to grow the scope and diversity of IMDb Consumer team.

Key strategic objectives:

  • Ensure that IMDb provides the best customer experience for movies, TV, celebrity content and the best experience for advertisers on the IMDb family of sites.
  • Lead a product management team and establish the long term global product strategy around our core category of Movies and TV as well as Video and expansions into Celebrity and other new categories; setting product goals and strategies; develop roadmap and effectively balance new product efforts in a fast-changing and competitive space.
  • Create and grow a marketing function to drive brand awareness, consumer acquisition, traffic, increased usage and revenue.
  • Work closely with the Monetization and Sales teams on developing engaging advertising products as well as new and diversified revenue streams.
  • Establish an undeniable IMDb Editorial voice in the industry.
  • Improve the customer experience on IMDb
  • Expand the IMDb footprint to social networking.
  • Work with Mobile teams to expand IMDb’s reach in emerging platforms
  • Develop strong and strategic studio relationships
  • Build relationships and opportunities to align with the broader Amazon organization including Amazon Instant Video, LOVEFiLM, Mobile Apps, Kindle Fire, Marketing/Traffic, and other Digital Products teams.

Our ideal candidate will have deep experience in both consumer marketing and product management, demonstrated ability to drive traffic and new customer acquisition in both the mobile and online channels, proven ability to build and manage a high-performance team, and a passion for entertainment products and services. You will create and execute on a comprehensive marketing plan that builds awareness of and drives traffic to our websites and mobile apps. You will own creation and implementation of our brand, positioning, and editorial voice. You will work at both the strategic level (generating bold and innovative ideas for growth) and at the tactical level(analyzing traffic and user data, and solving problems).

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

  • A proven track record of setting and exceeding aggressive goals; evidence of the ability to consistently make good decisions through a combination of analysis, experience, and judgment
  • A high level of business acumen, including successful P&L; management
  • The ability to think strategically, anticipate future trends, develop product roadmaps, and deliver on those plans
  • The ability to hire and retain top performers, and lead or direct cross-functional teams across multiple geographical locations
  • A thorough understanding of a wide range of business functions and systems, including strategic planning, business development, budgeting, business analysis, finance, software development, and public relations
  • The ability to communicate vision and drive various constituencies to execution and work seamlessly with both technical and business teams

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • At least 6 years of product management or marketing experience in the Internet, media and high-tech industries.
  • Ability to think and influence both quantitatively and qualitatively
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and execute to get the job done
  • Ability to work successfully in an ever-changing environment with competing priorities
  • Demonstrated analytical skills; comfortable with a P&L;, business trend analysis and forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully influence multiple stakeholders and lead cross functional teams across geographies and business units
  • Demonstrated track record of creative problem solving; thinks big, starts small, grows fast
  • Strong attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects/responsibilities

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Manager, IMDb Product Management/Marketing #163843
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Senior Product Manager, IMDb Display Advertising (Seattle, WA)

IMDb sits at the intersection of the high-tech, entertainment and media industries experience inside one of the world’s most innovative and consumer-centric companies. We are one of the most popular entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique US visitors each month and a leading position in the mobile and tablet space.

We are seeking a talented and highly motivated Senior Product Manager to drive the growth and monetization of our display advertising program.

Key responsibilities:

  • Define product strategy by evaluating the business and competitive landscape, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for our business.
  • Lead and drive product development efforts, including requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and launch efforts.
  • Influence the core consumer product development roadmap by clearly identifying and articulating well defined monetization opportunities.
  • Drive revenue by working with advertising sales executives and operations teams
  • Establish product and revenue goals
  • Build strong relationships across the organization with product managers, editorial, designers, developers, and sales

To succeed in this role, you must be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Advertising Strategy: You are passionate about advertising and understand the fine balance between a great customer experience and a great advertiser experience. You understand the advertising industry, the needs of advertising clients, and the goals of the IMDb advertising business, and will synthesize into a coherent and innovative product strategy. You are a champion for and the voice of our advertising customers to IMDb and Amazon senior management.
  • Product Management Excellence: You can quickly step in to own and drive multiple concurrent products throughout the end-to-end product development lifecycle. You can think creatively as well as analytically and are able to think about how to drive the best end-result for the business, our advertising customers, and IMDb’s users. You have experience with creating business plans, product requirements and functional specs. You can manage resources and feature prioritization across multiple products and feel comfortable working with technical teams to make decisions about complex problems. You understand how to work across groups with different goals and partner with them to ensure that the product being developed meets both the needs of advertising clients and IMDb customers.
  • Sales Enablement & Marketing: A significant part of the overall Site revenue is driven through online display advertising via a direct sales force, Adzinia. A large part of the role will be managing the relationship between IMDb consumer business, Adzinia Sales and agencies/advertisers. You know how to work with advertising sales teams to prioritize product requests, determine which requests to develop, and then package new products in compelling ways to optimize sales. You can balance the needs of key advertising stakeholders like Product Management, Marketing, Ad Operations, Account Management, Yield Management, Remnant, and Engineering and ensure decisions being made are the best for the collective whole.
  • Passion: You are passionate about movies, TV, and celebrity. You can tell a great marketing story about advertising on IMDb, and your passion shines through in meeting with clients.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Product Manager, IMDb Display Advertising #164547
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Senior Software Development Manager, IMDb Video and Recommendations (Seattle, WA)

IMDb (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon) is recruiting for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead our “What to Watch” team. You’ll be charged with transforming IMDb from a reference site to a place where hundreds of millions of people find and discover what to watch across a variety of video providers, and seamlessly connect them with watching the movies and TV shows best suited for them, wherever and whenever they may be. Your team will innovate in areas such as movie recommender systems, integration with third party and Amazon-powered content providers, and building services that power IMDb’s and Amazon’s suites of mobile apps for Kindle Fire, Android, and iOS as well as our desktop and mobile websites.

This is a high profile position with strategic responsibility that crosses IMDb and Amazon. As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading a fully-staffed team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of these services. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
  • Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
  • Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
  • Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
  • Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
  • Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

  • Exhibits excellent judgment
  • Hires and develops great people
  • Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
  • Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
  • Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
  • Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
  • Strong results orientation
  • Thinks big

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
  • 10+ years of experience as a software developer
  • 5+ years experience managing people
  • Software development experience in OOP, Java, Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Linux/UNIX, AJAX, MySQL

Preferred qualifications:

  • Deep hands-on technical expertise
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong business and technical vision
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
  • Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Software Development Manager, IMDb Video and Recommendations #160637
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Head of Business Development, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique visitors each month. In the last 12 months, we have launched leading entertainment applications for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7 and just recently the IMDb Trivia App. Our mobile and tablet apps have received rave reviews by both users and media. Since the launch of our mobile initiative, we’ve been growing at a rate of almost a million new installs (users) per month.

IMDb is seeking a talented, highly motivated and experienced individual to lead IMDb Business Development, driving continued growth in this space as well as other strategic areas for the business. This role will work closely with IMDb and Amazon leaders on partnerships and strategic business opportunities. You will be required to handle multiple high-priority projects across various categories, including digital and social media, mobile, gaming and advertising at the same time and effectively negotiate terms that benefit IMDb and our customers. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your strong understanding of the Internet, high-tech and media industries inside one of the world’s leading technology companies to structure innovative and impactful partnerships.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

  • Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate and manage strategic Internet partnerships and marketing deals that drive free cash flow for IMDb and support the strategic objectives of IMDb's business.
  • Drive business development efforts to distribute IMDb apps across various platforms and devices. Specifically, you will help us significantly grow our mobile and tablet business through the creation and management of strategic partnerships with mobile networks, handset, TV and other similar type manufacturers and mobile application developers for distribution of IMDb mobile offerings.
  • Prioritize and develop strategic affiliate relationships working with the consumer product and contributor teams.
  • Conduct reporting and data analysis to analyze partner performance.

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 4-6 years of business development experience in the Internet, media and high-tech industries.
  • Demonstrated track record of identifying and executing successful partnerships and large scale marketing deals, particularly in the e-commerce, online advertising, and digital media industries.
  • Significant experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross-functional groups to orchestrate and successfully conclude deals.
  • Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically, innovatively and creatively using sound business judgment and quantitative skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial along with a proven ability to influence others internally and externally.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while prioritizing and managing multiple responsibilities.
  • Solid understanding of Internet business models and web technologies.
  • A good sense of humor.
  • Experience in mobile marketing or marketing for wireless products/services or high tech startups strongly preferred.
  • MBA from a highly-regarded institution.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Head of Business Development #140719
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Principal Product Manager, IMDb Video (Seattle, WA)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique visitors each month. IMDb offers a searchable database of over 1.5 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and over 3.2 million cast and crew members, making it the Web's most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on movies, TV and celebrities. We’re looking for an entrepreneurial product leader to drive one of our more important strategic initiatives in the video space. You will be responsible for leading cross functional development teams of engineers and designers to develop specified projects. The role is strategic, but also very hands on in leading the development of end user interfaces for video on the site and in mobile, as well as managing products through entire project life cycles. In addition, your responsibilities willinclude working with Business Development on partnerships for both content and new video technologies, working directly with studios and major networks incrafting integration solutions with IMDb, and finally, interfacing with Amazon DVD and Video on Demand teams to develop cross company solutions. The position will initially be a senior individual contributor role, however, it may lead to people management as the initiative space and demand for IMDb video grows. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech and media industries.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

  • Conduct and/or oversee user interface design, usability testing, requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specification, software development, software testing, launch efforts, product marketing.
  • Work cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, legal department, senior management, and fellow product managers on an iterative product development cycle.
  • Manage bottlenecks, resolve escalations, anticipate and make feature and resource trade-offs, balance the business needs against technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences.

Membership on the IMDb Consumer Product team is a big opportunity for your work to be used by millions of passionate movie and TV enthusiasts. If you're up for the challenge, we'd love to speak with you. IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, though we operate as an independent subsidiary. IMDb employees are full-fledged Amazon.com employees; which means you reap the benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company while also working on a smaller, more nimble team. It is the best of both worlds!

Basic Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of Product Management experience
  • A bachelor's degree is required

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A computer science background or equivalent technical background is strongly preferred. An MBA is preferred.
  • Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work.
  • Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary; general manager / owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive; demonstrated ability to have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination.
  • Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge.
  • Successful history of shipping innovative products.
  • Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills, ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases. Ability to clearly communicate data insights to others.
  • Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Principal Product Manager, IMDb Video #162276
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Development Engineer, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the largest and most popular sites on the web, used by millions of people every day. We have a vast data set, tons of passionate users and are constantly improving the experience on our site. We are looking for a talented software engineer to help us build the next generation of our web site. Want to help put a play button on every page? We're looking for people excited and knowledgeable about developing on the web. We hire engineers with a passion for architecting, building, testing and maintaining robust, scalable systems, and who enjoy working on the entire stack, from front to back.

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 2+ years relevant work experience
  • 2 years professional experience in software development
  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
  • Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
  • Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C# or Perl

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
  • Hands-on expertise

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer, IMDb #163534
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), IMDb (Seattle, WA)

The Internet Movie Database is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content with more than 100 million unique visitors per month. IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 1.8 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 4 million cast and crew members.

We are looking for top notch Software Development Test Engineers with a deep level of ownership to code, deploy, and operate automated test software. We need someone who is willing to learn fast and raise the quality bar for many different teams of developers working on accelerated schedules. You will need to operate independently, flexibly, and proactively.

We offer challenges of scale, automation, and creativity as we are in the top 50 busiest websites in the world. This is an opportunity to work with distributed systems on a large scale across multiple data centers and millions of customers. You will get to work on building and implementing tests that interact with the front end production IMDb websites, application servers, mobile application servers, databases, advertising, and batch processing systems. You will build solutions that can catch and alarm on complex problems before they reach the end user. You will help drive best test and QA practices across the software teams.

As we have a relatively small staff, you will interact will all levels of the company, including the founder and CEO. You will have the ability to personally make a big impact.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain an automated test infrastructure for a multi-platform product that will be used to validate all aspects IMDb.
  • Integrate with the software and operations teams to establish a continuous test and build cycles.
  • Establish processes and tool sets to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports.
  • Work with other Software Developers, Project Managers and Operations to ensure the proper operation of the production environment.
  • During the development cycle, identify use cases and create test cases to validate software design via automated tests
  • Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or 2+ years experience in a test or development role as part of a product development organization which has delivered consumer oriented products
  • Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python or Perl
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
  • Experienced in interacting and coordinating test activities among multiple teams
  • Verbal and written communication skills, including ability to give presentations
  • Expert in software quality and testing methodologies

Preferred qualifications:

  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization.
  • Prior experience with Selenium and Subversion
  • Development experience in a Linux/Unix environment
  • Experience with test driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures
  • Experience automating the validating of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures
  • Experience with evaluating and integrating open source and in house developed toolsets

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), IMDb #167109
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Developer, IMDb Mobile (Seattle, WA)

Join the team which puts IMDb in your pocket, on your TV screen, and everywhere in between! The IMDb Mobile team builds applications for iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone 7, and mobile web.

We are looking for server-side software engineers to develop infrastructure that powers IMDb applications across all our device platforms. This is one of the fastest growing segments within IMDb, and puts you at the center of emerging mobile technologies and cloud-based RESTful service engineering. You will integrate a wide range of IMDb services and deliver them to custom user experiences on mobile devices, and extend them for future clients.

Key tasks include: enabling rapid client development, finding innovative ways to increase performance, supporting existing clients, building support for next-generation technologies.

In this role, you will have an enormous opportunity to shape the IMDb experience used every day by millions of passionate movie and TV enthusiasts worldwide. Active participation in product brainstorming sessions, architecture and design reviews, and code reviews is expected. A love of movies and TV is a big plus.

IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, though we operate as an independent subsidiary. IMDb employees are full-fledged Amazon.com employees, which means you reap the benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company while also working on a smaller, more nimble team. It is the best of both worlds!

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4+ year relevant work experience
  • 2+ years professional experience in software development
  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
  • Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
  • Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, Java, or Perl.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience building and delivering highly scalable, reliable, and complex software systems on-time and on budget.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
  • Experience developing in a Linux environment.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer, IMDb Mobile #163520
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Developer, IMDb Information Platform for Tablets (Seattle, WA)

IMDb.com is a top 25 website with billions of pageviews and hundreds of millions of unique users a month. But don't take our word for it, see what stars like Ginnifer Goodwin, Hugh Jackman and others have to say.

You can build big data, high-throughput services that power IMDb's mobile applications including our pre-installed Kindle Fire app, and other integrations with Amazon Instant Video.

Do you want to solve big problems? IMDb has hundreds of millions of data items, and we need highly scalable, highly available, fast systems to serve them. We're building all new services, so you'll be in on the ground floor of design and implementation.

Do you want to have an impact? This team is strategically important to both Amazon and IMDb and will be on the cutting edge of our app offerings.

Do you like collaboration? We work with teams across IMDb and Amazon to develop the core technologies that will drive our mobile offerings.

A love of movies is suggested, but not required; be prepared to be surrounded by debates about the best Tarantino film and discussions about what might happen this season on "True Blood".

As a separately operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, we offer the benefits and stability of a Fortune 500 company, combined with engaging, close-knit, results-focused environment of a small company. It's the best of both worlds.

IMDb is at the forefront of digital and mobile entertainment. You may find yourself developing systems on a Java Spring website, Android, iOS for iPhone and iPad development, Windows Mobile, and HTML5. We also collaborate with Amazon teams such as Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Kindle, connecting us with the larger Amazon development community.

Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
  • 4+ years professional experience in software development
  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
  • Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
  • Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C#, or Perl

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
  • Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
  • Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
  • Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
  • Experience with video and/or mobile applications is a plus

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer, IMDb Information Platform for Tablets #163820
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Senior UX Designer, IMDbPro (Los Angeles, CA)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique users each month and a solid and rapidly growing mobile presence.

We’re seeking a Senior UX Designer to help lead our efforts in creating a high quality user experience in the movie, TV and celebrity realms on our web site as well as our mobile platforms. You will be the lead designer for the user experience strategy and visual design for IMDbPro (IMDb Professional Services), a leading web service for informing and connecting entertainment industry professionals. You will work closely with product owners, web developers, programmers and other designers to create innovative design solutions that impact millions of users, translating business needs into a best-in-class user-focused solution through work flows, user interface designs, interaction models, and prototypes. Additionally, you should be able to design current interfaces while planning for the direction of future iterations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end design of large-scale projects that focus on a user-centered design approach
  • Conception and creation of design solutions that address both primary user goals as well as business goals
  • Refinement, maintenance and enforcement of our current design guidelines and strategies
  • Assessment and analysis of current site traffic trends and user behavior
  • Work on multiple projects concurrently while handling many different types of design requests
  • Adeptly handle changing priorities throughout a product life cycle
  • Partner with the technology team to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experiential principles
  • Work strategically with and present your design solutions to a wide variety of teams and departments

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of professional experience creating design solutions for large-scale projects as an interaction designer or user experience designer
  • Experience with standard tools of the design trade such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, HTML/CSS
  • Bachelors Degree in Human Factors, HCI, industrial design, visual arts or related area

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and ability to analytically defend your design decisions
  • Experience designing within an agile environment
  • Experience designing mobile applications and responsive websites
  • Intermediate level skill in Javascript
  • Relevant domain experience in the entertainment industry or professional networking services
  • A solid understanding of web and mobile design principles and best use of current web and mobile technologies and scalable dynamic user interfaces
  • An online portfolio that demonstrates a strong user experience skillset for large scale projects
  • Demonstrated experience in executing product requirements into a site vision
  • Demonstrated knowledge of information architecture, interaction flow, user interface and visual design

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior UX Designer, IMDbPro #169468
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Software Development Engineer, IMDbPro (Los Angeles, CA)

Are you a great software engineer looking for that next big challenge? Come join a team of other exceptional engineers building next-gen applications for the movie industry right in the entertainment capital of the world - Los Angeles.

The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), an Amazon.com company, is seeking exceptional software engineers in its Los Angeles office. With over 100 million unique users a month, IMDb is the world's largest movie database, featuring over 2 million actors, actresses, and filmmakers as well as over 1 million movies from 1890 through today.

Our mission in Los Angeles is to engage with our industry clients and build the next generation of IMDb's Professional Service products. Along with integrating with our recent acquisition of Without A Box (www.withoutabox.com) into the Amazon/IMDb technical fabric, you will use state of the art technologies to build scalable and reliable web services and applications that inform and thrill millions of customers a day.

Qualified candidates will have experience working in a variety of codebases. They will be able to build and operate large, scalable cooperating services. Candidates must be able to work in an agile development life-cycle. Above all, candidates must have a passion for innovation, learning and improvement.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

  • A degree in Computer Science with 2-5 years of software development experience.
  • Strong desire to build high-performing, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
  • Proven experience with Java (Spring), Perl or C/C++ with a solid understanding of Web technologies and SQL.
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer, IMDbPro #144205
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Open Software Developer positions in Bristol:

Senior Manager, Software Development, IMDb Data Team (Bristol, UK)

IMDb is seeking a senior development manager to lead our data ingestion and contributor user experiences. We are open to discussing relocation options for current non-UK (including U.S) based managers interested in this position.

This team leader will lead a group of software developers to produce a seamless, world-class platform for bringing new data onto IMDb - from both one-time individual contributors to massive feeds from partner sites.

This position is at the heart of what makes IMDb, IMDb. This is a great position for a senior manager interested in managing a heterogeneous group of roles in a highly distributed environment, engaging a group of highly passionate contributors, while also owning the technical vision of a product area.

You will coordinate the establishment and execution of long-term architectural roadmaps. You will drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform while keeping a high bar for customer experience, security and availability.

You will run an Agile team, and have multiple stakeholders across IMDb. You will also drive strategic planning, project execution, development of engineering talent, and continue to operate and improve on our existing platform.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
  • Specific Industry skills in distributed systems and services
  • Experience as a software developer
  • Experience managing people
  • Software development experience in OOP, C++, Java, Linux, MySQL, Oracle

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated technical leadership in delivery of large scale distributed systems
  • Demonstrated leadership in delivering solutions utilizing state of the art database technology
  • International experience or knowledge of additional languages is highly desired
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong business and technical vision
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Manager, Software Development, IMDb Data Team #169662
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology (Bristol, UK)

Join the team behind the world's most popular entertainment database and help us build the next generation of features on IMDb! We've launched recent features like News and Video aggregation, Facebook and Twitter integration, Watchlist, location-aware Showtimes and more. We're expanding our online presence into mobile apps and living-room devices, and we're building a new tech platform based on cutting-edge scalable Amazon technologies.

As a member of the Content Technology team, your goal would be to help build systems allowing us to massively expand IMDb's content selection, while maintaining its reputation as the most accurate source of movie, TV and celebrity data in the world. We're a highly-motivated, collaborative, agile team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation.

We want to grow our Bristol team by finding and hiring the very best software developers. We believe the best developers for our team are those who:

  • Relish the chance to build lean, service-oriented systems and scale them to IMDb proportions.
  • Exercise great judgement and know when to refine existing techniques and when to prototype and invent brand new solutions.
  • Are skilled at understanding and refactoring existing code.
  • Have a passion for learning, self-development, and helping others.
  • Are excited about IMDb's business and about delivering a great experience for our customers.

IMDb provides a world-famous database of unique, exciting entertainment content spanning Movies, TV and Celebrities. We operate at massive scale, serving 100 million visitors per month with our awesome websites and mobile apps. IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, though we operate as an independent subsidiary. IMDb employees are fully-fledged Amazon employees, meaning they reap the benefits of working for a Fortune 500 company while also working on a smaller, more nimble team. It is the best of both worlds!

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in the development of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services.
  • Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
  • Participate in the full development cycle end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
  • Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
  • Collaborate with local engineers and data managers, and work closely with remote business and engineering teams in New York, Seattle and Los Angeles.

Qualifications:

  • Results-oriented person with a delivery focus.
  • Strong coding skills in Java and/or Perl, coupled with experience in object-oriented design and development.
  • Experience working with enterprise development, eg databases, web services, SOA, messaging, enterprise integration, distributed systems, etc.
  • Fluent English, solid communication skills and the ability to work well independently, with a local team, and as part of a distributed global team.
  • A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology #161382
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.