Open Positions:



Mobile Software Developer (Seattle, WA)

Join the team that puts IMDb in your pocket, on your TV screen, and everywhere in between! IMDb's Everywhere business encompasses applications on device platforms such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, and mobile web (HTML5, Javascript, CSS, etc.)

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and results-oriented software engineers to build innovative, easy-to-use user features across a wide variety of device platforms. This is one of the fastest growing segments within IMDb, and puts you at the center of emerging mobile device 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.

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.
  • 2+ years professional experience with a mainstream mobile OS, e.g. iOS or Android.
  • 2+ years professional experience with Objective-C or C#.

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Mobile Software Developer #128650
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Software Development Engineer, IMDb Platform (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the largest and most ubiquitous sites on the web. We are visited by millions of passionate users every day, have the deepest, most authoritative data set of movies, tv and celebrities, and a growing collection of exciting new features that bring the two together.

Do you want to have a big impact? We are looking for a talented software engineer to be a part of the team charged with defining the technical direction of our global top 40 website.

Do you have the need for speed? We have set ambitious client-side latency goals and need great developers to help us meet them!

Does solving big problems excite you? We're revamping our metrics system, which processes petabytes of data.

Do you like collaboration? We work with teams across the company to develop the core technologies that drive IMDb.

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, C++, Java, or PERL

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience 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
  • 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 with service-oriented architectures and service design
  • Experience with javascript, DHTML and high performance website best practices

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development Engineer, IMDb Platform #128671
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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 integration, Celebrity Twitter feeds and more. We're expanding our online presence into mobile apps and living-room devices, and we're building out a new tech platform based on cutting-edge scalable Amazon technologies.

As a member of the Content Technology team, your goal would be 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, co-operative, agile team who thrive on solving challenging problems with innovation.

You'd relish the chance to build lean SOA systems and scale them to IMDb proportions; you'd work well as a peer in a small team of talented engineers; you're skilled at reading and understanding existing code; you're able to rapidly prototype solutions; you can communicate clearly and succinctly; and you have a passion for learning and improvement.

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in the design, development, implementation, testing and documentation 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.
  • Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation.
  • Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
  • Mentor junior development engineers.

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!

Qualifications:

  • Results-oriented person with a delivery focus
  • Strong coding skills in Java and/or Perl, coupled with a strong base in object-oriented design and development.
  • Experience working with enterprise development, e.g. databases, web-services, SOA, messaging, enterprise integration, distributed systems etc.
  • Fluent English, solid communication skills and the ability to work well in a distributed team.
  • Several years' experience in Software Development, on top of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology #128995
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Director of Online Advertising Sales – Entertainment (Adzinia)(Studio City, CA)

Overview:
Amazon.com is continuing to build out its successful Global Online Display Advertising business across all properties. Our properties where we currently sell display advertising on include top sites in their respective categories - Amazon.com, IMDb.com and dpreview.com. We are leveraging Amazon’s world-class personalization technologies to build highly relevant ads for our advertising partners and customers. As a key leader in this rapidly growing business, the Director of Sales of our entertainment vertical will build out a top flight national entertainment sales team and drive significant revenue growth for your advertising business across Amazon.com, IMDB.com and other properties. He or she will simultaneously develop key large accounts and work in partnership with agencies and internal stakeholders in evolving our advertising products, which are innovative and meet the needs of our entertainment advertisers.

Focus and Deliverables

  1. Build out a national entertainment focused, high performance, driven sales team (consolidate existing and hire additional sales team members)
    • Attract, hire and retain top sales talent
    • Elevate skill sets and develop bench strength in the organization
    • Mentor and coach sales representatives across the regions
    • Determine short and long-range sales revenue plans per property, vertical, account, territory, and Sales AE; annual revenue budgets; tactical action plans
    • Create and implement sales programs and tools that increase performance by the sales staff
  2. Grow national entertainment vertical revenues 50+% in 2011
    • Develop nationwide coverage for top entertainment advertisers.
    • Drive large, multi-year business relationships with top theatrical, home entertainment and television advertisers.
    • Drive the sales management process as well as play a hands-on role in driving sales, generating leads and opening doors for the sales organization.
    • Partner with Ad Product teams for IMDb and Amazon in building out our strategies and highly relevant ad offerings for the entertainment advertisers.
  3. Become Amazon’s Industry Ambassador
    • Utilize existing client and agency relationships to drive large, long-term deals with top entertainment advertisers
    • Represent Amazon at key industry conferences, trade magazines and other speaking events
    • Drive strategic meetings with senior executives to help set program direction and priorities
  4. Drive product innovation through thorough understanding and representation of customer and industry trends/needs to ensure IMDb and Amazon continues to provide a powerful and differentiated value proposition
    • Partner with product development to prioritize and build innovative new advertising products to provide a truly better and differentiated advertising business for our customers

Basic Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is an advertising sales leader with a terrific reputation for hiring and developing the best talent and who has deep and broad relationships and has garnered the respect of the agencies and large client leaders. He or she will come with a deep knowledge of and relationships within the entertainment industry. He or she will also have a track record of success at driving top sales results, partnering cross functionally, and professionally representing client needs/perspectives to the product organization. This sales leader will be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker who likely hails from a leading online firm, consumer technology firm or sophisticated interactive advertising agency. He or she will have a strong track record of developing and executing sales strategies, tactics, plans, processes, systems and programs. He or she will be known for accurate forecasting a combination of strong relationship building and analytical sales leadership skills.

This sales leader will have a strong reputation for building high performance sales teams with a demonstrated ability to sell the value of a media property rather than just the program/price. This sales leader will have a track record of closing large complex deals himself or herself but not taking them at the end stage from the rep or team. He or she is a strong coach and mentor for the sales organization. This sales leader will also be adept at managing a field organization and ensuring excellent communications with headquarters stakeholders.

The successful candidate will also have a talent for responding effectively to market direction, customer needs and competitive positioning. S/he will thrive in past paced dynamic environments and have very strong communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required

See the job application page on Amazon.com or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Director of Online Advertising Sales – Entertainment (Adzinia) #127465 or e-mail it to a friend.
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Leader, IMDb Monetization (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is seeking a talented and highly motivated Leader to drive the growth and monetization of our consumer business. You will be responsible for leading a team of product managers and developers who are focused on building and managing key revenue generating programs, including Sponsored Links, Display Advertising and Business Development as well as new initiatives such as Mobile and Syndication. Your focus will be to grow current and build new revenue channels, as well as driving the strategy and development of how IMDb fits in with the overall Amazon.com advertising efforts. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech, entertainment and media industries experience inside one of the world’s leading entertainment, technology companies.

Objectives:

  • Develop new advertising products and monetization and optimization efforts by evaluating the business and competitive landscape, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for our business. As a key stakeholder you will influence consumer product development roadmap by clearly identifying and articulating well defined monetization opportunities.
  • Establish revenue goals for the IMDb Consumer business; develop roadmap and manage new revenue product development and business development efforts in areas like video, mobile, interactive media, original content and sponsorships.
  • Lead and drive product development efforts, including requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and launch efforts
  • Build strong relationships across the organization, including the sales organization, through collaboration, motivation and effective leadership skills. You will work closely with the engineering teams to develop functional specifications, coordinate and refine technical requirements and UI designs, and deliver high-quality products which will delight both customers and advertisers.
  • Identify new partnership opportunities and take the lead to evaluate, negotiate and manage strategic partnerships and marketing deals that drive free cash flow for IMDb and support the strategic objectives of the business units.

And most of all, you must be passionate about movies, TV, and celebrity!

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of Product Management or Marketing experience
  • A bachelor's degree is required
Preferred Qualifications:
  • An MBA is preferred as well as strong experience in the online advertising industry.
  • 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, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize. Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
  • Ability to carry out complex analysis, competitive intelligence and market research projects and create clear concise presentations on quantitative and qualitative findings to senior management.
  • 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

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Leader, IMDb Monetization #113976
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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 will include working with Business Development on partnerships for both content and new video technologies, working directly with studios and major networks in crafting 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.

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Principal Product Manager, IMDb Video #126055
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Senior Product Manager, IMDb Everywhere (Seattle, WA) (125865)

IMDb (www.imdb.com) 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 and Windows Phone 7. Our mobile 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.

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial product leader to join our fastest growing initiative known as IMDb Everywhere. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving significant growth in IMDb’s consumer businesses by conceiving, prioritizing, and executing development projects that provide the best user experience to our consumers, while generating traffic and ad revenue for IMDb. You will monitor user feedback and industry trends, collect requirements, develop functional specifications, coordinate and refine technical and UI designs, and deliver high-quality projects on-time. You have the primary responsibility for all project deliverables and act as the single point of contact for all project communication. 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 Everywhere 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.

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Product Manager, IMDb Everywhere #125865
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Team Manager, Database Content (Bristol, UK)

IMDb is looking for an experienced, talented and highly motivated Team Manager to join the Database Content Team in Bristol. An individual who is passionate about all things Movies/TV/Celebrity.

You will be part of the group that is responsible for ensuring that the Database Content, from which our Consumer, Professional and Everywhere experiences are built, is complete and correct.

The Database Content Team are responsible for the end -to-end content pipeline, from submission/ingestion -> vetting -> storage -> publication. Within this role, you will have the ability to improve the experience in all of these areas.

You will be joining a team that is highly focused on ensuing our contribution experiences are engaging, our coverage is complete and our vetting workflows are 'smart'.

This position requires a creative, entrepreneurial, and analytically oriented person who enjoys being involved with large, complex content workflows and can innovate on them; An individual who is self-motivated, and can keep momentum going consistently.

A demonstrated ability to build, develop and manage valuable long standing relationships with customers (both internal and external) is crucial. In addition to having excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail, and good follow-through.

The ideal candidate will be highly goal-oriented and focused on delivering the right results.

Key Responsibilities:

You will work closely with the Manager for Database Content to ensure that the team will deliver on its Database Content goals.

You will lead a team of Data Managers, with specific measurable goals relating to the Database Content experience - to support our goal of being the #1 source of entertainment content.

You will provide leadership, guidance, mentoring and performance management for your direct reports.

You will be required to demonstrate analytical and quantitative skills, the ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases. As well as the ability to clearly communicate data insights to others.

You will monitor user feedback and industry trends, collect requirements, develop functional specifications, coordinate and refine technical and UI designs, and assist in the delivery of high-quality projects on-time.

You will assist in the expansion of content selection across all of our IMDb experiences, Consumer, Professional and Everywhere.

You will design pragmatic solutions. These solutions will be flexible and forward looking, while remaining simple and straight forward.

You will be responsible for liaising with technology and other internal teams on workflow improvements, data interpretation and data improvements.

Qualifications/Experience:

  • Demonstrated experience in Team/People Management.
  • Demonstrated experience in Product Management.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver on specific goals.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues.
  • Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.
  • Prior experience of content management systems.
  • Knowledgeable about software development processes and database and web technologies.
  • An excellent systems-thinker who loves improving workflow and technology systems inside organizations.
  • Prior experience of user generated content sites, to include insights into the motivations of contributor communities and how to better support and engage them.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal.
  • Superlative attention to detail.
  • Excellent organizational skills combined with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Ability to communicate in multiple languages, both written and verbal beneficial, but not essential.

See the job application page on Amazon.co.uk or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Team Manager, Database Content #124942
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Software Developer (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is one of the largest and most ubiquitous sites on the web, used by millions of people every day. We have a deep, authoritative data set, millions of passionate users and a growing collection of exciting new features that bring the two together.

We are looking for a talented software engineer to help us build the next generation of the core systems that power IMDb, from theway we render web pages to the way we store and access data. We want to make it faster and easier than ever to build features using IMDb's rich data set.

We are looking for 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 C, C++, C#, Java, 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 in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Developer #126184

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Senior UX Designer, IMDbPro (Los Angeles, CA)

IMDb is seeking a Senior UX Designer to help lead our efforts in creating a high quality user experience for our professional services offering, IMDbPro. You will work closely with product owners, web developers, programmers and other designers to create innovative design solutions that are used constantly by industrial professionals, celebrities and their fans.

IMDb, a subsidiary of Amazon is the best of both worlds in terms of providing the nimbleness and energy of a start-up combined with the stability and benefits that come from being part of an established corporation.

Responsibilities include:

  • End to end design of large-scale projects that focus on a user-centered design approach
  • Assessment and analysis of current site traffic trends and user behavior
  • Conception and creation of designs that address both primary user as well as business goals.
  • Working on multiple projects concurrently while handling many different types of design requests
  • Refinement, maintenance and enforcement of our current design guidelines and strategies.
  • Adeptly handling changing priorities throughout a product life cycle
  • Presenting your design solutions to a wide variety of teams and departments

Minimum Job Qualifications:

  • 5 years of professional experience creating design solutions for large-scale projects
  • Degree in Human Factors, HCI, industrial design, visual arts or related area
  • Deep knowledge of information architecture, interaction flow, user interface and visual design
  • A solid understanding of web design principles and best use of current web technologies and scalable dynamic user interfaces.
  • Proven ability to work within ambiguous design constraints
  • Demonstrated experience in executing product requirements into a site vision
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively in large or small groups
  • Organization skills and the ability to work independently
  • Expert skill level in the standard tools of the trade; Photoshop, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS
  • Experience with JavaScript is preferred.
  • Relevant domain experience a plus

See the application on the Amazon jobs page, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior UX Designer, IMDbPro #122330
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Senior Product Manager, IMDb Display Advertising (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is seeking a talented and highly motivated Senior Product Manager to drive the growth and monetization of our display advertising program. Your focus will be to grow the current display advertising channel in order to improve overall page value, customer relevancy and advertiser/partner ROI. You will also be responsible for defining and executing on how IMDb fits in with the overall Amazon.com advertising platform efforts. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech, entertainment and media industries experience inside one of the world’s leading entertainment, technology companies.

Objectives:

  • Develop new advertising products or monetization and optimization efforts by evaluating the business and competitive landscape, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for our business. As a key stakeholder you will influence consumer product development roadmap by clearly identifying and articulating well defined monetization opportunities.
  • Lead and drive product development efforts, including requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and launch efforts.
  • Establish product and revenue goals for the IMDb Display Advertising channel; develop roadmap and manage new product development efforts such as online, video, interactive media, original content and sponsorships. This includes building standardized ad placements/products, sales packages, evaluating customized solutions and new opportunities, and owning the product development life cycle from defining the strategy through launch.
  • Build strong relationships across the organization, through collaboration, motivation and effective leadership skills. You will work closely with the engineering teams to develop functional specifications, coordinate and refine technical requirements and UI designs, and deliver high-quality products which will delight both customers and advertisers.
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. As such, 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: 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.
And most of all, you must be passionate about movies, TV, and celebrity! Qualifications: Basic Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of Product Management or Marketing experience
  • A bachelor's degree is required
Preferred Qualifications:
  • An MBA is preferred as well as strong experience in the online advertising industry.
  • 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.
  • Ability to carry out complex analysis, competitive intelligence and market research projects and create clear concise presentations on quantitative and qualitative findings to senior management.
  • 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

See the job application page on Amazon.com, e-mail it to a friend or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Senior Product Manager, IMDb Display Advertising #128002
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



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