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Business Analyst, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

The IMDb team is looking for an analytical and technically skilled Business Analyst to join our team. This role is responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring traffic patterns and usage data of visitors to our sites. This position will be also responsible for identifying and exploiting opportunities and to increase overall engagement with our sites.

This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and a desire to help shape the overall business strategy. The ideal candidate will have expertise in manipulating, interpreting and reporting on large data sets, in addition to experience in forecasting traffic trends. He or she will demonstrate a combination of business and technical skills with proven written, verbal and analytical communication skills.

Key responsibilities:

  • Identify core metrics, build reporting and analysis to identify yield trends and opportunities.
  • Architect and continuously improve traffic forecasting models.
  • Develop capacity prediction models that account for seasonal traffic fluctuations, internal traffic management initiatives and event-specific fluctuations.
  • Identify new traffic opportunities and strategies.
  • Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in web analytics, business analysis or comparable analytics position.
  • BS in Math, Finance, Statistics or related discipline is required, an MBA is preferred.
  • Advanced Excel skills are required

Preferred Qualifications:

  • SQL/SAS skills are preferred.
  • Experience with statistical analysis, regression modeling and forecasting, time series analysis, data mining, financial analysis, dynamic pricing, demand modeling, game theory and customer/product segmentation.
  • Ability to communicate and work with a wide range of groups, including sales, engineering, product management, and senior management.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Business Analyst, IMDb #179034
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.



Software Development Director, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

IMDb (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon) is recruiting for a Director of Engineering to lead our worldwide and world class software engineering team in delivering the technology required to meet IMDb’s business goals. As a technical executive, you will be responsible for maintaining and raising engineering and operational standards by mentoring and reviewing the work of your team and recruiting top talent. You will be responsible for leading teams through rapidly evolving complex demands, including multiple projects with dependencies on other internal organizations.

This is a high profile position with strategic responsibility. As IMDb’s Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading a team of technical managers and their teams in design, development, test, and deployment of IMDb’s products and services which are used by over 100 million people per month. These products include a consumer facing web site, a series of popular mobile applications on multiple platforms (iOS, Android and Kindle Fire), a subscription site aimed at entertainment professionals (IMDbPro), a film festival submissions system (Withoutabox.com) and a box office information site (Box Office Mojo). All these are in turn built upon a rapidly growing database of entertainment content which covers over two million titles and contains over 100 million items, requiring state-of-the-art tools to publish and maintain.

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. You will work closely with management, customers, design, product management, database content and customer support to maintain and enhance existing products as well as to develop new products.

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the software engineering teams at IMDb with technical managers and engineering teams located in Seattle, Los Angeles and Bristol (UK)
  • Work closely with IMDb’s CEO, CTO and COO to develop and manage the long-term technical strategy for IMDb and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
  • Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
  • Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
  • Work closely with technical managers, principals and engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
  • Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology

Professional traits 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 or related technical discipline
  • 5+ years of experience at director level or above
  • 10+ years of experience of managing products, budgets and justifying resource needs to senior leaders and finance partners.
  • 10+ years of experience as a software developer
  • 10+ years of experience in a senior engineering management role
  • Software development experience in OOP, Java, Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Linux/UNIX, AJAX, MySQL

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • Strong business and technical vision
  • Deep hands-on technical expertise
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • 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
  • Experience working in a small startup, or venture-funded company highly desirable
  • Business management or a related degree

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!

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Software Development - Director, Software Development, IMDb #165442
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 #178760
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
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



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 #160816
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



Open Software Developer positions in Bristol:

Data Manager, Database Content (Bristol, UK)

Hello. We are looking for a very special individual to join the Database Content Team here at IMDb.

Are you passionate about all things entertainment? Are you as comfortable with Hitchcock as you are with Hitch? Does TV leave you feeling Lost, or are you the kind of person that thinks a show with a Doctor Who travels in a phone box is cool? What's your opinion of Christopher Nolan films - are they genius from their Inception or not the kind of thing you'd keep as a Memento - perhaps they give you Insomnia? What's your opinion of Lady Gaga - can you watch her music videos and keep a Poker Face, do you think she just plays to the Paparazzi? Do you know who Star Wars Kid and Keyboard Cat are? Did you watch Charlie get his finger bitten?

Do you want to assist us in our goal of being the world's #1 source of entertainment content?

Are you passionate about customer experience, have an eye for detail and want to innovate on behalf of our customers?

This could be the role you've been looking for.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Managers play an essential role at IMDb - ensuring that the Database Content, from which our Consumer, Professional and Mobile experiences are built from, is complete and correct.

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.

Did we 'Have you at Hello'?

Basic Qualifications:

  • Prior experience of content managements systems.
  • Knowledgeable about software development processes and with 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Ability to communicate in multiple languages, both written and verbal.
  • Prior experience of Linux beneficial, but not essential.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Data Manager, Database Content (Bristol, UK) #171386
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.