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Sales Account Manager, Adzinia (New York, NY)

Adzinia, an Amazon company, is looking for a creative, detail-oriented, and highly-motivated Account Manager to help scale our growing Display Advertising program.

This person will work with the sales team to drive revenue by providing top-notch client service and campaign management, as well as helping to create smart, effective campaigns for new and repeat advertisers. To do this, the Account Manager will have a deep understanding of our display advertising products, technical/operational capabilities, and how to maximize campaign performance.

In addition to working closely with the sales team, the Account Manager will interact with the Display Advertising design, product development, operations, and technology teams, as well as advertising agencies/clients.

Skills required:
  • Media planning capabilities
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication (written and verbal) skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and with a wide range of employees with different skill sets
  • Strong project management skills
  • Minimum of three years of online marketing, advertising, and/or sales experience
  • Bachelor’s degree; emphasis in Marketing, Advertising, or Business preferred

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Sales Account Manager, Adzinia

Applicants only: recruiters must not submit on behalf of other people through this link. Applications not submitted by candidates themselves are rejected.

Sr. Software Manager/Director, IMDb (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is seeking an experienced Sr. Manager to lead our technical team in Seattle. This position has significant management and architectural responsibility for the IMDb site, including our high traffic customer facing sites and our extensive back-end systems.

As technical team manager, you will be responsible for the production and maintenance of the roadmap for technology for our site(s), and produce/execute plans for working with our partner and subsidiary sites (Amazon, Withoutabox, BoxofficeMojo). Our domain includes an unusually eclectic set of challenges including scalable systems, data mining, reputation systems, video, and customer experience.

You will be responsible for leading and growing our world-class set of engineering talent, manage several managers (and perhaps a few direct reports) against execution of product plans. You will provide ongoing leadership toward improvements in our development, quality, metrics, and operations of our products and systems.

Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in CS or advanced Degree in CS
  • 5+ years previous management experience of moderate to large software development teams under OO/Linux/Unix/SQL/n-tier environment(s)
  • Demonstrated previous skill in recruiting, retention, and performance management.
  • Experience in advertising systems a plus.

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Sr. Software Manager/Director, IMDb
Alternately, apply to job #107523 at amazon.com/jobs

Applicants only: recruiters must not submit on behalf of other people through this link. Applications not submitted by candidates themselves are rejected.

Software Manager (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is seeking an experienced software development manager to lead an application team for our consumer site.

As a technical team manager, you will part of a core technical management team responsible for every aspect of our consumer site: mobile presence, world-wide sites, personalization & recommendations, message boards, reputation systems, account management, movie and television information, online video, etc. You will collaborate with our partner and subsidiary sites, Amazon, Withoutabox, and Box Office Mojo.

You will be responsible for leading and growing our world-class set of engineering talent and manage of team of 6-15 software developers and team leads, and take primary responsibility for hiring in your area(s). You will provide ongoing leadership toward improvements in our development, quality, metrics, and operations of our products and systems.

Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in CS or advanced Degree in CS
  • 3+ years previous management experience of moderate to large software development teams under OO/Linux/Unix/SQL/n-tier environment(s)
  • Demonstrated previous skill in recruiting, retention, management of telecommuters, and performance management.

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Sr. Software Manager/Director, IMDb
Alternately, apply to job #109762 at amazon.com/jobs

Applicants only: recruiters must not submit on behalf of other people through this link. Applications not submitted by candidates themselves are rejected.

Software Developer, Box Office Mojo (Los Angeles, CA)

The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) an Amazon.com company is seeking software developers to work with our Box Office Mojo Team in its Los Angeles area offices. With over 57 million unique visitors a month, IMDb is the world's largest movie database, featuring over 2 million actors and filmmakers as well as over 1 million movies from 1890 through 2009.

We are looking for software developers who want to build the next generation of the Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com) web application and seamlessly integrate it with IMDb. While working with other Amazon.com and IMDb.com developers, you will use state of the art technologies to build scalable, reliable systems that are used by millions of customers a day.

If you enjoyed your college data structures class, like working with other smart people, think any decent programming language should have closures, can't understand why all developers don't automate their unit tests and love solving hard problems with software, we think you will want to work with us.

Desired Candidate Profile:

  • 5+ years enterprise software industry experience
  • Solid Linux and/or Unix experience
  • Understands how to build and deploy production quality object-oriented applications with relational databases
  • Scripting languages (Perl, Ruby or Python) are second nature and has good experience with C/C++ or Java.
  • Has built production web applications using Apache
  • Interested in and/or experienced in Scrum or Extreme Programming
  • Has experience with front-end technologies (AJAX, CSS)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Software Developer, Box Office Mojo
Alternately, apply to job #94213 at amazon.com/jobs

(Applicants only please. This means no recruiters submitting on behalf of other people.)

 

Software Developer, Consumer Site (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is looking for top-notch programmers to join our superstar engineering team, chartered with one of the biggest websites on the planet.

We build cool features used by millions of site visitors every day, keeping them stuck to the site like glue. We are investing heavily in streaming video and in internationalization.

We seek enthusiastic, creative problem solvers, because boy does IMDb have problems to solve: deep data sets, increasing scale, and increasing expectations for site visitors who insist that their data be fresh, relevant, accurate, and easily updated in real-time. These challenges and a strong cup of coffee get you up on Monday morning.

Job Qualifications
  • Bachelors degree in computer science OR at least 5 years industry programming experience.
  • Expert level skills in at least one mainstream programming language (C, C++, Java, Perl).
  • Experience with developing software for Unix/Linux.
  • Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
  • Ability to move fluidly between different programming paradigms, catering the solution to the problem at hand.
  • Willingness to work on a fantastic team of talented and experienced engineers who are experts in everything from security to meta-programming to distributed computing.
  • Willingness to have your work rigorously reviewed by your colleagues, and to rigorously review their work in return.
Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience with streaming video, video-on-demand, flash-based video transcoding.
  • Experience with software localization, especially Unicode/UTF-8.
  • Experience developing high-traffic, high-throughput, distributed real-time services.
  • Experience with presentation-layer technologies: web templating (specifically Mason), JavaScript, JSON, Ajax, CSS, DHTML.
  • Experience with OO Perl programming.

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Software Developer, Consumer Site

(Applicants only please. This means no recruiters submitting on behalf of other people.)


Software Developer, Mobile (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is looking for the best of the best to join our mobile applications team. We're just getting warmed up with the launch of v1.0 of our iPhone app. If you live and breathe mobile software development, join the team which puts IMDb in your pocket.

Job Qualifications
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience (5+ years).
  • Expert level fluency in at least one mainstream object-oriented programming language (C++, Java, Ruby, Python).
  • Experience with the iPhone SDK and Objective-C.
  • Experience with the BlackBerry SDK and/or J2ME.
  • Experience with the Android SDK.

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Software Developer, Mobile

(Applicants only please. This means no recruiters submitting on behalf of other people.)


Software Developer, Community (Seattle, WA)

IMDb is looking for top-notch programmers to take IMDb's community and social networking features to the next level of awesomeness. We need you to build features to help our passionate community engage with each other and with the vast world of movies, TV, and celebrity entertainment.

Job Qualifications
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience (5+ years).
  • Expert level fluency in at least one mainstream programming language (C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby).
  • Experience with the Facebook Connect and/or OpenSocial APIs.
  • Experience with the Twitter API.
  • Experience with language analysis, NLP, sentiment analysis.
  • Experience with software systems which implement user reputation management.
  • Experience with rating and/or voting systems, including fraud detection.
  • Experience building or extending large-scale Message Boards systems.
  • Experience with web application technologies (JavaScript, JSON, Ajax, CSS, HTML, MVC, Mason).
  • Willingness to work on a fantastic team of talented and experienced engineers who will rigorously review your work, and whose work you will rigorously review.

How to apply for this position:

Email: careers (at) imdb.com
Subject: Software Developer, Community

(Applicants only please. This means no recruiters submitting on behalf of other people.)

Product Manager, Consumer Website (Seattle, WA)

Who we’re looking for:

  • You are a leader and communicate effectively with senior management.
  • You are a creative, analytical, results-oriented Product Manager.
  • You are a strategic thinker who is also able to work closely with technical teams.
  • You have a long track-record of building great websites. • You create business plans, product requirements and functional specs.
  • You sink your teeth into large scale projects that have a major impact on the business.
  • You are passionate about movies, TV and celebrities.
  • You use data to make the best decisions for your customer.
  • You are an experienced manager who knows how to build a great team.
  • You build the right product for your customers, and deliver on-time against tight deadlines.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Manage large, user-facing initiatives on IMDb.com.
  • Accountable for revenue, traffic and customer experience goals.

Qualifications:

  • Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.
  • Must possess strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong experience problem-solving, scoping technical requirements and prioritizing.
  • Track record of sound business judgment, ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills.
  • At least 10 years background in product management for web products including consumer facing websites.
  • At least 2 years experience managing individual contributors.
  • A bachelor's degree is required, an MBA is preferred.
  • Experience in the entertainment industry, online ad sales, and online marketing are highly desired but not necessary.

Extra points if you can identify the actor who said the following quote: “We're in a stolen cop car with what is sure to be a missing child in the back. What part of this is cool?”

Please send your resume to careers at imdb.com. Please use the words 'Product Manager, Consumer Site' in the subject line of your email, or it will be rejected automatically by our spam filter. Alternately, apply to job #038493 at amazon.com/jobs.

Software Developer, Data Technology (Bristol, UK)

We don't have any vacancies right now on our Bristol team, but we do hire regularly.

If ...
  • You are a top-notch software engineer who loves coding
  • You're quick to understand complex systems
  • You're a super-fast problem-solver who always spots the edge-cases
  • and you'd relish the chance to build lean SOA systems and learn to scale them to IMDb proportions

... then email your CV/Resume to careers (at) imdb.com, with subject "Software Developer, Data Technology", and we'll contact you next time we've got an opening.

(Applicants only please. This means no recruiters submitting on behalf of other people.)

IMDb is a telecommute-friendly workplace. Many of our employees are able to work one or more days a week from home and our UK employees work exclusively from home. However, all our open positions require relocation to the specified city. We are not currently hiring remote employees.

IMDb is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from anyone, irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

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