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    Senior Business Development Manager, IMDb Mobile (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 and Windows Phone 7. 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 join the Business Development group to drive 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.

    Membership on the IMDb Mobile 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.

    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 ecommerce, 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.

    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 Business Development Manager #140719
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Senior Marketing Manager, IMDb Mobile (Seattle, WA)

    IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one ofthe 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 marketing professional to promote usage of IMDb’s mobile experiences. Ourideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to create and launch effective marketing partnerships and programs, thrive in a fast-paced environment andsupport aggressive timelines. As a Senior Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for driving significant growth in IMDb’s consumer businesses by conceiving, prioritizing, and executing marketing campaigns that grows traffic and ad revenue for IMDb. You will monitor user feedback and industry trends, collect metrics and coordinate new product launches. You have the primary responsibility for all project deliverables and act as the single point of contact for all marketing activities. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech and media industries.

    Specific qualifications include the following:

    • Establish, implement and measure the effectiveness of Mobile program initiatives to drive awareness and adoption for IMDb Mobile products and services. Leverage internal Amazon marketing channels as well as external marketing channels such as download advertising and paid search.
    • Support multiple product application launches and enhancements globally, regularly analyzing and optimizing campaigns.
    • Establish and optimize a variety of mobile advertising partnerships to drive greater adoption of mobile application products and services.
    • Champion fundamental customer experience elements of our mobile products and services to ensure that the right voice and high-quality content are maintained.
    • Demonstrate ability to work at the strategic level (generating bold and innovative ideas for growth) and at the tactical level (managing advertising campaign execution, creating campaigns with site merchandising tools, analyzing traffic data and solving problems).
    • Collaborate closely with Mobile technical and business teams within IMDb as well as external vendors to manage simultaneous time-sensitive projects.

    Membership on the IMDb Mobile 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:

    • Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in online marketing, and/or marketing communications.
    • Proven track-record of delivering online traffic growth from multiple sources including direct, SEO, sponsored links, banner ads, affiliates, and email.
    • 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.
    • Demonstrated ability to create innovative new marketing programs and/or partnerships that generate results.
    • Comfort rolling up sleeves to perform quantitative analysis and reach sound conclusions.
    • High level of aptitude with Excel required, and with SQL desired.
    • Strong time-management skills. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
    • Composed, poised and professional demeanor.
    • Tenacity and sense of urgency; the ability to make things happen quickly with large, less nimble partners and/or teams.
    • Bachelor's degree required.

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Experience in mobile marketing or marketing for wireless products/services or high tech startups strongly preferred.
    • Expertise in product launch marketing strategies in the online and/or mobile market.

    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 Marketing Manager, IMDb Mobile #140156
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Software Development Engineer, IMDb Pro (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 57 million unique visitors 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.

    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 Pro #138871
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    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 #130623
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Senior User Experience Designer (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 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 as well as our mobile platforms. You will work closely with product owners, web developers, programmers and other designers to create innovative design solutions that impact millions of users.

    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 design solutions that address both primary user goals 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

    Basic Qualifications:

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

    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 #134369
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Senior Rich Media Designer (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 seeking a Senior Rich Media Designer to create highly-specialized, customized advertising experiences for the IMDb desktop and mobile websites. Work your creative and logical brain in a rewarding, fast-paced environment, interacting with programmers, salespeople, account managers, ad traffickers and clients.

    Responsibilities include:

    • Working with clientele and sales from the kickoff call to live and maintenance of a campaign
    • Handling multiple projects concurrently
    • Fielding escalated requests with quick turnaround
    • Creating customized rich media experiences utilizing Flash
    • Creating customized sponsored experiences utilizing HTML and CSS
    • Extending a client's branding to multiple platforms, including mobile
    • Maintain site advertising standards

    Basic Qualifications:

    • 5+ years work experience
    • Demonstrated experience in HTML and CSS, Actionscript
    • Degree in Visual Arts, Interactive Design, related area, or demonstrated equivalent experience
    Preferred Qualifications:
    • Demonstrated experience in executing client requirements into a high-quality result
    • Demonstrated experience with video conversion and formats
    • Knowledge of web design principles and best use of current web technologies
    • Strong multitasking and client interaction skills
    • Expert skill level in the standard tools of the trade; Flash, Photoshop, AfterEffects, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS
    • Proven ability to work within ambiguous design constraints
    • Organizational skills and the ability to work independently
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively in large or small groups
    • Intermediate level skill in Javascript / HTML5 / CSS2.1, 3
    • Relevant domain experience

    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 Rich Media Designer - IMDb #137701
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Director of Online Advertising Sales â€" 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 â€" Entertainment (Adzinia) #127465 or e-mail it to a friend.
    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 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
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Senior Product Manager, Mobile (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
    Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.



    Software Developer, Video (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 our video system. Want to help put a play button on every page? We're looking for people excited and knowledgeable about video 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 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 #130732

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




    Software Developer, IMDb.com (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 passionate, results-oriented software engineers to build innovative features on IMDb.com. Our engineers work full stack - front (HTML5, CSS, JS) to back (Apache, SOA, MySQL) and everything in between (MVC Frameworks, Spring).

    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 architecture, design 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 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 #133585

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



    " Systems Engineer, IMDb.com (Seattle, WA)

    The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) 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 world class System Engineers to join our team and help take our systems to the next level of stability and scalability.

    We offer challenges of scale, automation, and creativity as we are in the top 40 busiest websites in the world and are able to run with a very lean staff. 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 with the front end production IMDb websites, application servers, databases, batch processing systems, as well as backend metrics and corporate systems. 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.

    Some of our recent achievements can be found at our press room.

    The successful System Engineer in this role will:

    • Have experience running and maintaining a 24x7 Internet-oriented production environment, preferably across multiple data centers, involving (preferably) at least hundreds of machines
    • Have a solid grasp of networking fundamentals, preferably including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
    • Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.
    • Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills.
    • Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
    • Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
    • Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
    • Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
    • Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.

    Basic Qualifications:

    • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
    • Three years of experience involved in building, installing and operating large scale systems in a UNIX/Linux environment.
    • Understanding of TCP/IP networking, architecture and core technologies (DNS, LDAP, NFS, FTP, etc.)
    • Experience with automation via Perl programming and shell scripting.
    • Experience in building SQL queries.
    • Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
    • Flexible work schedules (light oncall on weekends and/or evenings)

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Excellent oral and written communication skills
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Open Software Developer positions in Bristol:

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



Senior Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology (Bristol, UK)

Join the team behind the world's most popular entertainment database and help 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 senior member of the Content Technology team, your goal would be to spearhead the creation of 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:

  • Play a lead role in the development of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services.
  • Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that seamlessly extend our systems 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.
  • Improve the overall architecture of Database Content systems and of IMDb as a whole.
  • Mentor junior development engineers and take part in team and company recruiting activities.
  • Serve as technical lead on demanding, cross-functional projects that deliver or significantly refactor business-critical or enterprise-level systems.

Qualifications:

  • Results-oriented person with a delivery focus.
  • Strong coding skills in multiple languages including Java and Perl, coupled with extensive experience of object-oriented design and development.
  • Experience working with enterprise development, including databases, web services, SOA, messaging, enterprise integration and distributed systems.
  • Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, engineering best practices and current industry trends.
  • Fluent English, solid communication skills and the ability to work well independently, with a local team, and as part of a distributed global team.
  • Several years' experience in Software Development, on top of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
Preferred Qualifications:
  • A Master'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: Senior Software Developer, IMDb Content Technology #129666
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.

Open non-technical 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'?

Qualifications/Experience:

  • 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.

See the job application page on Amazon.co.uk or apply by email: careers (at) imdb.com, with subject: Data Manager, Database Content #136152
Applicants only: recruiters/agencies must submit only by prior arrangement.