Hiring: Flash Designer

Knowledge of online ad server systems and inventory management - 2-5 years' experience in an online media, marketing, or technology organization. Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our ...

Company: Yahoo! Location: Santa Monica, United States

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

Job Description:

The Yahoo! Consumer/Customer Innovation Team, located in Santa Monica and Sunnyvale, is an innovation lab dedicated to generating new demand for Yahoo! products and services by finding new ways to fulfill consumers' and customers' deepest needs. We're a small, nimble, highly collaborative team with skills in many disciplines and partners in many places - both inside and outside the company. Our charter is to imagine, prototype, and deliver new kinds of experiences and tools that delight customers and consumers, and change the game for Yahoo!.

As Visual Designer-Developer, you will be dedicated to visualizing and prototyping these tools and experiences. Multifaceted projects will require you to tap a broad range of skills, encompassing web page design, web video, in-video advertising, editorial packaging, rich media promotional units, web widgets, and fully featured interactive content modules. You will work side-by-side with marketers, product managers, engineers, content editors, business strategists, data specialists, and external contractors. You must thrive on teamwork and collaboration, and enjoy serving as an advocate for innovation, experimentation, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Responsibilities:

In this unique role, you will:

- Design and prototype new online tools, promotions, and editorial packages
- Integrate front-end design and functionality with back-end web technologies such as xml feeds, content databases, and server-side scripted applications
- Work intensively with web video and emerging web video advertising technologies
- Visualize marketing and programming concepts to support early-stage discussions with potential brand and content partners
- Manage relationships with multiple vendors and contractors
- Stay abreast of emerging developments in the online media & marketing industries
- Build and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues in many disciplines from across the company
- Travel frequently between Santa Monica and Sunnyvale to collaborate with colleagues in both locations

Requirements:

- Strong conceptual and visual design skills; extensive web design experience
- Expert-level knowledge of Flash, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, XML
- Proficiency with web video editing and related applications
- Strong project management skills; able to multitask and prioritize in a fluid, fast-changing environment
- High level of comfort working in cycles of rapid iteration, prototyping, and testing, often within short overall delivery timeframes
- Exceptional interpersonal skills; comfortable working with colleagues from any discipline or level of the organization
- Innovative, inquisitive, entrepreneurial spirit
- Passion for online media & marketing
- Willingness to travel as needed between Santa Monica and Sunnyvale offices
- Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint
- Strong portfolio (please provide URLs).

Desired qualifications:

- Animation and/or motion design experience
- Knowledge of AJAX application development, PHP or other server-side scripting
- Experience working with a CMS and/or large online content databases
- Knowledge of online ad server systems and inventory management
- 2-5 years' experience in an online media, marketing, or technology organization

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com

To apply for the Flach Designer role, please visit the following link:
http://www02.rmx.scd.yahoo.com/pljb/yahoo/yahoo_jobs/applicant/jobClick.jsp?count=1&id=9646