| About the Company:
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is the largest online movie rental service, providing more than three million subscribers access to 55,000 DVD titles. Revenues have grown from $5 million to $500 million in five years. The Company expects to reach over 5 million subscribers in 2006 and sustain its rapid growth.
About the position
The Senior Designer will join the Online Design Team, which handles all aspects of the design process, concepts through producing visual assets. You will work closely with Product Managers to define the requirements, and with Production Engineers to determine the best way to build the designs. Qualitative research is used throughout the process to ensure the highest quality customer experience.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years experience in conceptual design, detailed design and production work for a major online consumer product or service.
- Outstanding portfolio with engaging designs a must. ONLINE PORTFOLIO IS REQUIRED for consideration.
- Online design experience a must. This is not a print design position.
- Strong positioning skills of features and benefits is important, as well as general experience with marketing, graphic design, and online advertising.
- Experience interacting with product marketing managers to help define and refine product requirements.
- Experience working with engineers to collaborate on the production and QA processes.
- Able to develop design concepts, carry them forward, and produce pixel perfect production assets for development.
- Able to contribute to the establishment and ownership of design guidelines, and help manage and evolve them over time.
- Experience using qualitative research and testing in the design process.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment and produce results quickly and efficiently.
- Excellent team player with the maturity to advocate design and lead the process while servicing the needs of the other stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to listen to and understand the needs of others while articulating one’s own thoughts.
- Excellent understanding of consumer internet.
- Expert level skills and experience with Photoshop AND/OR Fireworks. Both is a plus.
Desired Skills:
- Flash skills.
- Illustration skills.
- Motion graphics skills.
- Understanding of HTML, DHTML, Javascript (but coding is NOT part of this job)
- A love of movies.
- Dynamic, rich, functional e-commerce website experience (such as, but not limited to, Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay) a big plus.
Things you probably don’t know about Netflix:
- In 2005 Netflix was twice independently ranked number one in customer satisfaction across all of ecommerce, by ForeSee Results. In the fall of 2005, Netflix was the winner of Fast Company's national Customers First Award,
- Netflix chooses to work on a few big challenges each quarter, and hires only top talent who can help identify what is worth pursuing and what is not.
- Netflix is quickly becoming a mass consumer product. As such, the ability to understand and appreciate design from the point of view of our broad demographics is extremely important.
- In order to attract deep talent, Netflix is very competitive. Solving hard problems requires highly talented people, and we compensate appropriately.
Characteristics for best fit at Netflix:
- Judgment. Your judgment calls turn out well (people, technical, business, and creative judgment calls). Your insights are influential and important.
- Productivity. You are very effective in getting work done. What you accomplish amazes people.
- Creativity. You are inventive. You re-conceptualize issues to come up with innovative but practical solutions to hard problems.
- Intelligence. You think broadly and strategically. You make subtle connections others miss. You absorb large amounts of information rapidly. You learn fast. You can change directions rapidly when appropriate.
- Honesty. You are known for your candor. You avoid partial truth and tinted truth. You are non-political and straightforward when you disagree with others. You only say things about people you will say to their face.
- Communication. You are effective communicating both in meetings and 1 to 1.
- Selflessness. You are perceived to be guided by what you think is best for the company, rather than best for yourself. You are ego-less when it comes to finding the best ideas and interacting with others.
- Reliability. Colleagues perceive they can depend upon you. You are not prone to flakiness, anger, or impulsiveness.
- Passion. You care deeply about the company’s success and your colleagues know it. Your thirst for excellence is infectious and inspiring.
Interested? Re-read the “Required Skills and Desired Skills” sections again, and if you really think you’re qualified, please submit your resume and an online portfolio (required).
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