Mediaocean is hiring a
Creative Developer

Summary

Join Mediaocean as a Creative Engineer/Developer to work on various development tasks within the media and advertising space. Collaborate with internal teams, support senior team members, and have opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate effectively and work cooperatively with internal and external teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong knowledge of campaign lifecycle from inception to trafficking of creative and live tags
• General understanding of ad serving technologies and how dynamic creative can be used
• General understanding of dynamic, and feeds-based creative solutions and build process
• Experience in mobile web design / mobile advertising or rich media production
• General understanding of feeds and API structures
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and AfterEffects
• Full knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS including ES6 practices and data parsing
• Ability to translate client requirements and expectations into actionable items for designer and developers
• High attention to detail
• Experienced in timeline management and task management
• Risk identification and management throughout projects
• Excellent problem-solving skills using available coding and ad serving environment solutions to resolve challenges
• Ability to call out technical constraints and limitations as they apply to delivering in digital web/video/social mediums
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Design, Digital Art or other relevant major OR 3 or more years of direct, non-internship experience in the advertising industry working as a creative developer/engineer

Responsibilities

• Creative resource for troubleshooting and creative development
• Creative project point of contact for development and creative solutions
• Documentation of framework
• Issue investigation and resolution
• Day-to-day interaction with partner resources where technical/development solutions are required
• Ingest, review, and confirm development tasks for sufficient instructions and documentation, adequate resources, and sufficient time to execute
• Complete development of or modification of dynamic creative at all levels and frameworks as required by task details
• Functional QA and code review of self or junior creative engineer’s
• Version dynamic creative through CRM / Excel methods including the use of inline styles to adjust layouts where necessary
• Support Creative and Solutions Engineering teams on proof of concept or app building to support wider project initiatives
• Provide creative ticket support on minor to moderate issues requiring escalation and investigation as necessary

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Flashtalking creative tools or ad server (nice to have)
• Experience using Figma or Google Web Designer (nice to have)

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation, including 401(K) employer match and financial wellness seminars
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision plan – Keep your family (or just yourself!) safe and healthy
• Flexible time off – In addition to our 14 company holidays, we provide open PTO to all U.S.- based Mediaocean employees. So take a sick day, vacation day, or mental health day
• Bonding Leave – After six months of employment at Mediaocean, mothers and fathers, including same-sex parents, can take job-protected, paid time off to bond with their child within the first 12 months of the child’s birth or adoption
• Insurance, Pet Insurance, employer matched Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Professional development – Personalized development plan created with your manager, continuous internal and external trainings, official company-wide mentorship program, professional development rewards program, management, leadership, and function-specific training for top performance, education reimbursement
• Get rewarded for demonstrating Mediaocean values
• Active affinity-based groups – Form connections with similar peers in offices around the world. Groups include: Women at MO, Black Employees at Mediaocean (BEMO), Pride at MO, Mi gente (Hispanic/Latinx community), AAPI at MO, Parents at MO, International Enrichment, Language Lovers, Books & Beyond, DEI in Engineering, and Mental Health & Wellness, and Caregivers United
• Wellness opportunities – Free virtual yoga and abs and glutes classes, company-paid Headspace meditation app membership, company-wide steps challenges, complimentary snacks in-office
• Bikeshare program in select offices, (Divvy and CitiBike for Chicago and New York offices)