Mediaocean is hiring a
Sr. Creative Engineer

Summary

Join Mediaocean as a Senior Creative Engineer and contribute to the company's powerful advertising ecosystem. This role involves working with digital advertising technologies, dynamic creative development, and collaborating with internal and external teams. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of campaign lifecycle, ad serving technologies, and experience in mobile web design or rich media production.

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

• Pick up and complete medium to complex development tasks
• Follow development best practices
• Implement feed solutions (as needed)
• Serve as the escalation resource for solutions, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
• Coordinate with Producers for technical aspects of build requirements and feed requests (as necessary)
• Ingest, review, and confirm development tasks
• 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 work
• 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
• Flexible time off
• 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)