Job Details: Director of Engineering
| Job Title: | Director of Engineering |
| Job ID: | FIM13254 |
| Company: | IGN Entertainment |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | DOE |
| Date Posted: | Aug-06-08 |
Director of Engineering
IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, is the online authority on video games, and a leading Internet media and services provider to videogame and entertainment enthusiasts generally. IGN's properties collectively attract more than 31 million unique monthly users worldwide. Our network of videogame-related properties (IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, Direct2Drive and others) is the web's number one videogame information destination (and includes the largest digital distribution site for games) and attracts one of the largest concentrated audiences of young males on the Internet. We also own and operate the popular movie-related website, Rotten Tomatoes, and the leading male lifestyle website, AskMen.com. In addition, we provide technology for online game play in videogames.
We're looking for a dynamic Director of Engineering to manage the Media engineering team for the largest video game website on the Internet. The successful candidate will have a strong management and technical background, excellent communication skills, along with a proven track record delivering projects within a large organization.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Lead software development activities such as software design, development, unit testing, documentation, integration testing, deployment documentation, code reviews, adherence to software development standards
• Participate in reviewing and/or defining product requirements
• Estimate software engineering efforts, prepare and execute software development project schedules
• Coordinate with product management, web development, sales, ad operations, technical operations, software engineering and QA, engaging teams at the appropriate times
• Anticipate problems and form remediation plans before the projects suffer
• Provide guidance to the team software architecture, design, coding, documentation, and testing
• Help establish quality methodologies, metrics, and standards to track and improve the software process
• Mentor and recruit top talent for our engineering team
Required Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 10+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and testing in high-performing web applications
• At least 5+ years demonstrated success in engineering management and leadership producing world-class web applications
• Accomplished Internet technologist, skilled in architecture, development and implementation practices and scalability
• Broad technical background including Java and LAMP web development, AJAX, CSS, HTML/XHTML, Javascript, Flash, ActionScript etc. (.NET software experience a plus)
• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills -- must possess the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to audiences of varying technical acumen
• Demonstrated success in building and managing talented teams of engineers and establishing an environment conducive to achievement, performance and commitment. Must possess the ability to delve into a technical problem and drive the solution personally, if the need arises
• Strong project management skills - must be able to direct and coordinate all activities necessary to complete major projects requiring a wide variety of technical skills
• Agile/SCRUM software development desired
• Web site performance optimization a plus
• SOX/PCI compliance a plus
| Location: [rss] | US-CA-Brisbane |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| Contact Email: | jo.gerona@fox.com |
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