Visual/Interaction Designer at imeem

Location: San Francisco, CA
imeem is seeking a full-time talented and enthusiastic Visual/Interaction Designer ready to take imeem to the next level. The ideal candidate will be a key contributor to evolving the visual and interaction design for our website.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with project teams to plan and execute a variety of web features
• Contribute to fleshing out creative concepts
• Translate feature specifications and rough mockups provided by product mangers into visual design UI
• Prepare and present comps to other team members; back up and defend design rationale
• Help maintain consistency and quality across applications and websites
• Participate in usability testing, reviews and evaluations to identify issues, and to provide an enhanced user experience
• Help to foster an open, fun and productive atmosphere within the design team
• Create a compelling, easy-to-use GUI for features and web pages

Successful candidates should have the following qualifications/requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with web interface design
• Broad esthetic range and visual sense
• Visually creative but has demonstrated experience in designing intuitive and compelling web interfaces
• Academic background in human-computer interaction or related field a big plus
• Ability to translate information architecture and interaction dependencies into into usable design elements
• Accustomed to prototyping quickly and working iteratively in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent leadership and communication skills

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Architect at metacafe

• B.Sc. in computer science or software engineering (M.Sc. An advantage).
• Previous experience working as architect or in development managerial role
• 5 years of experience with designing software systems
• Experience in OO software development and OO design
• Experience in C++ development or other OO languages. Hands on capabilities.
• Experience in multi tier development of web platforms and GUI (J2EE, web services, .Net).
• Experience in design and implementation of highly scalable platforms (number of machines, users, traffic and data) - an advantage.
• Good presentation and documentation skills
• Ability to lead processes
• Ability to lead software teams

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Software Engineer, Windows Client

Background and Summary:
Veoh Networks is a new, innovative Internet television broadcasting system that is able to reach hundreds of millions of broadband-connected viewers throughout the world. Veoh allows content producers from major entertainment studios and television networks to independent video producers and enthusiasts to deliver high-quality, full-screen video directly to consumers without financial, geographical or capacity restrictions found in traditional broadcasting systems. This democratization of video distribution fundamentally changes the dynamics of television, creating unprecedented choice for consumers and a compelling marketplace for content providers and advertisers. Veoh is privately held and backed by leading technology and media investors, including Spark Capital, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Time Warner Inc. and Shelter Capital Partners. Veoh Networks is based in San Diego, California. Veoh Networks is based in San Diego, California with an additional development center in St. Petersburg Russia.

Veoh.com is in the top 100 websites worldwide and in the top 30 sites in the United States.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the VeohTV Windows application
• Work with engineering leadership to implement new features
• Work with product management to add new user features
• Improve video playback experience through the client
• Lower application crash rate through crash report analysis and subsequent resolutions and unit testing

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience building GUI applications for XP and Vista
• Deep knowledge and proficiency in Win32 internals
• Advanced C++ skills with strong OO analysis and design
• Extensive experience with Win32 user interface API (GDI / GDI+ / Windows Media Format SDK)
• Detailed knowledge of COM, ATL, WTL preferred
• Experience developing and shipping multimedia windows client applications preferred.
• Knowledge of media codecs, DRM, media players, and streaming video strongly desired.
• Excellent communication skills, works well with teams, and enjoys a collaborative development process.

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