Principal Design Engineer
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Principal Design Engineer

NBCUniversal

Location: New York,NY, USA

Date: 2024-09-18T06:34:13Z

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NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ( initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility ( work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn't stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive.The Global Streaming Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We're a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you'll find more than a job. You'll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we're focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier.We're looking for someone who considers themselves equal parts designer and engineer and loves to operate in the space where the two disciplines meet. You're passionate about collaborating on ideas as part of a team then bringing those ideas to life in the form of real, tangible, high-fidelity prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and design tools. In terms of core skill set, you look like a front-end engineer, but you think like a designer. You have a strong eye for detail and biases towards speed, innovation, and the end user experience. You're a self-starter and take initiative; you seize opportunities rather than waiting for tasks to be assigned. You're comfortable working independently and as part of a squad.You'll be joining a small, but mighty Design Engineering team which sits within the Viewing Experience, Product and Design organization at Peacock. Our team's mission is to “bring ideas to life, enabling innovation through experimentation and automation”. Your primary function on this team will be to build prototypes that explore new features and experiences for the Peacock app across all platforms. Additionally, you'll build utilities and Figma plugins that automate processes and help our designers do their jobs faster and better.What You'll DoWork with designers, product managers, and user researchers to build prototypes that aid in design exploration, usability research, and stakeholder buy-inBuild tools and plugins that make the design process better, easier, and fasterImprove on initial design concepts through the prototyping processBuild and maintain shared toolkits and codebases that make prototyping easier and fasterBuild and access APIs that pull live data into prototypesStay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies, adopting them for use as neededLook for ways to improve our prototyping processes and capabilitiesTake lead on projects and start new frameworks, toolkits, and codebases from scratchMentor other members of the team, helping them level-up their skills and experience8+ years of relevant work experienceDegree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experiencePortfolio of relevant work and code samples showing highly polished final executions and proficiency in software developmentExpert-level experience with HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScriptExpert-level experience with some or all of the following: React, React Native, Swift, Swift UIExpert-level experience with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative SuiteExpert-level experience performing software development in a team environment (participation in peer code reviews, use of developer tools such as version control and build systems, and adherence to team coding standards)Very strong written and verbal communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skillsVery Strong experience building and/or consuming APIsVery Strong experience working cross-functionally with product designers, engineers, product managers, and user-researchersVery Strong experience working autonomously on projectsStrong understanding of interaction and user experience design best practices and workflowsStrong experience presenting and demoing to your immediate team, cross-functional leadership, and larger audiences.Strong experience with web and cloud infrastructureExperience developing plug-ins for Figma and using the Figma APIExperience developing for international audiencesExperience developing with video contentExperience with other modern languages and frameworks (Next.js, TypeScript, LightningJS, etc.)Experience with a variety of relevant platforms and tools such as Apache on Ubuntu, AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Contentful, GitHub, GraphQL, Node.js, Vercel, and XcodeExperience using Generative AI tools such as the Open AI suite of productsNice-To-HaveExperience with video streaming and tv-based platformsExperience developing mobile-based appsNBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicantsand employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation,marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services,genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have theright to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in yourability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You canrequest reasonable accommodations by emailing ...@nbcuni.com.Salary Ranges InformationThis position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $225,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).

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