Friday, July 18, 2008

Product Developer in New York, NY

Friday, July 18, 2008
Product Developers work with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs and technology directions into product definitions. As a Product Developer you will be accountable for multi-platform products throughout its life cycle including:

idea generation,
gathering requirements,
developing business and user cases,
drafting functional specifications,
concept development and testing, and
working directly with Producers, Designers and Technologists to execute the product vision and iterate to meet the end-user's needs.

As a Product Developer focused on Social Tools you will be responsible for understanding and executing against the rapidly changing trends in social networks, specifically:

community
blogging
real-time communications
feeds
embeddable widgets (and other sources of viral distribution)

Requirements:

Minimum 5 years of product design or product management experience (must provide functioning examples)
Experience gathering requirements and translating them into a product vision and documentation
A solid understanding of User Centered Design philosophies and the Agile development process
Excellent written and oral communication skills - must be able to successfully interface with a variety of departments - Editorial, Marketing, Research, Engineering, etc.
Ability to analyze quantitative reporting data & qualitative research data to inform future product iterations
Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
Deep understanding of the online video and community space


To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here