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AOL Latino seeks a Programming Manager to help us further develop our online community efforts, particularly those involving blogs and social networks, and would appreciate your help in spreading the word.

AOL Latino (www.aollatino.com), the leading bilingual online portal for Latinos in the United States, is seeking a Programming Manager for our online community efforts.

The Programming Manager will be a key member of a team dedicated to providing robust, engaging and entertaining community offering for Latinos in the US, Mexico and Latin America. As such, the manager will be directly involved in planning, developing, editing, implementing and maintaining online community resources, products, programs, articles, partnerships and more. The manager will collaborate closely with Project Managers and Product Managers to integrate into AOL Latino, and offer to AOL Latino's user base, the latest AOL community-oriented platforms, applications, products, and services. In addition, the manager will be responsible for internal and external relationships that will drive greater online community offerings across AOL Latino, AOL Mexico, AOL Puerto Rico and AOL Latin America channels.

Qualified candidates are fully bilingual, have a professional history in online media & web site programming and/or online community management, and are avid participants in Latin culture. Qualified candidates are comfortable in dynamic environments, working with data and metrics, and delivering projects within deadlines and budget.

The position is based in New York City.


Technical Excellence

• Uses knowledge associated with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years directly related experience.
• First hand experience as participant in online communities and with latest generation of community enabling tools and services. Has strong ideas as to the current trends in this space, upcoming trends and parallel developments that will facilitate or hamper development of next generation trends.
• Oversees the planning, development, quality standards, and creation of programs, ensuring that they are in perspective and running efficiently for designated channel areas.
• Monitors program quality and leads problem solving efforts, and preserves the creative environment a sub-channel area.
• Utilizes emerging project management skills, and a background in the online industry to ensure the timely completion and delivery of programs.
• Broad technical knowledge -- understands the capabilities of the AOL service and effectively uses technical tools, applications, and procedures.
• Aggregates information and creates editorial content to support the material.
• Makes data-driven programming decisions.
• Reviews and interprets member activity data and draws conclusions with regard to their implication on programming operations and placement decisions.
• Interprets trends in data for later use in decision making.

Creativity

• Oversees the promotion efforts of the channel.
• Works with partners to integrate their materials and content into the channel.
• Uses research, analysis and AOL expertise to solve complex problems and develop creative/innovative solutions.

Business Skills

• Understands own team's strategy and objectives.
• Manages the various components of the applicable process.
• Demonstrates strong writing, editing and promotional skills.
• Makes decisions that impact the work unit, a channel, or a complex sub-channel area.
• Possesses the ability to develop and maintain networking relationships both internally and externally.

Personal Performance and AOL Valued Behaviors

• Demonstrates AOL's vision, values and principles.
• Conveys fundamental aspects of the job through verbal and written communication.
• Effectively establishes and meets deadlines as they evolve and shifts the priorities of the group accordingly.
• Observes quality standards.
• Interacts and works with other programming managers across AOL.
• Developmental efforts focus on acquiring broad knowledge of the programming area and its impact on business trends.

Interested Online Community Managers for AOL Latino should submit their resume to:
Sergio Machado, Programming Director @ sergio.machado@corp.aol.com

The AOL Photography Department is seeking a Associate Photo Editor to support the AOL News and AOL Sports websites. We are seeking a skilled editor who can provide AOL's viewers with the best in visual content. The person selected for this job will be familiar with interactive storytelling and have knowledge of visual content on the web. The position is located at the AOL offices in New York City.

This position for Associate Photo Editor requires the applicant have the ability to procure, edit and publish compelling photography that will bring a larger audience to AOL's News and Sports web sites. A photo editor coordinates the acquisition of images from vendors outside of AOL, including wire services, stock agencies, freelance photographers, royalty free corporations, partners and various other sources.

The selected person will edit photography for use in daily promotional spots, photo features, photo galleries, news, sports and entertainment stories. This person must demonstrate the ability to articulate editing choices and be mature in their communications within the company. This person will meet regularly with programmers, designers and other photography editors throughout AOL and must have the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment. This is a full-time job, and will include some night and/or weekend hours. This person must understand the legal, ethical and aesthetic use of photographs across the Web in build, redesign and publishing. Photojournalism experience is necessary.

Years of Experience Required: 1-3 years minimum editorial photography experience.

Computer Skills: Candidates should be familiar with both Mac and Windows operating systems and have strong skills with Adobe PhotoShop and all Microsoft Office applications. A general knowledge of HTML is preferred.
Experience with Digital Asset Management systems is also a plus.

Please send resume to Alan.Zlotky@corp.aol.com.

Senior Software Engineer, AOL

AOL is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our NY team. This is a full-time staff position, offering Time Warner's full benefits package.

Candidates should have approximately 4-6 years of software development experience and be fluent in Java and enterprise web development.


Technical Excellence
• Uses knowledge associated with undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Possesses approximately 4-6 years directly related experience
• Understands and effectively uses AOL technical tools, applications, and Procedures
• Understand relationships among and across software components
• May be required to program in multiple platforms
• Fluent in applicable programming language(s)
• Conveys fundamental aspects of job through verbal\ and written communications
• Designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs and implements software for a component of the system design

Technical Skills
• Required- 4-6 years core Java experience including Servlet/JSP
• Required- 2-3 years web development experience with Java
• Required- 2-3 years XML, web services
• Required- 2-3 years SQL/Database experience
• Strong understanding of design patterns (MVC, Singleton, Factory, etc)
• Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Familiar with at least one major Java framework (Spring, Struts, etc)
• Familiar with large scale applications, particularly web applications
• Familiar with ESB and ETL applications (experience with Mule or OpenESB a plus)

Creativity
• Solves moderately complicated problems requiring some independent thinking
• Possesses excellent knowledge of information architecture, user interface essentials, interaction design, style guide creation, and motion design.
• Demonstrates ability to articulate design concepts to a broad audience including non-designers.
• Questions problem definition and reframes questions/problems to address the underlying issues.
• Constructively challenges current practices or approaches.
• Possess the ability to "think outside of the box" in order to provide high level client service.
• Originates new concepts, strategies, or innovative approaches that have significant impact on the company.

Business/Communication Skills
• Serves as an individual contributor and team member
• Understands own team's strategy and objectives
• Able to function self-sufficiently, but accepts guidance from peers and senior staff
• Mentors lower level Software Engineers

Personal Performance and AOL Valued Behaviors
• Articulates opinions on software development matters
• Demonstrates an understanding and adherence to AOL's vision, values, and principles
• Effectively changes and meets deadlines as they evolve
• Observes quality standards
• Foresees potential technical or business issues within department and makes recommendations to solve

Please send resume to Bucky.Jordan@corp.aol.com.

Senior Technical Manager of Entertainment Channel Development Team

Senior Technical Manager to lead New York City based Software Engineering development group responsible for building web sites for Entertainment business at AOL. The Web Sites consist of the Music, TV, Movies and Black Voices channels.

Experience leading teams building high performance and scalable web sites.

Familiarity with Java based development using mostly Opensource components
Including but not limited to Apache, Tomcat, Solr/Lucene , Mule etc.

Understanding of the role of Content Management Systems and experience building or integrating them to control the editorial experience on Web sites.

Ability to work collaboratively with Architects and other backend teams that provide services that power the Web Channels.

Excellent communication skills both oral and written and ability to interact with both Technical and Business partners in and out of AOL.

Experience in highly dynamic environments with the ability to anticipate and change course rapidly to adapt to evolving competitive pressures.

Please contact: Julio.Miyares@corp.aol.com

Are you a UI Designer?

Do you obsess over error rates?
Do you secretly count the number of times you are forced to go from keyboard to mouse?
Have you ever created a task flow to streamline your morning routine? ("Oh, coffee comes after I let the dog out...")

Then let's talk.

AOL's Experience Design Group is looking for a UI designer with a decidedly human-factors bent to join our New York team. If you are the UI star we seek, you will join a team of exceptional designers that strive to create perfection in even the smallest user-interaction. You will specifically create real impact on the bottom line for the AOL Programming organization by streamlining our publishing workflow and dramatically improving the usability of internal tools.

A little more about you:
You are an expert at creating task flows and reshaping those flows and the products behind them for optimal human performance and great task–completion times. You will be a champion of user experience, usability best practices and standards. You believe in getting the product right for the people who will be using it, and love to slash features that get in their way. You will work with product groups to shape product requirements and then transform those requirements into concrete wireframes and functional specifications. You love teams and collaboration. Tight deadlines don't ruffle your feathers. You thrive on working with the industry's top design and development talent, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin.

On your resume we will see things like:

• Identifies, addresses and solves complex user interface and information design problems by providing multiple viable solutions.
• Possesses expert diagramming and screen layout skills and creates hi-level concept maps, navigation maps, task flows and wire frames.
• Collaborates with other disciplines to define the vision and requirements for a product or programming area.
• Possesses thorough understanding of industry standard applications/technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, Flash and Publishing Systems.
• Demonstrates proficiency in industry standard UI software such as Adobe Illustrator, Visio, Omni Graffle, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
• Reviews competing products and recommends design solutions that differentiate the company's products from those of competitors.
• Works with business owners, producers, technology personnel, designers and researchers on specific projects to create final interface features.
• May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.

Education/Experience:
Directly related experience in designing online and software product interfaces, be they consumer facing or internal company tools. The level of design position you qualify for will of course be influenced by the years of experience and education you have. EOE.

Please note that this is not a graphic design position. Photoshop designs do not meet the requirements listed above. All applicants must be able to show samples of user interface diagrams, wireframes, specifications or flows.

Interested UI Designers should submit their resume/portfolio to:
Milissa Tarquini, Director of UI and IA, Email: Milissa.Tarquini@corp.aol.com