Jobs at MotorTrend Group

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The Director, Software Engineering (Salaried, full-time, regular) has overall responsibility for the customer facing product and day-to-day production of that product, ensuring that software components are delivered on time, within budget and meeting quality specifications set out by the business. The role involves planning, organizing, resourcing and managing a team of varying sizes (5 to 10 individuals) in collaboration with Technical Project Managers, Product managers and technical leads

• Collaborate with product teams and data analysts to design and build data-forward solutions. • Build and deploy streaming and batch data pipelines capable of processing and storing petabytes of data quickly and reliably. • Integrate with a variety of data metric providers ranging from advertising, web analytics, and consumer devices. • Build and maintain dimensional data warehouses in support of business intelligence tools. • Develop data catalogs and data validations to ensure clarity and correctness of key business metrics. • Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation. • Deliver strong Python and SQL development and maintenance techniques surrounding data movement to include technologies. • Investigate and understand different data sources and ability to connect to a wide variety of 3rd party APIs. • Design, enhance and implement ETL/data ingestion platform on the cloud.

We are looking for a Sr Software Engineer – PHP WordPress (Full-Time, Salaried, Regular) to join our CMS team to help develop the Content Publishing web applications. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing modern CMS solutions for problems of scale. You will provide input, oversight, and direction for the integration of WordPress plugins, extensions, third party libraries and API’s. You will consult on overall frontend/backend architecture and strategy, and enforce standards, best practices, and modern development conventions. You will work closely with stakeholders, such as UX, Editorial, Ads Ops, Business Intelligent, Product and Sales teams to deliver the best possible customer experience.

We are looking for a Sr Software Engineer – NodeJS, (regular, full-time, salaried) to join our Browser Clients team to help develop the next generation of our Content Publishing web applications. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing modern web solutions for problems of scale. You will provide input, oversight, and direction for the integration of third party libraries and API’s. You will consult on overall frontend/backend architecture and strategy, and enforce standards, best practices, and modern development conventions. You will work closely with UI/UX and Product teams to deliver the best possible customer experience.

The Business Intelligence & Strategy Analyst (full-time, salaried, regular) will support the valuation and analytical strategy behind our content programming & strategy decisions in addition to leading competitive analysis. The Analyst position will work closely with both the Director and VP of Business Intelligence & Strategy. The Business Intelligence & Strategy team builds analytics and provides insights to deliver accelerated growth and monetization through enhanced customer experiences with our products. We partner across Motor Trend App and motortrend.com digital platforms, Motor Trend Buyer’s Guide and related Motor Trend Group digital owned & operated sites (such as Hot Rod and Automobile) on digital product, advertising, content and marketing analytics to better engage our audiences across all devices and platforms. Through the solutions we deliver, our business can more effectively personalize content, direct marketing, and target advertising to consumers on tv, mobile, desktop, and streaming devices.

The Manager, Business Intelligence (full-time, salary, regular) within Motor Trend Group is responsible for the data strategy, decisions and analytics to deliver accelerated growth and monetization through enhanced customer experiences with our products. We partner across Motor Trend App and motortrend.com digital platforms, Motor Trend Buyer’s Guide, Motor Trend Network and related Motor Trend Group digital owned & operated sites (such as Hot Rod and Automobile) on digital product, advertising, content and marketing analytics to better engage our audiences across all devices and platforms. Through the solutions we deliver, our business can more effectively personalize content, direct marketing, and target advertising to consumers on tv, mobile, desktop, and streaming devices. Duties include, but are not limited to:

At Motor Trend Group data is central to measuring all aspects of the business, and critical to its operations and growth. The BI data engineering team is responsible for collecting, analyzing and distributing data using public cloud and open source technologies and offers transparency into customer behavior and business performance

The Manager, Digital Transformation, MotorTrend (full-time, salaried, regular) will support the digital transformation of a portfolio of magazines into digital-first properties. The position will demand a high degree of collaboration/partnership with members of different groups helping to execute a strategic plan for complex change and operating within the organization creating accountability, managing change, and ensuring forward motion. Experience with financial planning and project management are critical as well as sound analytical, communication, and people management skills required. The ability to lead by influence and execute at the ground level will be critical success factors.

The Manager, Digital Transformation, MotorTrend (full-time, salaried, regular) will support the digital transformation of a portfolio of magazines into digital-first properties. The position will demand a high degree of collaboration/partnership with members of different groups helping to execute a strategic plan for complex change and operating within the organization creating accountability, managing change, and ensuring forward motion. Experience with financial planning and project management are critical as well as sound analytical, communication, and people management skills required. The ability to lead by influence and execute at the ground level will be critical success factors.

Partnering with a cross-functional team of leaders (Product, Editorial, Design, Engineering, Marketing) in a highly collaborative environment to envision the future of digital products in the Automotive category.  Establishing the overall creative direction through visual aesthetic, user interaction, animation, storytelling, tone, etc. for Home digital products across multiple platforms.  Presenting and advocating for your ideas and solutions to senior leadership.  Mentoring and leading a team of Product Designers with a range of skill sets (UX, UI, visual, animation, illustration, etc.) to create world-class digital experiences.   Promoting core design principles consistently across the brands (e.g. simplicity, usability, etc.)  Contributing to the planning, conducting, and synthesizing of user research and testing. 

The Senior Product Manager (full-time, salaried, regular) will be responsible This role will have ownership of a product pod. Ideal candidates should have experience independently setting and executing against a product roadmap, managing a team of UX designers and front end/back end developers, and driving measurable key performance indicators. In addition, candidates should have a will have a passion for creating customer-centric products, a strong background in product management, an analytic mindset, excellent communication skills and an eye for building customer experiences that will delight our users.

The Product Designer (full-time, salaried, regular) will be an effective cross-functional problem solver who applies design thinking and a visual and interactive sense to our apps and websites to design usable and delightful interfaces and interactions. Working closely with Product Managers and User Experience Designers, the Product Designer will own the execution of the user interface from designing mockups, building prototypes, and polishing the quality of the final product. This designer will work to elevate the product beyond utility by designing for emotion and desire, obsessing over the details that take a product from great to exceptional.  Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

We are looking for Lead SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to build and improve automation framework, and help raise the quality bar of our VOD/OTT applications and services. You will be responsible for evaluating existing automation framework and suggesting and implementing robust test automation framework. Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

Developing/implementing the Sonic platform, which is DNI’s owned and operated backend technology platform for driving digital video on demand services on a global basis. Working with product owners and other stakeholders to refine requirements and help estimate complexity and effort. Collaborating and supporting other in-house and external development teams that utilize the Sonic platform to build consumer facing products. Setting up, operating, and troubleshooting the cloud based infrastructure that is used to host Sonic platform.

The Software Engineer (full-time, salaried, regular) help develop the next generation of our VOD/OTT platform. This position will be responsible for developing modern API/Microservice solutions for TV Platforms. Sr. Software Engineer will provide input, oversight, and direction for the integration of third party libraries and API’s. This position will consult on overall service architecture and strategy, and enforce standards, best practices, and modern development conventions. This position will work closely with Software Engineers for TV platform teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions. Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

The Technical Project Manager (full-time, salaried, regular) will help keep the pace of our overall delivery of the company’s expanding digital experience, specifically web, mobile apps, video, OTT, and other emerging platforms. The successful candidate has demonstrated experience in leading the execution of digital products, making sure to keep all stakeholders abreast of progress and issues that might come up. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has proven track record of driving agile based software development driven by key user insights and data. Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to: 

The Senior Technical Program Manager (full-time) will help keep the pace of our overall delivery of the company’s expanding digital experience, specifically web, mobile apps, video, OTT, and other emerging platforms. The successful candidate has demonstrated experience in leading the execution of digital products, making sure to keep all stakeholders abreast of progress and issues that might come up. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has proven track record of driving agile based software development driven by key user insights and data. Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:  

The Director of Product Management will help drive the strategy, product definition, and overall delivery of the company’s expanding digital experience, specifically focused on MotorTrend’s suite of apps, connected devices, web/mobile web properties. The successful candidate has demonstrated experience in leading product initiatives from start-to-finish, developing product opportunities aligned to business and revenue goals, identifying market conditions and emerging trends, and managing multiple stakeholders and priorities. The ideal candidate will have proven experience leading web products and SEO optimizations, especially in a mobile-first environment using a data-backed approach.

The Product Manager (full-time, salaried, regular) will help drive the strategy, product definition, and overall delivery of the company’s expanding digital experience, specifically mobile apps, video, OTT, and other emerging platforms. The successful candidate has demonstrated experience in leading product initiatives from start-to-finish, developing product opportunities focused on driving key metrics around subscribers, conversion rates, and reducing churn. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has proven track record of driving product improvements through data based decisions through user testing, data analysis, and A/B testing.

We are looking for a Director, Web Platforms (full time, Salaried, regular) to join our engineering leadership team and help drive the development of our next generation of content-rich web applications. You will recruit and mentor talented engineers. You will provide oversight and direction for the development of high-traffic web applications. You will own the overall web-platform architecture and strategy for dynamic, ad-driven websites. You will enforce standards, best practices, and modern development conventions. You will work closely with stakeholders in identifying growth and performance goals while coaching and retaining talented contributors to help your team meet those goals.