Sr. Creative Engineer

Mediaocean is powering the future of the advertising ecosystem with technology that empowers brands and agencies to deliver impactful omnichannel marketing experiences. With over $200 billion in annualized ad spend running through its software products, Mediaocean deploys AI and automation to optimize investments and outcomes. The company's advertising infrastructure and ad tech tools are used by more than 100,000 people across the globe. Mediaocean owns and operates Prisma, the industry's trusted system of record for media management and finance, Flashtalking, the world's largest independent ad server and creative personalization platform, as well as Protected Media, the MRC-accredited ad verification solution for brand safety and fraud detection. Visit www.mediaocean.com for more information. 
Senior Creative Engineers will be a member of the senior developers within the Creative Services group helping other team members as needed. This person will bring deep creative development experience specifically within the media and advertising space. Ideal candidates have a strong understanding of the digital advertising landscape with an emphasis on dynamic creative (display and video).
Senior Creative Engineers will be responsible for picking up and completing medium to complex development tasks that require the building of new, unique frameworks, follow development best practices, and implementing feed solutions (as needed). This role works hand in hand with Creative Producers and Client Success to scope, manage, and support client projects occasionally being brought into conversations in the pre-sales stages for their expertise and feedback on feasibility of a project.
This position will, on occasion, serve as the escalation resource for solutions, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for the wider creative services team. This role may also be trained and function as technical producers, where necessary and coordinate with Producers for the technical aspects of build requirements and feed requests. 

What You Will Do:

• Creative resource for troubleshooting and creative development
• Creative project point of contact for development and creative solutions:
• Client facing scoping assistance and on-going project management
• Documentation of framework
• Issue investigation and resolution
• Day-to-day interaction with partner resources where technical/development solutions are required
• Ingest, review, and confirm development tasks for:
• Sufficient Instructions and documentation
• Adequate resources (imagery, video, fonts, layered assets)
• Sufficient time to execute
• Complete development of or modification of dynamic creative at all levels and frameworks as required by task details
• Functional QA and code review of self or junior creative engineer’s
• Version dynamic creative through CRM / Excel methods including the use of inline styles to adjust layouts where necessary
• Support Creative and Solutions Engineering teams on proof of concept or app building to support wider project initiatives
• Provide creative ticket support on minor to moderate issues requiring escalation and investigation as necessary

Who You Are:

• Ability to communicate effectively and work cooperatively with internal and external teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong knowledge of campaign lifecycle from inception to trafficking of creative and live tags
• General understanding of ad serving technologies and how dynamic creative can be used
• General understanding of dynamic, and feeds-based creative solutions and build process
• Experience in mobile web design / mobile advertising or rich media production
• General understanding of feeds and API structures
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and AfterEffects
• Full knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS including ES6 practices and data parsing
• Ability to translate client requirements and expectations into actionable items for designer and developers
• High attention to detail
• Experienced in timeline management and task management
• Risk identification and management throughout projects
• Excellent problem-solving skills using available coding and ad serving environment solutions to resolve challenges
• Ability to call out technical constraints and limitations as they apply to delivering in digital web/video/social mediums
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Desig