Content Production Specialist/Engineer
Location: Remote, but must be local to CUL, CUP
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 12 months
Pay: $80-$85 DOE
The Planet Group is looking foran Content Production Specialist/Engineer to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 12-months contract, working remotely for candidate based in Culver City or Cupertino..
Content Production Specialist/Engineer | Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience (This is not an entry level position)
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Highly organized and excellent at recognizing inconsistencies
- A deep appreciation for finding simple solutions to complex problems
- Ability to manage several multi-layered files and a variety of apps
- Comfortable working in rapid iteration
- Systematic thinker
- Fluent in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers
- Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- An understanding of GitHub, Terminal, and Radar
Content Production Specialist/Engineer | Description:
This position requires you have impeccable production skills — layout, typography, color — and have a keen eye for inconsistencies. As you work through file creation, you will need to keep in mind how the end user will experience the template and the app, as well as any new app features being introduced. An organized individual, with accurately structured files, is essential to the workflow. The position requires deliverables to be provided under tight deadlines — exceptional attention to detail is a requirement, as well as an ability to problem solve, easily deal with tedious tasks, mediate and cope with rapid change. Above all, the role requires a dedicated individual who understands our high standards and design aesthetic.
- Content (templates)
- Initial collaboration with Design + HI to create new design templates
- building new templates (very technical process re: accuracy, following established methods for successful deliverables, testing by importing)
- audits of various template features, functions, imagery, placeholder text
- pressure test new template designs, expose discrepancies in design goals vs production realities, work with ENG to add new features to accomplish those goals when possible
- AX Testing of new templates, sample docs
- nternal QA: cross checking new content to guarantee our work moves into the builds without creating bugs
- New Feature Implementation
- work closely with ENG, Design + HI as new features are developed
- flexibility in content creation including the new features occurring in parallel with feature development - informing ENG re: content creation/import processes & dependencies
- GitHub
- checking out repos, checking in changes to content files and import-generated files
- understanding how repos behave, tracking file changes for bug investigations, fixing conflicts
- working in SourceTree and/or Terminal for GitHub management
- responsiveness and ability to deploy updated ENG requirements including creating Pull Requests for multiple repo checkins; managing the impact on workflow
- close partnership with ENG as new processes are required, and are tested and tweaked in collaboration
- Radar
- bug writing/investigating/fixing is complex and requires a deep understanding of our apps functionality and our templates intent
- need a clear understanding of how to investigate our apps and content to diagnose issues QA finds and communicate findings and proposed fix both efficiently and effectively
- close collaboration with Design re: bug fixes requirement vs. template design/layout adjustments
- Tools
- communicate with ENG re: need for special tools updates to the app in response to bug fixes or feature additions or process enhancements
- proactively define and test tool improvements working with our Content ENG
- Localization
- awareness of LOC layout impacts in new template designs
- collaboratively fix LOC bugs, ensuring design integrity and functionality for templates in other regions
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