Principal Design Engineer - NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.
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Salary: $180,000 - $225,000 (Bonus Eligible)

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive. 

The Global Streaming Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We’re a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we’re focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier. 

We’re looking for someone who considers themselves equal parts designer and engineer and loves to operate in the space where the two disciplines meet. You’re passionate about collaborating on ideas as part of a team then bringing those ideas to life in the form of real, tangible, high-fidelity prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and design tools. In terms of core skill set, you look like a front-end engineer, but you think like a designer. You have a strong eye for detail and biases towards speed, innovation, and the end user experience. You're a self-starter and take initiative; you seize opportunities rather than waiting for tasks to be assigned. You're comfortable working independently and as part of a squad.  

You’ll be joining a small, but mighty Design Engineering team which sits within the Viewing Experience, Product and Design organization at Peacock. Our team’s mission is to “bring ideas to life, enabling innovation through experimentation and automation”. Your primary function on this team will be to build prototypes that explore new features and experiences for the Peacock app across all platforms. Additionally, you’ll build utilities and Figma plugins that automate processes and help our designers do their jobs faster and better. 

What You’ll Do 

• Work with designers, product managers, and user researchers to build prototypes that aid in design exploration, usability research, and stakeholder buy-in 
• Build tools and plugins that make the design process better, easier, and faster 
• Improve on initial design concepts through the prototyping process 
• Build and maintain shared toolkits and codebases that make prototyping easier and faster  
• Build and access APIs that pull live data into prototypes 
• Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies, adopting them for use as needed 
• Look for ways to improve our prototyping processes and capabilities 
• Take lead on projects and start new frameworks, toolkits, and codebases from scratch 
• Mentor other members of the team, helping them level-up their skills and experience 

• 8+ years of relevant work experience  
• Degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience 
• Portfolio of relevant work and code samples showing highly polished final executions and proficiency in software development 
• Expert-level experience with HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript 
• Expert-level experience with some or all of the following: React, React Native, Swift, Swift UI 
• Expert-level experience with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite  
• Expert-level experience performing software development in a team environment (participation in peer code reviews, use of developer tools such as version control and build systems, and adherence to team coding standards) 
• Very strong written and verbal communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills 
• Very Strong experience building and/or consuming APIs   
• Very Strong experience working cross-functionally with product designers, engineers, product managers, and user-researchers  
• Very Strong experience working autonomously on projects 
• Strong understanding of interaction and user experience design best practices and workflows  
• Strong experience presenting and demoing to your immediate team, cross-functional leadership, and larger audiences. 
• Strong experience with web and cloud infrastructure 
• Experience developing plug-ins for Figma and using the Figma API 
• Experience developing for international audiences 
• Experience developing with video content 
• Experience with other modern languages and frameworks (Next.js, TypeScript, LightningJS, etc.) 
• Experience with a variety of relevant platforms and tools such as Apache on Ubuntu, AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Contentful, GitHub, GraphQL, Node.js, Vercel, and Xcode 
• Experience using Generative AI tools such as the Open AI suite of products 

Nice-To-Have 

• Experience with video streaming and tv-based platforms  
• Experience developing mobile-based apps 

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

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