User Experience Developer/Engineer

3 Months ago • 3 Years + • Product Design

Job Summary

Job Description

The User Experience Developer at Disney collaborates with design, editorial, and engineering teams to build high-quality product solutions for brands like Disney and National Geographic. Responsibilities include developing HTML and CSS solutions across platforms, ensuring alignment with design principles, working on multiple projects simultaneously, and developing high-fidelity prototypes. The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills, working closely with both internal and Madrid-based technical partners. The developer will play an active role in the design team, contributing fresh ideas and technical expertise.
Must have:
  • Expert in HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • User-centered design principles
  • Responsive/adaptive UI layouts
  • UI development best practices
  • Design systems & component libraries
  • Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS experience
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
Good to have:
  • React or other Javascript frameworks
Perks:
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry
  • Disney Discounts
  • Excellent parental and guardian leave
  • Employee Resource Groups

Job Details

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team
 

Design at Disney

The design team at Disney is at the forefront of creating intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that our fans love. We strive to design high-quality end-to-end experiences while maintaining an inclusive and collaborative culture. To us, team-fit and attitude are as important as hard design skills.

We are the storytellers responsible for adding ‘something special’ to our consumers’ experience every day through exciting design, artwork, branding and UX globally. It is our job to create a framework that delivers consistent, creative and innovative user experiences for people – whether they are using Disney’s consumer-facing products, or the platforms, products and tools that help power our business. Crucially, how we do that work must be both imaginative and efficient, allowing us to also free our team devote energy to using design to drive innovation.

The consumer portfolio we get to design for includes many of the most trusted and beloved brands in the world, such as Disney and National Geographic. The enterprise portfolio we are responsible for is also critically important – and our colleagues, partners and businesses will be relying upon us to bring the same kind of imagination, ease and consistent excellence to those experiences.

Design Team

Within Content Operations, Design is a team of designers, video producers, and one engineer/developer, who together are responsible for delivering design solutions and localized content to our EMEA based sites and services.

Job Summary

A User Experience Developer at Disney is a creative problem solver, who collaborates closely with design, editorial and engineering teams, to develop first-class product solutions for our key brands, including Disney and National Geographic. They will advise on best practices, ensuring that any development is in line with the wider company thinking. They will work on multiple projects simultaneously, and for each project, assume responsibility for the timely delivery of HTML and CSS to our technical partners. They will have a keen eye for detail and are passionate about delivering creative solutions that work seamlessly across all platforms. In addition to working on our web products, they may be asked to create high-fidelity prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and MVPs for web and mobile. The developer will be an active and vocal member of the design team, offering fresh ideas and technical know-how. They will collaborate closely with engineering colleagues to ensure a consistent approach, as well as being a proactive and communicative link to our technical colleagues in Madrid, who manage the platforms for local products.

What you will do

  • Collaborate closely with design & editorial teams, helping to assess local product needs and advising on effective solutions

  • Build and deliver effective engineering solutions, primarily in HMTL & CSS, that works seamlessly across platforms, and with a deep appreciation of the original design thinking

  • Develop close and effective relationships with UX engineer partners in the wider design team, to ensure consistent approaches to development solutions

  • Develop a regular communication stream with our technical partners in Madrid who manage our product platforms and services

  • Design and develop high fidelity prototypes for responsive web applications when required

  • Design, architect and build libraries supporting a Platform approach to design when required, leveraging existing Design Systems

  • Provide design knowledge and technical expertise across the proof-of-concept lifecycle

  • Identify and execute opportunities for end-user testing and feedback in partnership with design team members

  • Present prototype progress and ideas to partners and stakeholders


Required

Qualifications & Skills:


As an applicant to this role, we ask that your portfolio demonstrates:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject

  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience

  • Experience crafting high quality experiences for web

  • Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript

  • Expert understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices

  • Expert understanding of adaptive, responsive, and fluid UI layout concepts

  • Expert in knowledge in UI Development best practices

  • Experience creating and leveraging design systems and component libraries

  • Experience with React or other Javascript frameworks

  • Knowledge and experience working with design tools including Figma, Sketch, and Adobe CS

  • Self-motivated, problem solver with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

  • Hungry for innovation, eager to challenge the status quo


The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave

  • Private medical insurance & dental care

  • Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free

  • Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing

  • Excellent parental and guardian leave

  • Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

 

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

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