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We are seeking a Senior Creative Technologist to join our New York Innovation team At Reprise. Creative Technologists are tasked with bringing their deep understanding of innovative technologies out there to bear on the agency’s creative and product offerings. The Creative Technologist will work with the head of Accounts, Product, and Innovation to answer client needs and help build out growing Innovation offerings. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to create exciting and interesting work for big brands.

Essential Functions

  • Coordinate with accounts and innovation to determine final objectives.
  • Create rapid prototypes with measurable outcomes and deliverables.
  • Judge and articulate technology and platform limitations both internally and externally.
  • Build web and native based AR and VR experiences.

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree of Media Arts, Computer Sciences or equivalent education and experience (Graduate degree a plus)

Work Experience:

  • Ability to work in a lead role developing strong creative ideas for digital experiences
  • Understanding of web and native based AR and VR solutions (Three.js, WebGL AR.js ).
  • Expertise in Unity or Unreal engines and it’s deployment to a variety of outputs
  • Familiarity with 3D workflows and optimization
  • A minimum of 3 year’s experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS3 including Node.js
  • Experience working Git, Confluence and Jira
  • Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary
  • Strong knowledge of software implementation best practices
  • Proven experience with one of the popular JavaScript MV* / MVC frameworks a plus but not a must
  • Physical computing experience a plus

Skills:

  • Is a multi-tasker who can handle several projects at once
  • Has the ability to deliver quality work in a fast paced, high volume, agency environment.
  • Good analytical, problem solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
  • Strong customer service, organizational, and communication skills.
  • Ability to present directly to clients when called on to do so.
  • A competent coder and passionate and curious individual.
Senior Creative Technologist

Reporting to the Director of Digital Media, the Senior Creative Technologist is responsible for technological development and support of the Museum’s digital systems.

About the Team

The Digital Media department is responsible for investigating and harnessing new storytelling techniques and technologies to deliver on the Museum’s mission to engage audiences where-ever they are, and create impactful Whitney experiences. The Senior Creative Technologist works closely with the Director of Digital Media and the Whitney’s web developer on product strategy and development, and leads an agile process to develop and deliver products.

About the Role

As the Senior Creative Technologist, you will oversee the Museum’s digital eco-systems. You are skilled in creating and communicating a vision: you will often lead from the start on projects, explore new models and determine the right approach while cutting through entrenched processes. You are a team player working closely with the museum’s web developer on all development strategy, as well as day to day implementation.

Responsibilities (What You Will Do)

  • Evolve and maintain our digital systems
  • Develop tools and frameworks to enable our digital team to build rich storytelling experiences and intuitive e-commerce flows
  • Collaborate across departments to define roadmaps and prioritization, and work with outside vendors
  • Provide technical support to systems that support the public website, membership, online retail, online ticketing, museum collections, and internal websites
  • Consult on museum-wide systems integration projects as they relate to public-facing and internal-facing products
  • Recommend and implement standards, evaluate functional design, and test usability and compliance
  • Work with the Museum’s internal design department on product development
  • Manage performance and reliability of systems
  • Keep systems and workflows well documented
  • Conduct R&D on emerging technologies, eg. AR and image recognition

Requirements (Who You Are)

  • 5+ years’ experience maintaining and developing websites
  • Creative thinker with a keen eye for clean user interface design and implementation, and deep knowledge of web development best practices.
  • Good organizational skills, attention to detail, and strong QA skills
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to relay technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Fluent in one or more scripting languages, preferably Ruby
  • Fluent in JavaScript, and up-to-date with ES6 and modern JS tools
  • Proficient in CSS, and preferably SASS
  • Experience testing and troubleshooting browser compatibility
  • Know how to install and maintain relational databases
  • Strong background in managing and deploying Linux-based web server environments
  • Familiarity with version control systems and workflows
  • Familiar with maintaining WordPress and Drupal sites
  • Experience with accessibility best practices (WCAG 2.0 standards)
  • Interested in contemporary art

Whitney’s Technology

Our main website was built in-house on Ruby on Rails 5, with a MySQL database, SASS, JavaScript ES6, webpack, runs within Docker on Linux servers, and is served through NGINX. It integrates with several other systems and API’s using JSON and XML. Some of our other sites are built in Python (Django), Drupal 7, and WordPress, and run on Apache. Everything is versioned through Git.

About the Whitney

The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for 86 years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists themselves, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.

EEO Statement

The Whitney Museum of American Art is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Museum does not discriminate because of age, sex, religion, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, gender (including gender identity), sexual orientation, or any other factor prohibited by law. The Museum hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. The Museum encourages all qualified candidates to apply for vacant positions at all levels. This description shall not be construed as a contract of any sort for a specific period of employment.

Creative Technology Director
Future Colossal – New York, NY

Future Colossal is looking for a Creative Technology Director to join our Leadership Team. We’re a boutique experiential innovation lab exploring and creating with the latest technologies, immersive environments, and physically interactive experiences. We work on exciting projects for major brands and entertainment IPs ranging from theme park experiences to popup experiential advertising to immersive installations for cause based non-profits.

As Creative Technology Director, you will need to have an understanding of software, hardware, and electrical development. You will lead the exploration of technology as a creative medium, and push design and innovation within the Creative Technology department. You would be responsible for leading and mentoring our team of Creative Technologists, as well as overseeing our technology pipeline, development process, and internal R&D. Your department would work alongside a diverse team of designers, producers, fabricators, engineers, marketing, and strategy experts. As part of the Leadership Team, you would report directly to our founding executive team to help steer the growth and direction of the company.

This is an incredible opportunity for the right candidate. You will have the opportunity to play with the best toys from AR, MR, VR, DMX, Computer Vision, Robotics, to esoteric uses of industrial technology and custom engineered hardware. This is a position for someone who enjoys a challenging role that widely varies from day to day, has a proven history of showing strong leadership across teams, and is a passionate maker.

You are:

  • Obsessed with technology, making, and learning
  • Someone that follows the latest trends, tools, and approaches in Creative Technology
  • A natural leader that excels at managing a team, implementing and maintaining development processes and protocols, and analyzing success of production health across our portfolio of projects / clients
  • Skilled at leading meetings, organizing information, delegating responsibilities, and mentoring team members
  • An egoless leader that fosters team growth, shows empathy, and builds trusted relationships with leadership and clients
  • Comfortable pushing back against leadership and executives while being able to work through differences of opinions and compromises, even if your recommendations aren’t always selected

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee and mentor the Creative Technology team through software, hardware, and creative challenges
  • Take ownership over all technology based project scopes to ensure they meet internal and client expectations while being delivered on time and on budget
  • Create exciting on-brand concepts for project pitches utilizing cutting edge technologies and innovative user experiences
  • Estimate Creative Technology production hours and hardware requirements
  • Oversee the approval of software/hardware architecture for projects
  • Maintain and grow the Creative Technology knowledge base and internal software tools
  • Oversee the technology pipeline, development processes, and internal R&D
  • Work alongside executives and other Department Directors as the Leadership Team to steer the growth and trajectory of the company
  • Travel on occasion as required to meet with clients, technology vendors, or to oversee the deployment of creative technology in live environments
  • Contribute to company activities and social events to promote a positive overall morale and encourage team bonding

Requirements

  • General knowledge in all the following areas with an expertise in at least two of the following: C++ development, Unity development, CV, AI, gesture interactivity, visual processing, generative graphics, GPU programming, robotics, sensing, physical computing, and electrical engineering
  • 3-5 years professional experience in creative technology, experiential, or innovation focused roles
  • Proven management experience with at least 1-3 years in leadership positions
  • Extensive client facing experience with a polished, professional demeanor, and confidence and enthusiasm for advocating for creative technology
  • Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies (you aren’t a project manager, but you understand what drives them and how best to interface with them)
  • Able to effectively cope with and help others excel in stressful situations and multi-task high-detail workloads for multiple clients, projects, and assignments
  • Effectively prioritizes, takes proactive measures, and jumps into any role to ensure project success; a strong team player mentality with a positive ‘can do’ attitude and loads of integrity

Benefits

This is a full-time leadership position in production management in a fun, relaxed company culture with a growing talented, dedicated team. We provide a flexible environment with access to the latest technology (Hololens, VR, LIDAR, Robotics, EEG, 3D Printing), the collective ability to pull-off the most ambitious projects, and an opportunity for quick growth within the organization for leader types with initiative. We provide company health, 401k, commuter, and family leave benefits, as well as standard PTO, paid holidays, and membership to some professional industry groups with fun perks.

Submit cover letter and resume. Must be currently living in the Greater New York City area; payment for relocation is not offered. Please, no phone calls and no recruiters.

About Us:

We are Future Colossal, http://futurecolossal.com, an experiential innovation lab based in NYC. We explore and create new technologies, constantly innovating to build immersive spaces, both physical & virtual, that are memorable, playful, and interact with the viewer. On any given day we may be working on VR/AR/MR, physical installations, or creating a new experience that doesn’t fit conventional norms. We display our installations throughout the world at brand events, digital out-of-home media, trade shows, technology events, festivals, live events, permanent installations, and museum/gallery exhibitions – and have clients across a wide variety of industries. We are fast paced, constantly solving new challenges, and always looking with excitement towards the future.

Freelance Creative Technologist
Pineapple Co – New York, NY
Contract

MKG is a creative agency specializing in brand experiences.

We believe that brands are people, too. Or, at least they should strive to be more like us. Because it’s those human qualities like kindness, humor, and intelligence that make a brand so appealing. And when brands get human and treat people like people, they earn our respect, our desire, and our dollars. And you can see that in the work we do. We create experiences where people can connect with brands the same way they connect with each other.

Let’s make something.

Job Description:

MKG is looking for you – a Creative Technologist who operates in the intersection of digital and physical.

The position sits between our creative team and our production team and you are a hybrid of the two. Your vast knowledge and excitement for technology will complement our creative ideas and elevate our work. You’re not just a creative thinker though, you also love tinkering and figuring out how to make ideas into realities.

You will bring 4 to 6 years of relevant experience with the ability to pitch, source, and execute engaging digital and interactive campaigns across a variety of different brands and categories. You are an encyclopedia of emerging technologies and how they are being used in the brand marketing world.

You are a creative thinker and a problem solver with a strong blend of creative ideas and project management skills. Since every project is unique in execution, you’re able to dictate and build custom teams.Requirements:

  • Minimum 4 years experience concepting, pitching, and executing interactive campaigns.
  • Can work in a lead role developing strong creative ideas for digital experiences
  • Is a wizard when it comes to current trends surrounding technology in experiential marketing
  • Has a robust roster of contacts to call upon including production shops, digital artists. Developers, coders, creators, technologists, etc
  • Has the ability to deliver quality work in a fast paced, high volume, agency environment.
  • Is an excellent writer with great communication and organizational skills
  • Demonstrates critical thinking and problem solving abilities.
  • Has strong quantitative analysis skills to interpret data and mine for insights. Knows how to set up analytics and measuring systems to track effectiveness of a digital campaign.
  • Is a multi-tasker who can handle several projects at once (and who, frankly, would be bored to tears any other way)
  • Knowledge of OpenFrameworks/Cinder/C++, Processing, Unity, Unreal, Hardware (Raspberry Pi, Arduino – sensors, motors, LED lights, Kinect, displays, etc), JavaScript, WebGL, CSS, HTML, Backend/Database
  • Oh, and you live in NYC (or you want to.)
  • You have a sincere love of dogs.
  • Most importantly – you’re fun to work with, have a positive attitude, and are passionate about the work you do.

To apply, let us know why you’re the right fit for conquering the world (and particularly this position). Please include links to examples of your work and share your favorite digital experience, product, or site of late.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. MKG is a certified minority owned company.

What you’ll be doing…

About our team

The Verizon Experience Team is a new internal group tasked with evolving the Verizon customer experience across all channels and touchpoints through the design and implementation of innovative products and services that customers love.

Working from a newly designed studio space at 140 West Street, the team is assembling the brightest designers, design strategists, researchers, and product managers to collaborate within teams shaping the most important touch points across the customer journey.

About this role

As Creative Technologist Lead, you will openly collaborate with experience design and management teams to translate design research, strategy, interactions, and thinking into fully coded front-end prototypes.

Work will span the design process, from front end design definition to agile development and implementation. You will be a hands-on technology expert, shaping the concept and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms.

In addition to shaping products you’ll play a lead role in shaping and communicating process. You will be a key liaison between the IT organization and experience teams, leading collaborations through a broad understanding of current and emerging technologies and design practices to isolate problems and generate solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Deeply understand Verizon’s mission and develop a vision for extending, enriching, and supporting it through new applications and experiences
  • Define, design, and develop prototypes in code for innovative digital media products and services
  • Stay abreast of the evolving media, technology and design landscape including the emergence of new standards, protocols and devices
  • Communicate regularly with other experience teams, business partners and IT development teams to understand the current opportunities and challenges as well as to share knowledge and showcase development findings
  • Stretch the boundaries of our thinking about what Verizon products and services will become in the next 3 to 5 years
  • Participate in the development of other experience team members’ projects where your skills are required
  • Present our concepts of the near future to employees, customers, and outside groups
  • Translate IT partner system integration requirements to working experience teams for deeper understanding of development landscape and issues that may impact strategy and design of current and future products

What we’re looking for…

  • 8+ years of deep interactive development/production experience with proven expertise and a portfolio of impressive work
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in multiple design/development disciplines (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3, native iOS/MacOS/Android applications, motion graphics, creative coding)
  • Experience in rapid prototyping and agile development methodologies
  • Understanding and fluent usage across a broad spectrum of technologies including, but not limited to: JavaScript/NodeJS, HTML/CSS, XML/JSON, and Responsive/Adaptive Design
  • Familiarity with various APIs like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Maps. G+, etc.
  • Proven track record of developing creative product concepts and communicating those concepts through the hands-on creation of working prototypes.
  • A history of achieving commercial or artistic success from creative technological endeavors.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work out of New York office with some work days in Basking Ridge, NJ and/or Piscataway, NJ and legal authorization to work in the US

When you join Verizon…

You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer- and celebrate our employees’ differences, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or Veteran status. Different makes us better.