Description

The Creative Technologist will make our ideas better by leveraging the power of tech and development. In this hybrid role, you will be challenged on a daily basis with finding innovative tech solutions to creative ideas.

This is a hands-on role and you will be expected to get involved in live projects; your work will involve a mix of project work, proof-of-concept and liaising with clients and internal teams to strategize, define and design applications and campaigns.

We work on projects across all devices with a lot of social integration and you’ll be expected to have a detailed understanding of current and future public APIs.

OFFICE HOURS

Monday – Friday, 9am-5.30pm

Work from home available upon agreement.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic

• Work with clients to educate, inform and inspire
• Partner with internal teams to ideate concepts and product deliverables to answer client briefs
• Be actively involved in new business, from attending meetings, bringing new concepts to clients and acting as a thought-leader for the agency
• Provide internal teams with resources and inspiration to assist the pitch process
• Represent the technical side of the agency
• Become knowledgeable about the new business process; attend client meetings, present prototypes and concepts
• Prototype or wireframe concepts in an easily understood way for clients
• Provide recommendations for the best technology fit and user experience
• Drive experimentation with new technologies and develop applications that can be taken to market quickly to showcase organisational thought leadership
• Develop a culture of excellence around the creative use of technology beyond advertising and marketing

UX/UI

• Provide insight and recommendations to internal teams and clients for best user experience
• Design the overall architecture of the application
• Translate UI/UX wireframes to visual elements
• Strong front end knowledge (responsive HTML, cdd, sass, jss)
• Interest in modern technologies (node.js, angular, react)
• Lead product road mapping, wireframing and design
• Prototype concepts for presenting to clients

Technical

• Create technical solutions using custom, open source and off the shelf technology
• Integration of front-end and back-end aspects of the applications
• Produce server-side code to develop complex, interactive and database driven sites and applications
• Keen interest in driving new technologies and methodologies
• Clean, reusable, self-documenting code
• Proficiency in back end languages such as PHP, Ruby or Python
• Understanding and experience with VR and AR
• Experience working with API’s
• Discipline source control (git)
• Database design and management
• Understand mobile technologies – predominantly iOS
• Evolve applications to ensure maximum performance and stability

System Administration

• Implementation of security and data protection
• Familiarity with Unit Testing, TDD and Continuous Integration
• Comfortable with AWS
• Understanding of network and storage
• Linux and basic shell scripting
• Coordinate testers to ensure quality is maintained
• Work with other developers to prove deliverables

Project Management

• Set and adhere to project timelines and budgets
• Manage additional developer requirements
• Recruit and train freelance and/or permanent developers as the team grows
• Communicate comfortably with the account service team
• Attend meetings with client’s technical team as required
• Scope projects, provide timelines and budgets to client management team
• Understanding of Agile processes and methodologies
• Provide leadership and vision for the technical team and wider business
• Set up systems and processes for the ongoing maintenance of products with clients and license partners

KEY SKILLS

• Full stack developer comfortable with platforms and software mentioned above
• Flexible and easy to work with
• 5+ years experience in a similar, fast-paced agency role
• Self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision
• Experience leading small teams of developers / freelancers

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $100,000.00 – $130,000.00 per year