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Creative Technologist
| Company | Gensler |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $108000 – $132000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Minimum 4 years’ experience
- A people person, able to coordinate between multiple parties to advance your design
- Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets
- Exceptional critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills; a quick learner who understands diverse technologies and techniques
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced collaborative environment
- Ability to present technology solutions to non-technical audience
- Comfortable in a workshop environment using basic hand tools to build mockups
- A working understanding of physical computing elements such as microcontrollers, sensors and custom input devices
- Familiarity with display technologies (projection, Direct View LED, LCD, OLED), creative dynamic lighting
- Experience reading, creating, and directing others in producing architectural and technical drawings for a variety of technical design needs
- Ability to creatively code in one or more of the following: Web technologies – HTML5 / JS including React, node.js, etc; Graphic environments such as TouchDesigner, Unreal, Unity; Python / C++ a plus
- Experience working with REST APIs.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate and provide creative input on experience and creative approach
- Research, prove, and present technical approaches and systems architecture to support the experience vision
- “Sketch” unique visual systems using web stack and creative coding environments.
- Be a key technology resource on client projects
- Conduct quick proofs of concepts and technical mockups using both hardware and software to test and validate the designs
- Design and document your work using technical narratives, 2D/3D drawings and sketches, systems and software diagrams, data flows, and visual precedents
- Work closely with technology partners/vendors and software development teams, both external and within Gensler; Review all major project deliverables including vendor submittals to ensure alignment/adherence to design intent.
- Develop and implement technology test plans and either organize or lead commissioning of hardware
- Contribute to / develop software working with our production teams
- Optionally, join our teams onsite as developer and lead liaison with the design team
- Develop exciting showcases that will inspire your colleagues and visiting clients
- Research and showcase emerging technologies
- Facilitate proof-of-concepts and technical mockups on various projects
- Create and maintain library of technological precedent
- Develop and maintain relationships with technology partners and vendors; facilitate vendor showcases and ensure our knowledgebase current with their offerings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of the creative and/or architectural design process
- Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets
- Knowledge of commercial AV hardware (such as: multi-channel audio systems, video processing, routing, networking and distribution, supervisory control systems) and leveraging it form a working AV system
- Basic understanding of computer networks and how to deploy physical computing in those environments
- Familiarity with Content Management Systems (CMS)
- 3D Modeling skills in one or more of Rhino / Sketchup / Vectorworks / AutoCAD / Revit / 3ds Max / Blender
- A working understanding of PC components, Cabling, Operating system (Windows, Linux), BIOS/OS configuration, etc
- Experience working with UX design tools such as Figma
