As a Creative Technologist, you will be hands on in all aspects of user experience including: gathering and understanding business and user needs, building high and low fidelity prototypes, and developing production-ready shippable code. American Express has won the JD Power Award eight years in a row, including Best in Web Interaction for the Credit Card Industry. This is a very exciting opportunity for someone who can blend business needs with customer needs to drive innovative solutions.
Responsibilities
• Work with the UI/UX team to rapidly build out and iterate upon low fidelity and high fidelity prototypes – You will own the projects and prove their value to the rest of the organization
• Responsible for designing and maintaining reusable UI components used across the Amex organization
• Collaborate with Agile technology teams to bring successful prototypes into production-ready products
• Act as a thought leader internally and externally and facilitate innovation workshops with clients and partners
• Ensure adherence to best practices, standards and brand consistency
Qualifications
• 8+ years development experience
• 3+ years experience building teams and managing people
• Relevant experience analyzing user experiences and turning them into usable, interactive prototypes and/or products
• A deep understanding of the principles of User Experience, User Interface Design and Typography
• Expert-level understanding of CSS – You know the browser quirks and you know how to handle edge cases
• A strong portfolio showing breadth of development work
Our Ideal Candidate Also has…
• Experience with managing a code-based style library
• Knowledge of one or more front-end frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember)
• Experience working with prototyping tools such as Axure, Invision, Balsamiq, Framer, or UXPin
• Proficiency with design tools, most notably OmniGraffle, Ilustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
• Familiarity working in lean/agile product development methods
• Excellent relationship management, verbal and written communication and executive presence
• An affinity for visual storytelling – You make your ideas contagious!
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Collabera is hiring a Director of Creative Technology
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At Collabera, we recognize that our client satisfaction depends in large part on our resource satisfaction, so we make meeting your career needs a top priority. We provide a high-touch, supportive environment that enables you to grow and challenge yourself while maintaining work-life balance. Choose from a wide range of exciting opportunities from our diverse Fortune 500 client base.
Job Description: * Responsible for working with customers and designers to build custom websites. This includes HTML and CSS coding, assisting in the QA, testing and the actual publishing of the websites
* Assist in providing back-up design support when needed
* To be part of a team that applies knowledge of web development to build and deliver custom websites and on-line advertisements (e.g., banner ads) for customers. This includes supporting website development services as well as rich media ad design / development.
Qualifications: • Associates degree or related experience in a technical field required• Professional experience in web development, including website development, building site pages and developing code• Working knowledge of developing and integrating themes into WordPress• HTML page creation from raw format design files – such as Photoshop PSD files• Fluent in CSS tableless layouts and experience with CSS frameworks such as Foundation or Bootstrap• Ability to write, debug and test scripting languages like Javascript and experience with frameworks such as jQuery and jQueryUI• API Integration into existing CMS systems (preferably WordPress)• Managing and organizing source code revisions and files with versioning tools such as Git or SVN• Build site pages, unit test, and support the implementation of customer web sites• Analyze and document user requirements.• Maintain and update new and existing customer websites• Acquire and maintain knowledge of current standards, policies and procedures• Collaborate with other team members and cross-functional units to ensure quality• Maintain and develop technical skills to keep current in systems programming and analysis techniques
Additional Information: All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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