Creative Technologist -MediaMonks, New York

New York

MediaMonks, New York is looking to hire a new technology champion! You will be a key part of our pitch and sales process, supporting Growth Monks and Producers to help craft digital solutions for our clients. The Creative Technologist role is responsible for the implementation and support of technology-based solutions that drive efficiencies across complex workflows within MediaMonks. This role has primary responsibility for day-to-day support and management of a variety of tools and systems deployed throughout MediaMonks and used by Designers, Copywriters and local teams. This position also serves as a Developer, working directly with Creative leadership and Engineers to support the development of new tools to improve creative workflows and enable asset creation on a broad scale. By regularly evaluating existing tools and workflows, this role requires the ability to audit and propose new processes (and/or tools), which enhance Creative capabilities and optimize for maximum output.

As a partner to MediaMonks Creative leadership, you will have interaction with Creative team members to triage support requests, troubleshoot technology issues and provide frequent communication and guidance on best practices to ensure the consistent organization and delivery of creative assets required for global initiatives. This role also requires an ability to provide excellent customer service to our Clients and a dedication to resolve issues quickly and efficiently. You will also help train Creative team members on updates to technology-based workflows, issuing regular communications to alert the organization of any planned system outages, and for organizing/executing training sessions for various tools and systems.

Most importantly, this individual must have exceptional interpersonal skills and a desire to establish strong relationships with internal partners to become a trusted partner within MediaMonks, and to help drive strong adoption of new technologies and workflows across the entire organization.

Responsibilities:

You’ll vet incoming projects and define our initial response, and take it from there. Your extensive expertise in conquering technical challenges will safeguard new projects from the get-go.
Work with creative & strategy teams to contribute quickly and iteratively to support client presentation.
Manage technical development of projects from initial design through final delivery.
You are a quick thinker and happy to do some rapid prototyping - whether that’s in a game engine, building a bot or building blocks for a platform - from virtual events to digital ecosystem services.
Once projects have been sold through, you’ll help to prepare them for development by our production team in New York City.

Requirements

Strong background with javascript frameworks like React, Vue, three.js , D3.js
Strong background with iOS, Android
Strong background with AR/VR
Experience with OpenCV, openFrameworks or other video processing frameworks a plus
Familiarity with audio processing and other real-time sensor data manipulation
Background in coding, designing and architecting solutions – capable of performing automated/scripted tasks in php/javascript and possibly other technologies as needed.
Experience with various AWS technologies, including Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, etc.
Must have an “innovation” mindset – capable of providing unique or new ideas, thinking “outside of the box” and can create a vision for new solutions.

Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets with business acumen

Very strong communication skills and a good sense of humor

Basic working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications
Adequate knowledge of relational database systems, Object-Oriented Programming and web application development
Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques

The position involves frequent client contact and builds on your ability to talk about technical matters in a clear-cut way (though you’re free to throw in some specialist terms, just to impress).
You understand how technology supports and combines with strategy and creativity, and that performance is not only about CPUs and TBs but also about KPI’s, data, people and touch points.
You’re a strong communicator, confident in presenting (technical strategies) to C-level crowds and crystal-clear when it comes to providing updates and flagging issues. You understand and know how to navigate the political balance between enterprise stakeholders.
When it comes to development, you’re a polyglot with functional knowledge of a wide variety of languages and expert-knowledge of technical architectures and content management systems.
Hands-on knowledge of prevailing technical stacks is essential as we produce ever more advanced products and (e-comm) platforms.
You’re proficient with high-performance solutions that can handle millions of visitors.
You have a knack for digital thinking and tech trends, demonstrated by your development experience with beta technologies and APIs.
In addition to knowing your languages, you can advise on hosting infrastructure, security, performance issues, and the prevailing internet memes.
You have in-depth knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure, risk management/compliance and related information security requirements.
You can compile technical documentation to help instruct development teams, no matter where they are in the world.
You’re experienced working together with other developers and source-control systems such as GIT, Perforce and SVN.
You’re experienced in providing quick ballparks and accurate project estimates, clearly defining the scope and underlying assumptions together with the producer
Teamwork is at the core of how you work. You know when you need to acquire help from a specialist to help you reach the common end goal.

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