Principal Design Technologist - Futures

Overview

We are looking for that futurists, design hacker, pragmatist and unconventional thinker to bridge the gap between conceptual design and emerging technologies and platforms. You're a maker and not afraid to take on complex challenges that lead to paradigm shifting ideas. Your medium of expression is through technology and prototyping that helps solve big customer problems while leveraging emerging, new interaction patterns and design trends. You thrive in ambiguity and are a great creative systems thinker. You'll be part of a small design team dedicated to proving and creating game changing user experiences that will help power prosperity for our customers.

What you'll bring

• Proven ability to lead explorations and innovate within and extend current technology through prototypes
• Strong understanding of design needs and user centered design approach
• Strong attention to detail and organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly
• Experience and passion for developing visually polished, engaging and highly fluid user interfaces and hardware prototypes
• Experience with hardware hacking/prototyping (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
• History of building prototypes to advance design thinking and the final product experience
• Strong familiarity in a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Framer and Figma
• 7+ years of experience in a creative technologist, front-end developer or UX Proto-typer role
• 2+ years experience with developing for mobile and web
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

• Strong skills and experience in effective collaboration and technical problem solving within multidisciplinary teams
• Actively participate in concept development and design ideation
• Develop functional prototypes to prove out concepts and influence development teams and senior leadership
• Discover new tools to help build prototypes in emerging new user experiences
• Advance understanding of platform and technical capabilities and limitations as you help be bridge relationship between design and engineering
• Rapidly build and iterate on low and high-fidelity prototypes that conveys the design concept using the best and most appropriate tools and techniques
• Provides support on tool selection and best practices. Analyzes existing and planned releases for usability