Director of Creative Technology

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. 

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

As Creative Technology Director, you will be leading a team that will be pushing the cutting edge in UX, rapidly prototyping new designs and iterating based on A/B testing and qualitative customer feedback. You must know the fundamentals of user centric design, but also be able to roll up your sleeves and dig into the code to build great experiences. You will work closely with an existing team of high performing UX/UI Designers and Engineers to realize the user experience for the core journeys of AmericanExpress.com. 

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! 

To Set up Interview please contact:

Vishwas Jaggi
973-475-7482