Director of Creative Technology

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