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 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