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R/GA and its clients are seeing a huge increase in demand for new exciting and mixed ways of experiencing content. With the onset of Web3.0 and Metaverse, R/GA are looking for a candidate to help build new experiences that live within 3D worlds and augmented experiences.

We are needing a Creative Technologist with a focus on 3D + game design to help navigate production, from consultancy in design to development and pipeline knowledge.

As a Creative Technologist, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams including technology, experience, visual and verbal design, strategy, production and client services to investigate, conceptualize and deliver innovative world-class work for our clients.

Your role is hands-on, with a focus on conceptualizing, ideating, prototyping, designing and building tech-based creative solutions in close collaboration with creatives, technologists and other disciplines. You will be working on projects at a local, regional and global scale.

You are ultimately a creative person but engineering is one of your core skills. You should have experience or at least a great understanding of a wide array of technologies such as, but not limited to, web and mobile development, AR/VR, game engines, electronics prototyping toolkits, conversational interfaces, and AI-driven creative solutions. Solid understanding of visual and experience design and tools is expected.

You are a problem solver, your wealth of experience across different technical disciplines means that you can comfortably provide solutions through experimentation and pushing boundaries.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Enable R/GA, its people and clients to understand technology and how to unlock its potential in new and innovative ways.
  • Conceptualise and prototype, at speed, unique digital experiences..
  • Deliver world-class and edgy experiences for our clients, their customers and the general public
  • Work with teams across multiple offices, collaborating with multiple disciplines
  • Constantly over-deliver, surprise and amaze collaborators and clients alike

Successful Applicant

  • Successfully raise the technical understanding and innovation within the business.
  • Successfully conceptualise, prototype, build and deliver unique world-class experiences for our clients in time, at scale and with great customer success
  • Successfully place yourself as a key and necessary member of the creative team for all types of briefs and clients.

Required Skills

  • World-class sense of aesthetics and appreciation for quality creative work
  • Passion for creativity and new media arts (AI-based creativity, computational/generative design, physical installations)
  • Passion for existing, emerging and future technologies
  • Hands-on experience of developing for web (including Canvas and WebGL), mobile, VR/AR
  • Knowledge, if not hands-on experience, of game engines (e.g. Unity and Unreal) and their possibilities (gaming but also AR/VR, raytracing, virtual cinematography).
  • Knowledge of electronic prototyping toolkits (e.g. Arduino and Raspberry Pi)
  • Knowledge, if not hands-on experience with design and creative tools such as Figma, Cinema 4D, and AfterEffects.
  • Ability to learn new technologies as you experiment with them for the first time
  • Ability to collaborate with creatives, technologists and other disciplines
  • Ability to seamlessly integrate and draw from diverse skill sets.
  • Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into more non-technical descriptions
  • Excellent presentation, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • 4+ Years of proven career experience in creative technology-related roles
 

Preferred Skills

  • Knowledge of modern web frameworks like Angular, React and Vue
  • Strong hands-on experience with CSS based animation
  • Knowledge, if not hands-on experience, of emerging creative tools, AI-based creative solutions (e.g. Runway ML, Tensorflow Magenta) as well as well-known creative AI models (e.g. GPT 2/3, StyleGAN 1/2)
  • Knowledge, if not hands-on experience, of the use of data to drive generative and computational creativity

Additional Skills

  • Basic DevOps skills (AWS, GCloud, Aliyun, Azure)
  • Knowledge of NodeJS, Python, D3, OpenFrameworks
  • Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile or other iterative models 

Diversity

No-matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity or the gender you identify with (please do tell us your pronouns), you're welcome at R/GA. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any interview process, please do let us know.