Sr Design Technologist

Job highlights

• Professional experience designing and developing user interfaces,UX concepts,web sites and applications on a variety of platforms,frameworks,and methodologies
• Good working knowledge of: . AI engineering and applications,and usage as well as GenAI best practices . Server technologies . .

Joining frog means you'll be joining the "pond," a global network of studios, each with a thriving in-person and vibrant virtual culture. frogs are curious, collaborative, and courageous, united by our passion for improving the human experience through design, while each brings our unique and diverse skills and experiences to the table.

YOUR ROLE

• Design Technologists at frog blend futurist vision and practical thinking, serving as hands-on organizers of technical insights, experiments, proofs, and models.
• Bridge the gap between creative design services, technology strategy, and software engineering.
• Drive technology platform research, experimentation, concept exploration, prototyping, and ideation within the creative process of designing user experiences.
• Leverage and manage data to support technical needs ranging from AI applications to impact assessments.
• Gather, ingest, and utilize data from diverse modalities to advance project goals.
• Identify and analyze current and emerging UX technology patterns and trends.
• Conduct in-depth investigations and experiments with new platforms and frameworks.
• Spot new opportunities for business value and UX innovation through technology enablers.
• Work closely with the creative team to translate design assets into user experience simulations, interactive prototypes, technical proofs-of-concept, and UI/presentation layers.
• Embrace a maker and tinkerer mindset-technically adept, passionate about design, and eager to tackle challenges hands-on.
• Use creativity and technology as your primary mediums for innovation.

YOUR PROFILE

You are someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you can pursue your interests across functions and geographies, and where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point. You bring to the organization the following competencies:

• Professional experience designing and developing user interfaces, UX concepts, web sites and applications on a variety of platforms, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Ability to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of designers and strategists.
• A background in data management and manipulation to support data specific needs and concepts.
• Ability to communicate with clients directly and complete program and workstream tasks autonomously in some cases.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills along with experience in preparing and delivering documentation, proposals, presentations, and structured working sessions to all levels in a client organization.
• Bachelor's Degree in the sciences, engineering, or creative discipline or equivalent experience.

Proficiency in the following:

• Modern web front-end application development
• Working within Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Source control (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) and toolchain integrations
• Third-party API integrations
• LLM-based service integrations
• Data visualizations
• Digital media
• Detailed knowledge of cross-browser UI issues
• Physical and digital prototyping
• Creating code and exercising software development best practices (e.g. JavaScript/React, Python, C/C++, Unity/C#, etc.)
• Data manipulation and management
• Figma and other design tools

Solid proficiency with:

• Responsive Web Development
• Web Services
• Additional presentation-layer libraries and frameworks
• Design software and APIs (e.g., Figma APIs)

Good working knowledge of:

• AI engineering and applications, and usage as well as GenAI best practices
• Server technologies
• Cloud deployment
• CI/CD

Bonus:

• ML modeling
• Data Engineering
• Full Stack Development
• An exemplary attention to detail to accurately translate designs while maintaining a high level of code quality
• Background in Design Systems creation and deployment
• Ability to accurately estimate project scope and tasks