Job Description

Creative Technology Lead

Preferably based out of Miami, FL, but could also be placed in a Havas Health & You hub with locations in NYC, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Toronto, and Lexington.

Havas Mango is a new, bespoke agency based in Miami servicing clients in the health, wellness and lifestyle categories, and specializes in the convergence of strategy, design, content creation and immersive technology. A unique benefit to joining our team is that, because we’re servicing brands in the health and wellness space, the work you’ll be creating will foster positive change. Our clients have taken a modern and unconventional approach to wellness and employ a mission of helping customers live their best lives through the products and services they provide. 

Our agency is an extension of Havas Health & You, based in New York City, and provides incremental value to the Havas network by providing a more nimble, innovative and collaborative team structure. We hire for mindset over titles and operate a flat team structure that allows for fluidity in responsibilities and enables collaboration without the typical agency hindrances. We seek talent that consider themselves multi-dimensional – rather than being siloed to a single area of expertise, we’re looking for the curious, the innovators, and those who are interested in utilizing multiple skills and interests acquired through past experience.

Due to the agile nature of our agency, aside from the typical, requisite skills including being detail-oriented, having a professional and positive attitude, and employing a strong work ethic, you must be proactively self-driven and bring optimism and passion to the table each day. We’re seeking those who can take the initiative to see an innovative idea through to completion, and who thrive in a collaborative small-team environment. You should anticipate having to navigate through complex business problems and resolve unforeseen challenges and shouldn’t be afraid to roll up your sleeves and pitch in wherever the team may need you.   

The most attractive part of this opportunity is joining the agency in its infancy and partaking in all aspects of building it from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Run platform research and experimentation, concept exploration, prototyping, and ideation within the creative process for designing user experiences across software & hardware applications, and services delivered via web
• Work alongside an interdisciplinary team of developers, strategists, designers and content creators, helping bridge the gap between design and technology by providing technical guidance to foster innovation
• Provide thought leadership in the application of technology in design, and inspire invention and the exploration/implementation of new, emerging technologies across XR, Artificial Intelligence, physical computing, game frameworks, application/web development, machine learning, and other technologies we haven’t even considered yet
• Articulate complex technologies, ideas or prototypes in a clear and simple manner to influence key internal stakeholders and clients as necessary
• Lead prototyping of both lo-fidelity and hi-fidelity experiences/concepts in both physical and digital environments
• Comfortable working with user workflows and giving input into User Experience Strategy & design
• Be seen as an expert by the team in emerging tech platforms and stay attuned to emerging trends within the tech industry
• Explore, recommend, and validate custom hardware and software ideas
• Lead both network and client presentations representing the agency and/or specific project/product demonstrations
• Participate in new business efforts, from RFP response to final pitch presentations
• During development and deployment of an event/product launch, apply hands-on testing with testing plans, fixes, and optimization
• Leverage available analytics data to inform actions around performance optimizations
• Collaborate with external technology and production vendors as necessary
• Work with Producer to scope technical projects as needed

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience working in an agency, consultancy or related field
• A proven portfolio demonstrating expertise in multiple design/development disciplines (AR/VR/XR, native iOS/MacOS applications, installations, creative coding)
• Experience with digital design, familiarity with User Experience best practices, and working with and alongside developers
• Experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Unity, Unreal, and SparkAR
• Bachelors in Computer Science, Design & Technology, Product Design/Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field/equivalent industry experience
• A curious mind and have a love of learning in the search of the next best technology or experiential opportunity for our team to add to our capabilities

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in physical computing preferred
• Experience integrating digital tech as a component of physical space design and experiential environments
• Project and agency management experience preferred
• Familiarity with dev frameworks like React, node.js, Vue, three.js, D3.js, CSS preferred