Senior Creative Technologist

• Turn customer opportunities into users, workflows, decisions, constraints and hypotheses
• Map service blueprints and human-agent-system models
• Prototype at the lowest useful fidelity using sketches, simulations, coded interfaces, live agents, connected devices or fabricated forms
• Integrate data, APIs, models and tools to create credible end-to-end prototype behaviour
• Run research and co-design with customers, users and subject-matter experts
• Define evidence and diagnose breakdowns across interaction, workflow, policy, data or model
• Present and demonstrate work to customer teams
• Lead research, co-design and testing sessions
• Bring tangible work into executive workshops
• Act as day-to-day customer contact on smaller engagements
• Separate reusable interaction logic, components, agent states, prompts, policies and evaluation assets from customer‑specific examples
• Hand pilot and delivery teams flows, code, assets, dependencies, risks and test evidence
• Experiment with sensors, microcontrollers, edge devices, fabrication and ambient feedback
• Own day‑to‑day design, technical exploration, build, testing, evidence, handoff and associated customer sessions
• Ensure prototype quality, credibility and learning value
• Work under engagement direction from the Associate Director and Director
• Collaborate with Engineering and Lab Operations while owning prototype behaviour and intended human‑AI experience

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in interaction design, HCI, industrial design, computer science, engineering, architecture or another creative or technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years in creative technology, design technology, interaction design or software prototyping
• 2+ years building prototypes for customers or stakeholders under time pressure
• Portfolio or PDF of recent work showing prototypes built personally, the question each answered, and resulting changes
• Business‑level fluency in English
• Depth in at least one craft: HCI, interaction or product design, industrial design, software development or creative technology
• Ability to build directly in at least one medium and collaborate across code, agents, data, devices and fabrication
• Working grasp of generative and agentic systems
• Experience learning with people and turning evidence into concrete changes
• Ability to work with customers, designers, researchers, engineers and industry experts
• Comfort presenting, demonstrating and running sessions with customer teams
• Preferred: Master's degree in interaction design, HCI, design engineering, computational design or related field
• Preferred: TypeScript or JavaScript, React, Figma, Git, API integration, LLM or agent frameworks, and working knowledge of at least one cloud platform
• Preferred: Microcontrollers, edge devices, sensors, firmware, wireless connectivity, 3D printing or CNC fabrication, spatial audio or ambient feedback
• Preferred: Unity or Unreal, WebGL or Three.js, AR or VR headsets, Blender or Rhino, After Effects
• Preferred: Experience in an innovation lab, product studio, design consultancy, creative agency or research group
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and Lab locations as engagements require

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in interaction design, prototyping, and integrating technology to create user‑centered solutions. Proficient in collaborating with cross‑functional teams and presenting findings to stakeholders while ensuring high‑quality prototype development.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Prototyping For Customers
• Interaction Design
• API Integration
• HCI Expertise
• Creative Technology

Hard Skills

• Prototyping
• Interaction Design
• HCI
• Software Development
• API Integration
• Generative Systems
• Agentic Systems
• 3D Printing
• CNC Fabrication
• Spatial Audio

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Presentation Skills
• Customer Engagement
• Co-Design Facilitation
• Research Skills

Industry Keywords

• Creative Technology
• Design Consultancy
• Innovation Lab
• Product Studio
• Research Group

Tools & Technologies

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• React
• Figma
• Unity
• Unreal
• WebGL
• Three.js
• Blender
• After Effects

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