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We’re hiring! Creative Technologist

Creative Technologist
Full-time remote / Based in European or Eastern time zone

This is a remarkable opportunity for a radical thinker to lead the range of technical outputs across infogr8’s purpose-driven projects. 

Our mission is to unlock the value of data for genuine social impact. You’ll be collaborating remotely with some of the world’s brightest data visualisation experts, and working on exciting visual experiences for the likes of Mastercard Foundation, Harvard University and Urban Ocean Lab. 

As the first Creative Technologist in the company, you’ll be a hands-on individual with a track record of thinking up, prototyping and building cutting-edge digital experiences. 

You appreciate the value of a close-knit, cross-functional team around you.  You enjoy communicating your passion for creative technology. And you have a meticulous approach for each intended audience. You’re confident in directing clients and teams alike, yet equally keen to get your hands dirty with code. You’re excited at the prospect of fostering the tech culture at infogr8, evolving our product offering, and driving FutureFridays – our weekly sandbox for creative data visualisation experiments without the traditional anchors of a brief. 

As someone who is naturally immersed at the intersection of technology, behaviour and data, you’ll have natural confidence and charm in researching, facilitating, sketching, prototyping and presenting solutions to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

infogr8 are now at an exciting growth stage. You’ll be hungry to continue this momentum across our creative design capabilities. In return, you’ll benefit from our sustainable work-life approach – choose where you want to work, and have client-free Fridays to focus 20% of your energy on experimenting with new themes, tools and devices, or applying new design thinking to bring even more purpose to what we do everyday.

About infogr8

infogr8 help our partners do more with data. We’ve been at the forefront of showing meaning and value in data since 2012. We pride ourselves on delivering award-winning work with accuracy and agility. In the last 12 months, we’ve won a Webby for the American Opportunity Index and spun out our third purpose-driven business pod (Healthcare, joining Sustainability and EdTech).

Background and skills

• Prior experience at a research innovation lab or creative agency is a must, as is work with sector-leading organisations.
• Inherent understanding of the psyche of audiences – you discuss, prototype, explore, exchange and design concepts for technical and non-technical audiences in an open, purpose-driven, democratic and playful way.
• Exposure across a variety of immersive technology solutions featuring live data feeds, such as insight dashboards, productivity tools, trackers or benchmarks is advantageous.
• Experience with a range of full-stack technical languages and skills that may include some of the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data visualisation libraries (D3, Leaflet, Processing, Raphael, Polymaps, Flare, Charts.js), client/server-side frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Node, Svelte), jQuery, Canvas, grunt/gulp, Recline.
• Leading, influencing and supporting others in virtual environments, with the ability to nurture quality across co-located, diverse and multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent attention to detail (you know what great looks like and what it takes to make it) – with a portfolio of high-quality creative solutions to match.
• An excellent facilitator with brilliant communication, interpersonal skills, and a global orientation – you’re able to pitch and present new ideas confidently and naturally to create synergy and collaboration across teams.
• Proactive, high-energy individual with bags of self-motivation and initiative.

Responsibilities 

• Foster the intersection of creative and technology  
  • Set the technological vision for the company. 
  • Own the tech stack and technical outputs with a unified approach across the pods, ensuring quality is reached. 
  • Partner with infogr8’s design lead to cultivate creativity across our pods from creative briefing to pitch to delivery, so that we can build out purposeful, visually creative solutions that wow our teams and clients alike with the art of possibility. 
  • Onboard and guide technical members with a consistent approach, and be their support for incremental improvement.

• Evolve the product offering 
  • Evolve our existing service offering and associated products to help our client partners better unlock the value of data for everyone. 
  • Lean into emerging trends to create new product opportunities
  • Collaborate with our pod General Managers to develop sector-specific solutions that are innovative yet realistic in seeing the light of day. 
  • Seek efficiencies in creative and technical solutions, with a standardised approach to support both pod workflow and client value. 

• Drive FutureFridays 
  • Run our weekly innovation lab in a fun and outwardly engaging way. 
  • Quickly draw understanding from the pods, stimulating ideas and gathering the most promising solutions in an empathetic way. 
  • Take great pride and ownership in how the program evolves, planning forward-thinking themes alongside the teams around you and inviting fitting specialists and luminaries who will add the most value.

How to apply

To apply, share your CV and cover letter to [email protected] and simply respond to the following in 300 words or less: Show us the 3-5 most interesting opportunities in creative technology in the data visualisation space.

As part of our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups in tech and design.

Only direct applicants, no recruiters please.