Director Design Technology Cognizant New York

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
The Principal Design Technologist is a rockstar frontend developer, maker and problem solver, who can equally empathize with users. They breathe life into ideas, and push the boundaries of design thought with what's possible, leveraging solid skills across current mobile, web, and embedded platforms.
You are a hybrid problem solver who loves to sketch in code. On our team, these technical skills are key to exploring and inspiring design.

An essential member of our innovation group, you contribute to all aspects of the innovation process, from research and ideation to delivery with a focus on prototyping and creatively approaching technical constraints. You pair up with designers, data scientists and engineers to demonstrate what it really feels like to interact with a product or service across multiple touchpoints. Beyond the basics, your toolkit might include Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or Arduino. You are always seeking to learn new tools and technologies as well as to deepen your craft.

Responsibilities:
Hands-on craftsmanship with the ability to be self- directed and proactive, push the boundaries with what's creatively possible and partner with designers and clients.
Communicate with both stories and shop talk as a key contact for clients and partners.
Apply advanced technical capabilities to explore and solve design problems, while having empathy for the people who will be users.
Lead and inspire by making: dive in, build ideas in code, abstract and reuse.
Collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams (design, strategy, engineering, data science and product management) to conceive and produce new experiences, products and services.
Bring platform and technology limitations to light and work creatively to circumvent them with alternate possibilities.
Build experiences for emerging technologies, IoT, and data/analytics driven services and navigate areas of service integration with 3rd party providers.
Research, learn and employ new tools and technologies.

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