Director, Creative Technology (Digital Kitchen)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
sid lee 1/24/2022 Los Angeles, California, United States **Director, Creative Technology (Digital Kitchen)**
**About Digital Kitchen**
Digital Kitchen, a member of the Sid Lee creative community, is a creative experience company that brings Emmy-winning storytelling and design to captivate audiences.From crafting iconic titles sequences, transforming spaces into an interactive canvas, to developing imaginative experiences for brands such as Warner Bros., Netflix, HBO, Facebook, and Amazon. Digital Kitchen creates worlds beyond belief.
**Role**
We are looking for a Director of Creative Technology that will help DK pioneer and unlock the potential of world-class creative and innovative experiences.For this role, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects bringing together design, storytelling, experience design, and technology working in partnership with a cross- functional team of creatives, designers, and producers.
Combining both creative and technical skills, the Director of Creative Technology will help design and deliver experiences across a whole host of mediums including real-time and generative art, VR/AR/MR/XR, immersive live events and installations, motion graphics animation, and 2D and 3D design and animation.
This role will be an essential part of helping DK to continue to explore and experiment with the ever-expanding ways of seamlessly blending creativity and technology for innovative storytelling.
Responsibilities
* Playing an active role in the project process from concept to launch
* Collaborate closely in a team environment throughout the process and problem solve
* Designing and developing specifications for large and complex interactive
experiences/installations
* Sourcing and managing relationships with vendors for equipment and specialty
fabrication
* Represent Digital Kitchen and communicate complicated technical designs to non-
technical partners/clients
* Maintain a pulse on the bleeding edge of new media technologies and their possible
applications in client projects
* Maintain a working knowledge of and educating team members on the use of both
practical and digital VFX (e.g. Peppers Ghost, SDF models, vector fields)
* Provide technical support and direction of on-site productions, programs, events
* Provide accurate equipment and development time estimates
* Extensive experience with creative development tools (Unity, Unreal, TouchDesigner, etc)
* Familiar with CAD tools for creating single line drawings/documents to support system architecture designs
* Familiar with production and broadcast media formats and best practices (color space, frame rates, media sync, etc, rec709, rec2020, HAP video etc...)
* Familiar with lead times and challenges related to logistics for both permanent and traveling installations
* Experience with mass management and scripting of media transcoding operations (e.g. ffmpeg)
* Advanced proficiency with dynamic languages, web frameworks, APIs and SDKs
* Ability to produce rapid prototypes for interactive creative concepts
* Experience creating projection mapping studies for large scale installations
* Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
* Must be able to lead teams of developers (both internal and contractors/vendors)
* Have strong project management skills
* Are a team player that'll fit into our ideas-driven, collaborative team
* Have excellent time-management and communication skills
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