Overview
The Senior Creative Engineer plays a central role in communication between clients and creative or programming teams. They lead and supervise complex web projects while identifying deficiencies in practices and workflows. Their focus spans both creative direction and technical guidance, ensuring the successful delivery of impactful web applications and dynamic campaigns. Additionally, they facilitate effective client communication, foster collaboration, and provide mentorship for team development.
Responsibilities
KEY FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Establishing and maintaining exceptional communication, cultivating robust relationships with partners, and overseeing onshore peers.
- Demonstrating heightened adaptability to emerging technologies and trends, providing innovative solutions to complex challenges.
- Implementing motion design guidelines derived from client-provided storyboards with a focus on elevating the overall creative output.
- Exhibiting a high level of autonomy and leadership under the guidance of a Principal or Art Director, taking ownership of projects and driving them to successful completion.
- Possessing advanced knowledge to oversee end-to-end OLA processes and video editing, ensuring seamless and high-quality deliverables.
- Collaborating seamlessly with both local and remote teams, taking the lead in reporting project progress and status updates.
- Directly reporting to a Principal/Manager, actively participating in strategic discussions and decision-making processes.
- Playing a pivotal role in continuous improvement by actively contributing to the enhancement of current workflow processes and introducing efficiency measures.
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead complex projects in terms of time and resources, overseeing the workload distribution among collaborators.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the latest trends in web design and development, including animation and web programming.
- Develop work schemes as needed for each project, involving coordination with the client versus the company and their delivery expectations.
- Provide mentorship and guidance in the technical direction to team members.
- Ensure that all assets provided by the client are suitable for production and are distributed correctly within the team.
- Collaborate with the client to negotiate creative changes and project enhancements.
- Ability to be both hands-on in production and involved outside of it to keep pace with the development process and client feedback.
Qualifications
MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced English Level B2
- 5/6 years of Experience related to Creative/Motion Engineering
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
- Leadership capability to keep work focused on production.
- Experience in Flashtalking, Google Studio, Syzmek, Innovid, Clinch, Celtra or similar engines for large dynamic or semi-automated campaigns.
- Efficiency in developing judgment for web development work and its frameworks.
- Maintaining attention to detail, catching technical programming errors, and resolving them.
- Should demonstrate knowledge of object-oriented programming and its correct application in processes aligned with the company's best practices.
- Extensive knowledge of video editing in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve.
- Mastery of Motion Graphics and VFX fundamentals in the development of multimedia videos for social media.
- Understanding of tools used for UX/UI and best practices for the proper optimization of assets.
- Conceptual knowledge of design thinking.
- Display conceptual knowledge of design thinking.
