Job Description

For consideration, please submit a link to your portfolio/work samples.

As a Design Technologist on the Square Point of Sale Creative team, you’ll merge the roles of design and engineering, bringing innovative creative concepts to life. In a Design Technologist role, you will need a passion for both design and technical skills. You’ll work on a broad range of digital needs from product marketing experiences to informational pages that are both beautiful and highly usable. 

You can act as a bridge between the Design team and our cross-functional partners helping to ensure both design fidelity as well as technical feasibility. You will collaborate with creative peers to prototype, test and execute custom web experiences that allow our sellers to learn, use, and adopt our products. 

As much as we are focused on the work, we are constantly improving the ways we work. In addition to working on projects that aim to improve the seller experience across web channels, our team also looks for opportunities to leverage technology to super-charge the design process through building internal tools to yield a more efficient workflow.

You will also work with teams across Square to understand best practices and solve problems in a scalable and future-proof way. The ideal candidate has previous experience working in an agency and/or internal creative departments with a focus on digital and web technologies.

You will

• Participate in concept development iteration, partnering on projects from ideation and design through implementation.
• Take creative direction and expand on concept ideas with a solid and active contribution in creative reviews.
• Own hands-on technical development, from prototypes coming out of ideation through to final launch/G2M production code.
• Contribute and consult on discussions about the digital aspects of creative campaigns.
• Present ideas or prototypes to both creative marketing / technical audiences.
• Work creatively through and around perceived limitations and challenges imposed by the delivery platforms
• Evaluate and document any creative and engineering standards or patterns that could arise from your work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Front-end development – HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript, and modern tooling
• Back-end development – Familiarity of Ruby, Java, or other back-end languages
• Familiarity building in and working with CMS’s
• Portfolio of work that displays design, high-fidelity animation, motion, iconography, typography, color, and imagery
• Understanding of web standards, browser performance, and best practices
• Passion for digital marketing, advertising, and understanding metrics
• Advocate for technology and choosing the right tool for the job
• Familiarity with modern design tools (Figma, Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D)