All Things Urban

Local Projects is an exhibition and media design firm for museums and public spaces. While innovation drives much of today’s design, we’re interested in creating projects that endure. We’re reinventing public space through media. We focus on engaging audiences through emotion and technology, developing new ways for people to interact with art, cities and one another. We gather stories through collaborative storytelling projects, and between Storycorps, the 9/11 Memorial Museum and Change By Us, we have brought forth over 100,000 individuals’ stories and memories, sharing them with the world and touching millions of lives. Local Projects has won top prize for every major design award including the National Design Award for Interaction Design, Fast Company Masters of Design, Webby Gold, Muse Gold and AIGA Gold.

We are seeking a Director for our Creative Technology discipline who has direct experience or a passion for working with cultural and corporate clients to create interactive engagements in public spaces. You have demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment managing and deploying large-scale, long-term interactive installations. The role requires technical proficiency, both with software systems, especially enterprise software design, as well as with AV systems hardware. As the leader of the Creative Technology team, you will set LP and our client partners up for success by leading a team of artists, creative technologists, engineers and designers, maintaining effective processes, practices and procedures. The CT Director supports constant and open collaboration to enable the CT team to do its best work within the larger interdisciplinary makeup of Local Projects. The Director leads the team with expert understanding of their domain, a passion for learning and solving problems, the ability to collaborate without ego, and is constantly striving for excellence. - Must live in the New York City area or be willing to relocate - Must be willing to travel for client and vendor meetings and for project installs - Please include cover letter

Management Leadership - Perform as CT discipline partner and consultant to LP management and HR - Serve as CT discipline partner to Project Management, and discipline leads - Train, mentor and develop CT team members Discipline Leadership - Application architecture and best-practices with an eye to implementation. Note that coding/implementation may be expected, but the role's primary function is oversight and guidance (versus day-to-day programming) - Direct technology development and deployment strategies including server setup - Implement a sound standardized testing process for more efficient QA protocols - Work with development team to identify areas of technical interest and professional growth - Interview and onboard new CT staff hires Project Leadership - Initial ROM budgeting and hardware/software scoping - Define and improve technical contracts and scopes - Oversee projects assigned to all CT/dev staff for assignments and approach - Research, design, and implementation of various IT solutions required for completion - Collaborate with agile production teams to bring prototypes into production-ready products and experiences - Ensure team projects are completed to schedule without compromising quality

Qualifications - Great interpersonal and management skills, knowing how to prioritize and address requests for guidance or information from your team and members of the studio - Excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to communicate effectively across a range of people that may have varying technical comprehension abilities including clients, stakeholders, vendors and team members - Ability to drive a multidisciplinary meeting to a series of actionable tasks for your team, as well as other teams - Media System Design experience- design, coding, installation, management of large scale interactive spaces from start to finish leveraging both custom and commercial solutions - Understanding (or willing to learn, the power and limitation of graphics programming, OpenGL, DirectX, etc.) - Google-fu - Sensor systems understanding, from LIDAR to OpenCV - Enterprise SoftwareSystem Design Nice-to-Haves - Know SOLID principles inside and out. Can mentor intermediate-level software developers to bring them to the next level - Understanding of physical architecture, rigging, electrical systems, low voltage signaling systems, etc. - Understanding of linear and 3D media (codecs, bitrates, throughput, character rigging, etc.) - Experience living in large codebases - we often have several developers work on a project simultaneously - Computer Science/Mathematics background - Networking & Server Admin skills- an MCSE or CCNA would be nice, but you should be able to understand basic networking concepts like spanning tree, CIDR, etc. You should be able to deploy a web server on a VM and set up a 1:1 NAT on a firewall

Health/Dental/Vision, FSA, 401k, access to Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance, generous PTO package, Commuter Transit Benefits, American Alliance of Museums membership, discounted gym membership, as well as allowance for professional development and growth. Local Projects is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our collaboration with each other and the experiences we create together greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across all disciplines, at all levels of the studio. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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