Assistant Interactive Producer
Expires: June 1, 2016
Location: Chicago, IL
As part of the Exhibitions Media and Interactives team, the Digital Interactives Producer will create digital hands-on experiences for permanent and temporary exhibitions. Working within a creative environment, the Digital Interactives Producer is accountable for all aspects of production–from conceptualization to programming and integration into exhibitions.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in developing code for digital interactives and maintaining current exhibition interactives
- Work with exhibition project teams through prototyping, visitor testing, development, and production phases
- Implement Google Analytics tracking in exhibition interactives and contribute to analysis of user behavior
- Assist in installation and integration of interactives into exhibitions
- Research new technologies that could be used in future exhibition interactives
- Organize and consolidate materials for archiving purposes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; or 1-3 years of web development experience
- Proven experience developing applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery. Experience with Django/Python and Flash/Actionscript 3.0 are huge pluses. Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Familiarity with LAMP development, Linux, and MVC frameworks
- Understanding of UI/UX design for web and touchscreen applications
- Excellent problem solving, organizational skills, and attention to detail
- Portfolio demonstrating work experience
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite software; skilled in MS Office, presentation and design software, and Google products
- Desire to learn, understand, and apply new technical concepts and applications
- Experience with Unity development and 3D modeling software a plus