Creative Technologist, AV Experience Required

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead creative technology and AV design for XTG and its partners; build and nurture relationships in the experiential design community.
• Translate customer requirements into visioning presentations and functional system designs.
• Communicate design intent using sketches, drawings, renderings, diagrams, outlines, storyboards, or narratives.
• Contribute to engineering and architectural drawings and calculations; coordinate with other disciplines and trades.
• Review pre-construction design documentation; assist with pricing, hour estimates, and logistical assessments.
• Create system descriptions, block diagrams, and equipment lists for customer proposals.
• Support installation teams, answer customer engineering inquiries, and provide post-sales consultation.
• Evaluate vendor products and emerging creative technologies; review and validate Design Engineers' work.
• Travel to job sites and support meetings outside local time zones up to 20 times per year.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of AV experience and a track record designing and implementing experiential AV solutions.
• Experience with a consultancy, creative agency, production house, or creative fabricator.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and professional interaction skills.
• Advanced computer skills for AV design, configuration, and equipment operation; ability to diagnose complex system problems and support user acceptance testing.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally; valid driver's license and a motor vehicle record meeting AVI-SPL standards.
• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent.
• Able to attend daily meetings and project activities in Gulf Standard Time and weekly office meetings in Dubai.

Preferred qualifications

• Formal education in Electronics or a related field is preferred; a four-year degree or military experience may be considered in place of job experience.
• AVIXA CTS-D and experience with Google SketchUp Pro or comparable design software are nice-to-haves.

Benefits

• Medical benefits, including dental.
• Paid holidays, sick days, and personal days.
• Training and professional development opportunities.

Workplace and schedule

• Weekly office meetings in Dubai and project activities scheduled in Gulf Standard Time are specified.
• Travel to job sites and nationally and internationally is required.
• Work hours and location may vary based on client requirements.