We are looking for an Experiential Technical Director to help us build and install the different kinds of experiential projects we realize. This ranges from in-office experiences, interactive video walls, to permanent entertainment pieces like giant space busses.
Our work requires mastery of software and hardware and a passion for combining them in new ways, with a close eye on driving innovation by integrating all disciplines. Our sweet spot sits at the intersection of Physical, Virtual, and Live experiences and we’re always looking for ways to blend them together. You will work with our award-winning experiential team in the Netherlands, collaborating with creatives, designers, developers, and makers. Whether that is a robust systems design for permanent installations in a fully connected Headquarters, a free roaming VR zipline, or installing kinetic screens on-site on a beach, we need a cool headed problem solver ready for anything.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Be the technical point person when pitching for new projects:
- Provide technical insight and sense checking
- Create provisional system layout and help quote accordingly
- Do sense- and feasibility checks, both from a technical and a project timeline perspective
- Call out technical risks or unknowns and suggest mitigation strategies
- Interface with client amp; vendor tech, as well as IT and InfoSec teams teams
- Brainstorm with rest of pitch team to come up with a range of possible ways to solve a requirement
- Support technical RFIs and RFP questions
- Be responsible for the technical outlines of experiential projects:
- Identify third party systems and interfaces and determine their (im) possibilities
- Vet vendor tech proposals
- Create and ensure adherence to technical design:
- Create and maintain the technical design document (TDD) for projects
- Create hardware lists for projects specifying which exact hardware to use
- Create system architecture + define interfaces between subsystems
- Create hardware-, network- and system schematics specifying all possible connections either by creating them yourself or by checking and vetting supplied sub schematics
- Provide guidance for / do check ins with (sub)project developers and vendors
- Support on-site installs:
- Help installing and setting up when required
- Debug installs (identify sources of issues, coordinate between tech teams, provide testing plans, suggest possible solutions)
- Support our experiential team:
- Guard our technical philosophy (quality, predictability and maintainability)
- Provide tech support for experiential producers and PM’s
- Coordinate and support our other experiential TD’s
Requirements
Qualifications/Background Sought (required):
- Demonstrable deep understanding of / experience in a number of the following fields:
- Web technologies (api’s, backend tech, frontend tech, websockets etc)
- Networking (tcp vs udp, vlan’s, unicast vs multicast vs broadcast etc)
- AV + AV protocols (projector’s, lights, sound, dmx, artnet, osc, dante)
- Real time engines (Unity, Unreal, Open frameworks, Disguise, Notch)
- Electronics (MCU programming, sensor interfacing etc)
- Ability to code in Python, Node.js, Unity or Unreal engine (or similar)
- Solid knowledge of computer hardware
- Real world experience with event set up and running
- Real world experience with delivering experiential projects
- Solid debugging skills
- Works well under pressure, Well suited to fast paced on-site environments, capable of overseeing an installation during live events with clients and
- Suited to a fast pace, tight deadlines and unpredictable circumstances.
Personal profile / traits :
- Strong communicator who can convince others of the path chosen while at the same time stays flexible and open to others’ ideas
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
- Problem solving mindset
- Great interpersonal skills
Qualifications/Background Sought (bonus):
- Broadcast / streaming experience (VMix, OBS, NDI, professional cameras, capture devices etc)
- RC / robotics experience
- Experience with VR systems and VR system setup
- Maker experience (3d printing, electronics assembly, metal work, wood work etc)
MediaMonks is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sex st