Design Technologist

**Your Title**:Design Technologist

**Location**:Christchurch, New Zealand

**Division**:Agriculture

Are you interested in bringing design concepts that will help farmers globally to life? Our Agriculture Team is looking for a Design Technologist to help support development within our division.

**What You Will Do**

In our User Experience team, the guiding principle is straightforward yet essential: “Design industry-leading solutions that delight customers and drive business growth through empathy, collaboration, research, and efficiency.” Design Technologists make this possible.

As a Design Technologist, you’ll work alongside a team of User Experience practitioners, engineers, and product teams to turn concepts into living, breathing prototypes and iterate on interactions, animations, and details to deliver best-in-class user experiences for our website platform. As a Design Technologist, you’ll combine strong UI design aesthetics with technical ability.

In this role, you will work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges, as well as partner with product management and engineering to ensure that techniques and designs translate to existing user needs and technical guidelines.
- Create prototypes based on design concepts created by the user experience team and the company’s design system
- Use strong design principles that relate to typography, color, spacing, iconography, etc., to aid in the creation of prototypes
- Build and iterate on appropriate-fidelity prototypes that express design intent
- Componentize existing web pages with the standards and structures of the company’s design system
- Develop front-end code based on the business requirements and the company’s design system
- Deliver code that is flexible and can be iterated upon, with an understanding of what to fake and what to make.

**What Skills & Experience You Should Bring**
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related UX degree
- Web UI development knowledge with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, REST, etc
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Vue or other Javascript-based Web UI frameworks
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to create simple, well-thought workflows and experiences that solve problems
- Fluency in user interface design fundamentals (typography, color, spacing, iconography)
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Collaborative in spirit, open to iteration and feedback
- Strong attention to detail.

**About Your Location**

Based at our main campus in Christchurch, New Zealand, enjoy free parking, an onsite gym, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

Here you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive with a team that is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

**Please Note: Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.**

**About Our Trimble/AGCO Joint Venture**

Together, we will become a global industry leader in mixed fleet farming and autonomous solutions. We put the farmer first, ensuring our technologies are at the heart of the sustainability of the farm. AGCO and Trimble are committed to accelerating progress by integrating sustainability into the design, manufacturing, distribution, and use of smart agricultural solutions across the entire value chain.

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