Senior Creative Technologist

Kettle; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettle designs digital products with soul and builds the tools that power ambitious brands. We seek a Senior Creative Technologist who blends code with creative conversation to convert new AI capabilities into practical outputs.

You’ll ship tools, workflows, and accelerators, working across Design, Product, Copy, Strategy, and Production to bring ideas to life. As a deeply technical and curious engineer, you’ll ensure security, performance, and structural soundness, while moving fast and guiding

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in creative technology or related technical discipline.
• Portfolio demonstrates technical depth and creative range (client work, tools, demos).
• Fluency across the generative AI landscape with recent examples of work.
• Strong front-end development with headless CMSs and AI tooling.
• Understanding of secure, performant, and maintainable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build tools, workflows, and accelerators to improve team output.
• Collaborate across Design, Product, Copy, Strategy, and Production.
• Translate experiments into reusable outputs (code, demos, docs).
• Present work and communicate technical thinking to stakeholders.

Skills

Creative tech

Applied AI

Portfolio

Frontend dev

AI APIs

Security

Autonomy

Collaboration

Tools

Python

Node.js

Swift

Headless CMS

AI APIs

Job description

Kettle designs digital products with soul, for some of the most ambitious consumer brands in the world. Our work lives at the intersection of product thinking and brand storytelling; products that are just as considered in feeling as they are in function.

We are looking for a Senior Creative Technologist to join our team, someone who builds the tools, workflows, and accelerators that help Kettle do its best work. In this role, you'll sit at the intersection of emerging AI capabilities and our creative and product practices, rapidly turning what's newly possible into things our teams can use. This is a role for someone who is deeply technical and deeply curious; you’re equally comfortable in the code and in a creative conversation, and you know when to move fast, and when to bring in technical rigor.

Candidates should have:

• Hands-on experience in creative technology, applied AI development, or a related technical discipline, with a track record of shipping things that work in real environments, not just a sandbox
• A portfolio that demonstrates technical depth and creative range: client work, functional tools, interactive experiences, AI-powered demos, or workflow systems built with intention
• Fluency across the generative AI landscape.You follow new model launches and capability releases closely, and you have recent examples of work that responds to what's emerging
• Strong command of modern front-end development, headless CMSs, AI APIs and tooling
• You understand what it means to build something secure, performant, and structurally sound, and you know when to bring in software build principles to experiments
• The self-direction to pick up problems independently and drive them to completion
• Collaborate across disciplines, including Design, Product Management, Copy, Strategy, and Production. You enjoy helping others bring their best ideas to life

Nice to have:

• Experience building AI-powered pipelines or workflow accelerators in an agency or product environment
• Familiarity with agentic systems and AI-native development environments
• Experience with Python, Node, and Swift

We'd like to know that you can:

• Move quickly from "what could we do with this?" to something working and worth sharing, without waiting for a fully defined brief
• Translate experiments into clear, reusable outputs (working code, demos, documentation, shared patterns) that make new capabilities accessible across disciplines and stick beyond a single project
• Show up credibly in a room: present your work and represent technical thinking to internal stakeholders and in client conversations
• Adapt across contexts, from rapid prototyping and experimentation, to more structured build and delivery

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - 160k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

At Kettle, we care deeply about diversity, acceptance, and belonging across our offices. With effort placed on to creating dialogue, community, and expression outside of binaries, we would love to know how you prefer to be addressed. This is completely optional, but if you're comfortable sharing this information, please let us know your pronouns.