Hamburg is looking for | Creative Technologist (d/w/m)

You know the feeling: You see how things are done at a creative agency—the manual reporting, the copy-paste workflows, the “We’ve always done it this way”—and a solution immediately starts taking shape in your mind. That’s exactly what this job is about.

But it’s not just about building. It’s about being part of a small team that’s fundamentally changing what an AI-powered agency can be. You build the tools, yes. But you’re also at the table when we’re figuring out which tools actually make sense. You stand in front of 20 creatives and show them what’s already possible. You hear a problem during a client meeting and have the first prototype by evening.

How you work is important to us: AI-powered development comes naturally to you. Whether it’s Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or the next tool, you use whatever gets you to your goal the fastest. What matters is that you use AI natively in your workflow—not as a gimmick, but as your standard tool.

la red is a creative agency with about 100 people in Hamburg and Berlin. Our AI & Innovation Team has already built a complete suite of tools: a tool hub with Microsoft SSO, an AI image generation platform, social media analytics dashboards, automated reporting pipelines, and more. Now we need someone to carry this forward, both technically and culturally.

Your day could look like this:

Morning: Deploy a new feature for the Post Library so that strategists can search AI-analyzed Instagram posts based on performance patterns
Noon: Debug a Meta Graph API rate-limiting issue in the Brand Dashboard
Afternoon: Workshop with the Creation Team—you’ll show them how to use AI image generation for their next campaign
Late afternoon: Someone from Strategy mentioned a pain point in a meeting. You already have three AI coding sessions scheduled and are building the first prototype

You should bring:

Technical Skills: You can build, deploy, and maintain web applications. Our stack includes Next.js, TypeScript, Azure, and PostgreSQL, but we value your ability to learn quickly more than your familiarity with our specific frameworks.
AI-native workflow: You don’t code the old-fashioned way. You orchestrate AI agents, manage context across sessions, and iterate faster than traditional developers think is possible.
Agency curiosity: You find creative workflows exciting. You want to understand how a campaign works from briefing to delivery because you want to make it better.
Bridge-builder gene: You can translate between tech and creative. You explain complex things in a way that gets people excited instead of intimidated. Workshops, demos, just showing what’s possible right at your desk—you enjoy that.
Builder mentality: Better to ship something unfinished today than plan something perfect for next quarter.

Requirements:

Programming experience (1–2+ years; language not important—you’ll be working in TypeScript)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Active user of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar)
You live in Hamburg, speak German at a native level, and English at a business-proficient level

What we offer:

28 days holiday – plus special leave for special occasions
Hybrid Work – flexible Remote working options
Work & Social Spaces – offices for creative work or private projects
Workation – mobile working from other EU countries possible (30 calendar days)
Sabbatical – period can be agreed individually
Work equipment – MacBook
Urban Sports – membership M (copay 19,90€)
OpenUp membership – for mindfulness & mental health
Team events – regular team evenings, social events & agency parties
Training – individual further training, English courses & industry events
Work-life balance – We make sure that your workload fits in well with your private life

Sounds like a good match?

In addition to the usual documents, please send us your GitHub, reference projects and 2-3 sentences about your favourite Agent use case.

Whether you are a working student, part-time or full-time, we are flexible and will find the right model for you. What matters is what you can do and what you want to achieve.

By the way: We also wait a while for real talent!

It is important to us to promote an inclusive working environment in which individual backgrounds are taken into account and everyone is empowered to realise their own potential. That's why we welcome every application - regardless of origin, skin colour, age, gender or disability.

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Contact

Nina Baronsky (she/her) / People & Culture Manager