Production Designer

Responsibilities

We are seeking a detail-oriented and talented Production Designer to join our team. As a Production Designer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the brand team with technical support, helping to edit and prepare files that meet requirements and uphold brand standards. This includes creating on-brand designs for various digital and traditional touchpoints and ensuring the accurate and timely execution of final production-ready files and materials. Your expertise in design principles, technical skills, and ability to transform conceptual designs into print-ready and/or digital assets will contribute to elevating our brand.

Responsibilities:

• Support brand team members in the development of final production-ready branded content, design, and digital materials.
• Develop final graphic adaptations of approved creative concepts.
• Work through backlog of design requests and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Maintain and develop templates that drive brand consistency.
• Craft accurate and on-time deliverables by designing, executing, and packaging production files. Ensure file quality for print and digital media.
• Uphold and integrate brand guidelines, requirements, printing specifications, and graphic standards in all phases of artwork.
• Organize and maintain accurate files, manage timelines, and adjust priorities of deliverables.
• Edit and prepare files that meet graphic standards, including making type and design edits, resizing campaign concepts/key art for multi-media executions, and cleaning up files for consistency.
• Retouch images in Photoshop and apply special effects to a wide range of photography.
• Add interactive functionality to PDFs.
• Assist in providing project and printing specifications and collaborate with print shop and production vendors to ensure the quality of materials. Deliver press-ready files.
• Perform photo and art searches on stock photo websites and internal databases.
• Work with creative managers and writers to prepare presentations.
• Create design comps as needed.
• Maintain organized files and documentation, including version control, asset libraries, etc.

Qualifications

Essential Skills & Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of design principles, excellent technical skills.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to champion and enforce brand standards
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams with ease
• Attention to detail and depth of knowledge in print production processes and techniques.
• Familiarity with creating, resizing, and outputting files for print and digital media.
• Experience in retouching images.
• Ability to manage timelines and adjust priorities to meet deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to maintain accurate files and documentation.

Software Proficiency:

• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Figma
• Asana experience is a plus
• Adobe After Effects (preferred but not required)

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design required
• Experience: Minimum of 2-5 years of digital design experience
• Agency experience is a plus
• Fluency in English is required.