Production Designer - Print Design (Contract)

Amplify

5d • $45 - $50

About The Position

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com. Job Description Summary: Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution. Production Designers at Amplify help to create beautiful and meaningful materials that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom. As a member of Amplify’s design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s curriculum. This is a contract role.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of experience in Print Production Design with a bachelor in design or design certification equivalent or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat)
• Strong problem solving, design, typography, and production skills
• Experience receiving and implementing design direction through layout revisions
• Experience working within and expanding upon dynamic visual and brand systems
• Expert knowledge of fast-paced print production and digital processes.
• Experience in photographic selection, cropping and minor retouching
• Experience in creating low-fidelity comps for review
• Experience maintaining consistent server organization and file naming conventions of existing structure and process
• Strong communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience in using Figma, and other Prototyping software.
• Experience with visual design in education technology or a related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education

Responsibilities

• Create and modify InDesign templates and style guides for third-party vendor partners.
• Review and QA production files provided by third-party vendor partners for design quality and consistency.
• Work with designs for teacher, student, and administrator experiences, printed materials, and curriculum content.
• Manage the accuracy, quality, and development of final creative files for print and digital deliverables
• Efficiently execute at high volume from start to finish in a fast-paced environment
• Raise concerns and propose solutions when taking on assignments
• Work with brand and product style guides across different formats while preserving creative continuity
• Implement revisions quickly and accurately
• Ability to manage your own project schedules

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees