Production Designer

Bold Orange Company, LLC • Minneapolis, MN

7d • $65,000 - $80,000

About The Position

We understand the power of purposeful design. We are looking for a talented, collaborative and curious production designer who can strategically communicate through the visual language of design. At Bold Orange, the production designer is a highly-regarded and critical role within the creative team. This role ensures accuracy, as well as maintains a high standard for design excellence. The ideal candidate must possess both creative and technical skills, be extremely organized, and pay close attention to the tiniest of details as this position will require versioning content, assets and multiple formats within an established design direction. The production designer is responsible for layout, design, formatting and preparation of production-ready files for all channels and mediums, both digital and print. This role must maintain brand standards and ensure all project assets are accurately formatted, collected and packaged for front end development or print production. This position requires experience creating and working with templates in various channels including email, direct mail, web banners, social, print, signage, out-of-home, etc. This person works closely with the entire creative team, project management and account team from kickoff through execution to create strong, cohesive projects.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in graphic arts, design, visual communications, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience
• Knowledge and proficiency in all creative application software and technologies Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, XD, Sketch, Figma, InDesign, InVision, Acrobat, PowerPoint and other creative applications
• Strong typographic and layout skills with an eye for design
• Outstanding organizational, project management, file-organization and archiving skills are a must
• Cross-channel expertise, including website, email, print and social
• Understanding of design principles in typography, color, imagery
• Understanding or ADA compliance regulations
• Understanding of how to design with variable content, versioning, live assets vs images, and responsive design
• Ability to create and maintain working templates
• A strong work ethic that is curious by nature, courageous at heart
• Highly detail-oriented and takes pride in their work
• Collaborative both in ideation and in receiving feedback
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task, while meeting deadlines
• Enjoy working in a fun, fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with art directors, copywriters, designers, and developers
• Prepare final production-ready for both print and digital
• Make various formats of supplied artwork production-ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production
• Catalog and reference art for future projects
• Follow a production timeline to ensure tasks are being completed efficiently and on time
• Troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Check work for accuracy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level