What are the responsibilities and job description for the Layout / Production Designer position at Place. Staffing?
Well established Trade Show/Events company is looking for a creative and mechanical production artist who appreciates and thrives on the design/production process within a fun collaborative environment.
The ideal individual will be experienced with working in a fast-paced production environment on a variety of mediums: print, digital, environmental/large scale graphics, marketing collateral and much more. You will work closely with design and marketing leadership to ensure that the creative needs of the clients/big brand(s) are met. This is not a design role although there are many creative aspects involved.
Strong layout and aesthetics, great typography skills, eye for design to be able to:
– Working within templates and manage assets that adhere to each client's brand guidelines and maintain client’s high level of creative standards.
– Create production ready layouts and submit to production following final client
approval
– Partners with the creatives to edit layouts including manipulation of images as well as
ensuring guidelines
– Works on pieces for new business pitches, creating graphics for video and web use, and maintaining archives and work files
This is a mostly remote position but possible office meetings from time to time.
Qualifications
- 2 years of experience, preferably within an agency or creative studio environment
- 2 years large format print experience recommended
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat; Illustrator predominant program
- Must be a team player who is fast, accurate and organized
- Advanced experience direct print process graphics and signage (panels, banners and adhesive vinyl graphics)
- Excellent communication skills; must have strong verbal, written and visual presentation skills
- Excellent project management skills; must be able to self-manage and be organized/detail-oriented
- Must be able to work quickly and efficiently; should have a lean overall approach to design processes
- Ability to think strategically and translate creative requests into high-quality content
If interested, please submit a resume and portfolio showing relevant experience (production not design) to be considered.
