Sr. Production Designer, Graphic Design - Temporary to Staff

Job Description

Working within the Visual Experience Design team, and with a high level of typographic and general graphic design expertise, the Senior Production Designer is responsible for taking a visual direction already established within a project’s Concept phase and bringing it to life within a Design Development phase, systematically, across print, media, and UI applications within physical environments.

During a project’s Production phase, the Senior Production Designer applies their expertise and experience in print production specifically; and prepares all files with a deep understanding of processes, structure, and effective vendor dialogue. Please include link to your portfolio/website in your cover letter.

This role requires:

Ability to work on-site within our NYC Studio (Hybrid)

Applicant must hold primary residence in NY/Tristate or Washington DC area

Applicant must be eligible to work in the United States

7+ years of relevant professional production + design experience

Travel (domestic and global)

Requirements

Responsibiities

General / Interdisciplinary:

Expand and refine an established visual direction; systematize and apply graphics across a range of design deliverables: print, UI, motion, and linear media.

Work closely with Project leads and Art Directors to establish clear visual guidelines and documents that convey design systems to guide internal and/or external teams within future phases.

Maintain close and highly collaborative communications with Project Managers, vendors, and other teammates throughout design development and production phases.

Manage and maintain complex labeling systems, asset tracking systems, and presentation decks.

Exercise a high degree of quality control within the proofing and prototyping stages of a project while adhering to tight timelines.

Flag stumbling blocks and offer solutions in a timely and proactive manner to project leads.

Proactively convey accurate time estimates and expectations for yourself on projects; notify project leads as established allocations change.

Print Production:

Prepare a range of files for print production, from wall labels to large-scale graphic murals; printed vinyl to physical graphics — elevations, typicals, guidelines, decks, and templates.

Convey ways to refine design solutions and processes informed by your expertise in print production techniques and best practices.

Generate a range of elevations, typicals, and templates while maintaining a highly organized file structure and working methodology.

Requirements:

Highly generative, detail-oriented, and iterative design methodology.

Excellent typographic and overall graphic design skills

Expertise and experience in print production — file organization and preparation.

Design portfolio that includes clear examples of cohesive design work that expands a visual identity across print, UI, and media applications with clear sets of guidelines across a range of physical environments.

Ability to systematize and articulate cohesive graphic applications across motion, media, and UI designs.

Experience in working closely with Project Managers and vendors to meet schedules and budgets.

Excellent Photoshop skills: generate render-view comps in collaboration with Physical Design teammates.

Strong photo-retouching skills and expertise in preparing images for large-scale applications across media and print murals.

Able to apply design systems within Figma — generate templates and guidelines.

Highly collaborative while also able to work autonomously

Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign — After Effects a plus.

Strong familiarity with working within Figma, fluency preferred.

Fluency in Keynote and Google Slides

Self-motivated, ambitious, and proactive

Excellent technical, organizational, and time management skills while being able to manage multiple projects and deliverables with changing priorities

Strategic problem solver

A design degree in graphic design is strongly preferred

Salary: $75 to $100 per hour (commensurate with experience)

Benefits

Local Projects offers to its Full-Time staff Health/Dental/Vision, FSA, 401k, access to short-term and Long Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance as well as a generous PTO package.

Local Projects is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our collaboration with each other and the experiences we create together greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across all disciplines, at all levels of the studio. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color, and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

Local Projects is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity, and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.