The role of the production artist is to take existing creative concepts and bring them into the final stages of production. Strong typographic and layout skills, strict attention to detail, and outstanding organizational, project management, file-organization, and archiving skills are a must. The production artist helps our team to complete creative solutions and have an immediate impact on the customers and clients Nexant serves. This role must be able to take direction and work as an individual contributor for technical and creative know-how and effectively in a team environment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with marketing and communications experts, designer, and copywriter
- Prepare final press-ready files based on supplied specifications for several types of printing
- Make various formats of supplied artwork production-ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production
- Provide image retouching, clipping paths, and additional image manipulation
- Package and preflight files for release to printers or media partners
- Create PDFs for print and client review
- Prepare images for online and mobile applications
- Catalog and reference art for future projects
- Follow a development timeline to ensure tasks are being completed on time
- Troubleshoot problems as they arise with both the creative team and the printer
- Ability to process information and arrive at a decision that can be related to your work (strategic thinking).
- Fill in for marketing coordinators duties as needed (e.g., supports account executive activities including: management of day-to-day administrative tasks; creates/tracks deadlines, progress, and reports; plans meetings; prepares agendas; prepares and reviews quotes/specs
Qualifications
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Business, Communications, Journalism or related field
- Equivalent professional experience required
- Entry level to three years of professionalproduction design experience
- Demonstrated proficiency of printing processesand should be adept with software applications such as FlightCheck, the Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Thorough knowledge of printing processes andfile preparation
- Must be comfortable working on Windows platform.
- Able to balance competing priorities andprojects and work under tight deadlines
- Disciplined time management skills and superiorattention to detail
- The ability to work under pressure and meetconcrete deadlines
- Strong analytical skills, verbal and writtencommunication skills, and the ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated proficiency with Dreamweaver andweb design a plus
- Experience with digital content such aswebsites, social media, online advertising and email campaigns is a plus
- Energy efficiency industry experience a plus
Salary and Benefits (U.S.)
Nexant offers competitive salaries based on candidate's qualifications. Nexant also offers three weeks paid vacation per year, eleven paid holidays per year, a 401(k) plan with employee matching funds and an overall comprehensive benefits package.
Nexant, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.