Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThe Blue Studio design practice is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Production Designer to work on a range of assets, including online, digital, data visualization, print, social, video, and environments. This individual must have a strong eye for craftsmanship, typography and information design. The right candidate should have skills executing across media, design systems, and enterprise platforms, and have the abilities required to deliver well-considered assets.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Contribute, assist, or create and deliver custom assets to a high level of functional and aesthetic quality.
- Command of IBM brand’s vision, systems, and documentation.
- Ensure all artwork and final mechanicals are accurate, error-free, adhere to brand standards, meet and exceed timeline and deliverable requirements, and follow all specifications.
- Identify, assess and mitigate technical risk, as well as quickly and accurately identify and resolve unexpected issues that can occur during the production process.
- Maintain excellent file organization and follow established processes for asset creation and management, and output configuration.
- Collaboration with others – stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
- Effectively communicate ideas and detailed rationale both verbally and visually.
- Maintain and research knowledge of relevant technologies.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 3-5+ years of relevant experience in a digital and print production position.
- Attention to detail and performing in a fast-paced team-oriented environment with strong organizational skills and time management.
- Effectively using style sheets, master pages, templates, tracking, kerning and leading functionalities.
- Retouching, digital file preparation, 4c print and production processes, and pre-press delivery formats.
- Producing final assets, comps and assisting with presentation preparations.
- Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
- Take direction well and be nimble to extend designs across platforms.
- Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive, approachable.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient), Figma, MS Office (.PPT), Github
- Web standards a plus