Production Designer

About Bold Orange:

Bold Orange is a customer experience company. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. We exist to create these connections across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to engagement to retention. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside perspective to our customers.

Position Summary:

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.

Position Duties:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in graphic arts, design, visual communications, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience
• Strong Figma experience required
• 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

Who We Are:

Our tone is professionally sassy. We embrace meat raffles, hot seats, and the occasional Jello shot. We like staff meetings that are informative, educational, and at times, damn funny. We believe in no hierarchy, no bullshit, no politics. Just honest, hard work and great fun.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, ancestry, status as a veteran, status with regard to public assistance and any other characteristic protected by law. Bold Orange does not and will not discriminate against employees, prospective employees, clients or vendors.