Production Artist, Merchandising, Contract

Job Summary

As a Production Artist, Merchandising, you will be responsible for creating in-store print-ready production graphics across all of our retail partners. You will follow design guidelines supplied by our e.l.f. Visual Merchandising Designers, our retailer guidelines, as well as our print vendors. In this role, you will translate design vision into print reality.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sr. Manager in production of all visual merchandising graphics across all e.l.f. beauty brands
• Collaborate with Sales, VM, Copy and project management to take design from start to finish ensuring production deadlines are met
• Adapt and utilize templates to create large number of graphics across major retailers
• Come up with creative solutions to design and timing issues to keep the project on track
• Manage and lead the process from design hand-off, implimenting copy, review and approval, to releasing to print vendors
• Ability to adapt and be able to keep up with evolving guidelines/design changes
• Produce and organize a large number of assets on a server and hand off final files to print vendors
• Proof read and cross check your own work. You are responsible for the final product.

Skills

• Convert design files into print ready mechanicals
• Build production files from scratch; following a template (creating templates a plus)
• Able to follow multiple guidelines that vary per project
• Excel; use a line listing and a planogram to build artwork files
• Excellent type and layout skills paired with a strong print production knowledge
• Expert Adobe InDesign skills. Able to work in numbers and calculate sizes
• Strong production skills for mass producing files in InDesign
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Project Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 6+ years experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment
• 4+ years of print production experience (preferably in beauty, and/or retail)
• Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills, deadline driven.
• Experience working cross-functionally with different teams across an organization
• Comfortable working in a collaborative manner and a highly creative out-of-the-box thinker
• Knowledge of computer programs including: InDesign, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Google docs
• Working in a project management tools (ie Wrike, ISM/portals) a plus