Production Designer

curriculumassociates; Bengaluru; Sur place; INR 750 000 - 1 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Curriculum Associates seeks a Production Designer (Print & Digital Publishing) to oversee EPUB production, remediation, and accessibility across curriculum products. You will implement layouts, templates, and design systems, creating artwork for print and digital formats while ensuring quality and consistency.

Collaborating with editorial, instructional design, accessibility, production, and product teams, you will help maintain documentation, guidelines, and production standards across

Qualifications

• EPUB production, remediation, and quality assurance across products.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and WCAG principles for EPUBs.
• Ability to implement layouts, templates and design systems.
• Experience with production workflows and documentation for vendors.

Responsabilités

• Review EPUB content and provide design feedback for quality and accessibility.
• Verify visual accuracy by comparing EPUB output to source PDFs/design files.
• Implement and maintain layouts, templates, and production-ready files.
• Create and optimize artwork and assets for print and digital delivery.
• Collaborate with editorial, accessibility, production, and product teams.
• Contribute to style guides, templates and documentation for vendors.

Connaissances

EPUB production

Digital publishing

Accessibility

Quality assurance

Production workflow

Outils

EPUBCheck

Ace by DAISY

Epsilon

Colibrio

Figma

InDesign

HTML/CSS editors

Description du poste

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation's K-8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Production Designer (Print & Digital Publishing)

What You'll Do:

• Review vendor-generated EPUB content and provide design feedback to support visual quality, consistency, and accessibility.
• Compare EPUB output against source PDFs, design files, and reference documentation to verify visual accuracy and identify implementation issues.
• Implement and maintain established layouts, templates, design systems, and production-ready files for print and digital curriculum products.
• Create, adapt, and optimize artwork, illustrations, graphic organizers, and instructional assets for print and digital delivery.
• Collaborate with editorial, instructional design, accessibility, production, and product teams throughout the development process.
• Contribute to style guides, templates, design prototypes, and other documentation that support consistent implementation.

How You'll Contribute:

• EPUB Production & Remediation: Support the creation, maintenance, remediation, and quality assurance of accessible EPUB and eReader content across multiple products and grade levels.
• Quality Assurance: Validate EPUB output against visual, technical, content, and accessibility requirements to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience across devices and platforms.
• Technical Implementation: Apply and troubleshoot HTML, CSS, XML, EPUB package structures, and accessibility requirements within established production workflows.
• Template-Driven Execution: Accurately implement established layouts, design systems, prototypes, and production specifications while maintaining design intent.
• Accessibility Compliance: Support accessible EPUB standards through testing, validation, documentation, and continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Documentation & Production Guidance: Create clear production guidance, maintain documentation, and communicate implementation requirements to vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with design, editorial, accessibility, production, and product teams across locations and time zones.

undefined What You'll Bring:

• EPUB & Digital Publishing Expertise: Strong knowledge of EPUB 3 standards, workflows, package structure, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, OPF, NCX, and EPUB navigation.
• Accessibility Knowledge: Understanding of WCAG principles, accessible EPUB requirements, alternative text, reading order, headings, landmarks, semantic structure, and navigation.
• Quality Assurance & Problem Solving: Ability to identify visual, technical, structural, and accessibility defects while validating content against source files, design specifications, and production requirements.
• Production Workflow Experience: Experience working within digital publishing production, remediation, and quality assurance workflows.
• Adobe InDesign Production: Strong knowledge of InDesign production workflows, including templates, master pages, paragraph styles, character styles, object styles, and production best practices.
• Tools & Technologies: Experience with EPUBCheck, Ace by DAISY, Epsilon, Colibrio, browser developer tools, Adobe Acrobat, HTML/CSS editors, and EPUB readers and validation tools.
• Design Inspection & Production Support: Experience using Figma to inspect designs, review prototypes, and support production implementation.
• Documentation & Organization: Strong documentation, reporting, organizational, and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external vendors.

Key Skills & Expertise: (Advanced) EPUB production and