Book Interior Designer — Layout, Color & Collaboration

HarperCollins Publishers; Princeton (NJ); Sur place; USD 60 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

HarperCollins Publishers is seeking a full-time Designer to handle interior book design from manuscript to bound book, focusing on general books/adult trade publishing. You will work on 1-color interiors with potential for 2-color and 4-color projects, preparing samples, creating InDesign templates, and collaborating with Editors and production teams.

The role requires at least 2 years of relevant design experience, proficiency in InDesign on Mac, and strong communication and project-management

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of book interior design experience (preferred), or related graphic design experience.
• Collaborative demeanor and a team player.
• Must demonstrate proficiency with Adobe InDesign on a Mac.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator a plus.
• Project management skills: detail-oriented, well-organized with an ability to handle multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.
• Good written and oral communication skills required.

Responsabilités

• Designs mostly 1-color book interiors with the opportunity to work on 2-color and 4-color interiors at the Design Manager’s discretion.
• Prepares and routes design samples for approval.
• Creates tight InDesign templates for composition group to page books downstream.
• Reviews page proofs at various stages and inputs text corrections using InDesign.
• Designs 1-color and 4-color photo inserts, binding die mechanicals, and spec materials for cases and endpapers.
• Manages art program for assigned titles under supervision (as needed): evaluates digital images for good print quality; reviews and marks-up art proofs to ensure best print quality.
• Collaborates with Design Manager on design concepts. Works closely with editors, production editors, production, and composition teams.
• Under supervision, commissions independent contractors (mapmakers and illustrators); negotiate fees, generates graphic artist contracts, and processes invoices, as needed.
• Meets deadlines, monitors components, keeps accurate status reports on Teams, and tracks budgets for assigned titles.
• Works on offsets from outside publishers as well as paperback conversions: updates frontmatter, inputs text corrections, adjusts pages and photo inserts to fit a new U.S. trim size.
• Traffics files via our RSuite workflow system and other file transfer systems.
• Accesses, downloads, and archives files utilizing our Digital Access Management System.
• Assists with work overflow from Senior Designers and the Design Manager, and other groups within the department, when needed.

Connaissances

Collaborative demeanor

Team player

Project management

Written and verbal communication

Detail-oriented

Outils

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Description du poste

HarperCollins Publishers is seeking a full-time Designer to handle interior book design from manuscript to bound book, focusing on general books/adult trade publishing. You will work on 1-color interiors with potential for 2-color and 4-color projects, preparing samples, creating InDesign templates, and collaborating with Editors and production teams.

The role requires at least 2 years of relevant design experience, proficiency in InDesign on Mac, and strong communication and project-management