Creative Designer

PrintWorkers; Saint Augustine (FL); Presencial; USD 28.000 - 34.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Paid time off after 6 months

Dental & Vision

Paid product and manufacturing trained

Equal opportunity employer

Descripción de la vacante

PrintWorkers in Jacksonville or St. Augustine, FL is seeking a design-focused producer to create photorealistic mock-ups and production-ready files. You will render materials, advise sales on brand visuals, and ensure proofs translate to finished products.

Join a hands-on team with production, pre-press, and estimating early in the process to guarantee feasibility and accuracy for national accounts. On-site, with regular hours and competitive pay.

Formación

• Strong working command of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Real design sensibility: typography, layout, color.
• Understanding of how printed and fabricated products go together.
• Comfort working with production teams and accepting feedback.
• Ability to manage several active projects and meet deadlines.

Responsabilidades

• Build photorealistic digital mock-ups and renderings using our cover materials with accurate deboss, foil, UV, and stitching.
• Partner with sales reps on new-business pitches and RFPs to create presentation-ready visuals.
• Set up approved designs for production — dielines, imposition-ready art, color and foil separations, bleeds, trap, PDFs.
• Work across small format and large format productions.
• Collaborate with production, pre-press, and estimating early to verify feasibility.
• Maintain material library, texture assets, and mock-up templates for consistency.
• Prepare client-facing presentation decks, spec sheets, and proof packages.

Conocimientos

Adobe Creative Suite

Design sensibility

Print production knowledge

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Herramientas

Adobe Dimension

Blender

KeyShot

Substance

Descripción del empleo

Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Large Format Printing

Job Description

Menu Designs|Jacksonville or St. Augustine, FL (on-site)|Full-time|$20-25/hour

About the role

We manufacture custom menu covers, guest directories, wine books, signage, and large-format graphics for restaurants, hotels, resorts, and beverage brands across the country. Most of our work starts with a mock-up: a client wants to see their logo debossed into a specific simulated leather, foil-stamped on a wine book, or printed across a 10-foot wall graphic — before a single unit is built.

That's this job. You'll create the digital proofs and renderings our sales team uses to win national accounts, and then set those same designs up as production-ready files for our shop floor. Think ad-agency-quality presentation work, but grounded in how things actually get made.

This is not a role where you hand off a pretty picture and walk away. What you show the client has to be producible, and it has to look like what ships. You'll work directly with our production and pre-press teams to make sure both are true.

What you'll do

• Build photorealistic digital mock-ups and renderings using our actual cover materials — simulated and genuine leathers, wovens, wood, metal, specialty substrates — with accurate deboss, foil, screen print, UV, and stitching treatments
• Partner with sales reps on new-business pitches and RFPs: take a rough concept or a client's brand guide and turn it into presentation-ready visuals, often on a short clock
• Set up approved designs for production — dielines, imposition-ready art, spot color and foil separations, bleeds, trap, print-ready PDFs
• Work across both small format (menus, inserts, tent cards, digital and offset) and large format (banners, wall graphics, rigid substrate, dimensional signage)
• Sit down with production, pre-press, and estimating early enough to catch what can't be built — material behavior, corner and edge construction, binding method, panel layout, machine limits
• Keep our material library, texture assets, and mock-up templates current and organized so proofs stay consistent and fast to produce
• Prep client-facing presentation decks, spec sheets, and proof packages

What we're looking for

Required

• Strong working command of the Adobe Creative Suite — Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat. This is a must-have, not a nice-to-have.
• Real design sensibility: typography, layout, color, and the judgment to make a mock-up look like a finished product instead of a comp
• An understanding of how printed and fabricated products go together — substrates, finishing, binding, assembly
• Comfort working with production people, asking manufacturing questions, and taking feedback that starts with “we can't build that”
• Ability to manage several active projects and hit deadlines that are usually tied to a sales call

Nice to have

• Experience with 3D rendering or mock-up tools (Adobe Dimension, Blender, KeyShot, Substance) or advanced smart-object mock-up workflows
• Prepress or production art experience in a commercial print, packaging, or fabrication environment
• Background in packaging, structural, or dimensional design
• Product photography and retouching
• Experience in hospitality, foodservice, or a brand-driven print environment
• Working knowledge of large-format print production and RIP workflows

Schedule, pay, and benefits

• Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a one-hour lunch
• On-site at either our Jacksonville or St. Augustine facility — tell us which location works better for you
• $20–$25 per hour
• Paid time off: After 6 months of employment
• Dental & Vision
• Paid product and manufacturing training — we'll teach you our materials, construction methods, and equipment

Menu Designs is an equal opportunity employer.