Graphic Designer

Executive Talent Solutions; Pittsfield (MA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Executive Talent Solutions seeks a creative designer to guide art direction ideas and develop templates for new product categories. You will collaborate with freelance artists and internal teams to ensure factory-ready files and color accuracy across multiple items per year.

The role supports marketing, web, and wholesale catalog efforts, contributing to layout, typesetting, and color decisions from concept through final proofs.

Qualifications

• A+ time management
• world famous flexibility
• laser-keen eye
• willingness to express opinions

Responsibilities

• Assist in exploring and mocking up art direction ideas before they’re communicated with Blue Q’s freelance artists.
• Develop artist and factory templates for new product categories and displays.
• Research & propose products & artist concepts – seek out & share inspiration.
• Participate in weekly content meetings, brainstorming ideas for new products.
• Work with design team to design in-house products & product extensions.
• Respond to artists when production questions arise.
• Pull PMS colors for printing, yarns, and product accessories & suggest colors as needed.
• Assist in finishing artist files: layout, color, type, or scaling as needed.
• Set up final files for all products.
• Stitchify socks & woven dish towels.
• Edit woven dish towel BMPs.
• Proof final art, factory proofs, & proto samples as they come in.
• Assist with wholesale catalog and supplement, helping to design and typeset pages, with oversight from Art Director.
• Warehouse graphics & printing needs, as needed.
• Tradeshow graphics & other graphic collateral.
• Additional design work to support the marketing and Web team, as needed.

Job description

This position is smack in the middle of the production process for all of the stuff we make (about 150 items a year, on average). As outside artists begin supplying us with their ideas, and the Art Directors guide them along, we work towards having factory-ready files, in a template that we know will produce a quality result. This position is enabling this journey through this whole itinerary. Useful traits include A+ time management, world famous flexibility, a laser-keen eye, willingness to express opinions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities of the Position

• Assist in exploring and mocking up art direction ideas before they’re communicated with Blue Q’s freelance artists.
• Develop artist and factory templates for new product categories and displays
• Research & propose products & artist concepts – seek out & share inspiration.
• Participate in weekly content meetings, brainstorming ideas for new products.
• Work with design team to design in-house products & product extensions.
• Respond to artists when production questions arise.
• Pull PMS colors for printing, yarns, and product accessories & suggest colors as needed.
• Assist in finishing artist files: layout, color, type, or scaling as needed.
• Maintain a basic understanding of the technical requirements & specs for all products..
• Set up final files for all products.
• Stitchify socks & woven dish towels.
• Edit woven dish towel BMPs.
• Proof final art, factory proofs, & proto samples as they come in.
• Assist with wholesale catalog and supplement, helping to design and typeset pages, with oversight from Art Director.
• Warehouse graphics & printing needs, as needed.
• Tradeshow graphics & other graphic collateral.
• Additional design work to support the marketing and Web team, as needed.