Jr. Production Artist

E.L.F. BEAUTY; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking a Junior Production Artist, Merchandising to translate design guidelines into print-ready graphics for our retail partners.

You will work with Visual Merchandising designers and retailer specs to translate concepts into production-ready files across multiple brands. You will collaborate with Sales, Design, Copy and Project Management to meet deadlines, adapt templates for large graphic launches, and ensure accuracy and timely delivery across specialty accounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 2-5 years experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment.
• Expert level knowledge of InDesign & Illustrator.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sr. Manager in production of all visual merchandising graphics across all e.l.f. beauty brands.
• Collaborate with Sales, Design, 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, delivers on commitments, surfaces risks early, and supports complex timelines to keep projects on track.
• Manage and lead the process from design hand-off, implementing 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.
• Support the Production team in the addition of 14 Specialty walls across 8 accounts, while freeing senior team members to focus on higher-volume work and strategic oversight.
• Assist in establishing dedicated production infrastructure for specialty accounts, including translation support, standardized workflows, copy setup, and ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on-time delivery across all specialty assets, often on timelines that differ from broader North America projects.
• Increase execution capacity and reduce operational risk by absorbing day-to-day production work, supporting complex timelines for global growth, and stabilizing delivery alongside multiple accounts and markets.

Skills

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Print production

Typographic skills

Excel

Layout skills

Project coordination

Team communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree preferred

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Acrobat

Excel

Google Docs

Wrike

Job description

About The Company

e.l.f. Beauty's purpose is to make the world a better place for every eye, lip, and face.

About The Company

e.l.f. Beauty's purpose is to make the world a better place for every eye, lip, and face. Our deep commitment to clean, cruelty free beauty at an incredible value has fueled the success of our flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics since 2004 and driven our portfolio expansion. Today, our multi-brand portfolio includes e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, e.l.f. Hair, Well People, Naturium and rhode. In our Fiscal year 26, we had net sales of $1.6 Billion and our business performance has been nothing short of extraordinary with 7 consecutive years of net sales growth. This consistent, category-leading growth is a testament to the strength of our team, strategy, and portfolio of brands. Our total compensation philosophy offers every full-time new hire competitive pay and benefits, bonus eligibility (200% of target over the last seven fiscal years), equity, flexible time off, year-round half-day Fridays, and a hybrid 3 day in office, 2 day at home work environment. We believe the combination of our unique culture, total compensation, workplace flexibility and care for the team is unmatched across not just beauty but any industry. Visit our Career Page to learn more about our team: https://www.elfbeauty.com/work-with-us

Position Summary

As a Junior 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, Design, 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, delivers on commitments, surfaces risks early, and supports complex timelines to keep projects on track
• Manage and lead the process from design hand-off, implementing 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
• Support the Production team in the addition of 14 Specialty walls across 8 accounts, while freeing senior team members to focus on higher-volume work and strategic oversight
• Assist in establishing dedicated production infrastructure for specialty accounts, including translation support, standardized workflows, copy setup, and ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on-time delivery across all specialty assets, often on timelines that differ from broader North America projects
• Increase execution capacity and reduce operational risk by absorbing day-to-day production work, supporting complex timelines for global growth, and stabilizing delivery alongside multiple accounts and markets

Skills

• Expert Adobe InDesign skills. Able to work in numbers and calculate sizes
• 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
• Strong production skills for mass producing files in InDesign
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Senior Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 2-5 years experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Expert level knowledge of Adobe InDesign & Illustrator
• 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, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Excel, Google docs
• Working in a project management tools (ie Wrike, ISM/portals) a plus

The base salary range for this role is listed above.

Total compensation includes base salary, annual company-based performance bonus, and equity. Under e.l.f.’s annual bonus program, employees are eligible to earn up to 200% of their target bonus when company performance exceeds defined goals. In addition, e.l.f. provides a variety of other benefits to employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement savings plan, gender neutral parental leave, and unlimited paid time off. The amount of total compensation (including base salary) offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including geographic location, experience, specific skills, and qualifications.

Compensation components are subject to change at the company’s discretion.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this position. It also reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job identified, and shall not be considered, as detailed description of all the work required inherent in the job. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, and it is subject to changes and exceptions at the supervisors’ discretion.

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