Production Designer

Bold Orange; Saint Paul, Minneapolis (MN, MN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading customer experience company is seeking a talented production designer to join their creative team. This role is critical for maintaining design excellence across multiple formats and channels. The ideal candidate will possess a mix of creative and technical skills with a strong work ethic, and will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have a background in graphic arts and at least 3 years of relevant agency experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of creative agency experience required.
• Proficiency with Figma and other creative applications is essential.
• Strong typographic and layout skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Prepare production-ready files for both print and digital channels.
• Collaborate with creative team to ensure design quality.
• Follow production timelines to meet project deadlines.

Skills

Creativity

Attention to detail

Project Management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, design, or visual communications

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Acrobat

Job description

Role Location: Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area (partial in-office requirement)

About Bold Orange:

Bold Orange is a customer experience company. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. We exist to create these connections across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to engagement to retention. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside perspective to our customers.

Position Summary:

We understand the power of purposeful design. We’re looking for a talented, collaborative and curious production designer who can strategically communicate through the visual language of design.

At Bold Orange, the production designer is a highly-regarded and critical role within the creative team. This role ensures accuracy, as well as maintains a high standard for design excellence. The ideal candidate must possess both creative and technical skills, be extremely organized, and pay close attention to the tiniest of details, as this position will require versioning content, assets and multiple formats within an established design direction.

The production designer is responsible for layout, design, formatting and preparation of production-ready files for all channels and mediums, both digital and print. This role must maintain brand standards and ensure all project assets are accurately formatted, collected and packaged for front end development or print production. This position requires experience creating and working with templates in various channels including email, direct mail, web banners, social, print, signage, out-of-home, etc. This person works closely with the entire creative team, project management and account team from kickoff through execution to create strong, cohesive projects.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with art directors, copywriters, designers, and developers
• Prepare clean, final production-ready packaged files for both print and digital
• Make various formats of supplied artwork production-ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production
• Catalog and reference art for future projects
• Follow a production timeline to ensure tasks are being completed efficiently and on time
• Troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Check work for accuracy

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, design, visual communications, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of creative agency experience
• Knowledge and proficiency in all creative application software and technologies including Figma (a must), Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Sketch, InDesign, InVision, Acrobat, and PowerPoint
• Strong typographic and layout skills with an eye for design
• Outstanding organizational, project management, file-organization and archiving skills are a must
• Highly detail-oriented with strong attention to detail and who takes pride in their work
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task, while meeting deadlines
• Cross-channel expertise, including website, email, print and social
• Understanding of design principles in typography, color, imagery
• Understanding of ADA compliance regulations
• Understanding of how to design with variable content, versioning, live assets vs images, and responsive design
• Ability to create and maintain working templates
• A strong work ethic that is curious by nature, courageous at heart
• Collaborative both in ideation and in receiving feedback
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoy working in a fun, fast-paced environment

Salary Range: Final compensation is anticipated to be $65k - 85k in the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area and will vary widely depending on the ideal hires skills and experience at the time of hire.

Who We Are:

Our tone is professionally sassy. We embrace meat raffles, hot seats, and the occasional Jell O shot. We like staff meetings that are informative, educational, and at times, damn funny. We believe in no hierarchy, no bullshit, no politics. Just honest, hard work and great fun.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, ancestry, status as a veteran, status with regard to public assistance and any other characteristic protected by law. Bold Orange does not and will not discriminate against employees, prospective employees, clients or vendors.