Production Designer with Pre-press

Job Title: Production Designer with Pre-press

Client Location: Seattle, Wa ( Or PST timezone Remote)

Starting: 09/04/2022

Salary/Pay Rate: up to $50.00 hourly

Firm, non-negotiable: Yes

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9/4/2022- 03/3/2022

 

Job Description:

We are hiring a Production Designer with Pre-press experience to produce computer-generated graphic design files, educate fellow partners, and lead certain production oriented projects, in support of the objectives of our coffee retailer Global Creative Studio, an in-house advertising agency. Must have expert-level graphics software applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Print production. ad agency or marketing. Print or color house experience.

 

Required background? Skills?:

• Design systems

• Layout diplography

• Simple animation

• Understanding print and color

• Preproduction skills and Pre-press

• Available portfolio

 

Nice-to-Haves:

• Illustration skills

 

Key projects:

• Taking guides that have been created

• Seasonal campaigns

Purpose of this team:

Reason for the request: Supplemental workload

• Chance for extension or conversion Duration: 6 months

Possibility for Extension or conversion: possibly

 

Daily Responsibilities:

• Working across the studio with other designers

• Prepping different art files

• Available to attend meetings both team and studio with project meetings included

 

Interaction level with the team:

• Collaborative

 

Occupations & Applicants: more job postings open than available talent

Competitors: highly competitive job market for skillsets not necessarily industry-specific

Bill Rate Pressure: candidates are expecting higher than average market rates

Value Proposition: the studio has a very special culture and are incredibly welcoming. The work itself is fun expressive work. A way to be apart of the Starbucks culture and being able to work with one of the biggest brands in the world.

 

Candidate Requirements

• Years of experience required

• Degrees or certifications required Technology requirements?:

• Adobe products

• Simple animation

• Google and Microsoft teams

 

Degree or certifications required?:

• Design education (degreed preferred)

Years experience? 3+

 

Required background? Skills?:

• Design systems compensation

• Layout diplography

• Simple animation

• Understanding print and color

• Preproduction skills

• Available portfolios

 

Nice-to-Haves:

• Illustration skills

 

Top Candidate Skills Years of Experience

• Top 3 must-have hard skills

• Level of experience with each stack-ranked by importance

1 Adobe 3+

2 Previous production design experience (Prepress) 3+

3 Design background schooling 3+

 

Client Description:

The mission of our client is to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time. They call their employees “partners” because they are all partners in shared success, and they make sure everything they do is through the lens of humanity—from their commitment to the highest-quality coffee in the world, to the way they engage with their customers and communities to do business responsibly.

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