MAC Staffing Group

MAC Staffing Group is seeking Art Directors to support our client’s growing auction house company, headquartered in Dallas, TX. This is a nonmanagement position. The ideal candidates will work closely with fellow designers, print production staff, marketing managers, and subject matter experts to design materials with brand consistency, in a fast-paced environment. Print design experience promoting fine jewelry, luxury goods, or fine art is a plus.

Summary:

This is NOT a digital UI/UX, web, or e-commerce design position. The purpose of this job is to personally design (not art direct other staff) a high volume and variety of print materials:

• 80% of the time will be spent on the design and layout of auction catalogs between 100 and 400+ pages.
• 20% of the time will be spent on designing and production of print ads for publications, direct mail, brochures, and other types of collateral.

Skills & Abilities:

• The successful candidate is a deadline-driven, reliable self-starter.
• Able to work independently with extreme attention to detail.
• Must be able to juggle and prioritize a heavy volume of jobs with competing deadlines, i.e., understand when to put aside one project to start another, yet work on both during the same timeframe.
• Must be able to work overtime hours (with pay) on weeknights and weekends when necessary to meet extremely tight deadlines.
• Must be able to attend outside press checks as necessary.

**An extensive portfolio of work is required for consideration. **

Education / Experience:

• 7+ years of comprehensive work experience in graphic design for print, with thorough pre-press knowledge. High level of clean aesthetic design ability, with excellent typography, image layout, and color use skills.
• Experience with design and production of print advertisements, direct mail, and various print marketing collateral is required.
• Advanced expertise with Mac OS, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat), and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
• Ability to produce multi-page projects quickly and accurately (catalogs, books, magazines, brochures); i.e., not just logos or one-page flyers.
• Ability to trouble-shoot and solve technical issues related to design and production.
• Ability to sketch rough thumbnails or concept drafts.
• Ability to color correct and prepare graphics for print, and to proof bluelines.

MAC Staffing Group

MAC Staffing Group is looking for a full-time, experienced marketing professional to serve as a Category Marketing Manager, for its client’s category marketing team. The ideal candidate has 3 to 5 years of hands-on working experience managing a heavy volume of marketing efforts, campaigns, and content creation, e.g., direct mail, brochures, postcards, print advertisements, and miscellaneous collateral. This position will work closely with graphic designers, print production staff, and subject matter experts to produce marketing efforts with brand consistency in a fast-paced environment.

Experience supporting a sales or account/client team is highly desirable. Bachelor’s degree required. Experience with the auction business and/or collectibles, fine art, or luxury lifestyle goods is preferred. This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Duties include but are not limited to the following.

• Owning the support function, end to end, of marketing campaigns for specific auctions and categories. Monitor market trends to calibrate marketing efforts.
• Managing the processes for producing print marketing efforts and campaigns, e.g., creating jobs, scheduling production workflow, acquiring creative assets, communicating job specs to the graphic design team, and interfacing with print production vendors.
• Serving and collaborating with assigned internal clients and subject matter experts, i.e., the directors of our 50 categories of collectibles, fine art, and luxury lifestyle items.
• Providing content (marketing copy and images) to the graphic design team.
• Creating media plans by sourcing trade and general interest publications, negotiating advertising rates, and managing insertion orders.
• Collaborating with other departments (Digital Team, Operations, Events, Photography) to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Liaise with the digital marketing team to ensure digital marketing efforts (emails, web marketing, social media) are scheduled and efficiently executed.
• Discover the unique stories behind the items we auction through regular interaction with subject matter experts.
• Facilitate storytelling by subject matter experts for video production.

The successful candidate is a deadline-driven, reliable self-starter, able to work independently with extreme attention to detail. Must be able to juggle and prioritize a heavy volume of jobs with competing deadlines, i.e., know when to put aside one project to start another, yet work on both simultaneously.

Required interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative thinker, open to new ideas and viewpoints from co-workers.
• Objective and tactful; able to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Resilient team player with a sense of humor and thick skin who can see the big picture.
• Understands how to balance and separate the critical from the trivial during tight deadlines with very quick turn-around demands.

MAC Staffing Group