About Pediment Publishing
Pediment Publishing is seeking a dedicated and eager graphic designer/production artist with print design experience. We are publishers of hardcover books with a focus on sports, history, and fine-art photography. We work with media clients to create sports championship books, pictorial history books, fine-art photography books, and so on.
We’ve been publishing books for more than 25 years from our home base in the Pacific Northwest. While the world has gone digital, we’ve honed our niche in high-end book publishing and our clients, media companies, are quick to sing our praises. We’ve grown from 10-15 titles per year to more than 40 titles per year in recent years. Even more exciting, our program for sports-inspired titles is growing fast and that category is picking up speed! We’re positioned to continue our growth and expand our publishing reach while maintaining a family-like atmosphere for our team. If you love print—bonus for books and sports—you’ll love it here!
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Overview of the Production Artist position
A production artist at Pediment is a professional who can perform design and production tasks related to book publishing. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual of high personal character and strong work ethic; someone who enjoys pairing text and photos on pages of a book to tell a compelling story, especially in the sports genre. Our production team is small, fast-paced, and friendly, which requires motivated, upbeat, and pleasant employees who have a desire to learn, grow, be a team player, and contribute to the company’s goals.
This position is perfect for: print designers, desktop publishers, typography nerds, sports fans, photographers with InDesign skills.
Apply to this posting with your resume, portfolio (or link to website), and a cover letter telling us why you’ll be successful in this role. Please do not call or attempt to drop off your resume in person.
Responsibilities
- Design book styles, covers styles, marketing templates, etc.
- Follow design style guides, templates and tutorials to produce assets related to book publishing, including book layouts, book covers, logos, marketing materials, social media ads, etc.
- Execute designs to meet client and consumer needs.
- Make corrections to books and marketing pieces, with focused attention to detail, as provided by clients, content partners or internal editors.
- Tone and clean up grayscale and color photos.
- Conduct pre-press activities including pre-flighting files and generating press-ready PDFs.
- Work within Pediment web services, including Canva, Basecamp, Shopify, Google, Klavio, etc.
- Develop new marketing concepts to promote Pediment products as print and digital assets
- Create products, author blog posts, and conduct other book-related tasks in Shopify.
- Assist editorial project manager and team members in a variety of tasks, as assigned.
Structure
- Reports to: Editorial Project Manager
- Expected tenure in this position: 2-3 years
- Next step in Pediment tenure: Production Artist II
Benefits
- Full-time, hourly position
- Health Care Plan (Medical)
- Retirement Plan (IRA, company match)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary)
- Work From Home
- $16.00/hour–$20.00/hour, depending on prior experience
Requirements
- Must live in the United States.
- Associate’s degree, trade school or equivalent work experience in print design field.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work from home and adhere to the business day schedule while completing all necessary deliverables.
- Attention to detail, especially in following tutorials, templates, and instructions from superiors.
- Proficient with Mac and InDesign. The entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite of software is useful, but a production artist will spend a large portion of their time in InDesign.
- Strong familiarity with typography principles, font pairings, etc. Type is an important element of what we do, so the more type knowledge, the better.
- Familiarity with Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Familiarity with PDF prepress workflows, including pre-flight checks.
- Familiarity with photo repair/color correction.
- Basic working understanding of image resolution, file formats, compression, etc.
- Ability to tackle complex design projects as needed.
- Strong interpersonal verbal and written communication skills.
- Upbeat personality.
- Collaborative team player.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Commitment to continuous learning.
Benefits
- Full-time, hourly position
- Health Care Plan (Medical)
- Retirement Plan (IRA, company match)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary)
- Work From Home
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $33,280.00 – $41,600.00 per year
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