Freelance Production Artist, Merchandising

As a 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.

Detailed Responsibilities and Requirements

Responsibilities

• Adapt and utilize templates to create a large number of graphics across major retailers.
• Produce and organize a large number of assets on a server and hand off final files to print vendors.
• Collaborate with Sales, VM, Copy, and project management to take a design from start to finish ensuring production deadlines are met.
• Support the Sr. Manager in the production of all visual merchandising graphics across all e.l.f. beauty brands
• Ability to adapt and be able to keep up with evolving guidelines/design changes
• Come up with creative solutions to design and timing issues to keep the project on track.
• Manage and lead the process from design hand-off, implementing copy, review, and approval, to releasing to print vendors.
• Proofread and cross-check your own work. You are responsible for the final product.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Working in project management tools (ie Wrike, ISM/portals) a plus
• 4+ years of print production experience (preferably in beauty and/or retail)
• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills, deadline-driven.
• Knowledge of computer programs, including InDesign, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Google docs
• 6+ years of experience in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment

Skills

• Convert design files into print-ready mechanicals.
• Expert Adobe InDesign skills. Able to work in numbers and calculate sizes
• Build production files from scratch, following a template (creating templates a plus)
• Excellent type and layout skills paired with a strong print production knowledge
• Able to follow multiple guidelines that vary per project
• Excel; use a line listing and a planogram to build artwork files
• Strong production skills for mass-producing files in InDesign
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Project Manager

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 principle 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 discretion of supervisors.