Production Design Assistant

Design Matters is seeking applicants for a part time or full time production design assistant.

We seek a friendly, creative, outgoing candidate.

Qualified candidates will:

  • Be self starters
  • Have strong communication skills
  • Have strong computer skills
  • Be able to prioritize and multi-task
  • Have great attention to detail

Duties are varied and change from day to day.

Our production design assistant should be able to work with little supervision, and willing to take initiative to perform duties. Candidates must be upbeat, and able to work well in a team environment. We prefer individuals who demonstrate excellent communication.

Education:

  • High School Degree (college experience and strong academic record preferred)

Experience

  • 1+ year(s) of experience preferred

Program/Technical Abilities:

  • Comfort with Macs and PCs
  • Adobe Creative Suite, (Dreamweaver and Photoshop a must; Illustrator, Flash, and InDesign preferred)
  • Microsoft Office Suite (primarily Word and Excel)
  • HTML and CSS knowledge
  • Knowledge of how to do many things online, see duties below
  • Trouble shooting basic Mac, PC, and file sharing problems would be a bonus
     

Specific Knowledge: Comfort with technology and ability to learn new design and web programs a must. Experience with web or print design, or illustration a plus. Must have an understanding of design, and be able to take direction from design team.

Position Summary: This position is a support role for the primary designers at Design Matters. We would be willing to provide some training to the right candidate.

Primary Duties:

  • Web site population - perform text and image updates including adding products to e-commerce stores (using Dreamweaver, spread sheet population and different CMS tools). Ability to trouble shoot basic problems with images/text showing up wrong. Attention to detail when following a standard template.
  • E-mail newsletter creation -build out of ongoing e-newsletters following existing html template, (including populating content with tracking links and images). Images may need to be resized. Create HTML code for unique e-newsletters, test in e-mail clients.
  • Online setups - domain name registration, e-mail account set up, and ability to handle a myriad of other basic coding things which may include: uploading videos to you-tube and linking to videos from a 3rd party site, uploading names, testing and sending newsletters through e-mail newsletter tools, setting up facebook sweepstakes, paypal integration, changing shipping charts on e-commerce stores, creating contact us forms using a CMS tool, and converting files to web format. Note: things listed in this section come up from time to time. You don't need to know how to do every one of these things, but an ability to quickly figure out these types of thing is needed.

Other duties may include:

  • Design production - may include making simple graphics based on existing templates, and executing concepts based on directions from the design team
  • Image management - downloading image comps, getting pricing/ copyright info. for images, purchasing & downloading images
  • Text edits - typing in proofreading edits for e-newsletters, brochures and publications
  • Proofing edits - reviewing text edits done by others
  • Image research - searching for stock images
  • Receptionist - answer the phone, take messages, check voice mail

Depending on workload, occasionally duties might include:

  • Assembly - binding presentation booklets, putting together client gift baskets, collating/folding/trimming client projects such as invitations
  • Data maintenance - update customer contact information and log-in information for multiple applications
  • Client research - review competition for our clients with online research, help determine client's competitive edge
  • Purchasing - replenishing office supplies, comparison shopping for low prices online, shopping for client gifts
  • Errands - mailing letters and packages, purchasing office supplies etc, picking up/dropping of files from client and vendors
  • Pricing Estimates - get quotes and pricing estimates for services including printing, trade show booths, shirt embroidery and more
  • Organizing - maintaining files (online and offline) and storage area