Job Summary:

• Art directing the Mad Libs brand and Penguin Young Readers Licenses, including series line, looks and adherence to style guides.
• Supervising two direct reports and an off-site freelancer.
• Designing covers and interiors for about 15 books per year, including creating title treatments and series branding, and interior layouts.
• Hiring and art-directing illustrators and effectively communicating with artists and agents.
• Preparing press ready files and approving proofs.
• Creating, maintaining, and strictly adhering to schedules.
• Trafficking materials for approval with multiple stakeholders.
• Remaining current on illustration, design, and publishing trends.
• Work in tandem with associate copywriter partner to create breakthrough, on-strategy concepts through associate Art Director Responsibilities 

Skills on Resume: 

• Art Direction and Brand Management (Hard Skills)
• Team Leadership and Management (Soft Skills)
• Graphic Design and Layout (Hard Skills)
• Illustrator Management (Soft Skills)
• Production Management (Hard Skills)
• Project Coordination and Time Management (Soft Skills)
• Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
• Industry Awareness (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Partner in the creation of seasonal, global campaign concepts
• Partner with concept design teams to ensure a clear brand message
• Partner in maintaining brand image across all platforms.
• Collaborating with styling teams on photo sets, as well as in pre-pro and post-production
• Work with the Creative Director and Brand Creative lead on the development of shoot strategy boards for presentation
• Interaction with and partnering with all in-house agency departments as well as with the in-house digital agency and our licensee partners and their external agencies.
• Developing layouts for all print and T.V. (moving image) vehicles
• Responsible for hitting a number looks per day as set out ahead of time
• Assist in maintaining brand image in the digital ecomm space
• Work with team/editors on the execution of moving image campaigns, including television advertising, brand videos for in-store and digital use 

Skills on Resume: 

• Conceptualization and Creative Ideation (Soft Skills)
• Brand Messaging (Hard Skills)
• Brand Image Maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Collaborative Styling (Soft Skills)
• Presentation Skills (Soft Skills)
• Interdepartmental Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Print and TV Layout Design (Hard Skills)
• Digital Branding and E-commerce (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Manage a small team of designers, and be an advocate for the brand design team.
• Champion the evolution of our design language system and brand ID toolkit with a focus on scalability and consistency across numerous properties including: Social, ERGs, and integrated campaigns.
• Manage our creative approach alongside our internal photography team as it relates to merchandising and lifestyle campaigns.
• Collaborate with our tight-knit marketing team to produce a wide variety of collateral including landing pages, performance marketing creative, marketing emails, and more
• Ensure all work aligns with design principles and brand standards
• Conceptualize and build brand experiences that continue to evolve the Shipt brand identity
• Manage and prioritize a workload of multiple projects from concept to completion
• Document our process to ensure brand consistency
• Oversee quality control for all collateral, both print and film.
• Research and gain an understanding of the target audience

Skills on Resume: 

• Team Management (Soft Skills)
• Brand Advocacy (Soft Skills)
• Design Language System Development (Hard Skills)
• Creative Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Marketing Collateral Production (Hard Skills)
• Brand Experience Conceptualization (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Quality Control and Documentation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Give instructions to the graphic team to produce the elements in accordance with the artistic vision of the project.
• Gather or produce the elements that allow the artists to understand what they have to produce (design, sketches, photo references, examples, etc.).
• Checking the elements produced from a qualitative, quantitative and technical point of view and giving advice on how to improve 
• Assist in the planning of production sprints by evaluating the tasks with the team.
• Participate in the recruitment process of the graphic team (evaluate applications, prepare and evaluate technical tests, participate in interviews)
• Involvement in digital executions of brand content across all digital platforms including social media
• Oversee and lead all retouching and final color corrections with in-house and outside partners to maintain brand standards and consistency.
• Work with the studio team to build and approve all production mechanicals in-house.
• Oversee all global and domestic submits for production

Skills on Resume: 

• Artistic Vision Communication (Soft Skills)
• Element Gathering and Production (Hard Skills)
• Quality Assurance and Feedback (Soft Skills)
• Project Planning and Evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Recruitment and Evaluation (Soft Skills)
• Digital Content Execution (Hard Skills)
• Retouching and Color Correction Oversight (Hard Skills)
• Production Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Conceptualize and direct educational videos
• Manage weekly current events video production processes
• Source actors, illustrators, animators, video editors, etc., and coordinate with legal and accounting to onboard and pay freelancers
• Create animatics and/or storyboards
• Assemble and color correct footage
• Curate and organize media assets, while tracking intellectual property data
• Assist in coordinating studio shoots, update internal production management trackers 
• Proofread and script supervise at studio shoots
• Manage file structures and backups, create subtitles
• Manage errors found in audited videos, export images and video clips for marketing purposes
• Weigh-in on hiring for the digital creative team.

Skills on Resume: 

• Video Production and Direction (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Freelancer Management (Hard Skills)
• Storyboarding and Animatics (Hard Skills)
• Editing and Post-Production (Hard Skills)
• Media Asset Management (Hard Skills)
• Production Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Quality Control and Backup Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Communicating with the wider team on all levels as well as ensuring the product is delivered to a high quality while maintain budget and schedule.
• Work closely with the Art Director, helping implement the agreed art style alongside ensuring you keep motivation high within the art team. 
• Proactive, looking for any areas of training that could help improve the team and create the best end product
• Maintain art quality across the project, help structure visual narrative.
• Provide cinematic direction, reviewing game builds.
• Assist the production of promotional materials, and identify any risks and issues.
• Make a really positive impact onto the team, be a role model as well as be on top of the schedule.
• Lead multichannel, big-idea campaign art direction.
• Create and present social and web/digital concepts to the Head of Creative, Marketing Director and eCommerce Director.
• Oversee campaign execution including the production flow and team members (designers, copywriters, and social).

Skills on Resume: 

• Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Leadership and Motivation (Soft Skills)
• Proactive Approach (Soft Skills)
• Visual Narrative Structure (Hard Skills)
• Cinematic Direction (Hard Skills)
• Risk Management (Hard Skills)
• Creative Direction (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Working with project creative leaders, demonstrate a clear understanding of composition, layout, typography
• Design tenets, understanding how creative needs change based on medium (in-store, print, digital, etc.)
• Follow established brand guidelines, interpret feedback effectively, and contribute original ideas 
• Solutions to concepting assignments, and articulate rationale and point of view
• Under the direction of Creative Operations, gain a solid understanding of job management/folder structure
• Open/close/archive projects following standards
• Review and internal information-gathering process on assigned projects
• Use the established asset rights tracking management process
• Accurately prep/mech/release files based on specifications, and in line with established group process
• Quickly learns brand guidelines and mandatories

Skills on Resume: 

• Graphic Design Proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Adaptability to Different Mediums (Soft Skills)
• Brand Guideline Adherence (Hard Skills)
• Conceptualization and Articulation (Soft Skills)
• Job Management (Hard Skills)
• Information Gathering and Review (Hard Skills)
• Asset Rights Management (Hard Skills)
• File Preparation and Release (Hard Skills)