Responsibilities:

• Meets with designers, project managers, and vendors to determine print specifications and investigate print and environmental production options.
• Prepares and performs preflight checks on all digital files for production. Checks spacing, rags, linked image files, color breaks; provides instructions and specifications to vendors.
• Handles production of templated design pieces, ad resizing, digital assets (including HTML emails, social graphics, and more), and large scale environmental graphics.
• Executes original designs for invitations, brochures, one sheets and academic departments.
• Fulfills requests for logos, pdfs of publications files and requests for photos from administrative and academic departments.
• Oversees press inspections and environmental graphics installations.
• Is available to work on-site, at our New York City campus, as required.
• Catalogs assets and maintains catalogs in digital asset management system
• Archives all digital project files and hard copy publications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience as a production artist.
• Bachelor's degree in communication design, fine arts, or related field with significant design-related coursework.
• Excellent organizational skills and impeccable attention to detail.
• Ability to work quickly, and effectively with the capacity to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of and experience with print, interactive, digital, and environmental design.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the complete Adobe Creative Cloud software suite is essential.
• Ability to adhere to university COVID-19 policy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with photo retouching, illustration, information architecture and user interface design, and motion graphics.
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Experience generating templates, updating brand kits, and managing groups in Canva.