Production Artist

Title: Production Artist

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 6 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials.

Graphic Design

• With supervision from Design management, uses design skills to create original graphic designs or refreshes existing products that appropriately reflect Nike's design philosophy & standards.
• May also do an "apprenticeship" with senior designers, completing details of product process in lieu of a full project.
• These projects include, but are not limited to the development of print, packaging, 3-D retail displays, event signage, logo systems, imagery, video, and collateral materials.
• Effectively uses computerized systems in design process.

Project Management

• Works with functional teams from initial concept development to final production and distribution.
• Manages individual projects beginning with attending internal briefings, managing timelines, and scheduling work-back schedules, budget management, supplier coordination, reviewing specs, recommending production alternatives, and maintaining quality production standards.

Cost Control

• Manages both individual projects as well as groups of projects to stay within stated budgets.
• Estimates all aspects of project development.
• Offer production alternatives to provide the best product within the defined budget.
• Negotiates costs, reviews billing and provides budget reconciliation.

Supplier Liaison - Arrange the purchasing of goods and services from domestic and international vendors.

• Evaluate vendors.
• Understand technical aspects, terminology, and equipment involved in film, print, and collateral production.
• Client Liaison
  - Act as a liaison among Nike managers (Image Design, Marketing, product design, etc.) and outside agencies.
• Communicates project details, design requirements, scheduling needs, and graphic materials.
• Designer Support
  - Provides design support for higher level designers as needed.

• 1+ years of experience with schematic or graphic production design (packaging, print design, footwear, technical graphic design, book design, typography)
• Graphic Design Degree or similar
• Understanding of design thinking
• Interest in production and technical side of design, building schematics
• Knowledge of pre-press
• Knowledge of screen printing
• Knowledge of trims and printing processes
• Typography expertise
• Adobe Illustrator proficiency
• Pre-press color separations experience
• File maintenance for product design
• Strong footwear interest (experience not required)

Portfolio Requirements: Please include a portfolio showcasing design schematics with range as a graphic designer that demonstrate process work for print, book, or product design, including digital design for print, labeling design dimensions, layer separation, and packaging design.