Senior Designer

The Senior Designer manages the entire customer experience; manages his/her projects by communicating directly with the customer, writes up estimates, executes the work, and bills the job. This person understands all Production Pre-Press tasks required after design approval, directs/ coordinates through various personnel and departments. Also serves as backup to Senior Creative Production Manager and the Creative Director when they are out.

• 1. Communicate with customers about expectations on new projects via Phone/ E-Mail.
• 2. Generate project estimates for customer review, upon approval, create job jacket and schedule the job.
• 3. Assimilate all information in the job jacket before creating the designs.
• 4. Creation or modification of design art to provided specs, meeting timelines and within budgeted time.
• 5. Create Photography using in-house studio, set up lights, take shots, process images in post, deliver to designers for insertion into creative projects.
• 6. Create Prototype Art for print, print paper proof first to make sure the template is correct, Rip, Print and direct interns to produce prototype projects.
• 7. Generate 3D E-Commerce Renderings (IC3D), and Photography (Iconasys) Spinners using 360° software
• 8. Inspect all Intern projects for correctness and total quality.
• 9. Inspect & revise art elements received from outside sources to ensure specs are met.
• 10. Keep accurate record of time (daily – Goal 6 billable hours per day) and materials per job for billing purposes
• 11. Proof your own as well as other artists’ work to ensure 100% fit for use from the Design department.
• 12. Supply customer with color proofs, PDFs, or mocked‑up samples for approval.
• 13. Supply electronic files that are clear and concise as well as meet the customer’s printer specs to the Production Art department or outside Pre-Press companies.
• 14. Create and modify departmental S.O.P.s to improve total quality.
• 15. Organize and distribute new S.O.P.s & requirements to ALL artists in the Creative department.
• 16. Cross Train in Art Department - Make note of new procedures that affect our file prep and delivery of digital assets to other Cyber and or outside Pre-Press departments downstream.
• 17. Make sure you are meeting the daily schedule, perform overtime if necessary, trouble shoot problems or handle/delegate getting files fixed.
• 18. Perform other duties as assigned.
• 19. Manage intern projects; keep them on track, busy and follow-up with progress reports to upper level manager.
• 20. Manage more Customer Service projects that are handed off to J.W. for production.
• 21. Other duties as assigned