Production Designer

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Highly organized and excellent at recognizing inconsistencies
• A deep appreciation for finding simple solutions to complex problems
• Comfortable working in rapid iteration
• Systematic thinker
• Fluent in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers
• Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• An understanding of GitHub, Terminal, and Radar

Description

• This position requires impeccable production skills — layout, typography, color — and a keen eye for inconsistencies.
• You will need to keep in mind how the end user will experience the template and the app, as well as any new app features being introduced.
• An organized individual, with accurately structured files, is essential to the workflow.
• The position requires deliverables to be provided under tight deadlines — exceptional attention to detail is a requirement, as well as an ability to problem solve, easily deal with tedious tasks, mediate and cope with rapid change.
• Understand our high standards and design aesthetic.

Initial Collaboration

• Collaboration with Design + HI to create new design templates
• Building new templates (very technical process re: accuracy, following established methods for successful deliverables, testing by importing)
• Audits of various template features, functions, imagery, placeholder text
• Pressure test new template designs, expose discrepancies in design goals vs production realities, work with ENG to add new features to accomplish those goals when possible

AX Testing

• AX Testing of new templates, sample docs
• Internal QA: cross checking new content to guarantee our work moves into the builds without creating bugs

New Feature Implementation

• Work closely with ENG, Design + HI as new features are developed
• Flexibility in content creation including the new features occurring in parallel with feature development - informing ENG re: content creation/import processes & dependencies

GitHub Management

• GitHub checking out repos, checking in changes to content files and import-generated files
• Understanding how repos behave, tracking file changes for bug investigations, fixing conflicts
• Working in SourceTree and/or Terminal for GitHub management
• Responsiveness and ability to deploy updated ENG requirements including creating Pull Requests for multiple repo checkins; managing the impact on workflow

Close Partnership with ENG

• Close partnership with ENG as new processes are required, and are tested and tweaked in collaboration
• Radar bug writing/investigating/fixing is complex and requires a deep understanding of our apps functionality and our templates intent
• Need a clear understanding of how to investigate our apps and content to diagnose issues QA finds and communicate findings and proposed fix both efficiently and effectively

Collaboration with Design

• Closer collaboration with Design re: bug fixes requirement vs. template design/layout adjustments

Communication with ENG

• Communicate with ENG re: need for special tools updates to the app in response to bug fixes or feature additions or process enhancements
• Proactively define and test tool improvements working with our Content EN

Localization Awareness

• Localization awareness of LOC layout impacts in new template designs
• Collaboratively fix LOC bugs, ensuring design integrity and functionality for templates in other regions