Contract Print Production Artist

Full Time
Oakland, CA, USA
6 months ago
What to know

Design for a better world. As a contract Production Artist, you will support the Design team on projects across web, mobile, email, social, and print. This engagement will focus on multiple (100+) print deliverables requiring a strong working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, MS Word and Excel.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From Google and UNICEF to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is a part of WPP Digital and has 150+ employees in the US and London.

The team

Designers at Blue State are curious, passionate, and eager to collaborate across disciplines. They’re thoroughly immersed in the field of design and are able to work quickly, autonomously, and with polish. They understand how to use design to provoke action, aid in understanding, and clarify information.

Some things we're looking for
  • 1+ years of experience.
  • We’re looking for a Production Artist who is absolutely expert in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign, and has strong layout and typography skills.
  • Attention To Detail: A meticulous and goal oriented ability to execute a concept, with a keen eye for the smallest details.
  • Flexibility to pick up established design styles and layouts, inputting new content seamlessly and adjusting the layout’s design to fit as necessary.
  • Ability to create their own efficient system allowing them to stay well organized, juggle many files while moving quickly to create error free work.
  • A passion for perfection: the best Production Artists catch the typos that were missed, are concerned with resolutions, color and size accuracies, production values, and must know the difference between CMYK and RGB, spot color and process, a vector or a raster – and much more. Production Artists are skilled quality assurers of graphics design.
  • A strong, independent work-style without needing heavy oversight and easily manages their time working towards a final deadline.
  • The hourly rate for this position is $30, and we’re estimating this work to require a 100+ hour commitment beginning May 2024.

    At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

    Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.

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