Jr. Production Artist

Responsibilities

• Support the Sr. Manager in production of all visual merchandising graphics across all e.l.f. beauty brands.
• Collaborate with Sales, Design, Copy and Project Management to take design from start to finish ensuring production deadlines are met.
• Adapt and utilize templates to create large number of graphics across major retailers.
• Come up with creative solutions to design, delivers on commitments, surfaces risks early, and supports complex timelines to keep projects on track.
• Manage and lead the process from design hand-off, implementing copy, review and approval, to releasing to print vendors.
• Ability to adapt and be able to keep up with evolving guidelines/design changes.
• Produce and organize a large number of assets on a server and hand off final files to print vendors.
• Support the Production team in the addition of 14 Specialty walls across 8 accounts, while freeing senior team members to focus on higher-volume work and strategic oversight.
• Assist in establishing dedicated production infrastructure for specialty accounts, including translation support, standardized workflows, copy setup, and ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on-time delivery across all specialty assets, often on timelines that differ from broader North America projects.
• Increase execution capacity and reduce operational risk by absorbing day-to-day production work, supporting complex timelines for global growth, and stabilizing delivery alongside multiple accounts and markets.

Skills

• Expert Adobe InDesign skills. Able to work in numbers and calculate sizes
• Convert design files into print ready mechanicals
• Build production files from scratch; following a template (creating templates a plus)
• Able to follow multiple guidelines that vary per project
• Excel; use a line listing and a planogram to build artwork files
• Excellent type and layout skills paired with a strong print production knowledge
• Strong production skills for mass producing files in InDesign
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Senior Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 2-5 years experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Expert level knowledge of Adobe InDesign & Illustrator
• Print production experience (preferably in beauty, and/or retail)
• Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills, deadline driven.
• Experience working cross-functionally with different teams across an organization
• Comfortable working in a collaborative manner and a highly creative out-of-the-box thinker…