Senior Production Artist

Job Description

Must be fast and highly organized. In addition to a high level of technical skill with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. Other areas of proficiency required in relation to efficiency, flexibility and versatility.

While design skills are welcome, this is not a design position, but strictly a production job to work with preexisting layouts and take design direction from Art/Creative Directors. The ideal candidate is a technician at heart, but may have design sense to handle graphic projects independently and provide learned knowledge to help improve team productivity and quality. Is willing to show initiative and put their best foot forward at all times.

Requires a high degree of focus and extreme diligence in handling asset management, detail, typography and maintaining 100% accurate page layouts. Must feel comfortable in a fast-paced work environment and be deadline-driven. Must also be willing to work a few hours of overtime when occasionally needed.

Skills:

• Strong experience in production is a must; with direct mail, mastery of print collateral, email, digital design, web graphics, sales promotion and dimensional printed materials is a plus. 
• High level of technical skill with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office
• Has full understanding of the graphic and photo reproduction process to troubleshoot problematic graphics, photos, layouts and unexpected challenges prior to release.
• Ability to preflight PSD/XD email layouts to be sent to developers. Must be capable of versioning, organizing, sizing and structuring for clear communication.
• Must be fast and highly organized. Efficiency, flexibility and versatility are highly valued at Epsilon.
• Requires a high degree of focus and extreme diligence in handling asset management, detail, typography and maintaining 100% accurate page layouts. 
• Must feel comfortable in a fast-paced work environment and be deadline-driven. 
• Ability to traffic and manage assets for creative files a must
• Must be an expert at electronic file management. Must know how to save files to a server, upload files to FTP sites, and follow proper file naming conventions. Must know Adobe Acrobat to create pdfs to the proper specifications.
• Prefer a Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design,  production or related field. 
• Agency, prepress or printing facility experience needed (5+ years).

Responsibilities:

• Produce multiple versions of direct mail, packages or collateral using InDesign layers, master pages, Paragraph and Character Styles. Must keep all versions 100% organized, labeled and filed according to preset file-naming standards.
• Responsible for multiple rounds of revisions to files based on input from the Creative Director, Art Director, Copywriter, Studio Director or Account Executive. Must take direction, yet independently follow through on production tasks.
• Adhere to brand standards, using approved fonts, logos and protocols defined in clients’ brand guidelines. Responsible for quality control in this area.
• Uses working knowledge of 2C to 4C print process to properly set up electronic files for reproduction. Must fully understand digital printing, offset printing and web printing, and know the distinctions in file preparation for various printing processes.
• Understands and adheres to U.S. Postal regulations and press/production guidelines as they apply to direct mail.

Computer Skills:

• Adobe Creative Cloud
• macOS

Additional Information

About Epsilon

Epsilon is a global advertising and marketing technology company positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. Epsilon accelerates clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to activate campaigns across channels and devices, with an unparalleled ability to prove outcomes. The company’s industry-leading technology connects advertisers with consumers to drive performance while respecting and protecting consumer privacy. Epsilon’s people-based identity graph allows brands, agencies and publishers to reach real people, not cookies or devices, across the open web. For more information, visit epsilon.com.

When you’re one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, we’ve been helping marketers from the world’s top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilon’s best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work