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Senior Operations Designer
American City Business JournalsUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 May 2025
About the role
- Ensure all advertising materials for multiple market print editions are accounted for on time each week, whether materials are coming from clients or in-house
- Assist Design Operations manager with staff training, testing new initiatives, finding areas of efficiency, filling in when others are away, and working with markets on correcting challenges
- Preflight advertising materials from clients to check for size and coloring issues, and provide final files to the News Design Desk for placement on pages
- Keep track of special products and their deadlines, including advertising publications and inserts
- Maintain professional and helpful relationships with multiple local market advertising teams.
- Hold local advertising and event teams to production procedures, deadlines, and workflows, including the use of Jira and Sharepoint
- Assemble People on the Move, Biz Spotlight, and Classified pages
- Identify and attend training opportunities
- Take on other duties assigned by Design Operations Director as needed
- Background in newspaper production and/or project management
- Experience with Adobe CC design tools and Microsoft products, especially InDesign, Acrobat, and Excel
- Experience preflighting ads in CMYK, editing PDFs and print production processes
- Basic understanding of layout, typography, and color outputs
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Understanding of local market advertising teams and how they operate on a daily basis
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication, cross-group collaboration, and planning skills with a strict attention to details, process and deadlines
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