Design Specialist, Peacock

Company Description

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.  

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.  

Job Description

Production/Project Management

• Meet weekly with Pods to review current & future projects and needs.
• Traffic all design requests for OPC Pod (Via Air table, slack, direct requests)
• Gather any missing information dates/assets/etc for the designer.
• Create timelines for each assignment and assign.
• Oversee creative’s time and update OPC Production on the current workload.
• Legal/ clearance requirements tracking (Fonts, stock imagery, audio)
• Partner with the Production team on production timelines and delivery dates.
• Ensure Air Table Tickets are being submitted and tracked for each design request. (Streamlining requests into Air Table from: E-mails, Slack channels, Slack DMs, verbal conversations, teams, etc)
• Ensure tickets are closed/archived once projects have been completed or closed.
• Meet weekly with OPC Editors
• Track Tickets and additional workflow in Design Dept Project Tracker.
• Ability to alert creatives and requestors if assignment deadlines are unrealistic or will not be met due to workflow issues.
• Look for ways to improve upon current processes for data asset management, production workflow, future casting, etc.

DESIGN

• Work with production to ensure a cohesive look across campaigns. While upholding Brand identity.
• Work closely with Creative directors, designers, and animators.
• Support creatives in onboarding agencies/freelancers.
• Represent design in weekly large-scale campaign connects.
• Assist Production in sourcing and contracting design agencies/freelancers. Track
• Work with creatives daily to ensure deadlines and responsibilities will be met in a timely fashion. 
• Assist creatives, other marketing personnel and technical managers with daily creative service tasks. (Obtaining assets, research, references, etc.).
• Assist designers daily with project archiving and retrieval.
• Oversee design elements included in large-scale, 360 creative campaigns.
• Some of these deliverables include- but are not limited to: AV, DOOH (Digital Out of Home content and takeovers), Experiential design (Live events, step, and repeats, pop- up collabs), Motion Graphics, International needs, Partnership integrations, Growth Marketing.

GENERAL

• Compliance with the company's house style guidelines.
• You will work daily as part of a team consisting of animators, designers, producers, editors, and post-production staff.
• You are passionate about Design and have a love for the organizational and technical side of projects.

Qualifications

• 3+ Years of Production experience. Design Experience is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Organization, multitasking, and time management.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Technical artistic skills and aesthetic instincts.
• Self Starter/Pro-active

Familiarity with the following is necessary. Skilled using software a plus

• Avid, Adobe
• Premiere
• Adobe After Effects
• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Salary range: $70,000 - $95,000

Additional Information

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