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Penguin Random House is Hiring a Remote Junior Designer/Designer - (Open to remote)
The Role:
- Designing eye-catching and unique packages across a variety of content and formats; including but not limited to puzzles, games, journals, small gift books, and card decks.
- Working closely with editors, art directors, and production staff on full package designs from concept to approval.
- Preparing mechanical files for production and review, and correct proofs and printer mockups.
- Some light retouching, color correction, and other prepress production work is required.
- Strict adherence to schedules and the flexibility to respond to critiques in a timely manner.
- Partnering with art directors and project teams to communicate progress on projects.
- Communicating feedback to freelance designers and illustrators, and helping to manage freelance workflow: sharing freelance design and illustration work with art directors and editors, etc.
- Participating in product research and development.
- Candidates for Junior Designer will have a minimum of 1 year design experience in a publishing or print-media design department--preferably with hands-on experience in longform design. Designer candidates will have at least 2 years of similar design experience.
- The ability to design conceptual and on-trend packages, work with existing brand assets, and iterate within branding guidelines to create asset extensions.
- Experience working with printer die-lines and templates.
- Strong typographical design sense
- Proficient knowledge of the MAC platform and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat).
- Familiarity with using InDesign style sheets, master pages, Pantone Matching System, and general pre-press design-related production knowledge, such as pre-flighting.
- Ability to apply organizational methods and strategies to meet deadlines.
- Timely follow-up skills with the design team and other departments, and the ablity to coordinate and review multiple projects in a fast-paced and detailed-focused environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A desire to work in a highly collaborative environment.
- Interest in working on a wide variety of licensed and authored projects, both Children’s and Adult.
- Interest in working with illustration.
- Interest in working on both commercial and indie-styled projects.
Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Our range of benefits include, but are not limited to, Medical/Prescription drug insurance, Dental, Vision, Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Pre-Tax and Roth 401(k), Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life/AD&D Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Student Loan Repayment Program, Educational Assistance & generous paid time off.
Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children's publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world. In publishing the best books in every genre and subject for all ages, we are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution. Our vibrant and diverse international community of nearly 300 publishing brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children's Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others. More information can be found at http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/.
Penguin Random House values the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Company: Penguin Random House LLC
Country: United States of America
State/Region: New York
City: New York
Postal Code: 10019
Job ID: 271575
Date: Jun 19, 2024
Location:
New York, NY, US, 10019
Nearest Major Market: Manhattan
Nearest Secondary Market: New York City
Job Segment: Book Publishing, Media Publishing, R&D, Branding, Graphic Design, Publishing, Research, Marketing, Creative
Job Summary
Full Time
Print & Book Publishing
$73k-91k (estimate)
06/20/2024
07/18/2024
penguinrandomhouse.com
NEW YORK, NY
3,000 - 7,500
2013
MADELINE MCINTOSH
$1B - $3B
Print & Book Publishing
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About Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House is the worlds largest trade book publisher. Worldwide, the company is comprised of the adult and childrens fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and Penguins trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorials Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially a...nd creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the worlds most widely read authors. Our mission at Penguin Random House is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere. We are committed to championing freedom of expression, and recognize the cultural responsibility we have to advance the reading experience for our society now and for future generations. Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 75% and 25%, respectively. Visit http://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/
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