What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Designer, FSG position at Macmillan Job Board?
Designing covers, jackets, mechanicals for all FSG imprints while supporting Creative Directors projects.
What you'll do:
- Collaborates with the art director and editorial team to create original book designs, from concept to printer-ready files, within established budget and guidelines
- Design 6-8 titles across all FSG imprints including Picador
- Maintains schedules and meets deadlines on assigned projects
- Traffics the work of freelance designers, illustrators, and photographers
What you'll bring:
- Graphic design skills and computer/technical knowledge for book production
- Strong understanding of typefaces and typography, design and complex page layout
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Goal oriented team player who can cultivate productive working relationships and the ability to work independently
- Proficiency in creative problem-solving, decision making, and time management
- Illustration skills, ability to create original artwork
Ideal experience:
- 3-5 years design experience, preferably in print design/publishing realm
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite CC: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat
This role will have an annual salary of $70,000 - $73,000.
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
Salary : $70,000 - $73,000
