What are the responsibilities and job description for the Coordinated Product Specialist position at Mountville?
Job Description
The Product Coordinator will work closely with the Product Design Manager and the marketing team to help coordinate and execute the product design and sampling process as well as the photography and videography for both the Matterly and WaterHog brands.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Product Design Assistance & Quality Assurance
- Working with designers to customize all personalized item orders that are not part of automation (and helping check those orders that are automated); creating proofs for customized items as needed
- Setting up new design files in Navigator
- Managing the development of WaterHog mold designs from concept to the final stages and uploading them to our external mold vendor or providing them to the internal mold team at P5
- Creating additional sizes and finalizing print files for all new designs
- Ensuring all internal samples, photo samples, and customer samples meet design requirements and are suitable for use as intended; working with the sales/customer service team to ship any customer samples originating from LaGrange
- Photography Coordination & File Management
- Assisting in coordinating and executing all photography and videography shoots, including the gathering of props and products (ensuring each one is in photo-quality condition)
- Collaborating with photographers and videographers to manage the post-production process and the transfer of files to Matterly and WaterHog
- Providing editing, retouching, and color correction services for photos and videos as needed
- Maintaining and organizing our digital photo library, ensuring all assets are properly organized, tagged, archived, and easily accessible internally
- Supporting team members in accessing and utilizing properly-sized photos for marketing materials, social media, and other promotional purposes; this includes working with an internal resource to ensure necessary photos make their way into our PIM (product information management) software for retailer use
- Staying current with photography and home interior trends and best practices, and collaborating with the Product Design Manager and marketing team to effectively implement them with the goal of enhancing our visual marketing content
- Supporting our UGC efforts by working with end users and/or third-party platforms to build our library of user-generated content (UGC)
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented individual with excellent organizational skills and a passion for visual content.