What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Design Assistant position at Mountville?
Job Overview
Maintain the visual identity of Matterly and WaterHog brands through the coordination of product design, sampling, photography, and videography. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
About the Position
This Product Coordinator position is based in our LaGrange, Georgia office for collaboration with the residential marketing team and proximity to the products and people that make Matterly successful. As many as 10 days per month 'on location' may be necessary to assist with shoots. The ideal candidate will have an Associate's degree in graphic design, photography, or a related field, or four years of experience with graphics.
Main Responsibilities
Maintain the visual identity of Matterly and WaterHog brands through the coordination of product design, sampling, photography, and videography. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
About the Position
This Product Coordinator position is based in our LaGrange, Georgia office for collaboration with the residential marketing team and proximity to the products and people that make Matterly successful. As many as 10 days per month 'on location' may be necessary to assist with shoots. The ideal candidate will have an Associate's degree in graphic design, photography, or a related field, or four years of experience with graphics.
Main Responsibilities
- Product Design Assistance & Quality Assurance
- Customize all personalized item orders and help check automated orders.
- Create proofs for customized items as needed.
- Set up new design files in Navigator.
- Take WaterHog mold designs from concept to final stages and upload them to our external mold vendor or provide them to the internal mold team at P5.
- Create additional sizes and finalize print files for all new designs.
- Ensure all internal samples, photo samples, and customer samples meet design requirements and are suitable for use as intended; work with the sales/customer service team to ship any customer samples originating from LaGrange.
- Photography Coordination & File Management
- Help coordinate and execute all photography and videography shoots, including gathering props and products (ensuring each one is in photo-quality condition).
- Manage the post-production process with photographers and videographers and transfer files to Matterly and WaterHog.
- Edit, retouch, and color correct photos and videos as needed.
- Maintain and organize our digital photo library, ensuring all assets are properly organized, tagged, archived, and easily accessible internally.
- Assist team members in accessing and utilizing properly-sized photos for marketing materials, social media, and other promotional purposes; work with an internal resource to ensure necessary photos make their way into our PIM software for retailer use.
- Stay up-to-date with photography and home interior trends and best practices, and collaborate with the Product Design Manager and marketing team to effectively implement them with the goal of enhancing our visual marketing content.
- Support UGC efforts by working with end users and/or third-party platforms to build our library of user-generated content.
