What are the responsibilities and job description for the Broadcast Graphics Specialist position at QVC?
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road®. We are a live social shopping company that redefines the shopping experience through video-driven commerce on every screen, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and TVs.
QVC Group brings innovative products, compelling content, and unforgettable moments to millions of shoppers worldwide via social platforms, streaming apps, ecommerce sites and TV channels, making every screen a doorway to discovery, delight and community.
QVC Group brings innovative products, compelling content, and unforgettable moments to millions of shoppers worldwide via social platforms, streaming apps, ecommerce sites and TV channels, making every screen a doorway to discovery, delight and community.
The Opportunity
The Broadcast Graphics Specialist will work with multiple business groups ensuring product data displayed during live and off-line productions is consistent and accurate.
Who We Are
This team will utilize data source research tools and procedural knowledge base when reviewing planned product presentations to make entries into data sources, identify potential issues, and escalate discrepancies following through to resolution. Another main component of this role is to design and program for display graphic elements supporting live and off-line productions, utilizing live graphic as well as pre/post production software design tools, adhering to brand and design direction, and providing technical and operation support for developed applications and workflows.
This team will utilize data source research tools and procedural knowledge base when reviewing planned product presentations to make entries into data sources, identify potential issues, and escalate discrepancies following through to resolution. Another main component of this role is to design and program for display graphic elements supporting live and off-line productions, utilizing live graphic as well as pre/post production software design tools, adhering to brand and design direction, and providing technical and operation support for developed applications and workflows.
Your Impact
- Reviews all scheduled products utilizing corporate provided data sources and applications, as well as Broadcast Engineering provided applications and data sources, ensuring accuracy of all television displayed graphics
- Validates data surrounding product description, pricing, promotions, retail value descriptions, retail values, and retail value comparisons
- Makes adjustments and/or entries to data elements where possible, escalating discrepancies through appropriate business groups where those groups are responsible for making the adjustments and/or entries, following through to resolution
- Reviews content, formatting for television display, adjusting where necessary for consistency in layout, kerning, and leading
- Utilizes request fulfillment system to manage, prioritize, and document fulfillment of requests for graphic elements supporting live, off-line, and post production presentations
- Actively participates with multiple business groups in developing best approach to achieve presentation goals with regards to graphic element requests while adhering to brand and design direction
- Fulfills requests for graphic elements utilizing live graphic as well as pre/post production software design tools
- Programs developed graphic elements for display utilizing live graphics and Broadcast Engineering developed applications
- Creates workflow, process, and procedural documentation for training and reference purposes
- Actively participates in troubleshooting data, application, and execution issues documenting root cause, and following through to resolution
Other duties, responsibilities, and activities as assigned.
What You Bring
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Graphic design and animation as relates to television production, including awareness of broadcast standards as well as focus on layout and legibility
- Live graphics design of template based compositions to achieve presentation goals
- Beginner to Intermediate knowledge of software design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications
- Beginner to Intermediate knowledge of live graphics software design and development tools such as VizRT, Ross XPression, or Chyron Lyric
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
- Strong troubleshooting skills
Minimum Education:
Completion of trade or technical program in television production, graphic design, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Education:
Undergraduate degree in television production or graphic design
Minimum Experience:
2 years of experience as graphics assistant or production artist
Preferred Experience:
2 years of experience television graphics production
If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate a company committed to inclusion and belonging for all, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with QVC Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!
For QVC Group, our commitment to inclusion and belonging for all is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at
workwithus@qvcgrp.com
for assistance.
