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Designer, HBR Magazine

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Job Description:

The opportunity: The Designer will work with the Design Director to create brand appropriate story packages and designs for all pages and templates within the HBR magazine and its affiliated products. In addition to six regular issues of HBR, the designer will lead the design and production of four single topic issue magazines and the occasional SIP (Special Issue). The designer will also participate in daily images selection, creation, and assigning for stories on HBR.org.

What you’ll do:

  • Design concept and ideation in partnership with stakeholders

  • Visual research

  • Illustration assignments

  • Digital planning

  • Designing pages and templates

  • Production and color-correction mark ups

  • Shipping art to pre-press partners

  • Custom image creation or manipulation for HBR.org

  • Identifying, managing, directing and supporting external free-lance designers and/or co-ops

  • Purchasing, billing and invoicing

Job Requirements:

  • 3+ years of print art direction and design experience, ideally at an editorially driven publication

  • Proficiency working with InDesign and K4 publishing software

  • Some experience working with Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop

  • Understanding of how print creative content scales to digital and social platforms

  • Experience working with tables and basic chart structures

  • Ability to partner with editors and data visualization designers

Type of Job: Design

City: Boston

State/Country: Massachusetts

Duration: Full-time

Company: Harvard Business Publishing

About Our Company: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is an idea-driven company with a commitment to improving the practice of management. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University serving customers across three primary markets: educational institutions, corporations, and individual managers.

Harvard Business Review (HBR) is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

How to Apply: Please apply on the HBP careers site: https://harvardbusiness.secure.force.com/careers/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x5d00000B2YvjAAF&tSource=