Freelance Design Assistant, Kemado Group

Job Description: The Design Assistant role at Kemado Group spans both the Label (Mexican Summer, Anthology Recordings) and Publishing (Anthology Editions) brands, and is responsible for generating and delivering all creative requests as assigned by Label and Book Publisher teams. A central responsibility of this role is representing both brands and working to establish symmetry when and where possible. An ideal candidate is able to juggle multiple projects at once, while staying cool, calm and collected. This position is based in New York City.

• Generate and deliver mockups of concepts delivered by staff and artists

• Generate and deliver web based graphics and social assets in a variety of specs for marketing and advertising (web banners, print ads, digital/video ads)

• Creation and light editing of video content (video ads, visualizers, animations, etc.)

• Creation of one-sheets for sales and marketing

• Workshop new ideas for marketing and social initiatives with design and creative teams

• Ability to maintain strong organization of working files and final assets

• Product photography and bulk image retouching

Job Requirements:

• Some familiarity with video animation / motion graphic

• Proficient within the Adobe Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere and/or After Effects)

• Relevant experience in the design / creative fields (jobs, internships, freelancing, residencies)

• Experience with photo retouching a plus, but not required

• Experience with shooting DSLR photography and/or video a plus, but not required

• Previous experience or interest in the music / book publishing industries a plus

Equal Employment Opportunity and Non-Harassment:
Kemado Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender (including gender identity and gender expression, actual or perceived gender-related self-image, appearance, behavior, expression or other gender-related characteristic regardless of the sex assigned to that person at birth), familial status, marital or partnership status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest or conviction record, unemployment status, credit history, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, accommodation requests, access to programs and facilities, employee activities and general treatment during employment.

Type of Job: Design

City: Brooklyn

State/Country: NY

Duration: Freelance

Company: Kemado Group

About Our Company: Mexican Summer and Anthology are independent record label and publishing partners devoted to uncovering new cultural narratives in music, art, and pop culture.

How to Apply: To apply please email the following to info@mexicansummer.com

• Resume

• Cover Letter

• Portfolio or examples of previous work (website or pdf) if applicable

Staff Design Editor, The New York Times

Job Description: The New York Times Print Hub is seeking a Staff Editor to join its award-winning News Design team, which is responsible for the design and production of the daily sections of the print newspaper: Page One, International, National, Metropolitan, Business, Sports and Arts.

We are seeking a detail-oriented visual journalist with excellent news judgment to design, organize, and book out news pages and spreads across sections. The position will also help to coordinate story budgets, evaluate available news space, and organize news sections around both content and deadlines.

Job Requirements:

• 4+ years of design experience in a newsroom environment.

• A portfolio of story-driven work that demonstrates sound news judgment and strong design skill. We’re looking for a clear grasp of impact, typographic voice, layout and color; and a sense of story play and proportion commensurate with news value.

• Comfort working independently and collaborating with colleagues of different backgrounds and widely-ranging technical levels.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Experience selecting, editing and preparing imagery for press.

• Flexibility to adapt to changes throughout the evening under tight deadlines.

• Proficiency in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and familiarity with Illustrator.

Work hours will include evenings and weekends. Experience in feature design, art direction, and the organizational skills to plan and assemble special sections is a plus. Experience with CUE Print or CCI Newsgate is also a plus.

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

State/Country: New York

Duration: Full time

Company: The New York Times

About Our Company: The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a newsroom that’s 1,700 strong and sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

How to Apply: https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NYT/job/New-York-NY/Staff-Design-Editor_REQ-011586-1

Product Designer, Editorial, GoodRx

Job Description: GoodRx is America’s healthcare marketplace. Each month, millions of people visit goodrx.com to find reliable health information and discounts for their healthcare — and we’ve helped people save $30 billion since 2011. We provide prescription discounts that are accepted at more than 70,000 pharmacies in the U.S., as well as telehealth services including doctor visits and lab tests. Our services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, The New York Times, NBC News, AARP, and many others.

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.

With that said, research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. GoodRx is committed to leveling the playing field, and we encourage women, people of color, those in the LGBTQ+ communities, and Veterans to apply for positions even if they don’t necessarily check every box outlined in the job description. Please still get in touch - we’d love to connect and see if you could be good for the role!

About the Role
GoodRx is looking for a Product Designer who enjoys striving for perfection to join our Editorial team. We are continually seeking ways to serve our users more effectively and efficiently while building an enduring brand. You’ll translate user needs into desirable experiences and optimize the best user outcomes.

As a Product Designer, you will represent UX and work directly with cross-functional partners to develop our long-form health and wellness content that helps patients and providers better understand their healthcare conditions and help make healthcare decisions. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Editorial, and Research and work across all aspects of design. You possess a strong foundation in user research, visual design, UI/UX, and information architecture, which allows you to identify new areas of opportunity for the product and ensure excellence in craft and usability.

Please submit a resume and portfolio with your application materials.

Job Requirements:

Responsibilities:

• Deliver compelling, informative, and engaging user experiences.

• Detail-oriented and touches all aspects of design, including user experience, visual, and interaction.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Editorial, and Research and bring these teams together to solve problems.

• Continue to refine and optimize our Health product and reader experience.

• Conduct user tests to develop a deep understanding of users’ mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors and use that feedback to push for refinement/improvement.

• Articulate and communicate concepts and solutions through impactful storytelling, visualizations, prototyping, and formalized design documentation.

• Able to thrive in an agile work environment, including embracing iterative product development and cross-functional input while maintaining a cohesive and holistic view of the overall user experience.

• People-focused and wants to design and build products that truly have a meaningful impact.

• Continuously strive to find better ways of doing things.

• Comfortable with a fast-paced work environment.

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g., user interaction, graphic, visual communications, product)

• 3-5 years of user experience, product, and/or interaction design.

• Demonstrated ability to persuade partners and diplomatically resolve conflict.

• Experience with consumer products, ideally digital editorial experiences.

• Confidence in advocating for and sharing user-centered design principles.

• Superb communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Excellent organization and attention to detail.

• You have a portfolio demonstrating strengths in conceptual thinking, typography, layout skills, color sense and brand systems.

• General understanding of CSS, HTML, and front-end development capabilities and are familiar with working with design systems and atomic design principles.

Type of Job: Product Design

City: Santa Monica, New York

State/Country: CA, NY

Duration: Full-Time

Company: GoodRx

About Our Company: GoodRx is America's healthcare marketplace. The company offers the most comprehensive and accurate resource for affordable prescription medications in the U.S., gathering pricing information from thousands of pharmacies coast to coast, as well as a telehealth marketplace for online doctor visits and lab tests. Since 2011, Americans with and without health insurance have saved $30 billion using GoodRx and million consumers visit goodrx.com each month to find discounts and information related to their healthcare. GoodRx is the #1 most downloaded medical app on the iOS and Android app stores. For more information, visit www.goodrx.com.

How to Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/goodrx/d74878fe-c80d-4b36-9d5d-7e2c752d0d2c?lever-origin=applied&lever-source%5B%5D=SPD

Art Director, Pop-Up Magazine Productions

Job Description: We’re looking for an art director to join our award-winning art department. The selected candidate will help design, edit, art direct, commission, and brand our acclaimed live-events series, Pop-Up Magazine, as well as special projects and collaborations with brand partners. The art director will report directly to the Creative Director.

Job Requirements: The ideal candidates view themselves as problem solvers. They need context to be effective with their solutions. To them design is more than pretty pictures or graphic trends — clarity, purpose, and meaning are important. They understand who the audience is and what is appropriate. They take feedback as a process and a means to build something even better. There is purpose in every design decision. They have a strong foundation of design principles and possess sophisticated typographic sensibilities. Beauty is never the goal but is always part of the solution.

If you like to challenge the expected, appreciate the beauty of design that’s invisible, have an eagerness to learn in a collaborative environment, possess a point of view, and respect other points of view, we want to talk to you.

Applicants should have 3-5 years of editorial and/or brand experience with a passion for the creative potential of live, digital, and print mediums.

Salary will depend on experience.

Type of Job: Art Director

City: Remote

State/Country: United States

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: Employees receive equity in Pop-Up Magazine Productions and health insurance.

Company: Pop-Up Magazine Productions

About Our Company: We create multimedia storytelling spectacles, performed live for tens of thousands of people a year at grand, historic venues across North America, like Lincoln Center and BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, and Davies Symphony Hall, the Paramount Theatre, and the Greek Theatre in the Bay Area. We have also produced a podcast (one of Spotify’s best new podcasts of 2021), a “Sidewalk Issue” of Pop-Up Magazine that embedded multimedia stories across three neighborhoods (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York), short documentary videos, a collection of stories presented as a box of designed objects, a pop-up restaurant, a print magazine for Google’s Year in Search campaign, and more. And we’ve collaborated on live magazine performances with brands and other creative partners like Beck, Apple, ESPN, Amazon Studios, Nike, the Atlantic, Google, the TED Conference, Hermes, and more.

How to Apply: Apply here: https://californiasunday.applytojob.com/apply/aB22p1Svxs/Art-Director?utm_medium=jobpost&utm_source=creativeguild

Senior Graphic Designer, Milwaukee Magazine

Job Description: Milwaukee Magazine, the region’s most-read monthly publication and leading lifestyle brand, offers the prestige of print plus the immediacy of digital through milwaukeemag.com, our fast-growing website. For almost 40 years, Milwaukee Magazine’s mission has remained the same: to deliver award-winning journalism that celebrates our city and to keep our readers informed about where to eat, shop explore and simply have fun.

Milwaukee Magazine, one of the nation’s most respected city and regional magazines, is seeking a full-time Senior Graphic Designer with a passion for journalism and dedication to reflecting Milwaukee’s creativity, diversity and vibrancy in our expanding, multi-platform media brand. The designer’s main function will be to collaborate with the Art Department to assist in the creative execution of innovative design concepts in print, Web and marketing materials. This position requires a self-motivated, reliable team player with a positive professional attitude. Successful candidates will possess excellent oral and written communication skills. Experience with photography, camera equipment and studio lighting a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee your own projects through to completion

• Work with the Art Department to successfully translate concepts to page

• Demonstrate a passion for design and creative thinking

• Prioritize workload and meet deadlines

• Pay extreme attention to detail and consistency

• Research, organize and assign photography and illustrations

• Assist art team with format and design of department pages, features and covers

• Assist in the coordination of photo shoots

• Prepare files and images for press: image retouch, clipping, layering, etc.

• Prepare final print files for Web: image resizing, create image galleries, etc.

• Follow and maintain branding standards

• Assist ad designer with ad design, Web ads and sales/marketing projects

Job Requirements:

• Must be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

• Must understand basic prepress production of print files

• Degree in graphic design or media-related equivalent and 2 years of print experience

• Superior communication skills and a friendly, positive attitude

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and meet strict deadlines

Type of Job: Design

City: Milwaukee

State/Country: WI

Duration: Full-time

Benefits: We offer excellent benefits to eligible employees, including 401(k), holidays, vacations and more.

Company: Milwaukee Magazine

About Our Company: Quad is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to creating a place of belonging — a space where employees do not need to sacrifice who they are to exist and grow in our workplace. Quad does not discriminate on any unlawful basis including race, religion, color, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Quad also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.

Drug Free Workplace

How to Apply: Please apply through bequad.com - https://www.bequad.com/job/west-allis/senior-graphic-designer-milwaukee-magazine/11056/21639771312

Senior Designer, The Hollywood Reporter

Job Description: The Hollywood Reporter, known for its award-winning journalism, is adding an imaginative, collaborative, inspiring and ambitious Senior Designer to our award-winning creative department. This role involves a combination of designing pages for the print magazine (including creating illustrations and charts to accompany stories) as well as some digital crossover.

The Hollywood Reporter is a fast-paced environment often focused on breaking news, so the candidate must be able to work quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high level of quality.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design layouts for The Hollywood Reporter, from the front-of-book pages to features to packages.

• Commission illustrations, as well as create in-house illustrations

• Team with photo producers to art direct photoshoot retouching.

• Creatively design infographics and data visualization for stories.

• Collaborate with THR.com team to best translate print pages to digital

• Work extensively with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of programs as well as the K4 Publishing System

It’s all About You… At PMC, your wellness is top of mind. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to nurture you and your loved ones, including pets! Our package includes Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) HSA with an employer contribution, FSA (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter), EAP, Life Insurance, 401K with an employer match, Paid Parental Leave, Long-term Disability, generous Paid Time off (PTO), Pet Insurance, and Home & Auto insurance. Our Wellness initiatives rotate yoga, meditation, wellness weeks on a variety of topics, and financial wellness. We continuously elevate our offerings with more, for you.

Job Requirements:

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of experience designing a print magazine or similar type of publication

• Demonstrated experience with tight design deadlines

• Must be proficient working with complicated typographic hierarchies, with a portfolio of examples

• Strong type skills and knowledge of grid-based design work

• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite

• Experience with stock photo research

Type of Job: Design

City: New York

State/Country: NY

Duration: Full-time

Company: Penske Media Corp

About Our Company:

About The Hollywood Reporter: At a time of transformative change, The Hollywood Reporter provides unparalleled access to and intelligence about the business of the entertainment industry, as well as the people and the culture behind it. THR is an urgent and timely blend of rigorous breaking news, analysis, investigative reporting, insightful features, as well as lively design and elegant, creative photography across multiple platforms — a high-octane 24/7 website, a luxurious weekly print magazine, video series, podcasts, exclusive events and robust social media accounts. THR sets the entertainment agenda, elevating and broadening the style and substance of the Hollywood conversation.

About PMC: PMC is a leading independent global media and information services company whose award-winning content attracts a passionate monthly audience of more than 310 million. Since 2004, Penske Media has been a pioneer in digital media and a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens across its ever-growing constellation of iconic brands, which includes Deadline, Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, VIBE, WWD, SHE Media, Robb Report, Sportico, BGR, ARTnews, Art in America, Fairchild Media, and Spy.com, among many others. PMC’s journalists and content creators deliver daily the most comprehensive news and information in their industries and areas of coverage, unequaled in ambition, depth and courage. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles with additional offices in 14 countries worldwide, PMC believes companies should not only be profitable but also forces for good. To learn more about PMC, our 2% Foundation, and our portfolio of brands, please visit www.PMC.com.

How to Apply: https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/PEN1022PEKM/JobBoard/6cd1a145-2e14-475a-b78b-4dc9e0c93dae/Opportunity/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=2b4ef64f-f66c-4945-b3f1-156e7259e48a&sourceId=6665dc19-4b43-4cb1-805c-cac990368a49