Packaging & Display Mechanicial Production Artist
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary (USD):
$45-50/hr + Benefits
Start Date:
ASAP!
Packaging/Display & Mechanical Production Artist – Packaging
Department: Creative
*This role is remote until May 2025 and then will go partial on-site 2 to 3 days a week*
Aquent Studios is seeking a highly detail-oriented and technically proficient Packaging & Mechanical Production Artist to adapt global packaging artwork to meet US market requirements and specifications. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring our packaging is both visually appealing and compliant with all regulations while supporting the creation of impactful in-store displays for this leading beauty company!
Key Job Accountabilities:
- Manage and execute tasks involved with packaging localization for US markets.
- Work closely with Art Directors to prepare mechanicals from display renderings.
- Work on various design and production projects to assist the US Creative team.
- Manage assets for the Creative team.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
- US Packaging Localization
- Share Global packaging artwork with US Creative team
- Review localized mechanicals against Global packaging artwork
- Review online and printed proofs against Global match prints and approved US mechanicals
- Coordinate and partner with Global team on edits and specs
- Attend Artwork Status meetings (4 meetings a week)
- Attend press checks (Up to 10 times a year, to an East Coast printer)
- Review production sample books for color range
- Download final packaging files and save on the server for US Creative team
Promotional Display Mechanical Preparation
- Transition display rendering into pre-production mechanical layouts on final dielines
- Collect hi-re images and package prepared mechanical layout files to send to mechanical house
- Work with Art Directors on approving and releasing final artwork for printers
Asset Management & Graphic Design
- Break down final layered assets from agencies into separate items, create low-res versions, and save them on the server for the US Creative team
- Download and save assets from Opera (client’s asset management app)
- Extract logos from packaging files for US Creative team
- Create product images for planogram at 100% scale for the US Creative team to use in promotional display and permanent merchandising renderings
- Work on various print design projects under guidance of Art Directors
Comps (packaging)
- Source and manage comp requests for Marketing and Sales teams (twice a year)
Skills Required:
- Proven experience in creating comprehensive brand expression (5+ years)
- Must be able to do quality hands-on work at a fast pace and under tight deadlines
- Ability to multi-task, make quick decisions, and problem solve
- Must be able to assess priorities, organizing workloads.
- Strong attention to design and color detail and expert knowledge of print process.
- Must be a team player but needs to be able to work independently where necessary.
- Basic trimming, cutting and comping skill.
- Expert knowledge in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.
Client Description
Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!