Road Runner Sports is hiring: Production Artist in San Diego

Overview:

Join Road Runner Sports as our next Production Artist, where youll bring our brands vibrant voice to life through eye-catching visual designs! Youll support our fun and dynamic culture while working with the design team to transform creative concepts into stunning digital and print assets. Get ready to dive into revising files, perfecting colors, and prepping production files for our print vendors.

About us

• Road Runner Sports is proud to have been recognized as the 2023 Footwear Retailer of the Year by Footwear Magazine.
• Founded in a San Diego garage over 40 years ago.
• Road Runner Sports has 47 stores across the country, and we are growing!
• Our Values, Mission & Purpose (we call them Our 6 Pillars) are Be Different, Bring the WOW, Build something great together, Get Moving, Stay Active, and Live Healthy.

What you will get to do as a Production Artist with Road Runner Sports:

• Ability to translate the Road Runner Sports voice and personality into visual design based on existing brand guidelines.
• Support Road Runner Sports culture, quality standards and deliverables.
• Work closely with design team in taking creative concepts and style guides and adapting them into print and digital assets.

• Accurately revise print and digital files.
• Color correction and photo-retouching of brand imagery.

• Finalize and pre-flight production files for print vendors.
• Vendor and private label product image processing.
• Assist the digital asset manager with maintaining system organization for electronic files and images through our DAM site.
• Work closely with Production Manager, Designers, Merchandising and Project Managers.
• Work with design team in building out digital and print templates.
• Additional tasks may include creating product photography shot lists, assigning files names, managing images, creating appropriate mock-ups for presentations and other tasks as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design
• 3+ years of experience in visual design for in-house brands or agency.
• Impressive portfolio of work that shows design and production experience and abilities.
• Strong understanding of design principles and best practices across digital and print.
• Expert ability in Adobe Creative Cloud platforms, Microsoft Office applications in addition to Teams and One Drive.
• Experience with project management tools such as Asana.
• Familiarity with prepress techniques and file preparation.
• Variable printing or dynamic digital printing knowledge.
• Proficient in web graphic design.
• Competence in downloading/uploading files to FTP sites and troubleshooting problems in this and other electronic sending processes.
• Well organized, detail- and solutions-oriented.
• Must be able to multi-task between projects and responsibilities with a high level of proficiency.
• Ability to problem solve, learn quickly and progress projects through hurdles or challenges.
• Ability to adapt to the fast-changing needs and developments.
• A collaborative team player with an interest in learning from and listening to others.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to work independently, be self-motivated and an excellent team player.

Your rewards!

• Earn competitive pay
• Be the envy of your friends with discounts on ALL the latest gear and footwear
• Enjoy free running and walking events

Acknowledgments:

After acceptance of a potential offer, the successful completion of a background check will be required prior to start date. The offer is contingent upon the information received in this report, and will be carried out in accordance with Local, State, and Federal laws.

Were committed to protecting your privacy rights. We collect personal information from you, including personally identifying information, professional or employment-related information, and educational information. The purpose of this collection is to assist in evaluating your application for employment.

To ensure your application is received as timely as possible, we encourage you to apply directly onto our Road Runner Sports Career page.

As you apply directly on our site, we will be reaching out to you within the next 10 days should your experience and qualifications meet our requirements for this position.

Road Runner Sports is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Road Runner Sports is an e-verify organization and an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Compensation Min:
USD $31.25/Hr.

Compensation Max:
USD $36.05/Hr.