About This Role
This role involves turning creative ideas and customer artwork into production-ready files for gourmet chocolate products. The Production Artist manages the technical execution, design, and finalization of artwork for premium chocolate products and packaging. This includes ensuring technical accuracy, brand consistency, and timely delivery of files, as well as clear communication with customers.
Responsibilities
- Create detailed digital mockups and production-ready artwork for chocolate packaging, including boxes, wrappers, and template pieces from initial concept through final approval and production
- Review customer-supplied artwork and determine what is needed to make it production-ready
- Interpret and execute client-specific design requests, turning their branding and ideas into high-quality chocolate and packaging designs
- Finalize technical designs for custom chocolate molds and engraved products, ensuring they meet the specific requirements for physical production
- Create and revise proofs for customer approval
- Track revisions, approvals, and outstanding artwork requirements
- Follow up directly with customers when artwork, information, or approvals are missing
- Keep artwork projects moving toward production deadlines
- Prepare final, press-ready files for the in-house print department, ensuring proper document sizing, bleeds, margins, and CMYK color profiles
- Prepare artwork for die-cut products and packaging as needed
- Work within the technical requirements of printing, engraving, packaging, and manufacturing
- Create artwork templates that make it easy for customers to submit artwork correctly
- Maintain and update templates as product specifications change
- Create, prepare, and organize stock artwork for the self-serve customizer
- Develop illustrations, icons, patterns, and other artwork customers can use to customize products
- Ensure stock artwork meets technical, production, and brand requirements
- Maintain an organized library of approved stock artwork
- Identify opportunities to expand and improve the available stock-art library
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in production art, graphic production, prepress, or a related field
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
- Proven experience in packaging design and preparing files for professional print production
- Strong understanding of vector artwork and file preparation
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Excellent written communication
- Experience working directly with customers
