About This Role
This production artist role involves translating creative concepts into accurate, production-ready physical products across various brands within a lean in-house design studio. It sits at the intersection of packaging, print, product development, and manufacturing. The ideal candidate understands how artwork, color, materials, construction, printing, and finishing come together in a finished product.
Responsibilities
- Translate creative concepts into accurate, production-ready physical products
- Work on packaging and printed materials for guitar effects, strings, picks, straps, capos, slides, and other accessories
- Work on artist collaborations and special projects
- Prepare production-ready artwork for packaging and physical products
- Create screen-print separations and prepare artwork for screen-print production
- Interpret technical specifications and translate them into accurate production artwork
- Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, Production Arts, or a related field preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered
- 5+ years of experience in print production, graphic production, prepress, packaging, or a related production environment
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
- Strong understanding of print production and prepress, including CMYK, Pantone, bleeds, crop marks, resolution, and file specifications
- Familiarity with packaging dielines and structural layouts
- Excellent attention to detail and a strong eye for color, alignment, typography, and consistency
- Strong organizational, communication, and collaboration skills
- Understanding of how artwork behaves in the physical world
- Experience working with textiles, embroidery, or dye-sublimation
- Experience with metal painting and coating, including wet paint, powder coating, anodizing, and gloss/satin/matte finishes
- Experience working with different substrates and understanding their impact on color, appearance, and durability
- Experience with color matching from Pantone to Paint and maintaining consistency across materials and production processes
- Experience inspecting finished products and identifying defects or inconsistencies
- Experience working from measurements, samples, dielines, technical specifications, and production standards
- Ability to adapt artwork to different manufacturing and finishing processes
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S.A. on a full-time basis
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