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Production Artist
IMAX Corporation
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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What we’re about
IMAX is not your everyday entertainment experience, so it’s not surprising that IMAX employees and their careers go beyond the ordinary. Our employees share a passion for quality in everything they do. Our Hollywood people are movie business insiders with years of production experience. Our technology experts are unashamedly geeky – people who can talk for hours, and be riveting, about color gamut and lasers. Our business people are consummate sales and marketing professionals who are spreading the IMAX word around the world.
Of course we offer all the benefits you’d expect from a company with over 50 years of history. Yet, beyond this, we know everyone works differently and is motivated by different things. That’s why we offer competitive pay and a wide assortment of benefits – to help you make the most of your life at work and away from it.
As the world’s leading entertainment technology company, IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies. Specializing in immersive motion picture technologies, our employees are driven by a passion to take audiences around the world to places they’ve only dreamed of.
Come explore IMAX – where innovation, creativity and passion come together.
Required Skills:
The Production Artist will be part of the Creative Team supporting our Design Lead. We’re looking for someone accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment (advertising/design agency and/or entertainment studio background preferred), detail-oriented, can take creative direction well and implement accordingly within set guidelines and parameters.
This person will have a strong production & design background in print and digital. The ideal candidate should enjoy production-focused design projects.
What you’ll be doing:
• Take delivered master artwork files from agency partner and develop master print mechanicals and digital layouts to be leveraged for versioning
• Use pre-existing design elements and artwork guidelines to build print mechanicals and digital layouts
• Resize pre-existing key art based on various specs provided and prep print and digital-ready files. Specs can range from Bus Shelters and One Sheets to Facebook and Twitter badges/covers
• Amend layouts and implement changes based on feedback provided by studios and IMAX Creative (Designers, Art Director, etc.)
• Design digital and print collateral based on IMAX Brand Guidelines
• Organize, update and maintain all elements and assets relevant to design projects
• Work closely with Designers and Art Director to ensure the approved look and feel of a campaign/artwork is implemented accordingly across various size adaptations
• Work closely with the Production Manager to deliver print and digital ready files for print production and distribution, respectively
• Work closely with the Creative Project Managers to ensure creative deliverables are on brief and delivered on time
What we’re looking for:
• Minimum 5 years of production artist experience at an advertising/design agency and/or entertainment studio
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat) and proficient in Microsoft (Word, Excel, PPT)
• Minimum 5 years of experience creating mechanicals for a variety of uses - posters, outdoor, booklets, and collateral materials
• Sophisticated design taste, great typographical acumen and good photo retouching skills
• Keen eye for detail and solid understanding of pre-press best practices
• Self-starter and self-motivated with proven ability to multi-task and deliver results in a fast-paced, high-energy environment while under tight deadlines
• Confident and comfortable with adapting and implementing various design styles and treatments
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent organizational, planning, time, and project management skills; highly-organized
• Ability to work well in a team-based environment, personable, flexible, adaptable
For consideration, please apply online. We thank all applicants for their interest in IMAX but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
IMAX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.