Target
Creative Production Designer; Store Experience Marketing
LOCATION
Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement, primarily onsite at Target HQ in Minnesota.
QUALIFICATIONS
Four-year college degree or equivalent experience, 2-3+ years of relevant production experience, proficiency in MAC programs like InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, proven collaboration skills, and ability to manage multiple projects.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Extend design programs for print and digital marketing, collaborate with creative and marketing teams, manage project assets, oversee retouching, proof print-ready and web-ready files, ensure adherence to production execution rules, and maintain communication with peers and partners.
INDUSTRY
Retail and Creative Agency
SHORT DESCRIPTION
As a Production Designer at Target, you will create and maintain high-quality design programs for exclusive brands, ensuring brand consistency across various marketing channels while collaborating with internal teams.
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.
Target Creative is the in-house creative agency dedicated to bringing one of the world’s most beloved and recognizable brands to life. Whether through design, marketing or brand work, we are the driving force behind delivering Target’s dynamic, inventive and unmistakable storytelling to its massive global audience. Our mission is to inspire a sense of joy, wonder and excitement, and to take our guests—and ourselves—somewhere new. Never resting on past wins or settling for anything less than extraordinary, our origin story built us to thrive in the competitive and changing retail marketplace. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story, maximizing our messages across multiple platforms—whether via a digital art gallery or a new $1 billion children’s clothing brand. Operating as one fully integrated team in both the U.S. and overseas, Target Creative comprises the best and brightest talent to execute market-leading creative strategy, design, writing, video production, operations, digital, UX, social media and more. We leverage smart and rewarding external partnerships while closely aligning with our Target teams. Together, we tackle every creative challenge with our amplified strengths, ultimately bearing the groundbreaking creative work that helps make Target the decisive guest favorite, year after year.
As a Production Designer, you will be responsible for extending design programs on print and digital marketing channels for Target's portfolio of exclusive brands and campaigns, while maintaining consistent brand standards. With high standards of creativity. You will collaborate with creative and marketing teams in executing layout revisions, updating toolkits or style guides as well as creating schematics or mock-ups & presentation decks for partner and/or leadership reviews. You will manage all project assets, oversee retouching and create keyline to final files while working closely with global partners. You will also assist in proofing print-ready mechanical files or web-ready deliverables prior to live dates. You will apply and follow production execution rules to all work, from layouts to final files, including message hierarchy, branding elements, type-setting, photography and illustrations while ensuring quality and accuracy of work are per standards and best practices. Communication skills are needed to ensure all peers and partners are kept informed. You will work closely with other production designers as well independently and be responsible for managing timelines and all project production design details to deliver high-quality results.
About you:
- Four-year college degree or equivalent experience
- 2-3+ years of relevant production experience
- Solid use of MAC computer programs like InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
- Proven track record of work demonstrating the ability to apply fundamental design skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to extend detailed concepts across multiple formats and apply proportions of scale to each
- Strong success rate of receiving and interpreting design direction from creative partners
- Successfully collaborates and performs duties by solving problems, applying critical thinking, presenting and clearly communicating role and project needs with partners and leaders
- Ability to operate effectively and efficiently, prioritizing, organizing and managing a workload for multiple small projects and work independently
- Stays current on emerging style, graphic and industry trends, innovation, and advancement in the fields of branding, design, as well as tools and technology used to perform role
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Application deadline is : 01/05/2025Tailor Your Resume to Match this Job!
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