Introduction
Thomas J. Watson said it best: "Good design is good business." Visualization is critical to discovering data-driven insights and effectively communicating that knowledge to others. Designers at IBM work to create experiences that work together, work the same, and work for our clients. Does the thought of creating the platform at the heart of solutions like Watson, Blockchain, IoT, and Security excite you? If so, read on!

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Blue Studio design practice is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Production Designer to work on a range of assets, including online, digital, data visualization, print, social, video, and environments. This individual must have a strong eye for craftsmanship, typography and information design. The right candidate should have skills executing across media, design systems, and enterprise platforms, and have the abilities required to deliver well-considered assets.

• Contribute, assist, or create and deliver custom assets to a high level of functional and aesthetic quality.
• Command of IBM brand's vision, systems, and documentation.
• Ensure all artwork and final mechanicals are accurate, error-free, adhere to brand standards, meet and exceed timeline and deliverable requirements, and follow all specifications.
• Identify, assess and mitigate technical risk, as well as quickly and accurately identify and resolve unexpected issues that can occur during the production process.
• Maintain excellent file organization and follow established processes for asset creation and management, and output configuration.
• Collaboration with others - stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers.
• Effectively communicate ideas and detailed rationale both verbally and visually.
• Maintain and research knowledge of relevant technologies.

• 3-5+ years of relevant experience in a digital and print production position.
• Attention to detail and performing in a fast-paced team-oriented environment with strong organizational skills and time management.
• Effectively using style sheets, master pages, templates, tracking, kerning and leading functionalities.
• Retouching, digital file preparation, 4c print and production processes, and pre-press delivery formats.
• Producing final assets, comps and assisting with presentation preparations.
• Actively seeking feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
• Take direction well and be nimble to extend designs across platforms.
• Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive, approachable.

• Applications: Adobe Creative Suite (highly proficient), Figma, MS Office (.PPT), Github
• Web standards a plus