Graphic Design Manager

Rochester, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Marketing

Job Summary

Position Overview

The Graphic Design Manager will report directly Sr. Manager Product Content and Design and will be responsible for creating marketing display graphics and graphical design templates/elements for our same day and outlab fulfilled products ordered from our digital photo lab kiosks mobile apps and web ordering systems

Company Overview

At FUJIFILM North America Corporation we are many things to both consumers and business customers. Were looking for passionate mission-driven people to help us continue to innovate.

With five operating divisions theres a lot of opportunity to find your niche and make an impact. Perhaps youll click with our Imaging Division that provides one-time-use cameras digital printing equipment and instax. Maybe youll get charged up about our Electronic Imaging Division that markets digital cameras lenses and accessories for content creators. Or you might have your eye on our Optical Devices Division which provides optical lenses for the broadcast cinematography videography and industrial markets. You could be drawn to our Business Innovation Divisionthey develop office and commercial print solutions and enable digital transformation. And if youre interested in tape check out our Industrial Products Divisionthey develop data storage solutions.

We offer a collegial culture and a flexible work environment. Our headquarters is in Valhalla New York a quaint town just one hour north of New York City.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare electronics business innovation and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of giving our world more smiles. Visit: Description

Responsibilities

Management of other graphic designers in the Marketing org including training supervising assigning tasks managing backlog and reviewing performance with them.
Utilize various internal tools and applications developed by Fujifilm used to create manage and track Fujifilms proprietary templates.
Support graphic designers with uploading and submitting graphical designs and related files into an Asset Management system that is used to track and manage products and templates created.
Collaborate with other designers and marketing managers on the team to review and share ideas and design concepts.
Work with the Content Managers and Marketing team to understand customer requirements and specifications needed to make the necessary product graphics and templates to the customers expectations.
Train and support 3rd Party Design Agencies to assist with template and graphic designs as necessary.
Work with catalog ops team and software test technicians to troubleshoot and solve template printing issues as needed.
Attend & participate in meetings with Catalog Development Team Marketing Team FUJIFILM Divisions and others as needed; or assign appropriate designers to attend as needed.
Provide admin and management support along with design knowledge and expertise for the PIM/DAM platforms
Work cross collaboratively with Marketing teams Catalog Ops team PIM/DAM team to ensure deliverables and timelines plus to identify process improvements and changes that would be needed to increase efficiency and to accomplish business objectives.
Work with Content team on finding and setting up new design agencies supporting all parts of the process from identifying agencies to working with our legal team on contracts and supporting onboarding to our systems and tools.
Oversee the maintenance for the design guide website using WordPress as an up to date and accurate resource for Designers and agencies providing files to Fujifilm for our partners or our own D2C experience.
Oversee the creation of assets supporting new product launches for select retail partners including button templates OSD files design templates; including support of the Catalog Ops team in verifying specs as needed.
Oversee the design & creation marketing display graphics and graphical templates for FUJIFILM products as requested by Content and Marketing team members
Use Adobe Creative Cloud Suite to create graphical designs for consumer photo products.
Keep up to date with the latest trends for template designs.
Be available for in person meetings at the Rochester Office as needed (expected 1x per month)

Responsible for the following supervisory responsibilities:

Manage a team of 3 graphic design contractors.
Provide clear objectives and work assignments for the team.
Monitor and tracks employee performance and provides regular and timely feedback.
Identify training and growth opportunities to advance the individual team member
Accomplish staff job results by coaching counseling and disciplining employees; planning monitoring and appraising job results; conducting training; implementing enforcing systems policies and procedures.
Effectively manage team deliverables
Review and approve timesheets for contractors
Recruit and onboard designers or other contractors as needed for various projects; whether working with Fujifilm HR or outside placement agencies to find the talent needed for the project.

Required Skills/Education

BS/BA graphic design or other related quantitative disciplines/experience
Minimum of 7-10 years of Graphic Design experience supervisory/management experience a plus
Team player able to quickly develop internal relationships
Excellent communications and presentation skills
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator etc.)
Strong understanding of graphical file formats pixels DPI EXIF data
Experience managing simultaneous projects for multiple customers (internal/external)
Familiarity with creating and executing batch Action Scripts in Photoshop
Ability to travel 10-20%.

Desired Skills

Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) and/or Product Information Management (PIM) Systems
Design skills with a core focus on marketing consumer products
Applications used for designing 3D images (such as 3D GIMP)
Ability to create AVI and MP4 video rendering
Experience using Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint)
Understanding of XML language

Salary and Benefits:

$82000 plus bonus depending on experience
Medical Dental Vision
Life Insurance
401k
Paid Time Off

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EEO Information

Fujifilm is committedto providing equal opportunities in hiring promotion and advancement compensation benefits and training regardless of nationality age gender sexual orientation or gender identity race ethnicity religion political creed ideology national or social origin disability veteran status etc.

ADA Information

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please direct your inquiries to our HR Department ().

Required Experience:

Manager

Position OverviewThe Graphic Design Manager will report directly Sr. Manager Product Content and Design and will be responsible for creating marketing display graphics and graphical design templates/elements for our same day and outlab fulfilled products ordered from our digital photo lab kiosks mob...