Job: Graphic Design - Project Manager

Jobing Description

Graphic Design - Project Manager

The Graphic Design Project Manager's role is to lead all aspects of the Global Sales Development (GSD) team's graphics projects: from concept development/creative to project management to managing external graphic design contractors.

The role is a mix of creative work and managing projects and contractor resources

Typical creative work is varied and changing constantly; designing illustrations that simplify and communicate Oakley product technologies, developing interactive "training game" graphics and materials, business communication graphics/infographics, materials packaging, etc.

GSD projects involve many groups at Oakley and outside the company - from print vendors, designers, production houses, etc. - the Graphic Design Manager will lead all aspects of these projects and relationships

The role will also maintain relationships with a group of consultant designers and farm specific projects out when need dictates due to workload spikes, domain expertise is required, etc.

Role Details:

Understanding, evangelizing, and being the guardian of Oakley, REVO, and Arnette graphic languages and design standards.

Framing creative needs, developing creative briefs with GSD and other business partners/project managers, designing of visual communications, and production & release of printed materials

An important task of the Graphic Design Manager is their ability to properly build, gather and package a graphic project to be handed off to a contract designer or print vendor. All linked images, fonts and final laser proofs must match up to the approved hardcopy before it is released to a print vendor

Designer must be capable of taking lead on determining and allocating the time needed to accomplish each project throughout the day/week/month to ensure that all projects will be completed at the proper time for each phase of the graphic project timeline - including status updates

The graphic designer needs to be able to review and determine if they have all information needed to complete a task. If information is missing, the graphic designer must have the initiative to seek out the missing information from respective partners

A graphic designer needs to be fluent in Adobe Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator 3 or higher. Even with this skill set, it is expected that the graphic designer will constantly look at and learn new techniques and software upgrades that will improve their efficiency in creating graphic design.

Critical Capabilities/Skills:

Passion for creating killer work!

Highly detailed & organized - hitting deadlines in collaborative environments

Ability to manage multiple projects of varying complexity, using numerous creative vendors over different timelines

Must be able to stay informed of current Oakley portfolio brand campaign looks, maintain brand alignment and communicate often with other creative departments - critical to execute within corporate brand image direction

Experience working with both print & interactive projects

Thorough knowledge of the design process & timelines ranging from concept to completion

5+ years in an agency or in-house department

Ability to work well in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful, but team-oriented environment

Passionate desire to deliver complete, thoughtful, and impactful deliverables; this is not a 9-5 job

Ability to work through ambiguous situations and constantly reprioritize efforts to address things that matter most

Qualifications

Experience developing simple and impactful graphic and physical tools to communicate complex messages

Interest/background in consumer products, action sports and premium brand positioning a plus

Permanent legal right to work in the US on an unrestricted basis

The individual must be highly organized, flexible to changing conditions and be constantly aware of project deadlines independently form project managers reminding them of deadlines.

Proactive ability to communicate clearly with other in their team and when speaking to interdepartmental - members from Creative, Traffic, Asset, Photo studio and Print Production when requesting information and or assets needed to complete a given task.

Graphic application expertise and education: Advanced knowledge in CS3 or higher Indesign, Photoshop, Bridge,Illustrator, Acrobat 8 and Microsoft Office suite for Mac. Proactive ability to seek out information and
technologies that will make yourself more efficient and successful as a production designer.

Qualifications - Nice to haves:

Experience with pre-press color, basic retouching

Experience with Instructional Design, Learning Tools, or Info Graphics

Experience working in the Action Sport Industry

Education:

Bachelors degree in graphics design or related field

About The Global Sales Development Team (GSD):

The Global Sales Development (GSD) Group at Oakley was formed to help sales reps and retail sales associates win in "The Last Mile" of retail - the crucial moment when a consumer makes a purchase decision.

The GSD's charter is to:

1. Drive incremental sales around the world - including the consumer experience in store, sales associate knowledge and ambassadorship, retail partnerships, and sales force effectiveness

2. Collaborate with sales leaders and marketing teams to develop easy-to-execute, solution-oriented programs for local implementation in each region of the world

3. Deliver "the whole solution" and keeping it simple - planning for all aspects of execution

4. Build quantitative metrics into programs to enable analytics and continuous improvement

5. Develop and challenge ourselves to grow our individual and group value to the business

6. Passion for constant improvement and personal growth

Job
: Global Sales