Assistant Designer / Assistant Art Editor

Location: Noida

Position Type: Full time

Under the guidance of seniors, assist project teams to create high-quality illustrated non-fiction titles within budget and schedule.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain high creative and technical design standards for your work.
• Follow and adhere to schedule, workflow, and brief for all your work.
• Carry out a range of design tasks as and when required, for example:
  • With guidance, design spreads in accordance with the project’s design brief.
  • Help with picture research, picture management, and archiving.
  • With guidance, carry out technical tasks.
• Maintain high standards of creativity and quality at every stage of the process.
• Respect, set down, and preserve the DK Way in every project as work progresses.
• Manage own workload and organize work to meet deadlines.
• Maintain excellent communication channels with entire book team for duration of project.
• Close contact on a daily basis with all internal departments and when necessary external suppliers, authors and external editors.

Required skills:

• Computer literacy in design-related software – InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Basic design skills.
• Well versed with the features and usage of Mac OS.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent creative and visual sense.
• Excellent technical awareness.
• Basic understanding of the copy/editorial processes of a book.

Desired candidate profile:

• Qualification – Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Graphic Design, Communication design, or Fine Arts.
• Experience – 0 to 2 years of experience (preferably in publishing/media).