Design Developer
Summary
Design Developer at Tetra Pak (Polanco, Mexico City) who translates customer artwork into repro orders per Tetra Pak print specifications, pre-flights and evaluates artwork files, and drives artwork quality and printability improvements, with ~50% travel to customers across Mexico. Core tools: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Design Developer who will be responsible for translating customer artwork and intent to a repro order following the Repro (Brazilian team) Submission Guidelines and Tetra Pak specifications. Your main activities will be satisfying customer and productivity demands. You will also be involved in the design creation process, improving artwork quality and printability. You will be supporting CSR (Customer Service Representative).
This position is based in Polanco, Mexico City
You will be open to travel 50% of your time to visit our customers (offices and factories) across Mexican market
Tetra Pak is not sponsoring work visa or relocation for this position.
What you will do
As a Design Developer you will:
- Perform conversion of artwork file to proof;
- Pre-flight and complete full design evaluation of customer artwork files;
- Ensure that our printing specification and OOS (Out Of Specification) process are followed and respected;
- Understand customer intent and translate this to repro instruction, maximizing print quality depending on print method, while securing production efficiency and following repro submission guidelines;
- Secure design consistency for brand / family designs;
- Check that repro has completed the job according to all requirements and verify that customer intent is fulfilled;
- Drive improvements of customer artwork quality and suitability;
- Visit customers and agencies to discuss Tetra Pak design and print specifications, sharing best practice examples to improve overall quality;
- Support design handling process;
- Participate or lead WCM teams to improve design handling performance;
- Support CSR and Design Developers with graphical knowledge.
We believe you have
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or similar;
- 3-5 years of experience in role or similar
- PC/Macintosh literate (Advanced level of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop) and basic MS Office;
- Intermediate oral and written communication level of English is required;
- Pro-active, solution-oriented mind-set with the ability to keep tight deadlines;
- Strong stakeholder management skills.