Design Manager, Stanford University Press
Primary Job Description
Stanford University Press needs a half-time, two-year term Art and Design Manager to work in conjunction with the current Manager maintaining current design pathways and protocol in the Design Department to facilitate maximum quality standards, productivity and cost efficiencies in a university press environment.This position entails supervising book cover design throughput for approximately 175 titles per year in disciplines including Humanities, Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, Business, and Law.
Core job responsibilities
- Manage cover design process within the Editorial, Marketing and author book team achieving overall individual book design goals. Work with Production Manager ensuring each cover file is created according to the production budget, schedule, and printer specifications.
- Design a designated percentage of cover design in-house, along with staff designer and off-site Art Director.
- Assess current and potential freelance designers on an on-going basis.
- Attend weekly production launch meetings, and cover meetings called for marketing-designated high priority titles Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Thorough familiarity with all phases of book production, including in-depth knowledge of desktop publishing, and strong design vision and implementation.
- Power user of Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with QuarkExpress.
- Ability to identify problems swiftly when they arise and to exercise good judgment in developing solutions.
Experience Requirements
BA or BS and five or more years of significant and progressively challenging publishing experience, preferably within an educational or academic setting. Previous supervisory experience and a fluent level of software proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, (Illustrator, Photoshop InDesign), cross-platform issues, word-processing required. Must possess exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to work on deadline and manage a number of assignments at once; above average writing and editing skills a must. This individual must have outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills, the ability to work well with staff, vendors and suppliers, and a proven record of working cooperatively and flexibly as part of a team.
HOW TO APPLY
Go to the Stanford Jobs web site. http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html. Applicant must apply by clicking on the Apply Now button after searching for job #30001 in the Keyword Search field.