Art Production Manager

Condé Nast seeks an Art Production Manager to help build, design, and deliver premiere editorial content in India. This role will work closely with creative, editorial, and operations teams to ensure print layouts and stories are published in a timely manner. It may also provide design and production assistance on web, social, and additional editorial projects. The ideal candidate has a diverse skill-set and is comfortable working in a cross-functional environment, working with layouts, images, and text. This position plays a vital role in connecting all teams to produce the highest quality content.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work with the creative teams (designers and visuals editors) and editorial teams to support and facilitate the design and strategy for print layouts and other editorial projects.
• Collaborate with local market editors/leads and operations to ensure the editorial from source layout to local template, updating fonts, text, and structure as needed.
• Design layouts as needed. Lead designer to review and approve.
• Traffic stories through the workflow, collaborating across departments. Work with editors to resolve fit as needed, inspecting layouts to ensure that artwork and other page elements are in place, distribute PDFs for review, and obtain approvals.
• Help oversee local issue lineup and coordinate the editorial map/flatplan makeup (including FOB adjacency needs) in close collaboration with editorial lead and print sales counterparts.
• Relink final hi-res images and trace layouts to repro. Liaise with repro on retouching notes when required.
• Perform quality check on all pages before files go to press.
• Archive and export PDFs as needed.
• Assist in the generation of web and social assets.
• May support work across multiple brands, markets, departments and special editorial projects, depending on workload and needs.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

• 2+ years experience working in publishing, media, or a similar field.
• Technical skills: Proficient working in InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Experience using K4, Adobe Express and Firefly a plus.
• Strong communication skills and high attention to detail; has the ability to multi-task and delegate work; ability to perform in a collaborative and fast-paced creative environment is essential.
• Ability to set and monitor priorities, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Strong visual eye for layout, press, and images.
• This role is based in Mumbai and reports to the Art Production Director.