Senior Book Production Designer (InDesign Expert)

As a senior-level InDesign professional at DataWorks, your role will involve deep expertise in book production for international publishers. You need to understand long-form documents, production stability, and design logic beyond just software operation. **Role Overview:** - Build structurally stable, print-ready book layouts from raw manuscripts, artwork, and style briefs. - Create production-safe templates from design drafts, ensuring scalable, correction-resistant InDesign systems. - Maintain typographic rhythm, spacing logic, grid systems, and page architecture across multi-chapter documents. - Solve production issues such as reflow failures, imagetext conflicts, baseline inconsistencies, and layout stability problems. - Ensure prepress-clean output for predictable behavior during export, color conversion, and print workflows. - Apply advanced understanding of color using palettes, contrast, and tonal hierarchy intelligently. - Collaborate with editors, QA, illustrators, and project managers to ensure design integrity and consistent quality. - Deliver files that can endure multiple editorial rounds without structural issues. **Key Responsibilities:** - 4+ years of experience in book layout and long-document production. - Ability to engineer stable InDesign files through corrections, artwork updates, and multi-stage reviews. - Strong grasp of typography, visual hierarchy, white space, and page balance for text-heavy and illustrated books. - Expertise in diagnosing and resolving structural layout issues at the root level. - High accuracy, production discipline, and understanding of global publishing expectations. **Qualifications Required:** - Illustrator for diagram cleanup and vector refinement. - Photoshop for image optimization and tonal corrections. - Experience with EPUB / Accessible PDF. - Knowledge of InDesign automation or GREP-based efficiency techniques. If you succeed at DataWorks, you will: - Treat books as systems, not just individual pages. - Value precision, consistency, and stability in production. - Justify layout decisions based on design principles, not guesswork. Share your resume at sakunthala@dataworks.co.in if you are interested in this opportunity.,