Creative Producer, Art Content (contract)

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
Amplify's creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
Artists and designers at Amplify create beautiful and meaningful experiences that delight our young learners and their teachers, inside and outside of the classroom.
As a member of Amplify's centralized art content team, you will partner with the executive creative director to manage illustration, animation and production design projects for different product teams, as well as help maintain a shared assets library. In short, you will help with organizational logistics so that the creative director can focus on the art. Together, you will achieve timely and on-budget delivery of high quality art content. You will collaborate with product owners on scope and budget for new initiatives, create project schedules, facilitate meetings, manage documentation and assist with all stages of content creation, from pre-planning to final file delivery. A successful candidate will be fluent in digital file types, have a working knowledge of various design software used to create visual and animated assets, and have experience with print production and delivery of final files to a printer. A successful candidate will also have excellent communication and negotiation skills, both verbal and written, and experience with managing several ongoing projects with various stakeholders. This position will require great attention to detail and a love of spreadsheets! Big plus for having an art-related background or a college degree in the areas of graphic design, illustration, animation, fine art or art history.
Amplify requires all staff to provide proof of COVID vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the executive creative director and the production design lead to gather requirements for new content initiatives across the company.
• Oversee allocations, schedules and track budgets for art and production design initiatives for digital and print products.
• Articulate the needs between product teams and the art content team in order to successfully deliver on art and design initiatives.
• Maintain the backlog of initiatives.
• Develop and maintain documentation in a systematic way.
• Contribute to refinement of content creation processes.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferably in business, management, communications, graphic arts, design, illustration, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in digital project management (creative production experience is preferred)
• Expert knowledge of spreadsheets: setting up complex trackers with formulas
• Excellent organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on file formats produced in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AfterEffects
• Familiarity with AdobeXD, Sketch, Figma
• Experience with managing digital and print production cycles
• Ability to coordinate several projects and timelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enthusiasm for making things happen and go smoothly
• Enthusiasm for art and design
• A love of spreadsheets, organizing and order
• Experience with creative producing
• Hands-on experience with design software
• Basic experience with / understanding of animation & motion graphics
• Experience with design in education technology or a related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.