Art Production Manager

Job Description

The Hollywood Reporter is hiring an Art Production Manager. The Art Production Manager is the liaison between Designers, the Copy Department, and the printer. They are responsible for maintaining the flow of layouts by routing and expediting all layouts and copy at every stage of production to relevant people and departments, ensuring that press deadlines are met.

Responsibilities:
• Create, edit, and keep templates up to date, including style sheets in InDesign
• Check text styles and spacing on all layouts, ensuring that they are consistent with the templates.
• Create, manage, and edit the Art Department InDesign libraries
• Create and keep the digital map/mini-wall up to date in PowerPoint
• Attach and assign articles and layouts in InDesign using K4 and move layouts through the K4 workflow
• Process images when needed
• Pre-flight InDesign documents to printer specifications (and solve any problems)
• Create PDFs to send to the printer using naming conventions set by printer.
• Drupal Tag InDesign documents
• Work with the Managing Editor as well as the Art/Photo department to hit deadlines
• Collect all final images for FTP site
• Administration of K4 vjoon website:
create Issues, advance Issues, archive Issues, solve problems with files/users

Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in print production management
• Media industry experience preferred

Experience with the following programs:
• Adobe: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, TypeKit
• K4
• Universal Type Client
• Slack
• Zoom
• Microsoft: PowerPoint, Outlook
• Airtable, Google Sheets

Typical wage range: $88k - $98k

Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. The total compensation package for this position will also include other elements, a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits including 401(k) eligibility and paid time off benefits. PMC is committed to the health and wellness of our employees. As part of our company-wide rollout of PMC's paid healthcare plan, effective for this role July 1, 2023, the company will pay 100% of the monthly health, dental and vision plan premiums for the employee and their family.

Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If you have more or less experience than specified on this job posting, please apply and list your salary expectations.

If hired, employee will be in an ''at-will position'' and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors).

About The Hollywood Reporter:

The Hollywood Reporter provides unparalleled access to and intelligence about the business of the entertainment industry, as well as the people and the culture behind it. THR is an urgent and timely blend of rigorous breaking news, analysis, investigative reporting, insightful features, as well as lively design and elegant, creative photography across multiple platforms - a high-octane 24/7 website, a luxurious weekly print magazine, video series, podcasts, exclusive events and robust social media accounts. THR sets the entertainment agenda, elevating and broadening the style and substance of the Hollywood conversation.

About Penske Media Corporation:

PMC is a leading independent global media and information services company whose award-winning content attracts a passionate monthly audience of more than 310 million. Since 2004, Penske Media has been a pioneer in digital media and a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens across its ever-growing constellation of iconic brands, which includes The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Deadline, Variety, VIBE, WWD, SHE Media, Robb Report, Sportico, BGR, ARTnews, Art in America, Fairchild Media, and Spy.com, among many others. PMC's journalists and content creators deliver daily the most comprehensive news and information in their industries and areas of coverage, unequaled in ambition, depth and courage. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles with additional offices in 14 countries worldwide, PMC believes companies should not only be profitable but also forces for good. To learn more about PMC, our 2% Foundation, and our portfolio of brands, please visit www.PMC.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7w43q-18-220-160-216-42 in your application.