Mobile Graphics Producer
Bloomberg (New York, New York)
Description:
The Company
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
The Role
Bloomberg is seeking a graphics designer/producer to process images and graphical content for various mobile products. The designer will take graphics, photos, tables, and illustrations created for print and prep them for import/use across mobile products. Often this will involve redesign/or reconfiguring the content to fit the image specifications of the respective platform. In addition, the designer will create original graphics and images for mobile products. To perform this work, the designer will collaborate closely with print graphics and photo departments, as well as with art directors, editors, online producers and mobile product producers. The designer will also assist in the ongoing development of the mobile product suite, application experience and in the execution of Bloomberg's global Web and Mobile strategies.
Responsibilities of the role include:
-Retrieve files from K-4 InDesign and resize and or redesign print graphics, photos, tables and illustrations to fit mobile product applications and web image specifications
-Collaborate with editors, graphic designers, art directors, and producers to determine creative ways to display complex print illustrations, data visualizations, charts, and tables for the various mobile products
-Deconstruct and reconfigure illustrations, tables, and charts for various displays, ensuring that all versions retain their meaning and impact
-Participate in periodic reviews of the mobile product suite to discuss ways to improve visual content and the processes for delivery
-Track and review the development of magazine and other mobile product art and graphics so that complex material can be identified early; collaborate with art and graphics directors on ways to adapt content for mobile products
Qualifications:
-Minimum three years' experience in graphic design, Web design, photo retouching, flash and html production, and/or related fields
-3 years experience with inDesign and Photoshop
-3 years experience with Adobe Suite, Adobe InCopy, Illustrator, and Acrobat
-Familiarity with Web content, from both a user's and producer's perspective
-Must work well with editors, copyeditors, graphics/dataviz designers, photo editors, producers, video producers/editors
-Must have the skill and judgment to ensure that all materials posted meet Bloomberg's editorial standards
-Excellent time/project management skills; ability to multi-task
-Must be upbeat, self-motivated, and independent
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
The Role
Bloomberg is seeking a graphics designer/producer to process images and graphical content for various mobile products. The designer will take graphics, photos, tables, and illustrations created for print and prep them for import/use across mobile products. Often this will involve redesign/or reconfiguring the content to fit the image specifications of the respective platform. In addition, the designer will create original graphics and images for mobile products. To perform this work, the designer will collaborate closely with print graphics and photo departments, as well as with art directors, editors, online producers and mobile product producers. The designer will also assist in the ongoing development of the mobile product suite, application experience and in the execution of Bloomberg's global Web and Mobile strategies.
Responsibilities of the role include:
-Retrieve files from K-4 InDesign and resize and or redesign print graphics, photos, tables and illustrations to fit mobile product applications and web image specifications
-Collaborate with editors, graphic designers, art directors, and producers to determine creative ways to display complex print illustrations, data visualizations, charts, and tables for the various mobile products
-Deconstruct and reconfigure illustrations, tables, and charts for various displays, ensuring that all versions retain their meaning and impact
-Participate in periodic reviews of the mobile product suite to discuss ways to improve visual content and the processes for delivery
-Track and review the development of magazine and other mobile product art and graphics so that complex material can be identified early; collaborate with art and graphics directors on ways to adapt content for mobile products
Qualifications:
-Minimum three years' experience in graphic design, Web design, photo retouching, flash and html production, and/or related fields
-3 years experience with inDesign and Photoshop
-3 years experience with Adobe Suite, Adobe InCopy, Illustrator, and Acrobat
-Familiarity with Web content, from both a user's and producer's perspective
-Must work well with editors, copyeditors, graphics/dataviz designers, photo editors, producers, video producers/editors
-Must have the skill and judgment to ensure that all materials posted meet Bloomberg's editorial standards
-Excellent time/project management skills; ability to multi-task
-Must be upbeat, self-motivated, and independent
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