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Job title: Production Artist coordinator
Direct report: Resource Manager, Creative Director
Position: Permanent, full-time, salaried

Origin is looking for an all-round production specialist, someone who is just as comfortable coordinating a design team as they are being a part of one. If you have experience with visual design and layout, but can also prioritize team workloads, execute schedules and liaise with clients then we would like to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Production Coordination

• Work in partnership with production design team to deliver production jobs on-time, on-budget while ensuring the highest design standards and quality assurance.
• Focuses on interpersonal communication, organic prioritization and empowered and accountable work by the production design team.
• Ensure the effectiveness, profitability and improvement of the production department with the collaboration of its members
• Liaise with the Resource Manager to develop and execute project schedules on large production jobs
• Conduct daily workflow and workload meetings involving personnel from the production department
• Help manage and assess studio priorities at all times.
• Receive, via account service, client briefings for production jobs. Open job dockets, review written client briefings, verify and gather any missing information in the briefs and prepare printer
• Effectively estimate larger production projects with the assistance of the Resource Manager.
• Help administer the activity of the production department
• Keep Resource manager informed of any department needs leading to its improvement
• Reconciliation all production design jobs for billing, docket and sample filing.

Production Artist

• The position combines important design and executional responsibilities. The production artist must possess superior visual design and layout skills across all channels
• Gather and assemble background information and/or specification and media specification documents
• Liaise directly with clients for any materials, information, submissions and approval etc., required to complete production projects, providing efficient, effective and proactive client communication.
• Effectively assess project “estimates”.
• Clearly communicate with Account Managers and clients about the current status of all jobs in progress, and any issues affecting job quality.
• Maintain quality control on all client projects, through diligent proofing for all projects, as requested.
• Maintain all in-house client files (digital and physical assets), archiving and server maintenance.
• Create advertising and marketing materials according to strategic plans provided by the Creative Director, and by assignment from the Creative Director and Design leads. Design work may range from concept roll outs and/ or original designs with direction provided from an Design Lead to basic layout and production
• Understand and execute digital media plan from media agency
• Have strong working knowledge of computer design software and hardware and strives to stay current in level of knowledge and abilities
• Responsible for ordering digital output when needed, and coordinating digital output and transmissions of pre-press artwork
• Responsible for meticulously reviewing all work for errors/omissions prior to turning in work for approval
• Be a collaborator and self motivator who welcomes feedback and finds ways to remain engaged and motivated in their job
• Every member of the Origin team is expected to maintain a positive, enthusiastic and engaged attitude!

Origin is looking for some talented, quick thinking and even quicker making designers and copywriters of the intermediate to senior level for a variety of short term contracts. Interactive backgrounds are a must, and a love for the outdoors a close second. Ok, maybe a first.

Requirements:

• 6-8 years experience in web design and interactive products
• Experience with campaign concept development and rollout
• Ability to use Sketch, Adobe, and Google products
• Fluent in English or French (bilingual is an asset)

Origin is looking for contract cinematographers and editors in the Whistler area with both studio and outdoor filmmaking experience. If you are an established, self sufficient, high quality video creator, we want to talk to you. Ideal applicants are multifaceted and have worked with a creative agency before. Cinematographer applicants must own a 4K basic camera package, external audio package, and lighting package (FS7, RED, C300 etc). Exceptions and additional gear rental on a job by job basis. Editor applicants must be story-tellers by nature, organized/detail driven and highly proficient in Adobe Premiere & other Creative Suite products.

Please provide demo reel, and gear list with application.

If you’ve mastered code as a second language and have skilled “penmanship” in clean markup, then we’d like to have a chat with you. Specific skills we are looking for are: Standards-compliant HTML, CMS (preferably Drupal, ExpressionEngine, and/or WordPress), PHP, Advanced CSS and Javascript.