Graphics Production Manager Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Graphic Production Manager to join our growing team.

This role is on-site, requiring you to report to our Las Vegas, NV office location a minimum of 5 days per week.

Your Role

As the Manager of Graphics Production, your role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities focused on leading, educating, and guiding the team responsible for constructing graphic items on a project-by-project basis. Your first priority is to oversee the staffing, training, and scheduling of our graphics production staff, ensuring they have the resources and support needed to meet project demands efficiently. You also manage the balance between in-house production and outsourcing, ensuring profitability while encouraging growth and leveraging our team's capabilities.

Another critical aspect of your role is to manage job timelines and deadlines in print and fabric production. This involves anticipating potential challenges, devising creative solutions for unique requests, and ensuring the availability of standard materials. Effective communication with stakeholders throughout the production process is essential, and you maintain a comprehensive workload schedule to facilitate seamless coordination.

Additionally, you provide expertise in graphic production, offering guidance and recommendations to ensure our deliverables exceed client expectations. You will oversee departmental time tracking, manage PTO, maintain file organization, and facilitate ongoing training and skill development initiatives.

Your Skills

• Manage the production and manufacturing of all finished graphics through the graphics production team. 
• Able to provide guidance, direction and continuing education to the graphics team as needed with regards to best production practices. 
• Develop and manage Graphic Production Supervisors and leads as needed.
• Ability to educate project management and engineering management on fabrication methods specific to graphic treatments for GPJ.
• Can evaluate graphic production to forecast appropriate completion date to allow for packaging and shipment of all completed items.
• Understands graphic production methodology, terminology, and effect. 
• Develops and communicates creative solutions that will help achieve desired results. 
• Organizes, tracks, and documents all production items to assure entire production workload for the department has been finished completely.
• Identify areas or methods that could be improved in the graphic production workflow.
• Can manage regular department meetings within graphic production to keep the team current on project workload overall.
• Ability to define and set expectations for production quality as necessary.
• Works well in a deadline-driven and frequently stressful environment.

Your Competencies

Urgency: Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion.

Foster Innovation: Drive, develop, or support new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You constantly challenge yourself to come up with ideas that are on strategy, innovative, and transformative, and authentic to the client's brand.

Forward Thinking: Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate actions in order to prepare for possible contingencies.

Prioritization/Organization: Graphic Production: Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given.

Your Experience

• Experience & Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Graphics Production related field or a minimum of 5 years of industry related experience.
• Experience with print production technology and equipment.
• An ability to communicate clearly and in a timely fashion, including verbally and through written text.
• High competency in graphic design software, including or similar to Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Color theory and management experience. 

Travel, Schedule & Mobility

Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed. 

Ability to travel up to 15%

Your Impact

Leading the physical production of graphic items as the Graphic Production Manager, you will directly shape your team's performance and output. Your role is pivotal in elevating their efficiency, knowledge base, and the quality of their work. Furthermore, you'll be instrumental in refining graphic production processes. 

Through these improvements, you'll directly influence the speed and quality of graphic production, ensuring timely delivery to logistics and ultimately contributing to a positive client experience.

Your efforts will also have an effect on the performance of the graphic production team on the whole.  Efficiency, profitability, and timeliness of delivery are affected by the decisions you make and the actions you take. 

Salary Range: 

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies. 

You read that "employee-owned" part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard... we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more "accruing" time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our low employee contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let's talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.  GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.