Book Designer

Description:

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with our print publishing team to create best-in-class book designs that inspire, guide, and excite travel lovers of all kinds from around the world.

• Present and share work with cross-functional teams while clearly communicating design rationale rooted in an understanding of the target audience.

• Expand our current design style by creating unique designs specifically catered to the category, content, and consumer of each product, and according to design trends.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience in illustrated and nonfiction trade book design and paper product design, as demonstrated in a portfolio of your work. Your portfolio should convey your ability to design for a variety of target audiences.
• Thorough understanding of print production and experience preparing design files and assets for print.
• Deep knowledge of Adobe InDesign best practices including fluency with type styles, parent pages, management of links, and importing coded manuscripts.
• Experience in stock imagery sourcing and ability to select images that are creative, accurate, and on-brand.
• Ability to analyze and interpret market trends and other external sources to identify design and product opportunities.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects, set expectations and work individually and/or collaboratively across teams.
• Experience in art directing freelance designers and illustrators, and ideally your own network of freelancers to tap into.
• A love for what you do and the ability to have fun and bring a positive attitude to a team of hardworking people.
• Passion for travel.