Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages. The Art & Design Assistant role is essential for supplying materials to Adult imprints, handling tasks such as clearing permissions, managing invoices, and coordinating with various departments.
Responsibilities
- Clearing permissions, negotiating fees and appropriating rights for artwork and photography. Strong communication skills with colleagues, other departments and clients/freelancers/artists is necessary
- Issuing purchase orders and FED forms, tracking and processing invoices, and archiving records
- Trouble shooting with accounts payable for freelancer payments
- Strong tracking skills for finding art ownership that is archival or found online
- Working with our legal department to approve art usage
- Negotiating and clearing art with movie studios
- Creating 3D mock ups for Sales and Publicity
- Supplying Sales, Ad/Promo, Subrights, Marketing and Editorial with covers and files
- Managing the information on the DAM and the weekly Art Update that feeds to all Adult imprints
- Working with the Digital and POD groups to keep our covers up to date and cleared in a timely fashion. Tracking rights of archival covers
- Managing design and art credit information and font clearances on covers
- Inputting production jacket/cover effects in TMM server
- Photo and Art research
- Managing and assigning art department mechanical routings
- Overseeing the supplemental presentation for Sales Conferences which requires basic Indesign, Acrobat and Photoshop skills
- Coordinating and recording Jacket meetings
- General Ad Min support: Manage/order art and office supplies, schedule meetings, filing, retrieving, and back up of cover art files
Skills
- Strong communication skills with colleagues, other departments and clients/freelancers/artists
- Strong tracking skills for finding art ownership that is archival or found online
- Basic Indesign, Acrobat and Photoshop skills
- Photo and Art research experience
- General administrative support skills including managing/order art and office supplies, scheduling meetings, filing, retrieving, and back up of cover art files
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance coverage
- Disability benefits
- Tuition assistance program
- PTO
- Broad Based Ownership program
Company Overview
Simon and Schuster is one of the leading book publishers in the world with a diverse, wide-ranging list of books and authors. It was founded in 1924, and is headquartered in New York, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.simonandschuster.com/.
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