Pratt Industries is hiring: Designer in Atlanta

Senior Designer

Personal Skills:

• Excellent Communication Skills
• Able to grasp big picture marketing/sales strategy, breakdown into manageable tasks, and execute
• Support internal design requests for materials to ensure quality and brand consistency
• Creatively interpret concepts and/or data into representative solutions
• Must be able to lead, support and direct peers towards the end goal/solution
• Superior organizational skills
• Must have the ability to convey concepts and design through layouts and effective written and verbal communication along with strong business and analytical skills
• Ability to work creatively in a team
• Ability to independently manage projects by establishing and managing to project schedules

Primary Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly creative and experienced Senior Designer to join our team. This position will manage, create, develop and execute high level design initiatives. Ideally, this candidate l is both graphically inclined as well as knowledgeable in product design, development and innovation. This position will have insight into day-to-day design responsibilities, but will focus on the big picture opportunities with both our commercial sales teams and our R&D team. Our ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, a hands-on creator and capable of leading team members and projects from concept to final execution. As a Senior Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our brand's visual narrative across digital, print, and immersive platforms, while also contributing to the development of new products, assortments, optimization and innovation. As a senior and experienced individual, we also ask that you are willing and capable of mentoring and leading our junior designer while pushing the boundaries of our creative output.

Specific role opportunities and initiatives include but are not limited to:

1. Customer Specific Item Pitches - provide innovative branding, packaging, product, point of purchase solutions for current and prospective customers.
2. Assortment Refreshes - Improve upon existing product sets to exceed current market trends (branding, organizing & optimizing).
3. Product Redesign - Research and develop our existing products with improvements to standard functions, cost saving opportunities, shelf presence, etc.
4. New Category Development - Ideate and execute new product ideas in new markets.
5. Omni Channel - Help define PRS big picture omni experience using content, technology and in-store use of space.
6. Digital Merchandising - Create and manage cutting edge, informative and consistent brand identities for our .com content across our retail partners.
7. Innovation - Create and develop market leading, cutting edge retail solutions.
8. Leadership/Collaboration - Work cross functionally with structure and art groups when support is needed to drive overarching initiatives.
9. Communication - Use computer aided programs, sketches, prototypes or verbal cues to easily communicate ideas to our internal teams.
10. Problem-Solving - Identify problems within the manufacturing process and devise solutions to improve the product, the labor or cost.
11. Decision Making - Analyze information and make informed decisions as quickly as possible.

Education, Experience, and Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's degree - preferably in industrial/product design, graphic arts, or packaging design
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a design related field
• Specialized training in Adobe Design Suite required
• Knowledgeable of Blender 3D or related 3D modeling software
• Proficiency Google Apps required

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear and sit and stand. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Requirements:

Pratt is America's 5th largest corrugated packaging company and the world's largest, privately-held producer of 100% recycled containerboard, with more than 9000 highly-skilled, green-collar employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt was founded in the USA more than 30 years ago and, since then, has shown dramatic growth with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than 27 states.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance