设计师
Designer
W. W. Norton 正在寻找一位多才多艺的设计师，能够熟练处理数字产品和传统印刷产品，加入其数字出版、制作和设计团队。该团队为 Norton 的教育出版部门制作电子书、纸质书籍和媒体内容。
设计师的职责涵盖多种教科书项目的平面设计，包括电子书和互动内容、纸质排版、图表艺术和视频图形。设计师需要与编辑、数字制作和纸质制作等多个团队密切合作，为学生和教师创建清晰、吸引人且易于访问的学习材料。
候选人应具备扎实的视觉设计技能，对可访问性数字用户体验原则有深入理解，并能在以截止日期为导向的出版环境中管理多个项目。
该职位向大学设计创意总监汇报工作。
**主要工作职责包括：**
- 在创意总监和团队高级成员的指导下，为大学电子书和复杂纸质书籍创建设计。
- 为电子书和相关互动资源开发图表艺术规范。
- 确保数字和纸质格式均符合可访问性设计标准。
- 审核电子书和纸质页面，确保符合设计标准，包括数字格式中的 CSS/HTML 和纸质规格。
- 根据需要，对高中版和教师版书籍和电子书设计进行调整。
- 向主管汇报每个项目的状态；优先安排日程，解决问题并按时完成任务。
- 与设计团队、编辑、数字制作人员、制作经理、艺术工作室和自由职业者协作。
- 与项目启用团队协调，确保项目按计划进行，解决流程和范围障碍，并识别关键依赖关系。
- 按需参加制作、编辑和其他项目会议。
- 按指派提供其他任务的一般性协助。
请注意：此职位描述并非涵盖员工所需的所有活动。
**所需资格条件：**
- 3-5 年专业设计经验，教育出版、数字学习、用户体验设计或相关领域优先。
- 文学学士学位或同等经验。
- 在线作品集，展示以用户为中心的设计、数字产品、印刷设计、排版系统和信息层级方面的经验。
查看英文原文
W. W. Norton is seeking a versatile Designer with fluency in digital products and traditional print products to join its Digital Publishing, Production, and Design group. This group produces ebooks, print books, and media for Norton’s educational publishing departments.
The Designer role is responsible for a wide range of texbook project designs across both digital and print formats, including ebook and interactive content, print layouts, figure art, and video graphics. Designers collaborate closely with various teams, including editorial, digital production, and print production, to create clear, engaging, and accessible learning materials for students and instructors.
Candidates should bring strong visual design skills, a solid understanding of accessible digital user experience principles, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven publishing environment.
This position reports to the Creative Director of College Design.
**Essential Job Responsibilities Include:**
- Create designs for college ebooks and complex print books with guidance from the Creative Director and senior members of the team.
- Develop figure art specifications for ebooks and related interactive assets.
- Ensure adherence to accessible design standards for both digital and print formats.
- Review ebooks and print page passes to ensure adherence to design standards, including CSS/HTML in digital formats and print specifications.
- Adapt book and ebook designs for high school editions and instructor editions, as needed.
- Keep supervisors informed of each project’s status; prioritize schedules, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
- Collaborate with the design team, editors, digital producers, production managers, art studios, and freelancers.
- Coordinate with project enablement team to keep projects on schedule, resolve process and scope blockers, and identify critical dependencies.
- Attend production, editorial, and other project meetings, as needed.
- Provide general assistance with other tasks as assigned.
_Please note- this job description is not designed to cover all activities required of the employee._
**Required Qualifications:**
- 3-5 years of professional design experience, preferably in educational publishing, digital learning, UX design, or related fields.
- Bachelor of Arts or equivalent experience.
- Online portfolio demonstrating experience with user-centered design, digital products, print design, layout systems, and information hierarchy.
- Experience designing for ebooks, websites, learning platforms, or other digital reading and instructional experiences.
- Working knowledge of UX principles, accessibility best practices and standards such as WCAG, responsive design, and interaction patterns for educational content.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and familiarity with design, prototyping, or collaboration tools such as Figma or similar platforms.
- Employment eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.
- Must be able to work full business hours.
- Ability to interpret editorial goals and translate complex content into clear, engaging, and usable visual designs.
**Compensation and Benefits***
- Salary range: $60-65K. All salaries and salary ranges posted by Norton may vary depending on experience, skills, location, and considerations.
- Generous paid time off, paid holidays, and summer Friday afternoons beginning in July
- Generous health benefits, including PPO, EPO, and High Deductible (with HSA) medical insurance options, vision insurance, dental insurance, flexible spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care and commuter, gym membership reimbursement, and more. Coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependent children is available.
- Profit-Sharing and 401(k) benefit plan with discretionary contribution matching by employer
- Disability and life insurances
- FMLA, parental and other leave
- Employee Assistance Program (for mental health, financial planning, and other needs)
- Company-provided laptop
- Employee discounts on Norton books
- Limited matching of employee donations to select non-profit organizations
_*All policies and benefits described are subject to change at any time._