The Director of Art and Production designs, supervises, and unifies CPM’s visual communications ensuring all marketing materials and curriculum products reflect the CPM corporate identity and brand. They will establish project objectives, research current trends and the target demographic, and design and troubleshoot the visual aspects of curriculum or an ad campaign including print & digital, from the initial planning stages until the finished campaign is presented. Possess an understanding of graphic design concepts and software and excellent interpersonal skills.

Who we are

CPM Educational Program is a non-profit educational company that writes and self-publishes mathematics curriculum for middle through high school and professional learning for educators and administrators. We also support mathematics education research. We are committed to providing meaningful math content along with purposeful teacher support to empower all students to become mathematically confident in the world today.

CPM Educational Program is committed to being an open-minded, inclusive organization that embraces diversity and values underrepresented voices and experiences. CPM Educational Program is an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, sexual identity, disability, or any other protected status.

CPM Educational Program knows that diversity generates better ideas, inspires creativity, and is essential to building a positive workplace. As an employer of choice we hire and retain the best employees by valuing differences, creating a collaborative work environment, and providing career development opportunities.

In this role you will:

1. Collaborate on the ideation and development of public-facing innovative marketing campaigns and the materials containing the educational content.
2. Communicate and coordinate across the organization to develop visual style guides that align with intent.
3. Responsible for managing and supporting a team of graphic designers to bring concepts, presentations, and prototypes to life on schedule. Ensure that project schedules accurately support the art department needs.
4. Maintain CPM identity templates and all production files.
5. Coordinate with the leadership team on new/upcoming projects and marketing strategy/production schedule.
6. Responsible for supporting print production, including coordinating with manufacturers and printers, to prepare production files to specification and file transmission, review and change pages either directly or by delegation.
7. Works closely with the Director of Strategic Communications.
8. Strong conceptual, graphic design, type, and page layout skills for projects including print and digital.
9. Stay on top of the latest standards, processes, and trends in the visual design field.
10. Responsible for art representation at all pre-production meetings for projects including photoshoots, video editing, broadcast, and fulfillment.
11. Manage tasks, track approaching deadlines ensuring they are met, balance priorities, and communicate with other departments.

Your Well-Being at Work 

• Medical: Covers full premiums for employees and partial for dependent(s). Includes a High-Deductible Health Plan paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), featuring fixed contributions per pay period into employee HSA accounts.
• Dental and Vision: Covers part of dental and vision premiums for employees.
• Life and Disability Insurance: Fully covers term life insurance and long-term disability insurance. Employees may opt for short-term disability coverage through post-tax payroll deductions.
• Health and Flexible Savings Accounts (HSA/FSA): Includes employer contributions to HSA, with voluntary employee funding options. FSA provides pre-tax deduction benefits for eligible expenses funded by the employee.
• Paid Leave: Provides generous personal leave accruals based on years of service for full-time employees. Sick leave is provided to all full-time employees, while part-time employees in states with mandated sick leave laws also receive sick leave. Volunteerism leave is accessible to full-time employees after completing one year of service.
• Holidays: Includes office closures for major holidays and includes a winter break from December 22 to January 4.
• Retirement Savings: Matches employee 401(k) contributions up to 5% once eligibility requirements are met.
• Phone/Internet Reimbursement: Offers a flat reimbursement for employee phone/internet expenses.
• The Extras: Provides additional perks, such as discounts and services for laser vision correction, hearing aids, EAP, teeth whitening, travel assistance, will preparation, legal document drafting, and identity theft awareness and prevention.