[Hiring] Terms of Reference: Layout and Production Designer @NESsT Inc

Role Description

NESsT is seeking an independent consultant or design studio to develop the visual concept, editorial layout, and final production files for a premium, photography-driven coffee table book featuring human-centered stories, enterprise profiles, and impact data. The selected designer will transform these materials into a cohesive publication for print and digital distribution.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional publication or editorial design experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign and relevant Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
• Strong experience with complete, long-form, multi-section print publications.
• Demonstrated ability to use typography, photography, pacing, and page composition to create a cohesive editorial narrative.
• Experience with photography-intensive publications, information design, commercial printing, color management, prepress, and production-file preparation.
• Strong attention to detail, file management, quality control, deadline management, and ability to work with a distributed international team.
• Applicants must demonstrate substantial experience designing complete, long-form print publications.

Requirements

• Develop a cohesive visual and editorial design system, including representative layouts.
• Design the complete 80–120-page publication, including covers, front and back matter, chapter openings, longform stories, profiles, photo-led spreads, and impact pages.
• Integrate NESsT-supplied photography, captions, credits, impact data, and brand assets.
• Create a limited number of simple publication-ready charts, maps, timelines, statistics, and callouts using approved NESsT data.
• Flow and copyfit the approved English manuscript and incorporate revisions through formal review checkpoints.
• Prepare final print-ready and digital files.
• This assignment excludes substantive writing, copyediting, translation, photography commissioning, extensive image research or retouching, printing, physical proofs, shipping, and interactive digital formats.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity.
• Encouragement for applicants based in Latin America and Central & Eastern Europe.

Company Description

NESsT is an equal-opportunity organization committed to a fair and inclusive selection process. We welcome proposals from applicants of all genders and diverse backgrounds and evaluate applicants based on the skills and experience relevant to the assignment.