Quality Control Specialist (Proofreader)

1 Month ago • 2-3 Years

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Job Description

As a Quality Control Specialist (Proofreader), you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of all creative assets produced by the team. You will work closely with designers and visual artists to ensure that all assets are delivered without errors. You will also be responsible for monitoring production compliance to provided standards and guidelines, checking for copy alignment, spelling, technical specification alignment, and technical errors on any output produced. You will communicate errors and expected results clearly through written reports. You will also attend daily and weekly meetings with production and post-production teams to gather QC requirements. You will monitor JIRA, e-mail inbox and communication channels for incoming work and report QC project status to Design Supervisors, Producers, and QA/QC Lead. You will understand production/post-production workflow and advise when errors could be introduced. You will also be responsible for organizing, tracking, and ensuring quality of final files before delivery to trafficking team or clients. You will assist with data ingest and file archival on our various cloud tools and servers alongside the Asset Management team.
Must have:
  • Advanced English level (B2+/C1 reading, writing, and conversation)
  • 2+ years in an advertising agency
  • 3+ years of experience in proofreading/copywriting
  • Strong communication skills
  • Knowledge of editing video and audio in software including Davinci Resolve & Premiere
  • Broad knowledge of Adobe Suite software including but not limited to Photoshop & After Effects
  • Understanding of asset and creative delivery specs and exporting standards for a variety of creative assets
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong sense of catalog organization and file naming convention to manage file storage
  • Keen eye for design principles and strong attention to detail
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's degree in design
Perks:
  • Maternity and parental leave extra days
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • End of year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
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As a Quality Control Specialist, you are an excellent communicator who is able to workclosely with a team of designers and visual artists to ensure assets are successfully delivered without errors. Mitigating risks and managing QC can be challenging, but your organizational and interpersonal skills are up to the test. 

Through working closely with our content creation studios, ArtBot, you have a wholistic view of all the projects to ensure excellent quality control. As a self-starter, you work with the team from a project’s creation, to its archival. You apply your Quality Control skills to production outputs large and small including video executions, mobile applications HTML banners and digital products. You are excited by the fast pace of advertising and work to support the team. 


 

You will

  • Monitor production compliance to provided standards and guidelines. 
  • Check for copy alignment, spelling, technical specification alignment, and technical errors on any output produced. 
  • Communicate errors and expected results clearly through written reports. 
  • Attend daily and weekly meetings with production and post-production teams to gather QC requirements. 
  • Monitor JIRA, e-mail inbox and communication channels for incoming work. 
  • Report QC project status to Design Supervisors, Producers, and QA/QC Lead 
  • Understand production/post-production workflow and advise when errors could be introduced. 
  • Organize, track, and ensure quality of final files before delivery to trafficking team or clients. 
  • Assist with data ingest and file archival on our various cloud tools and servers alongside the Asset Management team

 

You have:

  • Advanced English level (B2+/C1 reading, writing, and conversation). 
  • 2+ years in an advertising agency.
  • 3+ years of experience in proofreading/copywriting 
  • Strong communication skills 
  • Knowledge of editing video and audio in software including Davinci Resolve & Premiere 
  • Broad knowledge of Adobe Suite software including but not limited to Photoshop & After Effects 
  • Understanding of asset and creative delivery specs and exporting standards for a variety of creative assets 
  • Strong organizational skills  
  • Strong sense of catalog organization and file naming convention to manage file storage 
  • Keen eye for design principles and strong attention to detail 
  • Bachelor's degree in design, it's nice to have. 

 

What We Offer:

  • Maternity and parental leave extra days
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • End of year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
  • And more…

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:  

  • Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning  
  • Improve collaboration and team relationships  
  • Increase employee engagement  

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.  

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About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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