Sundance… A Place. An Idea. Celebrating and Enriching the Human Experience.

Sundance was founded in 1969 by Robert Redford when he purchased land at the base of beautiful 12,000-foot Mount Timpanogos in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. This pristine place became the Sundance Village, and at the base of the Village was a tiny store. Guests would frequently write letters to the store requesting special items they had seen while visiting Sundance, and thus the idea for Sundance Catalog was born.

It started small. Robert Redford called together a few of his colleagues to discuss starting a mail-order catalog to fill these requests and to make Sundance's unique items available to a wider audience. The first edition of Sundance Catalog was mailed in 1989, and since that first catalog, it remains the Sundance vision to share "the kinds of things that we have been privileged to collect, many of them handcrafted exclusively for Sundance."​ 

As Sundance has grown, we have remained rooted in the richness and diversity of the American experience. When you purchase something from Sundance, we appreciate the fact that the prime reason is enjoyment for yourself. But you are also supporting American craftspeople and efforts to enhance and preserve the artistic spirit.

Beginning with the first catalog mailed in 1989, Robert Redford has penned a special message that appears on the inside front cover of every edition. And, in the words of Robert Redford, "To us, Sundance is and always will be a dream. What you see, smell, taste and feel here is a dream being carefully nurtured. It is an area whose pledge is to people. What we offer in the form of art and culture, spirit and service, is homegrown and available to all."

The Digital Design Assistant is a proactive, multi-tasker with a “can-do” attitude. This position requires the ability to produce initial layouts for all digital efforts (specifically relating to all drops for all seasonal catalogs as they launch on the website. This position manages the creation and routing of packets for approvals and meetings, makes minor edits to files and other duties as assigned to help the Digital Design Associates. Must be flexible, with the sense that changes are inevitable and must be addressed head-on. Must have the ability to follow Sundance schedules, calendars and adhere to the yearly production schedule. As a member of the Sundance Digital Design team, the Digital Design Assistant may also be asked to design minor projects and help catalog print and marketing teams as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with the initial creation of digital design assets for seasonal marketing emails, website creative and homepages for all catalog, special offers and inserts, chapters and specialty and holiday shops.
• Participate in reviewing cadence of emails, homepages, landing pages and social creative prior to presentation and launch.
• Collaborate on project details with Digital Design Associate(s) including initial product placements on emails and site creative.
• Assist in creating designs and mockups for index headers and all related assets, crop, extend and help manage implementation and ranking of masonry images and products on index pages for Featured shops; as requested.
• Create routings, QC packets and approval packets. Make minor design edits. Assure the integrity of projects is maintained when edits are requested from the CEO, CMO, VP of Creative, AD and QC and inventory reviews.
• Additional tasks that may be required/requested: Place appropriate photography, copy and font application to creative assets. Create packet for, and meet as requested with, VP of Jewelry and Home to make jewelry selections for online jewelry presence and jewelry and home adjacencies on gateways, emails, specialty pages, etc. Place copy from copywriter, marketing and/or AD into pre-final designs. Place images into template for weekly homepage updates. Hand off final, approved files to digital production team. Create and manage distribution of OLO shot sheets for review and approval.
• Adhere to all deadlines or proactively bring to light any issues with upcoming deadlines.
• Ensure digital photography requests are being communicated and submitted properly and on time to the Studio Manager; including file names; product information and meeting deadlines.
• Participate in creative, marketing and merchandising brainstorming of seasonal themes, shops and stories; helping with implementation to the website and across emails.
• Audit seasonal customer-facing site creative and emails: ensure spelling, linking and color presentations are accurate.
• Attend meetings related to digital asset creation and schedules: Seasonal meetings.
• Assist in finding editorial and archived, abstract photography and design files. Help solve storage issues, provide information and suggest improvements. Bring to light issues as they arise.
• Help digital creative, production and marketing teams with problem solving and be proactive with upcoming project strategies.
• Support for all website designers in asset creation as needed.
• Suggest new template ideas, elements and customer experiences.
• Be a backup as needed for creative print team including asset management, etc.

• Associates degree in web design, graphic design, or similar. Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• 1+ years of related experience working with digital assets for either web or graphic/print production
• Extensive knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
• Graphic design experience a plus
• Knowledge of typography, including but not limited to: kerning, tracking, spacing, as well as the ability to research new fonts for appropriate communications
• Good working knowledge of InDesign, Acrobat, Dropbox, WorkFront, Slack, Illustrator, and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience in website design or production across multiple devices and platforms including bootstrap and responsive sites, a plus

If you would like to be part of a great team, are ready to take on a challenge and make a difference within our company, apply today. We offer a competitive wage and excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), paid time off, and great merchandise discounts.