5-7 years of experience developing automation scripts for Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
Advanced proficiency in JavaScript/ExtendScript and familiarity with Adobe scripting interfaces.
Experience with Adobe UXP, CEP, or other extensibility technologies.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts.
Experience automating complex workflows involving document and asset manipulation.
Familiarity with software development lifecycle practices and version control systems like Git.
Ability to create comprehensive technical documentation for scripts.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain automation scripts for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Troubleshoot and enhance scripts following application updates and workflow changes.
Automate complex production workflows, including document creation and file processing.
Analyze and refactor existing scripts to improve performance and functionality.
Create technical documentation detailing script architecture and dependencies.
Conduct functional and regression testing of scripts to ensure quality.
Manage project priorities and tasks to meet team standards for quality and responsiveness.
Benefits
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative environment.
Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Access to ongoing training and professional development resources.
Engagement with a diverse range of executive customers and projects.
Participation in a team that values innovation and quality in production.
Full Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Tools Developer to join our technology-based program. The production and development services provide high-quality interactive, mobile, video, web and audio products that concisely convey complex topics to a variety of executive customers. The team manages its own technical cloud-based infrastructure and custom applications and services to support production efforts. The team requires support specializing in Adobe Creative Cloud scripting. The team needs polished skills in communication, teamwork, and collaborative development while managing a moderate to heavy workload.
The Contractor shall use Adobe Creative Cloud Scripting to develop, maintain, troubleshoot, document, and enhance automation scripts supporting Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop production environments.
The Contractor shall develop, modify, debug, test, document, and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts.
The Contractor shall troubleshoot scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates, operating-system changes, changes to source documents, and changes to production workflows, and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative Cloud version changes on existing automation.
The Contractor shall automate complex production workflows involving document creation or modification, graphics and asset manipulation, file processing, and document export.
The Contractor shall analyze existing or legacy Adobe scripts, identify defects or performance issues, and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality.
The Contractor shall develop scripts that interact with web APis, local file systems, directories, and common production file formats.
The Contractor shall create technical documentation describing script architecture, dependencies, configuration, installation, operation, and known limitations.
The Contractor shall develop test cases and conduct functional and regression testing.
The Contractor shall manage project priorities and tasks to ensure accuracy and timeliness, clarity of message, and quality control for products.
The Contractor shall meet team's requirements for quality, responsiveness, and accessibility. The Contractor shall comply with team development standards and employ modern web and application design and development best practices.
The Contractor shall update assigned project statuses in team's production tracking tool.
Required Skills
The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications, and demonstrated experience:
Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining automation scripts for Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
Demonstrated experience specifically developing scripts for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator,
and Adobe Photoshop.
Demonstrated advanced proficiency in JavaScript/ExtendScript and demonstrated experience using Adobe application-specific scripting interfaces and object models.
Demonstrated experience with Adobe UXP, CEP, or other Adobe extensibility technologies.
Demonstrated ability to develop, modify, debug, test, document, and maintain production-quality Adobe scripts.
Demonstrated experience automating complex production workflows involving document creation or modification, graphics and asset manipulation, file processing, and document export.
Demonstrated experience troubleshooting scripts following Adobe Creative Cloud application updates, operating-system changes, changes to source documents, and changes to production workflows, and assessing the impact of Adobe Creative Cloud version changes on existing automation.
Demonstrated ability to analyze existing/legacy Adobe scripts, identify defects or performance issues, and modify or refactor scripts while preserving required functionality.
Demonstrated experience implementing appropriate error handling, validation, logging, and recovery mechanisms in automation scripts.
Demonstrated experience developing scripts that interact with web APis, local file systems, directories, and common production file formats.
Demonstrated experience with software development lifecycle practices, including requirements analysis, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and defect resolution.
Demonstrated experience using source-code/version-control systems such as Git or an equivalent technology.
Demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving production defects within established service or project timelines.
Demonstrated experience developing maintainable, modular, and documented code.
Demonstrated experience creating technical documentation describing script architecture, dependencies, configuration, installation, operation, and known limitations.
Demonstrated experience developing test cases and conduct functional and regression testing.
Desired Skills
Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:
Demonstrated experience with Adobe InDesign Server.
Demonstrated experience with automated build, deployment, or testing processes.
Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale publishing, digital media, graphic production, or prepress environments.
Demonstrated experience maintaining enterprise-level or mission-critical Adobe automation.
Demonstrated experience with sharing of files between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Demonstrated experience with automated generation of graphics, charts and tables for placement in InDesign or Illustrator.
Demonstrated experience with authoring Adobe plugins.
Demonstrated experience with automated processing of linked assets.
Demonstrated experience with coordinating file naming, directory, and asset-management processes.
Demonstrated experience with batch processing across multiple Adobe applications.
Demonstrated experience integrating Adobe scripting with external files or structured data sources.
