Design Lead

Summary of Duties:

• Primary Focus on Branding and Product Design: Lead the development of creative concepts for branding, packaging, and product design, ensuring alignment with the overall brand strategy while leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-assisted creative tools, to enhance ideation and production workflows.

• AI-Enhanced Design Workflow: Integrate AI-powered tools and generative technologies into the design process to accelerate concept exploration, visual development, and production efficiency while maintaining creative standards.

• Lead and Drive Company-wide Design Initiatives: Lead company-wide design initiatives by driving creative solutions across departments, extending beyond branding and product design to encompass marketing, digital content, and multimedia projects.

• Collaboration with Creative Director: Partner closely with the Creative Director to deliver a high volume of motion and still graphics, ensuring all design work supports broader creative goals and aligns seamlessly with video and TV production

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  Innovative Design Solutions: Explore and implement modern design techniques, including AI-assisted creative tools and emerging digital technologies, to keep visuals fresh, relevant, and competitive.

• Flexibility in Creative Exploration: While focusing on product and branding, contribute to other creative areas, including motion graphics, visual storytelling, and AI-augmented content development as opportunities arise.

Responsibilities:

• Develop packaging and branding materials that reflect and evolve the brand’s aesthetic.

• Design promotional assets for marketing campaigns and product launches across digital and print platforms.

• Utilize illustration, Photoshop compositing, and 3D modeling for toy design and related projects.

• Leverage AI-assisted tools for concept generation, mood boards, visual exploration, and rapid prototyping while maintaining creative direction and brand consistency.

• Create cross-platform content, including motion graphics and short-form visual assets, to support marketing and digital storytelling.

• Lead brainstorming sessions and contribute creative concepts, including exploring AI-driven workflows to expand creative possibilities.

• Prepare production-ready files, ensuring all assets meet quality standards, technical specifications, and brand guidelines.

• Stay current with design trends, AI developments in creative industries, and emerging technologies that can enhance efficiency and innovation.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while delivering high-quality work on schedule.

Qualifications:

• BA degree in Graphic Design is preferred; however, relevant work experience will be considered.

• Minimum 5 years of professional design experience in branding, product design, or related creative fields.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in motion graphics, animation, and visual storytelling.

• Expert in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and workflows (such as generative design, AI image tools, or AI-assisted editing).

• Expert knowledge of Avid Express, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Animate, and Cinema 4D is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

• Attention to detail, ability to multitask, and strong problem-solving skills.

• Ability to deliver quality final products under tight deadline pressures.

• Experience working with high-profile brands/Talent.

**Examples of work or a portfolio is needed via Behance, Deviantart, one’s own website, or Linked-in profile will suffice

Salary Range: $110,000 - $120,000 per year

Work Location: This is an on-site position. Candidates must be able to work from our Burbank office during scheduled work hours.

About The Nacelle Company:

Founded by Brian Volk Weiss, The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes feature and documentary films as well as TV shows – both scripted and unscripted. Nacelle’s vast array of partnerships include: Netflix, Amazon, Disney +, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Hulu, Viacom, and many more. The Nacelle Company has produced the hit Netflix docu-series, Down To Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, as well as Behind The Attraction for Disney +, Sony’s Mad About You reboot, Netflix’s How To Fix A Drug Scandal, Netflix’s Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History, All The Way Black for BET+, and Grant for The History Channel.

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to Diversity and Inclusion.

We adhere to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance.