Production Designer

The Production Designer supports the Sr. Production Manager, with a strong focus on the customer experience in our fast-growing fleet of stores, and ecommerce platform. They are a digital design expert working with the entire creative and project management team to produce customer facing marketing materials across multiple channels. Key roles and responsibilities include:

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

• Is a key production design and creative resource providing support as needed for print, email, website, social, HTML5, digital advertising, store signage and media projects for a $50+ million marketing spend.

• Build print ready mechanicals, processing data for inputs (Mail Merge – Photoshop/ Data Merge – InDesign)

• Helps manage workflow and creative production for the entire creative department, including the studio and outside agency teams.

• Works with the most advanced digital automation and AI tools to expedite creation, versioning and refinement of creative assets.

• Receives job requests from Sr. Production Manager, project managers, merchandising inputs and requirements and interprets and produces leveraging internal and external resources as needed.

• Manages standards, process, versioning, delivery and distribution for finished projects.

• Troubleshoots and provides innovative solutions to production inefficiencies to ensure that all work is high quality and that the process is always improving.

• Collect, preflight and final files for delivery.

• Advises outside and inside resources and is the technical resource and go-to for the entire department.
  

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Efficiently manages the delivery and execution of the content created via a $1+ million-dollar production budget.

• Manages files, metadata and delivery for 1000’s of photos and videos to support digital, catalog, online, print, TV, social and media needs.

• Manages photo studio retouching, planning, on set production, digital tech, file management and other roles as needed.

• Manages the outputs of product turn-in, shot lists and the asset master lists for shoots and ensures that the information is managed efficiently.

• Ensures the organization’s content is organized and executed to accomplish the goals of business across all activities and channels.

• Manages the post-production, delivery, organization and execution of creative including photography influencer content and social media assets.

• Assists in the management of digital asset management (DAM) systems, naming conventions, standards and processes to continue to support the teams’ needs.
  

  REQUIREMENTS

• Industry experience in print production

• Near-expert level of understanding with the following Adobe Creative Cloud applications: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Figma and Acrobat.

• Working knowledge of After Effects, Premiere Pro and Animate

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• Bonus points for working knowledge of JavaScript, AppleScript, Python, HTML5

• Experience in a digital space – web, email, organic social and paid media

• Experience in prompting AI tools such as Chat GPT, Midjourney and Firefly

• Experience with digital automation and versioning tools

• Experience in processing print files for press (preflight, QC, etc.)

• Experience in working with die lines in print

• Knowledge of image formats, file compression, and optimization

• Problem solver, detail oriented, organized and the ability to handle multiple projects at one time