Production Design Director

Arthur Elliott; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Arthur Elliott is seeking an experienced, hands-on Production Design Director to support one of our agency's largest client accounts. This role blends hands-on design with leadership of a design team. You will design and produce creative across many projects while coaching designers, managing workflows with Operations, and ensuring deadlines.

This player-coach role values strong production systems and scalable processes. Must be available to work standard business hours in the Eastern Time Zone.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design teams for large client accounts.
• Proven ability to design and produce high-volume creative work.
• Strong production workflow and coaching capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and design across a wide range of client projects.
• Provide creative leadership and mentorship to the design team.
• Balance hands-on design work with team coaching in a fast-paced environment.
• Coordinate with Operations/Traffic to optimize production and meet deadlines.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on design

Team coaching

Job description

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Overview

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Production Design Director to support one of our agency's largest and growing client accounts. This role is designed for a strong designer who enjoys doing the work as much as leading others.

The Production Design Director will spend the majority of their time actively designing and producing creative across a wide variety of projects for this client while also providing creative leadership, coaching and development for a team of designers.

This is not a traditional management-only creative leadership role. The ideal candidate is a highly productive designer who can thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment, manage multiple projects and deadlines, and help other designers strengthen their work. This position is dedicated exclusively to a specific client account.

Workflow & Operations

The Production Design Director works as part of the established production workflow for the assigned client account.

Day-to-day workload, project assignments, production priorities, schedules and team capacity are managed by the Director of Operations/Traffic Manager.

The Production Design Director will partner closely with Operations to ensure work is completed efficiently and deadlines are met. The Production Design Director is expected to manage their assigned workload within this system while balancing their design responsibilities with appropriate coaching and leadership of the design team. Creative leadership and review should support and strengthen the production process without creating unnecessary additional approval steps or bottlenecks.

Success in This Role

Success will mean more than producing strong individual creative work.

The Production Design Director will help increase creative capacity for a major client account while improving the strength and consistency of the entire design team. Over time, we expect this person to help designers become stronger, identify and address recurring creative issues, improve production systems and templates, and ensure that the creative operation can scale effectively as the client business grows.

Most importantly, the successful candidate will remain an active, highly productive member of the design team. This is a player-coach role in which hands-on design and production remain the primary responsibility.

SCHEDULE:

Must be available to work standard business hours in the Eastern Time Zone.

This is a remote position.