Production Designer

YZ Productions; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

YZ Productions in Los Angeles is seeking a Production Designer to join our award-winning digital entertainment brand with over 50 million subscribers across three channels. This hands-on role turns concepts into sets, sources props, dresses locations, and works closely with the Creative Director and producers.

You will manage sets, props, and costumes, coordinate with vendors, and ensure camera-ready spaces under tight production timelines while growing with the company.

Qualifications

• Digital media experience strongly preferred.
• YouTube production experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with fast-paced unscripted, competition, or narrative content is a plus.
• Experience sourcing props, set pieces, costumes, materials, and vendors.
• Experience managing production assistants or small art department teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Turn creative concepts and scripts into sets, environments, props, and practical elements for our videos.
• Design and set-dress locations for challenge and narrative-driven productions.
• Work closely with the Creative Director, Producers, and production team to determine what is needed for each shoot.
• Help determine the visual look and feel of sets while keeping YouTube pacing and camera framing in mind.
• Make sure sets are fully dressed and camera-ready before filming begins.
• Pull, source, purchase, rent, or build props needed for upcoming videos.
• Source costumes and wardrobe pieces when required for specific concepts.
• Manage returns following productions.
• Maintain and organize existing props, costumes, furniture, and reusable production assets.
• Look for opportunities to reuse or repurpose existing materials before purchasing new items.
• Handle art department production runs and last-minute sourcing when necessary.
• Coordinate with vendors, prop houses, rental companies, fabricators, and other outside resources.
• Help manage builds and installations for larger production concepts.
• Troubleshoot problems quickly when creative concepts change or unexpected issues arise.
• Source and coordinate Production Assistants and additional art department support as needed for weekly productions.
• Make sure the appropriate crew is scheduled based on the size and complexity of each shoot.
• Oversee setup, set dressing, resets, and strike.
• Keep the art department organized and running efficiently throughout production.
• Work within approved art department budgets for each video.
• Track purchases, rentals, returns, and production expenses.
• Keep production spaces, props, materials, and inventory organized.
• Maintain relationships with reliable vendors and production resources.
• Help build systems that allow the department to prepare for multiple videos at the same time.

Skills

Creative

Resourceful

Organized

On-set presence

Set dressing

Job description

Driver’s License and reliable transportation REQUIRED

Prior YouTube experience STRONGLY PREFERRED

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and highly resourceful Production Designer to join the team behind an award-winning digital entertainment brand with more than 50 million subscribers across three channels.

Our content is a mix of family-friendly challenges, competitions, transformations, and narrative-driven videos. You will work closely with our creative and production teams to help create some of the highest-performing YouTube content in the world.

This is a very hands-on position. We’re looking for someone who can take an idea from a creative meeting and figure out how to actually make it happen — whether that means designing a set, sourcing props, dressing a location, making a Home Depot run, finding a fabricator, or solving a problem on set.

No two weeks look exactly the same.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Production Design

• Turn creative concepts and scripts into sets, environments, props, and practical elements for our videos.
• Design and set-dress locations for challenge and narrative-driven productions.
• Work closely with the Creative Director, Producers, and production team to determine what is needed for each shoot.
• Help determine the visual look and feel of sets while keeping YouTube pacing and camera framing in mind.
• Make sure sets are fully dressed and camera-ready before filming begins.

Props & Costumes

• Pull, source, purchase, rent, or build props needed for upcoming videos.
• Source costumes and wardrobe pieces when required for specific concepts.
• Manage returns following productions.
• Maintain and organize existing props, costumes, furniture, and reusable production assets.
• Look for opportunities to reuse or repurpose existing materials before purchasing new items.

Art Department Production

• Handle art department production runs and last-minute sourcing when necessary.
• Coordinate with vendors, prop houses, rental companies, fabricators, and other outside resources.
• Help manage builds and installations for larger production concepts.
• Troubleshoot problems quickly when creative concepts change or unexpected issues arise.

Crew & Shoot Support

• Source and coordinate Production Assistants and additional art department support as needed for weekly productions.
• Make sure the appropriate crew is scheduled based on the size and complexity of each shoot.
• Oversee setup, set dressing, resets, and strike.
• Keep the art department organized and running efficiently throughout production.

Budget & Organization

• Work within approved art department budgets for each video.
• Track purchases, rentals, returns, and production expenses.
• Keep production spaces, props, materials, and inventory organized.
• Maintain relationships with reliable vendors and production resources.
• Help build systems that allow the department to prepare for multiple videos at the same time.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Creative and visually driven
• Extremely resourceful and a strong problem solver
• Comfortable working under fast production timelines
• Highly organized
• Able to manage multiple upcoming shoots simultaneously
• Comfortable sourcing, shopping, building, organizing, and being physically present on set
• Able to communicate clearly with creative and production teams
• Comfortable managing PAs, freelancers, vendors, and outside resources
• Excited about YouTube and digital-first entertainment
• Interested in growing with the company and taking on more responsibility over time

EXPERIENCE

• Digital media experience strongly preferred
• YouTube production experience strongly preferred
• Experience with fast-paced unscripted, competition, challenge, or narrative content is a plus
• Experience sourcing props, set pieces, costumes, materials, and vendors
• Experience managing production assistants or small art department teams is a plus

REQUIREMENTS

• Valid Driver’s License
• Reliable transportation
• Ability to work in-person in the Northridge/Los Angeles area
• Ability to travel locally for production runs, sourcing, and shoots
• Flexibility with production schedules and shoot days
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly

THE RIGHT PERSON

This isn't a position for someone who wants to sit behind a desk and only design.

We want someone who can hear:

“We need to turn this room into a secret underground bunker by Friday.”

…and immediately start figuring out how we're going to pull it off.

If you're creative, organized, resourceful, and excited by the challenge of making ambitious ideas happen quickly, we'd love to hear from you.