Production Designer

Kettle; San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin (CA, CA, OR, TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettle is seeking Production Designers in the San Francisco area to create pixel-perfect design files in collaboration with Visual Designers and Art Directors. This team thrives on speed, quality, and adaptability across projects.

Roles require onsite presence 5 days per week for 2-3 months on specific projects, with periods of remote work elsewhere. Candidates should excel with Figma/Sketch, Photoshop, and building responsive assets for banners, emails, and landing pages.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Figma and Sketch, plus Photoshop.
• Experience building responsive websites.
• Ability to work with HTML and CSS syntax.
• Excellent communication for coordinating large teams.

Responsibilities

• Clean up design files and convert designs into templates across viewports.
• Produce a large volume of banners, emails, landing pages on a consistent pace.
• Ensure pixel perfection, correct asset links, organized layers and naming.
• Update existing designs with glyphs, icons, and image swaps as needed.
• Create spec documentation to explain design intent.
• Guide the team to create own-able client experiences with clear UX and art direction.

Skills

Figma/Sketch

Adobe Photoshop

Responsive websites

HTML syntax

Portfolio of banners, emails, landing-

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Photoshop

HTML/CSS

Job description

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Austin TX

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

Production Designers at Kettle create pixel-perfect digital design files in partnership with our Visual Designers and Art Directors, and the wider creative and production teams. Our Production Design team is a highly skilled, fast, and flexible group dedicated to design excellence.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Candidates should have:

• Advanced knowledge of Figma/Sketch and Adobe Photoshop; bonus if you have experience in building responsive websites or working with HTML syntax
• Proactive communication skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects with large and variable teams simultaneously
• The ability to follow design systems and adapt to varying requirements technical specifications
• A portfolio of strong digital design, with examples of banners, emails, and landing pages at various viewport sizes

We’d like to know that you can:

• Clean up design files and convert designs into templates at various viewport sizes based off of an original design
• Produce a large volume of banners, emails, and landing pages at a consistent pace, with minimal direction and oversight
• Ensure every pixel is in the correct place, all assets are linked, layers and groups are organized, and files are named correctly
• Confidently update existing designs not requiring creative input (glyphs, icons, copy, image swaps)
• Create spec documentation so other teams understand design intent
• Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear innovative UX, beautiful art direction and on-point tone & voice

The target range of compensation for this role is $65k - $110k and accommodates multiple levels. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.