Surface Design Operations Lead

LF Studios / LifeFormations; Blue Ash (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LF Studios in Cincinnati, Ohio is seeking a Surface Design Coordinator to help bring figures and characters to life by coordinating the flow of work across Creative Development, Technical Surface Design, and Mechanical/Engineering teams.

You will ensure design deliverables are organized, complete, and aligned with project schedules, producing clear documentation and facilitating timely hand-offs to Production.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating design schedules, hand-offs, and documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with production workflows and design-to-production hand-offs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate design schedules, priorities, reviews, deliverables, and hand-offs across the Surface Design Department.
• Coordinate hand-offs and exchange of information between Creative Development, Technical Surface Design, and Mechanical/Engineering, tracking dependencies and ensuring each team has the information required to proceed.
• Maintain visibility of active design tasks, upcoming deadlines, client reviews, approvals, and Production hand-offs.
• Identify missing information, unresolved dependencies, schedule conflicts, and overdue deliverables and communicate them to the appropriate team members.
• Work with designers to prepare and compile client design submittals, including models, renderings, drawings, reference information, and other supporting documentation.
• Track client submittals, comments, approvals, revisions, and outstanding action items.
• Assist designers with the preparation, formatting, organization, and revision of drawings and design documentation.
• Work with the Production Designer and assigned designers to compile Character Methodology Sheets, shell drawings, fabrication information, and other Production documentation.
• Coordinate Production hand-offs and ensure required documentation has received the appropriate review before release.
• Maintain organized project records, drawings, revision histories, approvals, and current design documentation.
• Help ensure affected teams are informed when revisions or design decisions impact their work.
• Support department leadership with workload coordination and identification of upcoming resource or scheduling conflicts.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Coordination

Tools

CAD

3D modeling

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office

Job description

LF Studios in Cincinnati, Ohio is seeking a Surface Design Coordinator to help bring figures and characters to life by coordinating the flow of work across Creative Development, Technical Surface Design, and Mechanical/Engineering teams.

You will ensure design deliverables are organized, complete, and aligned with project schedules, producing clear documentation and facilitating timely hand-offs to Production.