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

When you’re a part of our team, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit team in our stores. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local  law.  At Home is committed to knitting diversity and inclusion into the fabric of our culture; we respect, appreciate and celebrate the experiences and qualities that differentiate everyone on the At Home team.