Creative Production Design Manager

About the role

Location: Los Angeles, CA • Type: W2 Contract • Duration: Ongoing • Compensation Range: $100-120/HR

We are seeking a Contractor, Manager, Production Design to join our client's brand creative studio. This is a senior individual contributor role within the production design team, responsible for driving high-quality, systems-led creative execution across multiple business functions, including Corporate Communications, Experiences, Ads Marketing, Performance Marketing, and the Brand. This role reflects a creative agency and design studio model of visual design meets production design tooling and workflow expertise, where the focus is on translating brand strategy and design systems into high quality presentation design. You will operate as a hands-on design expert-owning complex workstreams end-to-end, elevating the quality and consistency of production output. You will partner closely with the Senior Manager, Production Design and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure work is executed with clarity, craft, and operational rigor. This is a strictly individual contributor role focused primarily on direct design execution and production workstreams. A strong portfolio demonstrating visual design and systems thinking, high-volume execution, and brand-led production, with a focus on presentation design work is required.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive production design across complex, high-volume workstreams, with a focus on presentations for executive stakeholders. Some additional work may include lower-funnel marketing assets, campaign toolkits, and sales materials.
• Bridge elevated visual craft with production efficiency.
• Develop daring, high-impact visual concepts from open-ended briefs, while maintaining brand design system consistency and technical scalability across platforms.
• Translate brand design systems, toolkits, and creative direction into scalable production frameworks that support speed, consistency, and quality across teams and partners.
• Serve as a hands-on design lead, producing work directly, while also elevating the output of the broader production design team.
• Help establish best practices and craft quality benchmarks that raise the bar for design output across the team.
• Act as a trusted creative partner to teams across Corporate Comms, Brand, Experiences, and Ads Marketing, supporting a wide range of outputs from performance marketing and physical environments to executive communications.
• Lead presentation design for high-visibility needs where clarity, consistency, and brand expression are critical.
• Ensure work is fit-for-purpose across audiences and channels, while maintaining alignment with the brand standards.
• Uphold high standards of design quality across all production outputs, including executive-facing and external presentation materials.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve workflows, systems, and templates to increase efficiency and consistency while raising the creative bar.
• Stay current on best practices in production design, creative operations, and design tooling.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in