Senior Manager, Art Direction & Production

About the role

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500 employees and ~30,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals. The company is focused on AI‑augmented work and continuous learning. The Senior Manager, Art Direction & Production will lead and develop a global team of designers, own the operational backbone of the creative production process, and serve as the primary driver of brand enablement across the organization. This people‑leadership role reports to the Creative Director and works alongside creative copywriting and video leads.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a global team of designers, setting clear expectations, providing consistent creative direction, and fostering a culture of craft, accountability, and professional growth.
• Lead art direction across design deliverables, ensuring all output reflects Cvent’s brand standards and creative quality bar.
• Build team capacity and competency, identifying skill gaps, coaching toward growth, and partnering with the Creative Director on hiring and team development.
• Manage workload distribution, bandwidth planning, and day‑to‑day prioritization across the design team.
• Own and evolve Cvent’s library of brand‑approved templates, asset banks, and design components that enable non‑design teams to produce on‑brand work independently.
• Develop and maintain scalable brand enablement resources including toolkits, style guides, component libraries, and usage documentation.
• Proactively identify where teams are working around brand standards and build solutions that make working in‑brand the path of least resistance.
• Train and educate internal stakeholders on how to correctly apply brand assets, templates, and design best practices.
• Own the production workflow for the design team, including intake, trafficking, versioning, and delivery processes.
• Establish and enforce clear SLAs, asset management conventions, and quality‑control checkpoints that support a high‑volume, high‑quality creative operation.
• Lead the evaluation, adoption, and optimization of design and production tools, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and output quality.
• Partner with the Creative Director and peer creative leads (copy, video) to ensure smooth cross‑discipline production workflows.
• Serve as the team’s resident expert on design best practices, emerging tools, and the intersection of art direction and production efficiency.
• Document and champion repeatable creative standards across formats, channels, and use cases.
• Partner with the Creative Director to uphold and evolve brand creative standards as the brand grows and scales.
• Lead the design team’s adoption of AI‑powered design tools and production technologies, helping the team work smarter and faster without sacrificing creative quality.
• Stay current on emerging creative technologies and proactively recommend tools and workflows that increase team capacity or output quality.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in design, art direction, or creative production, with at least 2–3 years in a people‑management role leading designers.
• Strong art‑direction instincts and a clear point of view on effective design across brand expression and production quality.
• Proven experience building and maintaining scalable brand template systems, asset libraries, and design enablement resources.
• Deep fluency in design and production tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, DAM systems) and a track record of improving team workflow through tool and process optimization.
• Strong organizational and operational skills, with experience managing multi‑project design operations in a high‑volume environment.
• Experience collaborating within a larger creative function, including partnership with copywriting and video leads.
• Clear and direct communication skills, able to translate creative feedback effectively and align stakeholders to design decisions.
• Familiarity with AI‑powered design and production tools, with curiosity about how emerging technology can improve creative operations.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for new hires into this role is $125,000–$160,000 annually, plus bonus depending on factors such as job‑related knowledge, relevant experience, and location.

Benefits

Cvent offers a competitive benefits package (details available on the company careers site).

Note: Sponsorship is not available for this position.