Senior Production Designer
Senior Production Designer
Houston-area candidates will work a hybrid schedule.
Remote opportunities are available for candidates located elsewhere in Texas statewide.
Are you the kind of designer who notices the one-pixel alignment issue no one else sees? The color profile that will print wrong? Do you love taking great creative and making sure it leaves the building flawless—while simultaneously solving design problems and creating smart, effective work within established brand systems?
PlatinumBlack is looking for an exceptional Senior Production Designer to join their Houston-based Production Studio team.
This role is equal parts designer, craftsperson and quality guardian. While you'll often partner with designers and art directors to bring larger campaign ideas to life, you'll also originate creative work of your own—developing thoughtful, brand-consistent marketing assets across digital and print channels. You'll work alongside designers, art directors, copywriters, developers, account teams and production specialists to ensure every piece of work that leaves PlatinumBlack is strategically aligned, visually polished and production-ready.
Our client is looking for someone with outstanding design fundamentals, an obsession with detail, and the production expertise to execute confidently across digital and print. Whether designing a new email campaign within an established brand system, preparing files for a national trade show, building HTML5 display ads, refining Figma assets for development or quality-checking a campaign before launch, you'll be one of the final—and most important—sets of eyes and hands on the work.
Their clients are doing big things, like optimizing global supply chains and helping build a more sustainable future. They help tell those stories through thoughtful, beautifully crafted marketing, and they’re looking for someone who believes execution isn't just about getting the details right. It's about creating work that helps businesses grow.
Responsibilities
- Design, refine, and produce a wide variety of digital and print marketing assets, from concept through production-ready execution
- Ensure exceptional quality control across all deliverables through meticulous review of layouts, typography, imagery, alignment, spacing, color and overall file integrity
- Produce and adapt campaign assets efficiently across multiple formats, channels and specifications while maintaining brand consistency
- Partner closely with designers, art directors, copywriters, developers and account teams to bring creative concepts to life with production excellence
- Build and prepare HTML5 digital advertising assets and other interactive deliverables
- Prepare production-ready files for commercial print, digital publishing and large-format applications
- Manage versioning, organization and archival of working files while maintaining production best practices
- Troubleshoot production issues before they become client issues
- Collaborate with developers to ensure design intent is preserved through implementation
- Stay current on evolving production technologies, workflows and automation opportunities, including AI-powered creative tools
- Share production knowledge, best practices and efficiencies with teammates while remaining open to coaching and continuous improvement
- Help uphold PlatinumBlack's standards for craftsmanship, consistency and creative excellence.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of professional production design or production art experience; agency experience strongly preferred
- An online portfolio demonstrating exceptional production craftsmanship across both print and digital work
- Excellent understanding of typography, composition, hierarchy, color theory, layout and visual systems
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat
- Strong proficiency in Figma
- Experience producing HTML5 digital advertising assets
- Extensive knowledge of commercial print production, prepress, color management and file preparation
- Strong understanding of digital production requirements across web, email, social, display advertising and responsive design
- Large-format production experience is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining exceptional accuracy under tight deadlines
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills
- Exceptional attention to detail with a passion for getting every detail right
- Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate across creative, strategy, development and account teams
- Curious, coachable and eager to continuously improve both personal craft and team workflows
- Enthusiastic about emerging AI technologies and interested in leveraging them to improve both creative quality and production efficiency
- Passionate about the role thoughtful design and exceptional execution play in helping businesses grow
About PlatinumBlack
For more than 20 years, we have developed market insights, improved business processes, unraveled complex market landscapes, created award-winning multi-channel marketing and advertising campaigns, and assimilated into 100+ companies. Our success is predicated on helping clients find new growth opportunities and creating the marketing programs that capitalize on them. But we can’t do it without extraordinary teammates. Our culture centers around an entrepreneurial and enterprising spirit–we empower our people to bring their highest value and most audacious ideas to work with them every day. We encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and proactive team players. We are all students, and we are all teachers. As such, we are invested in the growth and development of everyone who comes through our doors, so that each of us can make the greatest impact on the world we share.
Benefits:
We value our employees’ time and effort. Our competitive compensation and extensive benefits package enhance our commitment to your success. Our benefits package includes:
- Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance provided
- Robust retirement planning: 401(k) plan available with employer matching
- Financial security: Life and disability insurance for added protection
- Flexible financial options: Health savings and flexible spending accounts offered
- Well-being and work-life balance: Paid time off, flexible schedule
Our client is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. It does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment.