Lead Visual Designer, Brand Creative Studio
The Team
The Brand Creative Studio (BCS) is our in-house team of Strategists, Creatives, Designers, Producers, and Program Managers. We are the creative collective behind our most high-profile brand initiatives, developing work that builds passionate fandoms and shapes how the world connects with our brand. Our mission is to strengthen the brand and drive business value by creating culturally relevant marketing that is as entertaining as our shows, films, games, and experiences. Our studio serves as a centralized partner for a wide range of business-critical areas, spanning Global Brand and Brand Partnerships, Ads, Consumer Products, and live experiences.
As we continue to expand into new business units, formats, and physical experiences, the volume and complexity of design output across the company continues to grow. To support this scale, BCS is evolving its operating model to include a dedicated production design team focused on speed, systems, and consistency, without compromising craft.
The Role
We are seeking a Contractor, Manager, Production Design to join the 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, experiential venues, 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
Visual Design Craft & Hands-On Production Design
- 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
Cross-Functional Creative Support
- Act as a trusted creative partner to teams across Corporate Comms, Brand, experiential venues, 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 brand standards
Quality, Craft & Continuous Improvement
- 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 visual design, and/or production design within a creative agency, design studio, or scaled in-house brand team
- Proven track record of leading high-volume, brand-led production design across multiple channels and formats
- Strong background in building, managing, and evolving design systems, templates, and modular frameworks
- Experience leading a broad range of design outputs, including presentation design for senior leadership, sales, physical events, and digital and print marketing materials
- Ability to translate complex information into clear, well-structured visual communication across formats
- Strong individual contributor mindset with focus on direct execution and visual craft
- Exceptional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with cross-functional teams and external agencies
- Fluency in modern design tools and workflows (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides; motion experience a plus)
- Enthusiasm for leveraging AI tools and automation to enhance workflows, while identifying inefficiencies in the production process (project work examples a plus)
- Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
- A hands-on leader who can move fluidly between strategic thinking, systems-level problem solving, and direct design contribution
Pay Range:
Job #3384-1
