Production Designer

City Cast is seeking a Production Designer to help scale their visual brand across a growing network of local media outlets. This role focuses on translating City Cast's brand and existing creative direction into various design deliverables, templates and tools, while maintaining brand consistency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, adapt, update, and modify brand assets across social, video, web, email, events, swag and marketing campaigns
• Adapt creative concepts across formats and cities with consistency and polish
• Work closely with our Senior Graphic Designer to adapt the existing visual brand and style
• Occasionally support basic social and video ad creative, including layouts optimized for motion and performance
• Create and effectively manage a workflow for handling design requests across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Build and maintain reusable templates and toolkits
• Organize and maintain City Cast's design system, including asset management, documentation, and access
• Enable more self-serve design for local teams through clear, well-structured templates
• Apply and uphold City Cast's visual brand consistently across all platforms and markets
• Serve as a trusted partner to Editorial, Marketing, Revenue, and city teams
• Help assess design requests, clarify scope, and prioritize work based on impact and effort
• Contribute to website design and visual updates across City Cast's network
• Partner with internal teams and external developers to improve usability, clarity, and visual cohesion across web properties

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience designing and producing assets across a variety of platforms and formats
• Experience collaborating with non-design partners and navigating competing priorities
• Strong grasp of graphic design and visual communication principles, brand systems, typography, templates, and scalable design workflows
• Comfort working quickly without sacrificing consistency
• Clear taste and confidence in applying and upholding brand standards across multiple sub-brands
• Familiarity with tools like Canva, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and template-based workflows
• A collaborative spirit, positive attitude, diplomacy- and the ability to push back thoughtfully when demand outpaces capacity