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