TECHNICAL PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Cella is a company seeking a Lead Production Designer to serve as the core operational architect of their creative production loop. The role involves transforming the creative workflow into a programmatic content supply chain, requiring both visual design and automation skills.

Responsibilities:

• Structured Document Management: Architect, build, and pagination-manage large-scale technical parts manuals and publications containing dense alphanumeric specifications, charts, and diagrams
• Master Template Engineering: Build and optimize ultra-robust Adobe InDesign Master layouts embedded with complex paragraph, character, and object style hierarchies capable of formatting content dynamically
• Variable Text Handling: Implement advanced text-containment protocols, tables, and auto-anchored graphic elements that handle linguistic expansion and contraction (e.g., translation text changes) without breaking grid layouts
• Pattern-Matching Execution: Leverage advanced GREP and Regular Expressions (Regex) within layout applications to perform systemic data manipulation, cleanup, and typographic styling instantly
• Batch Processing: Construct unattended data-merge sequences that automatically map structured text data into variable layouts, transforming days of manual typesetting into minutes of automated runtime
• Pre-Flight Strategy: Establish and enforce rigorous digital pre-flight checklists to guarantee zero-loss visual and asset integrity prior to manufacturing, web deployment, or global distribution

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or equivalent technical production experience
• 3-5 years of high-volume print production, catalog design, or data-driven technical layout production
• Elite-level, back-end command of Adobe InDesign (Data Merge, Indexing, Book compilation, GREP styles). Proficient across Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro)
• Proven experience parsing and formatting raw structured data files (XML, JSON, CSV)
• Uncompromising eye for typographic details, alignment, optical margins, leading rules, and structural grid discipline under high-density data layouts
• Complete mastery of color spaces, link trapping, ink limits, font embedding, and archiving protocols to guarantee seamless physical and digital outputs
• A fundamental intolerance for manual, repetitive copy/paste work; an instinct to map, script, and automate multi-step visual workflows
• Deeply detail-oriented nature that treats a single misplaced digit, broken part number, or unmapped tag as a critical systemic failure
• Ability to stand comfortably between creative directors, technical copywriters, data engineers, and web administrators to build shared workflow efficiencies
• Experience writing custom scripts via Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit, Creative Cloud APIs, Node.js, or Python to manipulate software workflows
• Prior experience handling industrial manufacturing documentation, engineering data tables, or heavy-machinery parts catalogs
• Experience managing localization production loops, including complex typographical scripts (Arabic, Thai, Tamil)