Orchard
Sr. Production Design Manager
Chicago, IL | $70K - $80K
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of design & digital marketing experience, particularly in graphic design, motion graphics, and/or illustration
- Proficiency in the Adobe Suite, particularly After Effects
- Experience managing and training other designers, especially freelancers
- Must be able to delegate & manage tasks across multiple designers & projects simultaneously
- Experience sharing & presenting work
- Must have an editor’s eye, with keen attention to detail and aesthetics
- Work with multiple teams to execute across both clients’ and internal design needs
- Ensure all projects are completed within time constraints, and that the team can turn around designs quickly and with agility
- Own the design process and manage the workloads of freelancers
- Works autonomously with little need for direction
- Adept at problem-solving as issues arise, finding both short and long term solutions
- Can transform basic direction into complex ideas
- Adept at working in abstract ideas
- Excels at working with and presenting to clients
- Highly flexible and agile to changing needs, directions, & rapidly changing workloads
- Innovation & experimentation minded
- Exhibits leadership skills
- Can execute at near-agency/hi-fidelity level when required
Responsibilities
- This is production-based design role with an emphasis on managing the execution of a high volume of work
- This workload requires the execution of repetitive designs at a rapid pace
- This role will be supported by a pool freelancers to help execute the work, so you will need to have experience delegating the right tasks to the right people, and managing multiple designers to ensure that projects are rendered and delivered quickly, reliably, and with consistent aesthetics
- Production Design Manager will not be required to present to clients, presence in project discussions is sometimes needed, so this person must be comfortable speaking to clients, explaining their work, and defending their strategies
- This role works across multiple work streams, collaborating closely with the Accounts, Client Success, Product, and Marketing teams
- This role will report to the Director of Operations
- There is considerable growth available to this role, with the ability to build a team around this person in due time
- Manages workload with organization and efficiency
- Can crank out a high volume of repetitive work in rapid fashion
- Adds actionable and useful creative feedback to teammates for stronger overall output
- 201-500 employees
- Software, Retail, Financial Services, Mobile, Technology, Marketing & Advertising, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Software Development, Healthcare
- Privately Held
- Last round: Series D
- Last round: US$ 100.0M
- New York, New York
Company information
Orchard is radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety, and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard has reimagined the end-to-end experience of buying and selling, from innovative home search tools to find the perfect home to the ability to buy a new home before selling your current one. Orchard customers manage the entire experience through a personalized online dashboard, while also getting the support of best-in-class Orchard real estate agents. Orchard offers a modern alternative, making one of life's biggest decisions – the sale and purchase of a home – stress-free, fair, and simple. Orchard launched in 2017 and was previously known as Perch. Headquartered in New York City with an office in Austin and teammates across the US, Orchard has over 600 employees and growing. Orchard has financing from top-tier investors including Revolution, Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas and Juxtapose, who have also backed the likes of Pinterest, AirBnb, Shopify and Sweetgreen. We're proud to be recognized by Crain's, Inc. 5000, Glassdoor, Parity.org and Built In on their lists of best places to work. We're hiring! Check out our open roles here: https://Orchard.com/careers/
