Western Governors University
Production Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, UT
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $60K - $91K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ July 3rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
WGU is hiring a Production Designer to manage the design and production of diverse advertising and promotional materials, ensuring adherence to brand standards and production guidelines. The role demands producing high-quality static and animated digital content, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors, and maintaining organized creative assets.
Highlights
- Design and produce a large volume of print and digital advertising materials including static banners and 2D animations.
- Maintain ownership of templated designs and ensure brand compliance across all deliverables.
- Use Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) expertly; knowledge of animation tools like AfterEffects and HTML is a plus.
- Manage digital assets within a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system and archive projects following naming conventions.
- Communicate closely with project managers to keep deliverables on track and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Develop and maintain relationships with creative, media, and account teams, as well as external vendors and freelancers.
- Require a Bachelor's degree or 5 years relevant experience plus 2-3+ years of professional design/production experience in a creative or marketing agency.
- Must have a strong digital and print portfolio demonstrating typography, photography, illustration, and design expertise.
- Compensation ranges from $60,300 to $90,500 based on skills, experience, and organizational needs.
- Full-time role with benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, paid time off, and tuition discounts.
Production Designer Full Description
Production Designer, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City Office
Full time
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
Grade: Professional 306Pay Range: $60,300.00 - $90,500.00
Grade: Professional 306Pay Range: $60,300.00 - $90,500.00
Job Description
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design and production of a large volume of projects, often under tight deadlines.
- Produce a wide variety of advertising and promotional material ranging from print ads, flyers and brochures to digital banners, paid media and social ads.
- Maintain ownership and responsibility of templated designs throughout the production of each project.
- Build and resize a high volume of static banners and 2D animations for digital platforms.
- Adapt agency created files and templates for in-house media plans.
- Ensure all final deliverables adhere to brand standards and production guidelines.
- Ensure smooth transitions between in-house design and outside suppliers and freelancers.
- Ability to make minor color adjustments and/or retouching to images in PhotoShop as necessary
- Respond to requests for logos and other Company design elements.
- Manage creative server including archiving of digital files and digital image resources in the DAM.
- Archive projects and assets ensuring naming and file structure conventions are followed
- Keep close communication with PMs to ensure all deliverables are on track.
- Produce maximum number of quality art files while optimizing efficiencies; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Research emerging best practices and new technology updates relating to digital practices.
- Create and maintain documentation on instructions, best practices, production guidelines, etc.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with media, creative, account managements teams as well as vendor partners as required.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions; partner with creative colleagues to develop design concepts and points of view early in the creative process.
- Heed guidance and constructive feedback from all members of the creative team.
- Assist in administrative marketing matters as it pertains to creative requirements.
Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:
- Expert knowledge of Adobe CS including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign; working knowledge of animation tools (AfterEffects, HTML), web design and functionality a plus.
- Proficiency in the use of style sheets, master pages, page templates, picture import and sizing, and mathematical positioning of elements using InDesign.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides), Dropbox and Google Drive.
- Proficiency on Mac platform (additional PC knowledge a plus).
- Experience using a DAM (Digital Asset Management system).
- Experience with project management tools (Workfront, Asana, Basecamp, etc.).
- Extensive knowledge of typography, photography, illustration, color and design (with an online portfolio to showcase samples).
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, thorough attention to detail.
- Exceptional reliability, great attitude, trustworthiness, ability to problem-solve, a strong work ethic, and a high level of organizational skill.
- Creative thinking and solution oriented. Willing to learn new things and be forward-thinking in order to find implementation solutions to design requests.
- Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced team environment.
- Ability to prioritize work to balance multiple projects and deadlines.
- Ability to apply constructive criticism from peers and clients.
- Strong interpersonal skills (open, friendly and supportive attitude).
- Ability to take initiative, be proactive, and self-initiate.
- Committed to excellence in every aspect of your work.
Job Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree OR 5 years of relevant experience
- 2-3+ years of professional production or design experience in a creative or marketing agency.
- Expert knowledge of Adobe CS; working knowledge of MS Office.
- A strong portfolio of digital and print work required.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
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Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.
Additional Information
Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.
Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
