Technical Design Producer

Job Description

Job Title: Technical Design Producer

Location: 100% remote, United States

Duration: 12 month contract w/ potential to extend working 40 hours/weekly

Pay Rate: $58.00-$63.00/hourly

The Services Design Team is seeking a Technical Design Producer to shape, refine, and reinforce a vision for automation and efficiency in the expanding field of Design deliverables for the company's products. This role requires deep media experience and engineering expertise to develop an automation roadmap across devices and the tools and technology that power them.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience working with Design and Engineering teams, understanding work streams and functional specs across modules. They must have a systemic approach to visual design and anticipate aesthetic outcomes across automated artwork—sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands or more.

They will also need to foresee the ripple effects of small product planning choices on the publishing process, international localization, and device form factors.

This Technical Design Producer will work closely with Human Interface and Content Design Leads, breaking down product and feature concepts into functional requirements and statements of intent. They will identify opportunities for automation to reduce manual processes in media production.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and own documentation capturing Design needs, automation priorities, and functional system capabilities.
• Monitor and identify manual pain points to fuel automation solutions.
• Guide the launch of automated or semi-automated Design systems and deliverables.
• Advise on automation progression strategies, ensuring teams retain control when necessary.
• Contribute to training sessions on workflows and tools.
• Balance Engineering constraints with Content Design requirements.
• Manage Design deliverable schedules, collaborating with Producers and Engineering Program Managers.
• Oversee Creative Development intake meetings, prioritize work, and communicate schedules to partners.
• Define use cases for Development and User Acceptance Testing in coordination with the Engineering Program Manager.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Design, Engineering, and Production teams, with expertise in creative technology tools, workflows, and automation opportunities.
• Strong ability to justify automation initiatives by leveraging Design budgets, headcount data, and key insights.
• Creative problem-solving skills to push for technological advancements in automation.
• Proven experience in drafting technical documentation, including Business Requirements, Program Plans, Functional Requirements, Workflows, and Roadmaps.
• Ability to collaborate seamlessly with Engineering, Operations, Designers, and Design Producers.
• Strong technical knowledge, with the ability to advise on best practices for process, design, tooling, and production needs.
• Proactive problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and vice versa.
• Deep understanding of the design creation process and how to integrate automation while preserving creative integrity across localizations and platform variants.
• Experience working with external vendors on clearly defined scopes of work.