Production Designer

About the team

Zillow is building a world-class creative organization that drives the vision and development of compelling Brand, B2C and B2B communications for all customer touchpoints in the U.S. As a brand, Zillow brought transparency to the real estate market 15+ years ago by allowing buyers and sellers to see the value of every home—and we are reinventing the industry again. Today, we're going beyond search and find and helping our customers get home by connecting them to Premier Agents, Zillow Home Loans, and new tools and resources that make it easier for them to get the home of their dreams, whether they're buying or renting.

Zillow’s in-house agency, StudioZ, is responsible for delivering relevant and engaging experiences for our customers and partners through understanding the business and delivering compelling creative ideas and content across all mediums, including integrated campaigns and channel specific content, activations and experiences. If your passion is to make great work for a beloved brand that moves people, we’d love to talk with you.

About the role

The Production Designer is responsible for day-to-day production design projects for StudioZ. This person possesses the ability to complete complex projects from start to finish. This position requires you to excel at design system thinking; understanding both design intention and production requirements. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do at StudioZ and you will work closely with the production and creative teams on all projects.

In this role, you'll need to prioritize deadlines, stay organized, pay attention to the nitty-gritty details, and switch between different creative and production tasks. It's also crucial to be a people person, excellent at communication, and skilled in taking creative feedback in stride. You should be a self-motivated go-getter who can work on your own, but also thrive in a team. Ideally, you have experience in agencies or with in-house brands, especially in the creative and fast-paced world.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Craft a wide variety of materials, including (but not limited to) brand and campaign style guides, toolkits, email templates, landing pages, social media, paid digital advertising, slide decks, digital and print whitepapers, one-pagers, trade show booth design, and swag.

• Extend and translate established creative concepts into production-ready digital, web, and print content.

• Ensure accurate file assets for final release and collaborate with vendors for color testing, print quality and quality control.

• Deep understanding of current design trends, UX/UI principles, and standard methodologies for digital channels, brand systems, digital interactive production design, print production, graphic design, large-scale event design.

• Use and contribute to design systems, design templates and component libraries.

• Partner with Creative Directors, Art Directors and Designers in conjunction with broader Zillow teams to help establish Studio Z’s overall design vision, philosophy, and processes.

• Knowledge of DAM systems, including tagging, captioning and asset organization.

• Conduct thorough quality assurance checks on final proofs and mock-ups, addressing any issues that may arise.

• Help develop motion design processes that enable production flow.

• Ongoing research into tools and technologies that improve quality and efficiency.

• Up-to-date on ADA compliant design.

• Mastery of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Figma.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington the standard base pay range for this role is $87,000.00 - $139,000.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• 5+ years working experience as a production designer.

• Understanding of design principles, with a desire to elevate all content crafted.

• Abilit