Art and Production Director

Columbia Bank•Los Angeles, CA

5d•$130,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Art and Production Director leads a production design team responsible for creating, adapting, and maintaining high-quality sales and marketing materials across the organization. The role connects brand strategy, creative execution, sales enablement, and production operations, translating the evolving brand into effective materials that support bankers and the business. It reports to the Creative Director. The director oversees people and production operations, including creative request intake and workflow, and translates brand direction across the sales-material ecosystem. The role uses production data to improve efficiency, scalability, responsiveness, creative quality, and brand consistency. It also leads print production, including mechanical file setup, prepress workflows, press checks, and quality control. The role requires compliance with applicable bank regulations, policies, and procedures, including relevant Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, and Bank Security requirements. The director keeps current with regulatory changes and completes required training. They may coach, mentor, or train others, and may perform other duties as assigned. Occasional travel may be required. This position is fully onsite at the posted location in Bellevue, Washington. The pay range is $130,000–$170,000, with possible performance-based incentive compensation. The selected candidate's pay depends on job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, experience, education, and geographic location.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communications, digital media, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in art direction and production, preferably in a corporate or financial services environment.
At least 10 years of experience as a Graphic/Production Designer or in other relevant design work.
At least 5 years of experience managing a production design team.
Ability to develop brand-aligned visual strategies and maintain brand integrity across digital, mobile, print, and environmental channels in a highly regulated financial environment.
Ability to manage, lead, and develop a production design team.
Expertise translating complex financial concepts and marketing strategies into clear, accessible, audience-centered visual communications.
Experience leading creative projects and collaborating with Marketing, Sales Enablement, Legal, Compliance, and creative partners to deliver high-quality, accurate, compliant materials.
Knowledge of financial-industry accessibility, regulatory, compliance, and production-quality requirements, with strong attention to detail and aesthetic judgment.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Firefly, Adobe Express, and Premiere; professional-level photo retouching, video editing, and post-production capabilities.
Production-operations capability covering creative request intake, prioritization, resource allocation, workflow management, quality review, approval, and delivery under tight deadlines and budget constraints.
Proficiency developing and maintaining scalable production templates, design libraries, specifications, documentation, and organized, version-controlled assets.
Ability to analyze production and creative-performance data to improve resource allocation, turnaround, campaign effectiveness, process efficiency, and return on investment.
Experience in prepress and press environments, managing technical production requirements, conducting press checks, and ensuring print quality and consistency.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications.
Knowledge of web and digital content creation supporting integrated marketing, print, video, and animation projects.
Occasional travel may be required.
Ability to work fully onsite at the posted location.

Responsibilities

Manage, lead, coach, and develop a production design team responsible for sales and marketing creative.
Establish expectations for creative quality, productivity, responsiveness, and adherence to brand standards.
Lead print production, including mechanical file setup, prepress workflows, press checks, and quality control.
Prioritize and assign work based on business impact, designer capacity and skills, deadlines, and production requirements.
Balance team workloads, address capacity constraints and bottlenecks, and provide creative and production direction.
Manage intake, prioritization, assignment, workflow, review, approval, and completion of sales creative requests.
Establish scalable production standards and workflows that improve speed, quality, visibility, and service to internal partners.
Maintain visibility into production volume, capacity, status, aging, recurring demand, and resource utilization.
Partner with Marketing, Sales Enablement, Creative, and other business stakeholders to clarify requirements and prioritize work.
Translate brand themes, campaigns, visual systems, and positioning into practical sales and marketing materials.
Lead rollout, adaptation, versioning, resizing, and extension of creative concepts across products, channels, audiences, and sales applications.
Analyze production data to identify demand patterns, repetitive work, bottlenecks, and opportunities for templating and process improvement.
Maintain organized, current, version-controlled production templates, design libraries, specifications, documentation, and finished assets that meet brand, quality, technical, and business requirements.
Maintain expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud embedded AI tools and evolving production technologies, applying them to improve workflows, execution, accuracy, and productivity.
Comply with bank regulations, policies, procedures, and required annual or job-specific training; keep current with applicable regulatory changes.
Maintain working knowledge of bank policies and procedures regarding the Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security, and other regulations applicable to the role.
Coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as a subject matter expert when asked.
Demonstrate and foster Columbia's corporate culture, take personal initiative, set a positive example, and embrace the vision to become the “Business Bank of Choice.”
Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans
401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match for qualifying associate contributions
Employee assistance program
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Tuition assistance
Mental health resources
Identity theft protection
Legal support
Auto and home insurance
Pet insurance
Access to an online discount marketplace
Paid vacation
Paid sick days
Paid volunteer days
Paid holidays