Art and Production Director

Columbia Bank•Bellevue, WA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Art and Production Director manages and leads a production design team that creates, adapts, and maintains sales and marketing materials across the organization. The role connects brand strategy, creative execution, sales enablement, and production operations to produce practical, effective materials that support bankers and the business. It leads people and production operations, manages creative request intake and workflow, translates brand direction across sales materials, and uses production data to improve efficiency, scalability, responsiveness, creative quality, and brand consistency. The position reports to the Creative Director. The director leads and develops the production design team, sets expectations for quality and productivity, manages print production and quality control, and prioritizes work according to business impact, capacity, skills, deadlines, and production requirements. The role manages the full lifecycle of sales creative requests and establishes scalable workflows and standards. It partners with Marketing, Sales Enablement, Creative, and other stakeholders to clarify needs and priorities, and adapts creative concepts across products, channels, audiences, and sales applications. The role monitors production volume, capacity, status, recurring demand, and resource utilization; analyzes production data to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities; and maintains organized, version-controlled templates, libraries, specifications, documentation, and assets. It also applies expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud embedded AI tools and evolving production technologies to improve workflows and productivity. The director is responsible for following applicable bank policies, procedures, regulations, and required training, including relevant Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, and bank security requirements. The role may coach, mentor, or train others, and may perform other duties as assigned. Occasional travel may be required. The position is fully onsite at 1000 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004. The pay range is $130,000–$170,000, with possible performance-based incentive compensation.

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; corporate or financial services experience is preferred.
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 accurate, compliant materials.
Knowledge of financial-industry accessibility, regulatory, compliance, and production-quality requirements, with strong attention to detail and refined 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.
Strong production-operations skills, including 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.
Strong experience in prepress and press environments, including technical production requirements, press checks, and 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.
Compliance with applicable bank regulations, policies, procedures, and required training.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a corporate or financial services environment.
Occasional travel may be required.

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 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 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, version-controlled production templates, design libraries, specifications, documentation, and finished assets.
Apply expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud embedded AI tools and evolving production technologies to strengthen workflows, execution, accuracy, and productivity.
Comply with bank regulations, policies, procedures, and required annual or job-specific training; keep current with applicable regulation changes.
Maintain working knowledge of applicable bank policies and procedures concerning Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, and Bank Security.
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, and serve as a positive example.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Travel occasionally, as required.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
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
Online discount marketplace
Paid vacation
Paid sick days
Paid volunteer days
Paid holidays
Potential performance-based incentive compensation