Photo Production Designer

Buck Mason•Los Angeles, CA

20h

About The Position

Buck Mason is seeking a Production Designer to serve as the core of their creative team. This role requires a highly organized individual who can manage the entire lifecycle of image assets, from initial shotlist creation through capture, organization, retouching, and final delivery to various channels including email, website, digital ads, and print. The position operates at the intersection of photo production and graphic design, collaborating closely with art directors, photographers, e-commerce, and marketing teams to ensure all visual content is on-brand, delivered on time, and of high quality. This is a hands-on, end-to-end role for someone adept at managing processes, maintaining high standards, and comfortable in various settings such as photo sets, working at a calibrated monitor, and using design software like Figma. The ideal candidate will bring order to creative processes by building shotlists, managing file naming conventions, proactively identifying issues, and consistently delivering clean, standardized assets. Additionally, this role will be instrumental in streamlining the creative team's overall operations by improving systems, refining hand-off processes, and reducing friction. Key responsibilities include pre-production tasks such as building and distributing shotlists in collaboration with creative, e-commerce, and merchandising teams. This involves translating seasonal briefs and product assortments into detailed shoot plans, identifying prop and styling needs, and setting shot quotas. Coordination with photographers, stylists, and producers to ensure all assets are captured on shoot days is also crucial. In terms of file capture, ingestion, and organization, the role entails owning the entire process from ingest and backup to metadata tagging for all assets, from RAW files to final delivered images. Maintaining a clean, consistent folder structure and naming convention within the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system is essential for long-term asset accessibility. This includes managing versioning, redundancy, and clear hand-offs to retouchers and other downstream teams to ensure archive health. Post-production responsibilities include retouching product, on-figure, and lifestyle imagery to a high editorial standard, covering skin, garment, color, and composite work. Color correction and recoloring of product imagery to match physical samples and approved swatches are also key tasks. Building and maintaining Photoshop and Capture One templates, actions, and color profiles will help ensure team speed and consistency. The role also involves ownership of the flatlay program, managing the entire process from brief to final hand-off. This includes building and maintaining flatlay guides and shotlists, specifying styling references, prop standards, and shot quotas by category. Each flatlay asset will be reviewed against guides, with revisions sent before downstream movement. The final hand-off to the e-commerce team must include the correct files, specifications, naming, and be on schedule. Asset delivery for ads, site, and other channels requires cropping, resizing, and versioning final imagery for paid social, display, retail, wholesale, and partner channels. Preparing and delivering site assets, including PDP, PLP, homepage, and editorial images, to spec and on schedule is also required. Maintaining delivery specifications and a single source of truth for sizes, file types, and naming across all channels is important. Design responsibilities include creating email campaigns and lifecycle templates that align with brand principles. Contributions to UX features and merchandising modules on buckmason.com are expected, working within existing systems and helping to evolve them. Understanding paid ad performance and iterating on winning ad creative is also part of the role. Collaboration with copy, development, paid media, and CRM partners is essential for these tasks. Systems and process improvement are critical. This involves streamlining creative team workflows by identifying bottlenecks in shotlist creation, capture, post-production, and delivery, and implementing efficient systems to address them. Documenting workflows, naming conventions, and hand-off processes is necessary for scalability and continuity. The role acts as a connective tissue between creative, e-commerce, and marketing, ensuring alignment, adherence to specifications, and timely delivery.

Requirements

Unapologetically type-A. You build systems, hold the line on standards, and quietly become the person every creative on the team relies on to keep things on track.
3–5 years of experience in photo production, retouching, graphic design, UX, or production design — ideally in apparel, fashion, or lifestyle e-commerce.
A relentless file organizer with strong opinions about naming conventions, folder structure, version control, and DAM hygiene.
Expert-level Photoshop and Lightroom or Capture One; comfortable on set with tethered capture workflows.
Strong eye for color: experience with calibrated monitors, color management, and matching imagery to physical product.
Working proficiency in Figma and the Adobe suite (Illustrator, InDesign) for email, ad, and light UX design work.
Production-minded: you live in specs, deadlines, and shotlists, and you know the cost of a bad asset getting into the wild.
A calm, proactive communicator who keeps creative, e-commerce, marketing, and external partners aligned without drama.
A portfolio that shows both retouched/produced imagery and design output (email, ads, or site).

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and distribute shotlists in partnership with the creative, e-commerce, and merchandising teams.
Translate seasonal briefs and product assortments into clear shoot plans, prop and styling needs, and shot quotas.
Coordinate with photographers, stylists, and producers to ensure all assets are captured on the day of the shoot.
Own ingest, backup, and metadata tagging for every shoot — RAW through delivered.
Maintain a clean, consistent folder structure and naming convention across our DAM so assets are easy to find months and seasons later.
Keep our archive healthy: versioning, redundancy, and clear hand-offs to retouchers and downstream teams.
Retouch product, on-figure, and lifestyle imagery to a high editorial standard — skin, garment, color, and composite work.
Color-correct and recolor product imagery to match physical samples and approved swatches.
Build and maintain Photoshop and Capture One templates, actions, and color profiles to keep the team fast and consistent.
Own the flatlay process end-to-end — you are the single point of accountability from brief to final hand-off.
Build and maintain flatlay guides and shotlists, including styling references, prop standards, and shot quotas by category.
Review every flatlay asset as it comes back from capture and retouch, QC against guides, and send revisions before anything moves downstream.
Manage the final hand-off to the e-commerce team — right files, right specs, right naming, on schedule.
Crop, resize, and version final imagery for paid social, display, retail, wholesale, and partner channels.
Prep and deliver site assets — PDP, PLP, homepage, editorial — to spec and on schedule.
Maintain delivery specs and a single source of truth for sizes, file types, and naming across channels.
Design email campaigns and lifecycle templates that embody brand first principles.
Contribute to UX features and merchandising modules on buckmason.com, working from existing systems and helping evolve them.
Understand what’s working from a paid ads perspective and help iterate on winning ad creative.
Partner with copy, dev, paid media, and CRM partners on all of the above.
Streamline how the creative team works — identify bottlenecks across shotlist, capture, post, and delivery, and put lightweight systems in place to fix them.
Document workflows, naming conventions, and hand-off processes so they survive turnover and scale with the team.
Be the connective tissue between creative, e-commerce, and marketing — the person who keeps everyone aligned, on spec, and on schedule.