Production Designer (Static & Video)

PureCars•Kansas City, MO

About The Position

PureCars is seeking a versatile Production Designer to join its Creative team and produce advertising assets for automotive clients throughout the United States and Canada. This hybrid role creates both video and static digital advertising while balancing priorities across multiple projects and client needs. The Production Designer partners with Business Development, Account Management, and Performance teams to produce hundreds of digital assets each month, including web banners, display ads, social ads, mobile ads, YouTube ads, and digital video advertisements. The role builds and uses static and video templates to create, update, and version creative across automotive brands while meeting OEM guidelines and PureCars quality standards. The role suits someone who enjoys multitasking in a fast-paced production environment and can switch confidently among video editing, motion graphics, and digital design.

Requirements

Prior experience creating digital design and video content with Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and related applications, either for a brand or through an agency.
Experience designing digital advertising, including web banners, display advertising, paid social creative, and video advertisements.
Strong understanding of composition, typography, motion design, branding, and current digital advertising best practices.
Ability to manage multiple priorities efficiently and switch between static and video production throughout the day.
Strong organizational skills and proven systems for tracking projects, deadlines, and deliverables.
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with exceptional attention to detail.
Experience creating reusable templates and improving production workflows for efficiency and consistency.

Nice To Haves

Keyframe animation knowledge, including easing, timing, and motion principles.
Experience editing audio, balancing levels, trimming clips, and creating polished final videos.
Experience with dynamic creative automation, scripting, or data-driven production workflows.
Experience with Figma.
Experience in the automotive industry.
Basic copywriting or scriptwriting experience for digital advertising.

Responsibilities

Create, revise, and assemble digital assets such as web banners, display ads, social ads, mobile ads, YouTube ads, and digital video advertisements using Adobe Creative Suite.
Learn automotive OEM advertising requirements and ensure creative meets departmental standards and OEM compliance regulations.
Build, maintain, and use static and video templates to efficiently produce large volumes of creative.
Use internal automation tools and import data into creative templates to generate batches of static and video advertisements.
Organize and manage multiple projects, tracking creative through production, rendering, approval, and delivery.
Build new templates and improve production workflows to increase efficiency and scalability across client groups.
Incorporate direction and requests from internal stakeholders, including client-specific branding, messaging, graphics, photography, video footage, animation, audio, and other assets.
Balance video production and display design priorities while consistently meeting deadlines.
Communicate project updates, timelines, questions, and potential roadblocks with internal teams.
Maintain exceptional attention to detail while producing engaging, polished, high-quality creative assets.