Production Artist/Production Designer
Prepares, adapts, and optimizes production-ready creative assets across digital, print, social, and presentation channels for federal government communications programs, ensuring brand consistency, Section 508 accessibility, and quality control, while also originating first-pass designs under creative direction. Hybrid role commuting to Rosslyn, VA or New York, NY offices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Washington, US
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum of 5 years of experience
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Experience preparing production-ready creative assets in a professional design, communications, marketing, or multimedia environment
- Strong understanding of layout design, typography, color management, formatting standards, and visual quality control
- Demonstrated ability to design original layouts and typographic treatments, with a portfolio showing range across formats
- Experience adapting creative assets across digital, print, presentation, and social media formats
- Strong attention to detail with ability to identify and resolve inconsistencies and production challenges
- Experience working within design systems, brand guidelines, templates, component libraries, and visual identity frameworks
- Ability to manage multiple production tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines
- Strong organizational skills with experience maintaining asset libraries, file management, and version control
- Experience collaborating with designers, writers, multimedia specialists, UX teams, and communications professionals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- U.S. Citizenship (required by government contract)
- Able and willing to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or Top Secret security clearance immediately upon employment
- Willing to submit to a rigorous federal background investigation
- Hybrid: able to commute regularly to Rosslyn, VA or New York, NY offices
Nice to have
- Knowledge of accessibility requirements, including Section 508 and WCAG standards
- Familiarity with motion graphics, light animation, video formatting, or multimedia production workflows
- Experience supporting federal government, public affairs, international development, or mission-driven communications programs
- BA/BFA/BS in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Digital Arts, Multimedia Design, Fine Arts, or related field
Full description
ABOUT M&C SAATCHI WORLD SERVICES
M&C Saatchi World Services is a full-service marketing company renowned for using commercial advertising to solve the world’s toughest challenges. World Services is a specialty branch of M&C Saatchi Group, and we provide strategic communications, behavior change, and marketing support to Public Sector clients with special emphasis on the US Federal Government and State, Local, Tribal, & Territorial leaders.
M&C Saatchi World Services US is seeking a highly detail-oriented and technically skilled Production Artist/Production Designer. This role ensures creative assets are accurately prepared, adapted, and optimized across digital, print, social, and multimedia channels, maintaining brand consistency, accessibility compliance, and production quality while supporting the successful delivery of communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
THE ROLE
M&C Saatchi World Services is seeking a detail-oriented Production Artist/Production Designer to support the delivery of high-quality creative and communications products across a portfolio of federal programs. Working closely with creative, designers, art directors, multimedia specialists, UX, account and communications teams, you will play a critical role in transforming creative concepts into polished, production-ready assets for digital, print, social media, presentations, campaign materials, and originating first-pass designs when creative bandwidth is needed. You will ensure visual consistency, technical accuracy, accessibility compliance, 508-compliance, and brand alignment across a wide range of communications products. The ideal candidate combines strong technical design expertise with exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to creative excellence. They are comfortable working across multiple projects simultaneously, managing production workflows, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure every deliverable meets the highest standards of quality, accuracy, and consistency. The candidate has the versatility to work across both production and design responsibilities, moving seamlessly between technical file prep and originating creative concepts under direction as the work demands.
This is a hybrid role; however, the ideal candidate will live in the greater NYC area or the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare production-ready assets for digital, print, presentation, and social media distribution.
- Adapt existing creative assets across multiple formats, platforms, aspect ratios, and channel requirements while maintaining visual consistency and brand integrity.
- Adapt and apply visual design decisions, finalize layouts, typography, color treatments, graphic elements, and formatting details to ensure creative outputs meet brand enterprise standards.