Production Specialist

The Production team plays a critical role in bringing concepts to life. As Lippincott’s Production Specialist, you will contribute to the delivery of final assets to clients. Your meticulous hands-on technical expertise in perfecting design capital will support our team in the production of innovative, multi-channel branding materials. The work involved is 50% multi-channel, 30% digital, and 20% print.

On an average day, you will:

Produce deliverables

• Work alongside designers to quickly develop production solutions to execute concepts
• Convert creative files into final deliverables, inclusive of: making logo, icon, and pattern suites; matching colors across spaces and building color ASEs; Photoshop visualisation; editing website prototypes made in Figma/XD/Sketch; Word templates
• Create, refine, prepare, and package files for final output as client deliverables, conducting quality assurance checks prior to releases, and maintain resulting digital asset libraries
• Recognise and attend to important details with accuracy, efficiency, and intention
• Consistently apply and enforce style/brand guidelines when finalising client materials

Research and build ideas

• Be a subject matter expert: stay current on technology and advances and techniques that become industry standards, sharing knowledge and applying it in daily tasks
• Advise on best practices for efficient and accurate file construction, defining and cataloging specs and templates for use by colleagues and clients
• Find solutions for software limitations/technical constraints impacting ambitious designs

Manage time and projects

• Prioritise tasks to meet deadlines for multiple projects and inform stakeholders of progress
• With guidance, work within budget and schedules, estimating job time and output options
• Adhere to workflow protocols and contribute to their evolution and advocating
• Document and archive all work logically and in a timely manner for team access

Communicate and collaborate

• Work closely on teams to execute clearly defined tasks and meet deliverable requirements
• Troubleshoot process, capabilities, and outcomes, increasing efficiency throughout the firm
• Clearly articulate ideas, share research findings, and explain rationale with team members
• Maintain an unparalleled work ethic as a team player who is adaptable to shifting priorities
• Proactively seek constructive feedback from colleagues to foster professional development

We look for you to:

Be knowledgeable

• A technical/design-related Btec or bachelor’s degree and portfolio with proven aptitude
• 4+ years of print/digital design production experience in a busy agency/vendor/client studio
• Understand visual identity system principles, and the stages of developing their components
• Be insightful about digital/print color relationships, formulation, and WCAG compliance
• Be intimate with applying and optimising production techniques across a range of media while preserving design continuity in pixel-perfect executions
• Be solutions oriented with a “can-do” attitude
• Actively enhance your skills, learning about technology, media, production processes, design applications, and working methods

Be skilled

• Expertise in Adobe Illustrator, proficiency in InDesign, skill in Photoshop
• Experienced with Word styles and nuances of setting up Word email templates
• Capability with UI prototyping in Figma/XD/Sketch, and hand-off for developing
• Possess authoritative knowledge of optimal file formats for various print and digital usage
• Operate with exactitude, and revel in crafting multi-version assets with ultra-precision
• Familiarity with cloud-based storage systems (Google Drive, OneDrive, AEM)
• Nice to know, but not required: HTML coding, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Frontify, Mural

Please ensure to include a portfolio with your application in order to be considered for this position.

About Lippincott

Lippincott is a creative consultancy specialising in brand and innovation. We have a passion for solving our clients’ toughest challenges with a proven combination of strategic rigor and design excellence. A pioneer since 1943, we have shaped some of the world’s most iconic brands and experiences.

Who We Are, Together…

We embody key values that drive our culture. We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day. We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing. We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success.

In our pursuit to make it meaningful, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion, diversity and belonging. We seek the best and brightest ideas from a diverse representation of backgrounds and experiences because we know that’s what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients’ most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say “yes, and!” and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level.

Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace of which we can all be proud. #Lippincott