About the Role:
The Art and Production Director manages and leads a production design team responsible for creating, adapting, and maintaining high-quality sales and marketing materials across the organization. This role connects brand strategy, creative execution, sales enablement, and production operations to efficiently translate the evolving brand into practical, effective materials that support bankers and the business. The role leads people and production operations, manages creative request intake and workflow, translates brand direction across the sales-material ecosystem, and uses production data to improve efficiency, scalability, responsiveness, creative quality, and brand consistency. This role will report to the Creative Director.
Manage, lead, coach, and develop a production design team responsible for executing sales and marketing creative.
Establish expectations for creative quality, productivity, responsiveness, and adherence to brand standards.
Leads print production by managing mechanical file setup, prepress workflows, press checks, and quality control to ensure accurate, high-quality execution of all printed materials.
Prioritize and assign work based on business impact, designer capacity, skills, deadlines, and production requirements.
Balance team workloads, address capacity constraints and bottlenecks, and provide clear creative and production direction.
Manage the 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 line stakeholders to clarify requirements and prioritize work.
Translate brand themes, campaigns, visual systems, and positioning into practical sales and marketing materials.
Lead the 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 current, organized, version-controlled production templates, design libraries, specifications, documentation, and finished assets that meet brand, quality, technical, and business requirements.
Maintains expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud's embedded AI tools and evolving production technologies, applying them strategically to strengthen workflows, accelerate execution, improve accuracy, and maximize team productivity.
Demonstrates compliance with all bank regulations for assigned job function and applies to designated job responsibilities – knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Follows all Bank policies and procedures, compliance regulations, and completes all required annual or job-specific training.
Maintain a working knowledge of Bank's written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.
May be asked to coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as subject matter expert.
Actively learns, demonstrates, and fosters the Columbia corporate culture in all actions and words.
Takes personal initiative and is a positive example for others to emulate.
Embraces our vision to become “Business Bank of Choice”.
May perform other duties as assigned.
About You:
Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communications, and digital media, or other related field required
5+ years of experience in art direction and production, preferably within a corporate or financial services environment required
10+ years of experience as a Graphic/Production Designer or other relevant design experience…