Senior Production Designer

About Athena

Athena is a creative place for leaders, risk-takers, and boundary-pushers. We partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For more than a decade, we've delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations across industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports.

Our people make Athena, Athena. As a three-time Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment where passion meets excellence. We are solutions‑oriented, collaborative, and not afraid to roll up our sleeves to make work that works---while sharing a few laughs along the way.

We're looking for a Senior Production Designer who thrives in the final stages of creative execution. This role is responsible for ensuring that every asset leaving Athena is technically sound, visually flawless, and optimized for its intended channel, whether that's print, digital, social, web, out-of-home, or experiential.[KO1]

This is a highly detail-oriented role for someone who understands that great creative doesn't end with design. It ends with precision execution. You'll partner closely with creative directors, designers, creative project managers, account teams, and external production partners to prepare, adapt, package, and deliver assets across a wide range of formats and platforms.

The ideal candidate combines strong design instincts with deep production expertise. They understand layout, composition, typography, visual hierarchy, and brand systems, and can confidently adapt creative across formats without sacrificing the integrity of the original idea. They know how to preflight files, build production-ready artwork, troubleshoot issues before they become problems, and maintain quality and consistency across every deliverable. They can take a single master asset and thoughtfully reimagine it across dozens of sizes, formats, and aspect ratios while preserving clarity, balance, and impact.

• Preparing, organizing, and delivering production-ready assets across print, digital, social, web, out-of-home, environmental, experiential, and emerging channels.
• Preflighting files to ensure technical accuracy, quality, accessibility compliance, and adherence to production specifications before release.
• Building final artwork and production files that meet vendor, printer, platform, and channel requirements.
• Adapting campaign creative, brand assets, and marketing materials across multiple formats, dimensions, and aspect ratios while maintaining visual hierarchy, design integrity, and brand consistency.
• Applying strong design fundamentals, including layout, spacing, typography, composition, and information hierarchy, to ensure every adaptation feels intentional and polished.
• Managing version control, file organization, naming conventions, and packaging of final deliverables.
• Partnering with designers, art directors, and creative teams to refine layouts, solve production challenges, and preserve the original creative vision through execution.
• Collaborating with printers, fabricators, developers, media partners, and other vendors to ensure successful production and deployment.
• Reviewing proofs for color accuracy, typography, image quality, accessibility considerations, and technical specifications before final approval.
• Preparing and optimizing assets for a wide range of outputs, including large-format graphics, print collateral, social media, digital advertising, websites, presentations, email, video, and environmental graphics.
• Troubleshooting production issues, identifying risks, and proactively resolving technical challenges before assets are…