Production Designer

Summary

Story Cannabis is a vertically integrated cannabis company operating across multiple U.S. markets. The Production Designer will develop, adapt, and deliver production-ready creative assets across digital, print, retail, packaging, social, eCommerce, CRM, events, and sales channels while maintaining brand consistency, technical accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, adapt, and produce creative assets across digital, print, retail, eCommerce, CRM, social media, packaging, presentations, events, and sales channels
• Translate approved creative concepts, campaign designs, and brand guidelines into polished, production-ready executions
• Create and update retail marketing materials, including signage, window graphics, point-of-sale materials, menus, merchandising assets, promotional materials, and in-store communications
• Produce digital marketing assets, including website graphics, digital advertising, email graphics, social media content, eCommerce imagery, and other channel-specific creative
• Support wholesale marketing and sales initiatives by producing sell sheets, retailer-facing materials, product launch tools, presentations, displays, trade marketing assets, and budtender education materials
• Adapt master creative across multiple brands, markets, products, retail locations, promotional offers, sizes, channels, and regulatory requirements
• Prepare accurate production-ready files, including file setup, resizing, versioning, preflight, prepress, bleeds, color management, image resolution, print specifications, and final vendor handoff
• Support packaging development, packaging updates, line extensions, and new product launches by creating and revising artwork, mechanical files, labels, dielines, and state-specific versions
• Apply brand standards consistently across typography, imagery, layout, color, identity, and overall creative execution
• Review files carefully for accuracy, including copy, pricing, promotional details, product information, dimensions, disclaimers, regulatory language, and production specifications
• Partner with the Creative Services Manager to execute campaign creative, respond to feedback, and maintain a consistent level of quality across all deliverables
• Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Retail Marketing, CRM, eCommerce, Wholesale, Sales, Operations, Product, Compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support business priorities
• Work with printers, fabricators, production vendors, agencies, and freelancers to confirm specifications, resolve production issues, and ensure accurate final output
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines while communicating progress, identifying risks, and escalating questions or conflicts as needed
• Maintain organized working files, final artwork, templates, logos, photography, packaging files, and other creative assets using established naming and archival standards
• Build and maintain reusable templates and production systems that improve creative consistency, speed, and scalability
• Support photography and content production through image selection, retouching, cropping, color correction, file preparation, and asset organization
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback accurately and efficiently while maintaining brand standards and project requirements
• Perform quality-control reviews of creative files before release, ensuring that deliverables are complete, accurate, technically sound, and ready for their intended channel or vendor
• Stay current on design tools, production methods, platform specifications, retail formats, and cannabis-industry requirements relevant to the role
• Balance creative quality with speed, accuracy, scalability, and the operational needs of a multi-state organization

Skills

• * 3+ years of professional experience in production design, graphic design, marketing design, prepress, or a related creative discipline
• * Strong portfolio demonstrating polished design execution across digital and print channels, with experience adapting established creative across multiple formats and applications
• * Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with a strong understanding of typography, layout, visual hierarchy, image preparation, and brand systems
• * Experience preparing production-ready files, including resizing, versioning, preflight, prepress, bleeds, color management, image resolution, packaging mechanicals, and vendor specifications
• * Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrated ability to proofread creative for copy, layout, dimensions, product information, promotional details, and technical accuracy
• * Strong organizational, time-management, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, versions, and rounds of feedback in a fast-paced environment
• * Experience supporting consumer-facing brands, preferably in cannabis, CPG, retail, lifestyle, food and beverage, or hospitality, with packaging, merchandising, multi-brand, or multi-location retail experience preferred
• * This role requires prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• * Occasional lifting, carrying, or transporting of marketing materials, signage, creative samples, or event supplies up to 25 pounds may be required
• * Occasional travel to retail locations, photo shoots, events, production vendors, or other Story Cannabis markets may be required
• * Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * 3+ years of professional experience in production design, graphic design, marketing design, prepress, or a related creative discipline
• * Strong portfolio demonstrating polished design execution across digital and print channels, with experience adapting established creative across multiple formats and applications
• * Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with a strong understanding of typography, layout, visual hierarchy, image preparation, and brand systems
• * Experience preparing production-ready files, including resizing, versioning, preflight, prepress, bleeds, color management, image resolution, packaging mechanicals, and vendor specifications
• * Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrated ability to proofread creative for copy, layout, dimensions, product information, promotional details, and technical accuracy
• * Strong organizational, time-management, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, versions, and rounds of feedback in a fast-paced environment
• * Experience supporting consumer-facing brands, preferably in cannabis, CPG, retail, lifestyle, food and beverage, or hospitality, with packaging, merchandising, multi-brand, or multi-location retail experience preferred
• * This role requires prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• * Occasional lifting, carrying, or transporting of marketing materials, signage, creative samples, or event supplies up to 25 pounds may be required
• * Occasional travel to retail locations, photo shoots, events, production vendors, or other Story Cannabis markets may be required

Nice to Haves

• * Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field preferred

Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO) including 8 paid holidays per year (for full-time positions only)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (for full-time positions only)
• 401k retirement savings plan (for full-time positions only)
• Company paid Short-Term & Long-Term disability (for full-time positions only)
• Company paid Life Insurance (for full-time positions only)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee referral program
• Commuter benefits (for full-time positions only)
• Product discounts
• Additional compensation incentives (tips, bonuses, etc.)