Bold Orange is hiring: Production Designer in Minneapolis

Role Location

Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area (partial in-office requirement)

About Bold Orange

Bold Orange is a customer experience company. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. We exist to create these connections across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to engagement to retention. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside perspective to our customers.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a talented, collaborative, and curious production designer who can strategically communicate through the visual language of design. At Bold Orange, the production designer is a highly regarded and critical role within the creative team. This role ensures accuracy, and maintains a high standard for design excellence. The ideal candidate must possess both creative and technical skills, be extremely organized, and pay close attention to the tiniest details. This position will require versioning content, assets, and multiple formats within an established design direction.

The production designer is responsible for layout, design, formatting, and preparation of production‑ready files for all channels and mediums, both digital and print. This role must maintain brand standards and ensure all project assets are accurately formatted, collected, and packaged for front‑end development or print production. This position requires experience creating and working with templates in various channels including email, direct mail, web banners, social, print, signage, out‑of‑home, etc. The production designer works closely with the entire creative team, project management and account team from kickoff through execution to create strong, cohesive projects.

Position Duties And Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with art directors, copywriters, designers, and developers
• Prepare clean, final production‑ready files for both print and digital
• Make various formats of supplied artwork production‑ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production
• Catalog and reference art for future projects
• Follow a production timeline to ensure tasks are being completed efficiently and on time
• Troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Check work for accuracy

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, design, visual communications, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of creative agency experience
• Knowledge and proficiency in all creative application software and technologies including Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Sketch, InDesign, InVision, Acrobat, and PowerPoint
• Strong typographic and layout skills with an eye for design
• Outstanding organizational, project management, file‑organization, and archiving skills are a must
• Highly detail‑oriented with a strong attention to detail and takes pride in their work
• Self‑starter who takes initiative and can balance multiple assignments while meeting deadlines
• Cross‑channel expertise, including website, email, print and social
• Understanding of design principles in typography, color, imagery
• Understanding of ADA compliance regulations
• Understanding of how to design with variable content, versioning, live assets vs images, and responsive design
• Ability to create and maintain working templates
• A strong work ethic that is curious by nature, courageous at heart
• Collaborative both in ideation and in receiving feedback
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Enjoys working in a fun, fast‑paced environment

Who We Are

Our tone is professionally sassy. We embrace meat raffles, hot seats, and the occasional Jell O shot. We like staff meetings that are informative, educational, and at times, damn funny. We believe in no hierarchy, no bullshit, no politics. Just honest, hard work and great fun.

BOCO Salary & Benefits Statement

At Bold Orange, we’re committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace where every employee feels valued and supported.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $65,000 - $85,000 in the Twin Cities market.

Benefits That Matter

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Virtual mental health support
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts (including dependent care)
• Infertility and critical illness benefits
• 401(k) with generous 6–10% employer contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free parking and commuter support

Note: Some benefits apply only to full‑time employees.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, ancestry, status as a veteran, status with regard to public assistance and any other characteristic protected by law. Bold Orange does not and will not discriminate against employees, prospective employees, clients or vendors.