Design Lead

Summary of Duties:

• Primary Focus on Branding and Product Design: Lead the development of creative concepts for branding, packaging, and product design, ensuring alignment with the overall brand strategy while leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-assisted creative tools, to enhance ideation and production workflows.

• AI-Enhanced Design Workflow: Integrate AI-powered tools and generative technologies into the design process to accelerate concept exploration, visual development, and production efficiency while maintaining creative standards.

• Lead and Drive Company-wide Design Initiatives: Lead company-wide design initiatives by driving creative solutions across departments, extending beyond branding and product design to encompass marketing, digital content, and multimedia projects.

• Collaboration with Creative Director: Partner closely with the Creative Director to deliver a high volume of motion and still graphics, ensuring all design work supports broader creative goals and aligns seamlessly with video and TV production

• Innovative Design Solutions: Explore and implement modern design techniques, including AI-assisted creative tools and emerging digital technologies, to keep visuals fresh, relevant, and competitive.

• Flexibility in Creative Exploration: While focusing on product and branding, contribute to other creative areas, including motion graphics, visual storytelling, and AI-augmented content development as opportunities arise.

Responsibilities:

• Develop packaging and branding materials that reflect and evolve the brand’s aesthetic.

• Design promotional assets for marketing campaigns and product launches across digital and print platforms.

• Utilize illustration, Photoshop compositing, and 3D modeling for toy design and related projects.

• Leverage AI-assisted tools for concept generation, mood boards, visual exploration, and rapid prototyping while maintaining creative direction and brand consistency.

• Create cross-platform content, including motion graphics and short-form visual assets, to support marketing and digital storytelling.

• Lead brainstorming sessions and contribute creative concepts, including exploring AI-driven workflows to expand creative possibilities.

• Prepare production-ready files, ensuring all assets meet quality standards, technical specifications, and brand guidelines.

• Stay current with design trends, AI developments in creative industries, and emerging technologies that can enhance efficiency and innovation.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while delivering high-quality work on schedule.

Qualifications:

• BA degree in Graphic Design is preferred; however, relevant work experience will be considered.

• Minimum 5 years of professional design experience in branding, product design, or related creative fields.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in motion graphics, animation, and visual storytelling.

• Expert in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools and workflows (such as generative design, AI image tools, or AI-assisted editing).

• Expert knowledge of Avid Express, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Animate, and Cinema 4D is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

• Attention to detail, ability to multitask, and strong problem-solving skills.

• Ability to deliver quality final products under tight deadline pressures.

• Experience working with high-profile brands/Talent.

\*\*Examples of work or a portfolio is needed via Behance, Deviantart, one’s own website, or Linked-in profile will suffice

Salary Range: $110,000 - $120,000 per year

Work Location: This is an on-site position. Candidates must be able to work from our Burbank office during scheduled work hours.

About The Nacelle Company:

Founded by Brian Volk Weiss, The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes feature and documentary films as well as TV shows – both scripted and unscripted. Nacelle’s vast array of partnerships include: Netflix, Amazon, Disney +, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Hulu, Viacom, and many more. The Nacelle Company has produced the hit Netflix docu-series, Down To Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, as well as Behind The Attraction for Disney +, Sony’s Mad About You reboot, Netflix’s How To Fix A Drug Scandal, Netflix’s Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History, All The Way Black for BET+, and Grant for The History Channel.

*The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned*

*We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to Diversity and Inclusion.*

*We adhere to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance.*