Director of Creative Production

El Segundo, CA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic creative production leadership for calendar and licensed products, overseeing end-to-end development and cross-functional alignment.

  • Ownership of production planning and budgets to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery
  • Must-have: 8–10+ years in creative production and leading teams
  • Standout: global licensing experience with cross-functional leadership

Job Description

Drive strategic creative production leadership for calendar and licensed products, overseeing end-to-end development and cross-functional alignment.

  • Provide strategic leadership for all creative and production processes to deliver high-quality products on time, on budget, and aligned with business objectives
  • Own and optimize annual production planning, budgets, resource allocation and seasonal workflows, including vendor coordination and risk mitigation
  • Oversee sales collateral and catalog production, ensuring alignment with Sales team needs
  • Maintain and improve production processes, documentation, and communication across internal teams and external partners
  • Manage relationships with vendors, consultants, and outsource partners, including communication of specifications, timelines, and deliverables
  • Oversee end-to-end development of proprietary and licensed products, from concept through delivery of press-ready files
  • Lead seasonal licensed and proprietary product planning, including prospecting, vetting, and stakeholder alignment
  • Ensure high standards of design, editorial quality, branding consistency, and market viability across all products
  • Contribute to creative direction and approval of key design elements
  • Partner with Operations team to define product specifications and ensure accurate execution in templates and final production files
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BrownTrout Publishers

BrownTrout started with a simple idea—to make a calendar about every noun in the Englishlanguage. Somewhere along the line we expanded that to include French and Spanish. Luckily,we have come to our senses and create only 1,200 different calendars in categories ranging fromdesigner dog breeds to outhouses to countries of the world and muscle cars of the USA. Wedelight in the new and fanciful, the odd and wonderful, the obscure and famous. What unites ourline is a dedication to the subject matter, giving each calendar its own life and reason for being.

El Segundo, California, USA
68 employees (16 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.8%
Direct
39.1%
Referral
6%
Social
12.7%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~68

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
15.3 years