ELAR/CKLA Production Design Manager (Contract)

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
Amplify's creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.
Production Design Managers at Amplify thrive on complex problem-solving, lead multi-faceted initiatives, and motivate creative teams with little to no oversight to deliver high quality work. As a member of Amplify's design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify's English Language Arts curriculum.
Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Design Director to ensure that designers are working as efficiently as possible to support ELA's design requirements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, curriculum and design to ensure a smooth product development process
• Work with designers and teams to ensure the best, most relevant processes and practices are employed and evolved as necessary
• Build, track and manage multiple competing schedules for design deliverables with thorough documentation
• Own the path of communication between identifying problems and solving them
• Roll up your sleeves and contribute as a production designer when necessary
• Manage workload across the team, work with design leadership to allocate design time to projects, ensuring deadlines are met and setting up team members for overall success
• Be an advocate for design needs and proactively seek buy-in from leadership and negotiate timelines with other project managers
• Improve design production pipeline and asset delivery processes
• Maintain design project status and communicate across the product and stakeholder team

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience managing print production processes and workflow
• Experience creating and managing project schedules and trackers to meet deadlines
• Experience in high volume and fast paced environments
• Experience with creating project tracking tools or using platforms such as Trello or Workfront
• Experience with file storage and organization
• Track record both as an individual contributor and as manager of a team
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with visual design
• Experience with managing design teams
• Experience with using Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of literacy education
• Experience with in-house creative services, studio, non-profit, or museum operations
• A great collection of icebreakers

Amplify's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.