Sobre esta vaga de Freelance Production Designer na AKQA

AKQA · Presencial · Washington D.C.

At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

Production Designers at AKQA are essential to the craft and integrity of our work. Meticulous and deeply skilled, they bring ideas to life with precision and care, ensuring every deliverable meets the highest standard of quality before it reaches the world. They work in close partnership with creative, design, and account teams, translating vision into production-ready assets across a wide range of formats and channels.

We are seeking a Freelance Print Production Designer (20 hours per week) to support active client work across a range of print and large-format deliverables. You will bring deep production expertise and a practiced eye to a collaborative, fast-moving environment, ensuring files are flawless, on-brand, and built to spec. Out-of-home production is a meaningful part of what you do, and you bring a fluency with large-format specifications, vendor requirements, and the nuances of preparing work that performs at scale and in the real world.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Prepare and manage print-ready files across a range of formats, including large-format and out-of-home applications, with meticulous attention to specs, color, and production standards
Work from existing design concepts and brand guidelines to produce accurate, production-ready mechanicals across multiple deliverable types
Demonstrate fluency in out-of-home production requirements, including billboard, transit, and large-format specifications, bleed, resolution, and vendor submission standards
Manage color accurately across print workflows, including CMYK, Pantone, and spot color considerations
Coordinate with print vendors and production partners as needed, ensuring files are delivered correctly and on time
Maintain organized, clearly labeled file systems and documentation that are easy for teammates and partners to navigate
Support creative and design teams throughout the production lifecycle, from initial file setup through final delivery
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teammates including designers, art directors, and account managers in a fast-paced environment

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Deep production craft with a practiced eye for detail across typography, color, spacing, and layout accuracy
Significant out-of-home production experience is an important part of your background, alongside broader print expertise
Fluent in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, with a highly organized approach to file management
Understands the full arc of print production and brings both technical precision and sound creative judgment to the work
Clear communicator who collaborates constructively, responds well to feedback, and keeps work moving with minimal friction
Adaptable and composed in a high-velocity environment, comfortable managing multiple deliverables with shifting timelines
Proactive about catching errors, closing gaps, and ensuring nothing goes to production without being truly ready

Location & Commitment

Remote (United States only)
20 hours/week
$2,600-$3,000/week
Runs from 8.10 to 9.04

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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CORE VALUES

Our founding values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm:

Innovation – pioneering ideas combined with the application of technology, to achieve lasting improvements in performance for our clients.

Service – outstanding service to our clients and colleagues, so we retain exceptional people and create trust-based relationships with clients.

Quality – adhere to the highest professional standards and superior quality.

Thought – recommending the best solutions through the most rigorous thinking process.

TEAMWORK

AKQA provides the highest quality ideas and innovation services to clients around the world. Our consistent track-record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. Through our focus on our core values, thought-leadership, rigorous delivery, and industry initiatives, AKQA is today one of the world’s most influential companies. Our goal is to become a high-performance environment where the most talented people flourish. With our perfectionist approach, people join AKQA for the opportunity to do the best work of their careers.

We create digital products, services and immersive experiences that are useful, usable, delightful and enjoyed by millions. We employ a rapid ideation and prototyping process that focuses on getting pilots into market quickly, helping clients make a sustained impact, increase their relevance and expand their connection. By embracing a pioneering approach that continues to lead and define the industry, we deliver cohesive blueprints that fulfil audience needs and surpass business goals.

LONG-TERM COMMITMENT

AKQA is committed to helping our team develop into the best possible practitioners and to providing them with an unparalleled foundation for their career. We help develop well-rounded professionals acquire leadership skills more quickly than at other organisations. Our employees benefit from the trusted long-term nature of our client relationships as well as the cultural alignment between the client and our own organisation, creating an optimum environment to deliver the work without any compromises.

ORGANISED TO SUCCEED

The core motivation at AKQA is product excellence. Although we are part of WPP, AKQA operates as an independent firm. Organically grown, our team works as a single firm, without geographic division. This means we can bring the best resources from our network to provide solutions for our clients.

In addition to our own Future Lions initiative, we have formed partnerships with many of the world’s leading universities so we can hire their best graduates. We combine youth and energy with maturity and experience to form a community that has a unique diversity of knowledge and exceptional professional judgement.

DEVELOPMENT

In addition to on-the-job training, AKQA offers a menu of training through the AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development. This comprehensive curriculum of formal training is designed to equip our team with the substantive creative, engineering, business acumen, communications, management and analytical skills required to have professionally rewarding careers. AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development courses are taught by leaders in their fields including AKQA’s own senior team and respected external experts.

To maintain the continuous focus on our core values, and provide a clear career path for our team, all of our Managing Directors and Executive Partners are promoted from within AKQA.

All AKQA employees and clients are invited to participate in the AKQA Insight and AKQA Tech.Insight thought leadership programmes. These comprise a series of informative lectures and Q&A sessions with authors, artists, athletes, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who are recognised leaders in their respective disciplines.

DIVERSITY

We believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. We provide our employees with the canvas, tools and confidence to help them advance their careers in a way that best suits them.

SUSTAINABILITY

At AKQA we believe everything a company does should be about taking the responsibility to be respectful towards the community and the environment. We consider community and pro-bono work to be an important commitment of our employees. We encourage our team to devote their skills to a broad range of pro-bono and community activities, working with myriad charitable and not-for-profit organisations. AKQA is part of WPP’s Sustainability initiatives. WPP is ranked no. 49 in an annual round-up of the World’s Greenest Companies.