Retool
Design Producer
Job Summary
Retool is seeking a Design Producer responsible for maintaining and enhancing creative processes to deliver high-quality work across various initiatives. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams, managing external creative vendors, and implementing structured project workflows. Candidates should have at least five years of experience in creative production, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. The position supports the company's brand design efforts and aims to connect creative work to business impact.
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ABOUT RETOOL
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for.
Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!
DESIGN AT RETOOL
Retool designers make decisions that will affect millions of people, from the developers creating software to the employees who operate it every day. Instead of designing just one product, we’re effectively designing unique software products for thousands of companies across many different verticals.
This also presents a unique design challenge. Because it’s possible to build nearly anything in Retool, we don’t have absolute control over how our users experience the product. We’re constantly seeking just the right balance between convention and configuration, between technical expressiveness and conceptual simplicity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Retool is looking for a Design Producer to maintain and enable our creative processes to help the team deliver high-quality, and impactful work. The best design work is made possible with best in class design processes. With our goal of not building another cookie-cutter enterprise SaaS brand, a well established process will play a critical role in yielding the best results. This position sits within our Brand Design team and will partner closely with multidisciplined designers, marketers and product partners, playing an important role in implementing a structured, efficient process for shipping work across web, brand systems, events, campaigns, employee experience and more.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:
- Partner with cross-functional partners to define project requirements and scope against business objectives. Negotiating while driving for net positive outcomes
- Define, implement, iterate and evangelize the design process across all creative initiatives
- Manage the creative production process to best enable the Brand Design team to deliver high-quality creative work that successfully connects to business impact
- Source, onboard, and manage external creative partners (e.g creative agencies, illustrators photographers, production companies). Negotiate and manage project statements of work, budget estimates, and partner contracts
- Build systems for project documentation, status tracking, and facilitate communication practices with stakeholders around quality, impact and efficiency that maintain project health and set clear expectations for decision making
- Establish planning and resource processes in collaboration with design leadership on quarterly and annual project roadmaps
- Act as a champion for the brand and how design is applied globally
- Be an active participant in design at Retool, providing thoughtful feedback across design and product teams in critiques, reviews, and mor
THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as producer in a creative agency or in-house team
- Understanding of the formal elements of graphic design—not just limited to the web—including typography, color, layout, and composition
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate the creative development process and guide the execution from conception to launch
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; showcasing an ability to clearly communicate with team members, cross-functional partners, vendors, and leadership
- Strong problem solving, project management, and organizational skills
- You are detail-oriented, organized, and are driven to create and maintain systems that enable others to do their best work
- A track record of successfully collaborating with design, marketing, product, and engineering partners to translate creative needs, marketing insights, and project constraints into informed decisions that support the needs of the business
- An aptitude for thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment, balancing simultaneous workstreams while independently prioritizing work based on project objectives and business goals
- Thoughtful, empathetic, and creative —you're a self-starter with a proactive work ethic and the ability to operate independently within a small team
For candidates based in the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, the pay range(s) for this role in each zone is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles.
This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.
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