Design Producer

Meter's design team is lean, exceptionally talented, but increasingly stretched thin. The design team’s work is needed from every part of the business and increasing in quantity and scope everyday: Online and offline campaigns, packaging design, events, customer stories, paid digital ads, sales collateral. Every urgent and high priority request is competing for the same three designers. We are looking for someone to own everything that pulls the designers away from creative work by owning project management and production for the design team. In this role, half of your time, you're doing project management (intake, prioritization, stakeholder alignment). The other half you're managing vendors, producing photo and video shoots, and bringing campaigns to life. What you'll drive in your first six months - Launch a single, trusted design intake system in your first 30 days so every team at Meter knows exactly how to request work, what to expect, and when. - Give each designer back at least three hours a week by owning the coordination, prioritization, and stakeholder communication that currently falls on them. - Produce at least one major photoshoot (a customer story or lifestyle shoot) from vendor sourcing through final delivery, alongside our design team. - Systemize templates to enable marketers to self-serve, like getting paid advertising creative out of the queue. Right now, some assets sit for months. What a real week looks like - Monday: You triage the weekend's Slack requests, assign them in Linear with clear briefs, and flag two that need more context before a designer touches them. - Tuesday: You kick-off a new design request with designers and marketers. You research new design studios and freelancers to partner with for our upcoming campaign. - Wednesday: You're on a call with a photographer for an upcoming customer story shoot in San Antonio—nailing down logistics, reviewing shot lists, confirming deliverables. - Thursday: A campaign deadline moved up. You rework the timeline, tell the right people, and protect the designers from finding out at 4pm. - Friday: You run a quick retro on last week's launch. Something shipped late. You figure out why and write a one-pager on how to prevent it next time. What success looks like In three months, design at Meter feels organized, predictable, and fast. Designers are doing design. Stakeholders trust the process. High-visibility work—launches, campaigns, events—ships on time, at a higher quality bar than before. Who you are You've run design operations or creative production before, ideally at a company that was moving faster than it can keep up with its systems. You don't wait for structure—you build it. You understand design well enough to give useful feedback, but your strength is making sure the right work reaches designers at the right time with the right context. Specifically: - You've built or managed design intake, prioritization, or project tracking systems (Linear, Asana, or similar) - You've independently produced photo or video shoots—sourcing vendors, managing contracts, keeping logistics on track - You can read a campaign brief and spot what's missing before it becomes a designer's problem - You're calm when priorities shift, clear when stakes are high, and reliable when it matters most - You know Figma well enough to navigate it; you know design well enough to ask the right questions - You’ve built out file management systems - You see opportunities for creating design templates to accelerate workflow Why Meter? The internet runs the world. Every purchase you make, video call you join, it's all packets flowing through networks. But those networks haven’t changed for decades. They’re brittle, complex, and surprisingly hard to set up in an enterprise space. We started Meter to build better networks. We had to build everything from the ground-up: designing and building our own enterprise hardware, intuitive software, and streamlined operations to deliver great outcom