Design Producer

Meters design team is lean exceptionally talented but increasingly stretched thin. The design teams 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 this role half of your time youre doing project management (intake prioritization stakeholder alignment). The other half youre managing vendors producing photo and video shoots and bringing campaigns to life.

What youll 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 weekends 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: Youre on a call with a photographer for an upcoming customer story shoot in San Antonionailing 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 weeks 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 worklaunches campaigns eventsships on time at a higher quality bar than before.

Who you are

Youve run design operations or creative production before ideally at a company that was moving faster than it can keep up with its systems. You dont wait for structureyou 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:

• Youve built or managed design intake prioritization or project tracking systems (Linear Asana or similar)

• Youve independently produced photo or video shootssourcing vendors managing contracts keeping logistics on track

• You can read a campaign brief and spot whats missing before it becomes a designers problem

• Youre 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

• Youve 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 its all packets flowing through networks. But those networks havent changed for decades. Theyre 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 outcomes for our customers. Today we build and deploy these networks at scale. Ambitious companies and enduring institutions like Bridgewater Lyft Reddit rely on Meter to keep their thousands of employees and locations online and productive.

Our bet with Meter is simple: we will all use the internet more than we do today. We believe we have the definitive networking stack in place to enable business to do so as seamlessly and reliably as any modern utility.

Compensation

• The estimated base salary for this role is between $180000 - $250000.

• Additionally this role is eligible to participate in Meters equity plan.

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Required Experience:

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