Design Studio Lead

Location: Melbourne (Office-based, with some flexibility)

Job Type: Full-Time, 12-Month Contract

-lution is looking for a hands-on Design Studio Lead.

This is a unique opportunity to sit at the centre of a fast-paced, high-volume design studio. You’ll own the day-to-day operation of the studio while still contributing as a Senior Designer, managing workflow, coordinating an offshore team, and ensuring outputs across catalogue, packaging, digital, and sales assets are delivered at scale and to a consistent standard.

If you love structure as much as craft and can lead a studio while still rolling up your sleeves, this role was built for you.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Own the end-to-end studio workflow via Monday.com, triaging, planning, and allocating all incoming work
• Deliver complex design work across product, packaging, catalogue, and key marketing assets
• Review and approve all outputs before stakeholder delivery, maintaining quality and consistency
• Coordinate and direct a design team, providing clear briefs, templates, and feedback
• Own and optimise the AI-enabled creative workflow system, including templating and automated production tools
• Support cross-functional planning with the marketing team to align creative requirements with delivery capability
• Act as the primary point of contact between client stakeholders and the studio
• Maintain data integrity across creative production, product content, and marketing asset workflows.

Your toolkit:

• Strong design background with end-to-end retail production experience (product, packaging, catalogue, and multi-channel delivery)
• Advanced Adobe InDesign skills; experience with data-driven or automated design production tools a plus
• Proven experience coordinating distributed design teams in high-volume environments
• Strong workflow and traffic management capability using tools such as Click Up, Airtable or Monday.com
• Hands-on experience with AI-enabled creative platforms and agentic workflows, with the ability to embed these into production processes
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in fast-paced, complex environments
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across marketing, merchandising, product, and digital teams
• High attention to detail with a focus on data integrity, production accuracy, and scalable output delivery

Ready to lead a studio that moves fast and delivers at scale?

Apply now or reach out for a confidential chat!

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