Photo Production Designer

About the role

Buck Mason is looking for a Production Designer to be the backbone of our creative team — a super-organized, type-A operator who owns the lifecycle of our image assets from the moment a shotlist is built through capture, organization, retouching, and delivery to channel owners across email, site, digital ads, and print. You'll sit at the intersection of photo production and graphic design, partnering closely with art directors, photographers, e-commerce, and marketing to make sure every image we put into the world is on-brand, on-time, and beautifully crafted.

This is a hands-on, end-to-end role for someone who keeps the trains running and the standards high — equally comfortable on a set, at a calibrated monitor, and in Figma. You bring order to creative chaos: you build the shotlist, you name the files, you flag the gaps before anyone notices them, and you ship clean, consistent assets every single time. You'll also be a key partner in helping us streamline how the creative team operates overall — tightening systems, sharpening hand-offs, and removing friction wherever it shows up.

What you'll do:
Pre-production & shotlists

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Build, maintain, and distribute shotlists in partnership with the creative, e-commerce, and merchandising teams.

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Translate seasonal briefs and product assortments into clear shoot plans, prop and styling needs, and shot quotas.

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Coordinate with photographers, stylists, and producers to ensure all assets are captured on the day of the shoot.

File capture, ingestion & organization

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Own ingest, backup, and metadata tagging for every shoot — RAW through delivered.

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Maintain a clean, consistent folder structure and naming convention across our DAM so assets are easy to find months and seasons later.

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Keep our archive healthy: versioning, redundancy, and clear hand-offs to retouchers and downstream teams.

Post-production: retouching & recoloring

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Retouch product, on-figure, and lifestyle imagery to a high editorial standard — skin, garment, color, and composite work.

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Color-correct and recolor product imagery to match physical samples and approved swatches.

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Build and maintain Photoshop and Capture One templates, actions, and color profiles to keep the team fast and consistent.

Flatlay program ownership

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Own the flatlay process end-to-end — you are the single point of accountability from brief to final hand-off.

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Build and maintain flatlay guides and shotlists, including styling references, prop standards, and shot quotas by category.

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Review every flatlay asset as it comes back from capture and retouch, QC against guides, and send revisions before anything moves downstream.

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Manage the final hand-off to the e-commerce team — right files, right specs, right naming, on schedule.

Asset delivery: ads, site & beyond

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Crop, resize, and version final imagery for paid social, display, retail, wholesale, and partner channels.

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Prep and deliver site assets — PDP, PLP, homepage, editorial — to spec and on schedule.

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Maintain delivery specs and a single source of truth for sizes, file types, and naming across channels.

Email, Ad, & UX design

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Design email campaigns and lifecycle templates that embody brand first principles

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Contribute to UX features and merchandising modules on buckmason.com, working from existing systems and helping evolve them.

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Understand what’s working from a paid ads perspective and help iterate on winning ad creative

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Partner with copy, dev, paid media, and CRM partners on all of the above

Systems & process

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Streamline how the creative team works — identify bottlenecks across shotlist, capture, post, and delivery, and put lightweight systems in place to fix them.

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Document workflows, naming conventions, and hand-off processes so they survive turnover and scale with the team.

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Be the connective tissue between creative, e-commerce, and marketing — the person who keeps everyone aligned, on spec, and on schedule.

What we're looking for:
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Unapologetically type-A. You build systems, hold the line on standards, and quietly become the person every creative on the team relies on to keep things on track.

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3–5 years of experience in photo production, retouching, graphic design, UX, or production design — ideally in apparel, fashion, or lifestyle e-commerce.

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A relentless file organizer with strong opinions about naming conventions, folder structure, version control, and DAM hygiene.

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Expert-level Photoshop and Lightroom or Capture One; comfortable on set with tethered capture workflows.

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Strong eye for color: experience with calibrated monitors, color management, and matching imagery to physical product.

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Working proficiency in Figma and the Adobe suite (Illustrator, InDesign) for email, ad, and light UX design work.

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Production-minded: you live in specs, deadlines, and shotlists, and you know the cost of a bad asset getting into the wild.

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A calm, proactive communicator who keeps creative, e-commerce, marketing, and external partners aligned without drama.

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A portfolio that shows both retouched/produced imagery and design output (email, ads, or site).

Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen founded Buck Mason in 2013 to simplify the American wardrobe. Meeting as neighbors in Venice Beach, they started designing and selling clothes out of a small studio off Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Sasha built the website and Erik created the brand’s first collection of jeans and tees. Taking an architectural approach to design, they built each piece to last far beyond a single season. Obsessed with quality, they worked with local mills and factories to create the finest fabrics down to the thread. Today, Buck Mason offers a broad range of clothing and accessories with a continued commitment to making high-quality, modern American classics.