Production Designer

Overview

The Production Designer supports the development, production, remediation, and quality assurance of accessible student- and teacher-facing English and Spanish curriculum materials for the core Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) programs.

What you'll do

• Review vendor-generated EPUB content and provide design feedback to support visual quality, consistency, and accessibility.
• Compare EPUB output against source PDFs, design files, and reference documentation to verify visual accuracy and identify implementation issues.
• Implement and maintain established layouts, templates, design systems, and production-ready files for print and digital curriculum products.
• Create, adapt, and optimize artwork, illustrations, graphic organizers, and instructional assets for print and digital delivery.
• Collaborate with editorial, instructional design, accessibility, production, and product teams throughout the development process.
• Contribute to style guides, templates, design prototypes, and other documentation that support consistent implementation.
• Support the creation, maintenance, remediation, and quality assurance of accessible EPUB and eReader content across multiple products and grade levels.
• Validate EPUB output against visual, technical, content, and accessibility requirements to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience across devices and platforms.
• Apply and troubleshoot HTML, CSS, XML, EPUB package structures, and accessibility requirements within established production workflows.
• Accurately implement established layouts, design systems, prototypes, and production specifications while maintaining design intent.
• Support accessible EPUB standards through testing, validation, documentation, and continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Create clear production guidance, maintain documentation, and communicate implementation requirements to vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Partner effectively with design, editorial, accessibility, production, and product teams across locations and time zones.

What you'll need

• Strong knowledge of EPUB 3 standards, workflows, package structure, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, OPF, NCX, and EPUB navigation.
• Understanding of WCAG principles, accessible EPUB requirements, alternative text, reading order, headings, landmarks, semantic structure, and navigation.
• Ability to identify visual, technical, structural, and accessibility defects while validating content against source files, design specifications, and production requirements.
• Experience working within digital publishing production, remediation, and quality assurance workflows.
• Strong knowledge of InDesign production workflows, including templates, master pages, paragraph styles, character styles, object styles, and production best practices.
• Experience with EPUBCheck, Ace by DAISY, Epsilon, Colibrio, browser developer tools, Adobe Acrobat, HTML/CSS editors, and EPUB readers and validation tools.
• Experience using Figma to inspect designs, review prototypes, and support production implementation.
• Strong documentation, reporting, organizational, and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external vendors.
• (Advanced) EPUB production and remediation; HTML and CSS; browser developer tools; WCAG compliance and accessibility QA.
• (Expert) Adobe InDesign production; templates; master pages; paragraph, character, and object styles; stylesheet creation and maintenance.
• (Working Knowledge) Figma file maintenance, design inspection, and production handoff support; Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, with 3-5 years of related digital publishing or production experience.
• Demonstrated experience with EPUB development, remediation, HTML, CSS, and accessibility review.
• Experience working within established design systems and high-volume publishing workflows.

Nice to have

• Educational publishing; digital learning materials; MathML and MathType; SharePoint; Smartsheet; Mural.
• Experience in educational publishing, curriculum products, or GK-12 learning materials.
• Bonus: WoodWing Studio and Assets; Spanish-language publishing; AI-assisted production and accessibility review workflows.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.