As the Manager, Studio Production at LCBO in Toronto, Ontario, you will lead creative teams to produce exceptional visual work across every channel. Reporting to the Director, Creative Studio, you will oversee the project intake, production planning, execution, and delivery of high-quality visual assets across digital, social, and print channels. You will ensure that all art and production outputs meet brand standards, creative intent, and technical requirements. This role blends creative production expertise with exceptional organisational and leadership skills, ensuring flawless, timely, and on-brief execution within a fast-paced studio environment.
Key Responsibilities
You will serve as the primary gatekeeper for all art and asset production deliverables, reviewing visual assets including layout, typography, imagery, and file integrity. Your role involves translating creative direction into precise, production-ready requirements for both print and digital channels, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines, accessibility standards, and channel specifications. You will create, manage, and maintain production timelines, delivery schedules, and resourcing plans, prioritising incoming work based on deadlines, complexity, capacity, and strategic importance.
Monitoring workflow bottlenecks and proactively escalating issues to Creative Leadership is crucial. You will ensure continuity across teams through clear documentation, version control, and organised file structures. Partnering with Designers, Editorial, Content Strategy, Marketing Leads, Social, and Web Publishing is essential to align creative intent with production execution. You may also execute mechanical builds, retouching, resizing, layout refinements, and production file preparation when needed. Resolving production issues such as colour, formatting, structure, compression, and accessibility requires strong creative technical judgment. Furthermore, you will provide strong day-to-day leadership for the production artists team through mentoring and constructive feedback, cultivating a collaborative, positive, and solutions-driven culture. This includes supporting onboarding, training, and development of production staff in tools, workflows, and brand standards.
What You'll Bring
A Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field is preferred. You should have 5 to 8+ years of experience in creative production, art production, studio management, or agency operations, with a proven ability to review, refine, and deliver high-volume creative assets in a fast-paced environment. Experience leading or supervising production teams or studio workflows is required. Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, is a must.
You possess a strong understanding of digital and print production, including mechanical builds, prepress, file structure, responsive design, and asset delivery. Working knowledge of workflow management tools such as Trello, Figma, or Workfront will be beneficial. You must possess the ability to diagnose and troubleshoot design, layout, and production issues with precision. A strong understanding of brand systems, creative guidelines, accessibility standards, and channel requirements is necessary, along with familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems and structured asset workflows.
Benefits and Culture
The LCBO offers a comprehensive suite of benefits, including health and dental coverage, access to an Employee & Family Assistance Program, and a Defined Benefit Pension. Employees also receive discounts on products and services via Workperks.
Join the LCBO and discover a world of opportunities where you can be challenged and achieve your true potential. We are an organisation that makes a positive impact supporting Ontario businesses and communities. We foster a safe, healthy, diverse, inclusive, and accountable workplace where your well-being is our top priority, and your contributions are respected and valued. Be part of our journey as we invest in people and technology to transform our organisation.
The LCBO fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging, ensuring everyone feels valued, respected, and heard. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an interview or employment opportunity, please advise if you require an accommodation.
