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Production Lead

Envato
1 day ago
Full-time
Remote
Worldwide

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Envato is seeking a Production Lead to anchor its Creative team, keeping projects moving from brief to delivery while blending traditional coordination with AI‑driven tooling. You’ll report to the Creative Director, connect teams, manage timelines, budgets, and resources, and continuously optimize workflows for agility. Ideal candidates bring a creative production background in marketing, strong systems thinking (Airtable or similar tools), a growth mindset, curiosity about AI, and clear cross‑functional communication. To apply, tailor your CV to highlight delivery outcomes, scalable processes, and any AI tooling you’ve piloted; emphasize collaboration, remote readiness, and alignment with Envato’s values and learning culture, and indicate any adjustments you need.

About Envato
 
At Envato, we empower creative pros to thrive.
 
We're here to help creatives bring their ideas to life, supercharge their workflows, and equip them with an unparalleled toolkit they can use anywhere. With unlimited access to world-class assets, innovative AI tools, and hands-on tutorials, we deliver what creatives need today - and are continually evolving our offering. As AI transforms the creative landscape, we’re committed to building what’s next for the future.
 
We’re a purpose-driven company and we’ve long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We’re proud of the connected culture we’ve built across our global team. Our values: Customer First, Build our Future, Make it Happen and Embrace Diversity guide everything we do, shaping how we work and grow.
 
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.

About the role

As our Production Lead, you will be the backbone core of our Brand and Creative team, keeping projects moving smoothly from initial brief through to final delivery. Reporting directly to our Creative Director, you will connect our internal creative team members, external partners, and stakeholders to keep work on track, eliminate blockers and navigate changing priorities with adaptability.  You will also look at how we build and scale our workflows, blending traditional coordination with AI-driven tooling to keep our production pipeline highly efficient.

What you'll be doing

  • Drive project delivery: Coordinate multiple concurrent creative and marketing projects, ensuring high-quality work lands on time.

  • Manage resource workflows: Build flexible project timelines, proactively balancing team capacity and shifting resources as priorities change.

  • Optimise operational systems: Continually refine production workflows to simplify processes, clear bottlenecks, and keep our team agile.

  • Partner with stakeholders: Collaborate closely with internal project leads to manage expectations, solve delivery challenges, and provide project visibility.

  • Oversee budgets and resources: Manage production spend, external vendor relationships, and freelance contracts to scale content production.

  • Embed AI efficiencies: Work with our AI Ops team to test, adopt, and integrate smart automation tools that reduce manual tasks.

About you

  • Creative production background: proven experience managing creative workflows within an internal marketing or creative team environment.

  • Systems thinker: Highly proficient with database-driven project management tools, with a strong preference for Airtable or similar platform

  • Adaptable growth mindset: Resilient, flexible, and genuinely motivated to evolve production processes alongside a scaling business.

  •  AI curiosity: A practical interest in emerging AI tools and a knack for using them to drive operational efficiency.

  • Strong communicator: Confident relationship builder who can navigate competing priorities, negotiate deadlines, and influence outcomes across cross-functional teams.

  • Delivery & budget focused: Experienced in managing production budgets, external vendors, and freelance talent to drive complex projects through to completion 
    • Life at Envato
     
    • Flexible Working: remote-first across Australia or New Zealand with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need
    • Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
    • Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
    • Learning Budget: study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
    • Home Office Allowance: a contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
    • Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
    • Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
    • Parental Leave:20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
     
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