Curriculum Production Designer

New Leaf Publishing Group, through its Master Books imprint, is hiring a Curriculum Production Designer to turn approved manuscripts into clear, print-ready homeschool curriculum and book materials. The role lays out publications in established design systems, prepares images and graphics, checks production quality, and coordinates revisions and delivery with editorial and production teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lay out manuscripts in established Adobe InDesign templates and design systems
• Create clear, age-appropriate pages for student texts, teacher materials, worksheets, activity pages, and related curriculum resources
• Apply strong typography, hierarchy, spacing, and visual pacing across multipage publications
• Source, select, edit, and prepare images in Photoshop for content needs and print-quality standards
• Create and adapt instructional graphics, diagrams, charts, and logos in Illustrator
• Review layouts for typography, pagination, overset text, linked assets, image quality, and other production issues
• Implement corrections, package files, and prepare final print-ready PDFs and related production assets
• Help ensure files meet established quality and production standards before release
• Partner closely with editorial and production teams through layout, review, revision, and final delivery
• Work within a structured production process managed in ClickUp, using our digital asset management platform to organize, access, and maintain project files and approved assets
• Manage assigned projects through a defined workflow; keep project status current, communicate risks early, incorporate feedback professionally, and meet production deadlines

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of professional production-design experience
• Strong Adobe InDesign skills, including paragraph and character styles, parent pages, running headers, linked assets, and multipage document management
• Working proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Demonstrated experience producing print-ready files for books, curriculum, workbooks, catalogs, or similar multipage publications
• Strong eye for typography, visual hierarchy, consistency, and page composition
• Detail-oriented working style, with the ability to spot and resolve production issues before they become press issues
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and comfort working within established templates, design systems, and brand standards
• Authorization to work in the United States
• Experience in educational publishing, curriculum development, children's publishing, or homeschool resources
• Experience working with commercial printers, proofing, file packaging, and print specifications
• Familiarity with designing educational materials for different age groups