Curriculum Production Designer
Master Books / New Leaf Publishing Group
Remote within the U.S. | Optional onsite workspace in Dallas, TX, or Green Forest, AR | Up to 20% travel
Salary: $45,000–$60,000
Help create curriculum that equips homeschool families and serves students from preschool through high school. As a Curriculum Production Designer, you’ll transform approved manuscripts into clear, engaging, print-ready learning materials used by families nationwide.
This is a hands-on production-design role — not a concept-from-scratch brand-design position. This role is for you if:
- You have 2-5 years of professional production-design experience, with strong Adobe InDesign skills (paragraph and character styles, parent pages, running headers, linked assets, multipage document management)
- You’re working-proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator
- You’ve produced print-ready files for books, curriculum, workbooks, catalogs, or similar multipage publications
- You have a strong eye for typography, visual hierarchy, consistency, and page composition
- You catch and resolve production issues before they become press issues, and you communicate clearly and professionally
- You enjoy working within established systems and design standards rather than designing from a blank page
New Leaf Publishing Group has published Christian books and homeschool curriculum since 1975. Master Books, our flagship curriculum imprint, creates educational resources grounded in a Christian worldview and Biblical apologetics. Our team is focused exclusively on this mission and on producing excellent curriculum that serves children, parents, and homeschool families nationwide.
You’ll join a collaborative team of approximately 30 people, where your work has a direct and visible impact on the products we publish. Candidates should be comfortable contributing thoughtfully and professionally in a mission-driven, faith-oriented publishing environment.
What You’ll Do
Curriculum and Book Layout
- 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
Images and Graphics
- 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
Print Production and Quality
- 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
Collaboration and Project Management
- 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
Required Qualifications
- 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 and ability to travel up to 20%
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Benefits
401(k); health, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; paid time off; and parental leave.
