Print & CGI Lead

Company Description

Powered locally and aligned globally, Publicis Production EMEA Hub forms the regional backbone of Publicis Production. With over 1.200 talented professionals based in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, the UK, and Mauritius, we enable smarter, faster, and more connected content delivery for global brands. Our integrated capabilities include post and primary production, versioning, commerce, web development, CRM, and language services. As part of the global Publicis Production network, our mission is to transform production into a true growth driver. By combining tech, data, automation, and AI, we deliver intelligent content at scale. We are proud to power Publicis Groupe's ambition to build the world's best global integrated production offering.

Overview

The Print & CGI Lead is a capacity-level leadership role responsible for overseeing, developing, and continuously improving print, graphic design, CGI, and retouching capabilities across the organization.

 

This role acts as a functional authority and strategic partner to department managers, creative teams, and clients, ensuring alignment with company strategy, creative standards, production excellence, and scalability objectives. While not a direct line manager for all graphic designers, CGI artists, or retouchers, the Print & CGI Lead provides expert guidance, governance, coaching, and escalation support across multiple teams and client ecosystems.

 

The role is a strong client-facing dimension, focusing on quality consistency, operational maturity, efficiency, and long-term capability growth within print-led creative environments.

Responsibilities

Functional Leadership & Governance

• Provide functional leadership oversight for Print, Graphic Design, CGI, and Retouching teams across the organization
• Define, standardize, and evolve creative, print, and CGI production standards, best practices, and quality benchmarks
• Ensure alignment with company strategy, creative vision, production policies, and delivery standards
• Act as a senior escalation point for managers and clients in complex, high-risk, or high-visibility creative deliveries
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, efficiency, scalability, and creative excellence

People Development & Capability Building

• Support department managers in recruitment, onboarding, and performance evaluation of graphic designers, CGI artists, and retouchers
• Assess competencies and define clear growth paths and skill frameworks across print and CGI disciplines
• Facilitate structured knowledge transfer from senior creatives and international hubs to embed best practices, advanced techniques, and group-aligned workflows across print, CGI, and retouching teams.
• Design and deliver training programs, onboarding frameworks, and knowledge-sharing initiatives for print and CGI teams

Client Advisory & Ecosystem Optimization

• Serve as a capacity expert on print, CGI, and retouching capabilities, guiding the design, implementation, and scaling of creative production and workflow models
• Analyze client delivery ecosystems to identify creative, production, and workflow risks or inefficiencies
• Propose and implement tailored solutions to optimize client workflows, team structures, creative processes, and operational maturity
• Identify and resolve organizational and client-side bottlenecks through scalable creative processes and standards
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on print feasibility, creative quality, production constraints, and innovation opportunities

Operational Excellence & Scalability

• Standardize and adapt print and CGI workflows, tools, templates, and documentation
• Ensure strong collaboration between print, CGI, retouching, project management, and production stakeholders
• Oversee and validate costs estimates linked to print and CGI production activities
• Monitor performance indicators related to quality consistency, turnaround time, and scalability
• Drive responsible AI adoption across print and CGI capabilities to improve quality consistency, scalability, automation, and creative efficiency.

Success Metrics & Outcomes

• Elevation of creative rigor and production expertise across print, CGI, and retouching disciplines
• Sustained client confidence driven by consistent creative quality, feasibility guidance, and senior-level advisory
• Effective and repeatable talent acquisition and onboarding supporting long-term creative growth
• Implementation of production standards and workflows that balance consistency with creative adaptability
• Progression in creative leadership, quality ownership, and decision-making maturity
• Increased ability to scale print and CGI production without compromising quality or efficiency
• Strong, seamless collaboration between creative, production, project management, and client teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in print-focused creative environments, with exposure to CGI and high-end retouching as complementary disciplines
• Proven experience in a senior or capacity leadership role, providing oversight, standards, and governance across multiple creative teams
• Deep expertise in print design, layout, typography, color theory, image composition, and photo manipulation, with a strong eye for detail and aesthetics
• Strong understanding of print production processes, including prepress, color management, file preparation, and vendor constraints
• Solid knowledge of CGI and retouching workflows, tools, and integration within print-led creative ecosystems
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and strong familiarity with related creative and production tools
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex client and organizational ecosystems and drive operational and creative improvements
• Strong systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to design scalable creative processes and challenge the status quo
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior clients and internal leaders
• Proven capability to act as a strategic advisor rather than a hands-on contributor
• Ability to define and measure outcomes related to quality consistency, efficiency, scalability, and creative maturity
• Fluent in English and French (mandatory)

Additional Information

• Opportunity to develop in a stable company with an established position in the market.
• Extensive range of online training courses in cooperation with reputable market partners.
• Opportunity to participate in international and local development projects and programmes.
• International working environment.
• Attractive package of non-wage benefit.
• Friendly and casual working atmosphere in a close-knit team filled with positive energy.