{"id":1978216,"url":"https://alion.io/job/burlington-stores-director-creative-production","title":"Director, Creative Production","company":{"id":1788410,"name":"Burlington Stores","domain":"burlington.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/burlington-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":102,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.951,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":190000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":190000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T22:11:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-06","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T19:38:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":25,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":25},"description":"Position Overview\nThe Director, Creative Production leads the end-to-end workflow and execution of creative projects across Burlington’s internal creative team, agency partners, and cross-functional stakeholders. This role manages project intake, timelines, reviews, approvals, and handoffs to ensure high-volume creative work is prioritized, on brand, accurate, and delivered on time. The Director also owns in-store signage production, partnering with Creative, Merchandising, Stores, and external vendors to oversee production, distribution, and successful implementation across the store fleet.A Day in the Life\nCreative Project Traffic and Workflow\nManage the flow of creative projects from intake and briefing through review, approval, production, and delivery.\nBuild and maintain schedules that account for creative development, stakeholder feedback, legal review, revisions, and production deadlines.\nTraffic projects between the internal creative team, agency partners, and teams across Marketing, Merchandising, Stores, and other functions.\nConsolidate feedback, document decisions, and ensure teams have clear direction for the next round of work.\nTrack project status in WorkZone or an equivalent system and provide timely updates on milestones, risks, and dependencies.\nFlag capacity constraints and competing priorities to Creative leadership and recommend adjustments to keep critical work moving\nIn-Store Signage Production\nOwn the production and execution of seasonal sign kits, promotional signage, front-of-store graphics, and other in-store marketing materials.\nPartner with Creative, Merchandising, Visual Planning, and Store Operations to ensure signage is clear, accurate, and practical for stores to implement.\nManage production specifications, materials, proofs, quantities, print schedules, distribution, and installation requirements.\nOversee signage budgets, vendor estimates, purchase orders, and invoices.\nEvaluate materials and production methods to improve quality, simplify store execution, and manage costs.\nAsset Approval and Delivery\nEstablish clear approval paths and ensure required stakeholders review work at the appropriate stages.\nCoordinate final checks for accuracy, brand consistency, legal requirements, and production specifications.\nEnsure approved assets are correctly versioned, organized, and delivered to internal teams, agency partners, vendors, and stores.\nMaintain a reliable record of approvals, final files, and production\nTeam and Vendor Leadership\nLead and develop the production and traffic team, with clear responsibilities and priorities.\nManage print and signage production vendors, holding them accountable for quality, timing, and cost.\nBuild effective working relationships with agency project management and production teams.\nImprove workflows and ways of working as the volume and complexity of creative projects evolve.\nYou'll Come With\nBachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Liberal Arts or Graphic Design.\n8+ years of experience in creative operations, advertising production, project management, or retail marketing.\nExperience with large-scale signage production, agency collaboration, vendor management, budgets, and team leadershiprequired.\nStrong command of creative project workflows, scheduling, and stakeholder approvals.\nStrong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners, move work forward, and manage priorities without direct authority.\nAbility to manage multiple projects with different deadlines and levels of complexity.\nWorking knowledge of print production, file preparation, proofing, materials, and color management.\nStrong judgment in identifying production risks, resolving issues, and escalating decisions.\nClear communication and the ability to coordinate teams with different priorities.\nProficiency with WorkZone or an equivalent project management system, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Cloud\nCome join our team. You’regoing to like it here!\nYou will enjoy competitive wages, flexible hours, and an associate discount. Burlington’s benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance. Full-time associates are also eligible for paid time off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan.\nWe are a rapidly growing brand and provide a variety of training and development opportunities so our associates can grow with us. Our teams work hard and have fun together! Burlington associates make a difference in the lives of customers, colleagues, and the communities where we live and work every day. Burlington Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity\nIndividual pay decisions will be based on a variety of factors, such as but not limited to, qualifications, education, job-related skills, relevant experience, and geographic location.\nCompensation Range: $150,000.00 - $190,000.00","description_format":"text","description_chars":4911,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Gift Cards & Loyalty Programs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T22:11:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":44,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.592,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":24,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":190000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/burlington-stores-director-creative-production","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/burlington-stores-director-creative-production.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T22:37:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":35292,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1788410},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1788410"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fburlington-stores-director-creative-production"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fburlington-stores-director-creative-production"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fburlington-stores-director-creative-production"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/burlington-stores-director-creative-production\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fburlington-stores-director-creative-production"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1978216}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"burlington.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1978216},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}