Production designers provide visual and physical context and support to the storytelling function of all performance and presentation media, including film, television, video, live event, live performance and digital media. Production designers are in demand in the expanding fields of visual programming for video, cable outlets, broadcast networks, independent filmmaking, digital video production, theme parks and other entertainment venues.

- Architect
- Art historian
- Drafting artist
- Fine artist
- Grip/stagehand

- Illustrator
- Interior designer
- Model maker
- Production assistant

- Prop assistant
- Scenic artist
- Scenic designer
- Theater production designer
SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Some employers of SCAD production design alumni
- 20th Century Fox
- Alliance Theatre
- American Ballet Theatre
- Center Theater Group
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Creative Visions Inc.
- Discovery Communications
- Florentine Opera Company
- Food Network
- HBO
- HGTV
- The Metropolitan Opera
- MTV Networks
- NBC Universal
- New American Shakespeare Tavern
- Nickelodeon
- Pie Town Productions
- Pilgrim Films & Television
- The Alley Theatre
- Theatreworks
- Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts